• podcast140 Changing Wall Lengths in Vectorworks 2013

    This is a small but useful change to wall technology. It will allow you to quickly update your plans without having to select dimension, or without having to drag your walls.

  • podcast139 Site Modifier Changes in Vectorworks 2013

    This is one of those small, but really useful changes to Vectorworks 2013. In the past I have often gotten confused with the site model and site modifies. In order to see where the site model stops and the site modifiers start I have had to render the site model….

  • Where to Buy Vectorworks Manuals

    At my online webinar last night I was asked about where to purchase my manuals. The manuals in question were the larger, printed manuals with the embedded movies.

  • SST_1205 Creating a Conceptual Model

    Vectorworks is really good at creating a conceptual model, especially for urban design. Vectorworks allows you to import a plan of a city (using shape files) then quickly build the 3-D parts of the city for you to check your urban design against. You can put in a sun, create…

  • cadmovie822 – Referencing With Concept Modeling

    This movie shows how to link one for to another using Referencing. A design for a bus stop is added to the concept model of the urban design.

  • cadmovie821 – Conceptual Modeling

    This movie shows how to quickly model a building using extrusions, Push/Pull, Add Solid, Subtract Solid and other 3D modeling tools.

  • cadmovie819 – Modify by Record

    This movie shows how to use the Modify by Record command. This command can be used to change the color of objects based on the record information attached to each object. It can even be used to extrude objects based on the records attached to the objects.