cadmovie751 – What’s New in Vectorworks 2012 Part 17
Brick Shader Dimensions. In the past it was a hassle to set the correct size of a brick texture. In Vectorworks 2012 the sizes in the Bricks shader relate to real-word sizes.
Brick Shader Dimensions. In the past it was a hassle to set the correct size of a brick texture. In Vectorworks 2012 the sizes in the Bricks shader relate to real-word sizes.
Metallic Shaders. There is a new metallic shader in Renderworks. You will only find this if you edit an existing texture or create a new texture with a metallic shader.
Heliodon. In Australia and New Zealand we have had the Heliodon tool for several versions. But for people outside Australia and New Zealand, this is a new tool and it replaces the Set Sun Position command from the View > Lighting menu.
Renderworks Style. I am a real fan of these new Renderworks styles. It will make it much easier to create your individual styles for rendering. Renderworks Styles are created as resources and are therefore available in the Resource Browser. Hence they can be copied into other files.
Hidden Line Intersection Edges. When two solid models intersect, Vectorworks can now calculate where they intersect.
Artistic Renderworks (Edge Thickness and Edge Color). If you are using Artistic Renderworks you will appreciate the new ability to control the Edge Thickness and the Edge Color.
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 They have been replaced by the Push/Pull mode on the Tool Bar.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.
New Hatch From Customized Hatch. This new command will allow you to create a new hatch from one that you customized using the Attribute/Mapping tool.