The Use Layer Colors preference is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the Tool Bar. It is used to activate or deactivate the layer colors that you can assign to your layers. It is very useful when you have a multistory building, allowing you to see which stacked items…
The Autosave preference is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the Tool Bar. It is used to activate or deactivate the Autosave preference. It is also very helpful to see whether your autosave has been activated.
The Black and White Only preference is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the Tool Bar. It is used to turn off all the color in the view, leaving you with just black and white objects. It will remove any greyscale colors.
The Show Clip Cube is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the Tool bar. It is ideal for creating a three-dimensional clip from your design, allowing you to focus on part of the design.
Set the Tool Preferences. Nearly every tool as preferences for the tools. If you select a tool, say a door, then edit the preferences for the door, every door you place in the drawing will be the same. This can save you a lot of aggravation, it will save you a…
Set Your Preferences. The preferences in Vectorworks can be set to suit you the user. Some people find it faster to click and drag to draw an object. I find it easier to click to start, then click to finish. This is a preference we can choose.
Vectorworks has preferences that affect lighting and rendering. The VectorWorks Preferences affect every VectorWorks file.
One of the interface changes with VectorWorks 2009 is pre-selection. This means that object highlight as you move your cursor over them. it is a big improvement and it will help new users to learn Vectorworks. the old uses will quickly get used to this.
if you have ever wanted a quick way to set too and object defaults this is it.
There are times when you want to control the appearance of lights in Vectorworks. This is controlled by the Vectorworks Preferences.