This movie uses the Polygon tool to quickly fill in areas for roads and building sites. Often these polygons have too many vertices and need to be simplified, but you need to import a command to do this.
My friend Bill and I have been involved with several Vectorworks clients helping them to integrate Vectorworks into other aspects of their business. In this case the client sells solar hot water systems and solar PV systems. The client would like to know the orientation of the house relative to…
Youtube movie podcast130 This movie is the introduction movie for the Introduction to 3D Modeling. It is just a brief look at why to use 3D modeling.
I have just completed my new Kindle book: 027-2012 Introduction to 3D Modeling (Short Sharp Manuals) [Kindle Edition]. This Kindle ebook is based on the Vector-workout Subscription manual for February 2012.
Setting up your layers correctly is essential if you want to use Vectorworks for BIM. Vectorworks 2012 has a new organizing concept called Stories which will require you to think carefully about how you organise your project into layers and stories.
When you combine primitive objects objects with the Automatic Working Plane and the Push/Pull mode, you will find that you can model in 3-D very quickly.
Primitive Objects. There used to be several primitive objects on the 3-D modeling toolset. Most of them have now been removed. They have been replaced by the Push/Pull mode on the Tool Bar.
Automatic Working Planes. Working planes in Vectorworks 2011 were pretty good. But now they are even better. Vectorworks 2012 has a … new option called Automatic working plane.
My friend Bill has been playing with this new tool that he found on vectordepot.com. It’s called the Siepe (Hedge) Tool. From the same author of Frangisole plugin. When I first looked at this tool I wasn’t sure that I could find a use for it. But Bill has been…
I found this great plug-in on the vectordepot web site, called the Frangisole (sunshade). This tool is designed to create simple sunshades.