Rendering is a fun art of using Vectorworks and in the past we have covered lighting (1502), but we covered it from the point of view of interior and architectural lighting. This manual is about exterior lighting, which suggests that we should be looking at nighttime lighting for architectural and…
Next week we have our Interactive Webinars on Outdoor Lighting. We have covered lighting before, but we covered it from an interior viewpoint. This time we are covering lighting from an outdoor point of view, which I think means nighttime. There are many things that you have to look at…
At the final sessions of last year, a couple of users pointed out that the archoncad website could be easier to navigate. With the help of my friend Neil in Canada, we have updated the website to make it easier to understand where all the parts are, easier to book…
In the previous month we looked at creating a site model, which is great but we will need to modify the site. That is what this manual is all about, Site Modifiers. A Site Modifier is a specific object for changing a site model. A Site modifier can be a range…
Roofs in Vectorworks are powerful, but most users do not understand how much they can change and edit the roof. The purpose of this manual is to show you how flexible the roof is, and what to do in complex situations. If you are an architect it will be unusual…
+In this session we looked at the problem of scanning a large drawing and getting it into Vectorworks. The answer is to use Photoshop to photomerge the smaller scans into a large scan, then import that into Vectoworks. There is an extended podcast that covers this. Then we looked at…
If you are an architect it will be unusual to create a building that does not have a roof. If you are a landscaper then it is useful to create a simple building with a simple roof that reflects the building that you working with. Roofs in Vectorworks can be…
BIM FOR LANDSCAPE | APPROVED FOR 1 AIA LU & 1 LA CES Jonathan Pickup, Author and Director of Training, archoncad Tuesday 2:00PM – 3:00AM There is a lot of talk about Building Information Modelling (BIM) in relation to architecture, but not a lot of talk about Building Information Modeling in relation to…
CREATING AND MANAGING LIBRARIES | APPROVED FOR 1 AIA LU & 1 LA CES Jonathan Pickup, Author and Director of Training, archoncad Wednesday 4:30PM – 5:30PM Libraries seems to be the one area of Vectorworks the cause the most confusion. It seems that users are confused about their own Vectorworks library, where…
Next week the Design Summit hosted by Nemetschek Vectorworks will start in Philladelphia. This design summit should be really exciting. I was looking at the Keynote addresses and there are going to be some amazing presentations.