You should use worksheets to count and report objects in your Vectorworks files, but sometimes you forget which file had the worksheets you want. You should store your worksheets in your library so that they are easy to find.
It is very important to build and maintain your Vectorworks Library. your Vectorworks library is much more than just a collection of symbols. You have hatches, symbols, tool libraries, and much more.
I have been helping a friend with setting up the User Folder. I noticed as I helped him, that several of his old library files had not been converted to Vectorworks 2010. This happens to me every time I update my version of Vectorworks. There is a solutions though, Vectorworks…
The Unified View is a big improvement, now you can use the 2D tools with Unified View, you can use Show/Snap/Modify others for the layer options, and it’s just a lot quicker.
Your office library is not just a few symbols saved in a library.
Layer and class standards are part of developing your library. When you create symbols you will use specific classes. When you create other information on the drawings you will use layers and classes. It would be easier to have a set of layers and classes that you use in a…
If you have Vectorworks 2008 and above, you do not have to open the library file. When you have created a symbol, you can add it to your library file by using the Export command in the Resource Browser. All you need to do is to find the symbol in…
The structure for your Library should follow a structure that you can understand and use. For example, when I am drawing details I like to have a symbol folder with all my steel sections, another symbol folder with all my timber sections and a symbol folder with all the standard window…
Editing a symbol.
Setting up a user folder is a nice way to work. Vectorworks 2008 and 2009 create a user folder on your computer to store all your custom settings away from the Vectorworks application folder. If you re-install Vectorworks all your custom data will still be there.