Ive been using this technique since Vectorworks 2008, so if you are still using Vectorworks 12 you are missing this technique. The Heads-up Display looks really good, but it is much better than just looking good, it really speeds up the way you draw. Use the Tool bar to set…
One of my Landscape clients works with large areas of planting. They find the place plant tool very slow. Much too slow to be useful. An new tool in Vectorworks 2009 makes planting large areas quicker and more powerful.
This podcast is a small segment from a session of the Short Sharp Training. It might seem complex for just a site plan, but the original movie for this, and the orginal online session, lasted for an hour and we made several drawings from the same plan. Having all the…
This month the online user group is looking at creating drawings. When we get to the part about drawing elevations and sections, there is a lot of discussion about whether you should use the 3D model, or use 2D drawings for the elevations.
The New Zealand government has just completed a summit to create more jobs and to get out of this recession. There were 20 main ideas to come out of the job summit (http://www.stuff.co.nz/4862899a6479.html) and a couple of them were of interest to me: Keep people in education and add a…
A couple of weeks before Christmas my son went up to his Granddad’s farm to help get the hay in. Of course, these days it’s all tractors and large bails of hay that you move around with ease. A couple of weeks later my son was helping to spread fertilizer…
using the constrain angle constraint
Using custom selection to select specific lines.
How to Use the Constraints palette.
I’ve heard of this trick before, but I hadnt used it. This podcast will show you how to remove several vertices from a polygon. this makes it fast to remove a large part from a polygon or polyline.