I often find when I teach new users that they get confused by the Interactive Appearance settings. The settings can sometimes confuse users about which objects are selected and which objects are pre-selected.
I have tried several options over the years, but now I use these settings. I use 30 Operations because that way I only get the AutoSave after I have completed 30 things, rather than a time interval (which always seems to come up at the wrong time). I like to…
When you use Occluded Selection and Snapping you might want to snap to, or select objects inside the model, but that preference makes it hard to do. This image shows the model in OpenGL rendering.
This is a Vectorworks preference that will speed up the way that you work in 3D by making it easier to snap only to the parts of the model that you see. Instead of snapping being based on the stacking order, the snapping will be based on the way that the objects…
This Vectorworks preference allows you to get the best from the graphics card in your computer. It does mean that you have to have a good quality graphics card in the computer, but it does give you better shadows.
This is a Vectorworks preference that will create a text file on your computer. The text file will tell you every file that has been opened, saved and closed in Vectorworks and the time that this occurred. This is very useful if you want to know what files have been opened and…
This is one of the quick preferences that you can access from the Tool bar. This allows you to choose the options for displaying the light objects in rendered views.
This preference is one of the Vectorworks preferences. To activate this preference, you have to open the Vectorworks Preferences from the Quick Preferences menu on the Tool bar. The preference stores the distance and angle of the offset when you use drag a copy. It then allows you to repeat…
This preference is one of the Vectorworks preferences. To activate this preference, you have to open the Vectorworks Preferences from the Quick Preferences menu on the Tool bar. It allows you to create duplicates on top of each other, which can be useful in drawings and modeling.
This preference is one of the Vectorworks preferences. To activate this preference, you have to open the Vectorworks Preferences from the Quick Preferences menu on the Tool bar. It it used to center objects in the drawing window when you change views. This makes the preference very useful in 3D modelling when you often…