Project Sharing 2.0 – Project sharing was introduced with Vectorworks 2016. It worked really well, but it did require that all the users be on the same network. this can work fine when you’re in the same office, but it didn’t work well if you weren’t in the same office,…
Edit The Workspace For Project Sharing – One of the suggestions that I have had is that the location of the save and commit command should be moved closer to the save command. As we have already covered, when you save your project it doesn’t commit the information to the project…
Revert – This command allows you to throw away all of the changes you’ve made in your current working file and replace them with the latest data from the project file.
Saving – Because of the way that Vectorworks are structured the Working Files and the Project Files, saving has to be dealt with in a slightly different way.
Checking Out A Layer – The basic strategy of sharing is checking out a layer. This means that you will have to organise your work so that users can check out the required layers. It was announced at the Vectorworks Design Summit 2016 that the next iteration of project sharing will…
Project Sharing Privileges – Not everybody should be given the same rights to it edit information on the project. Project sharing allows you to set the privileges for different users.
Setting Up a Project for Sharing – Setting up a project for Project Sharing is reasonably straightforward, but before you commit to Project Sharing, ensure that the project is set up correctly with stories, layers, classes, and resources. While you are able to make changes to these later, it will…
Referencing DXF/DWG Files – Import the drawing from the consultant. Check it for accuracy. Then reference the consultant drawing to your project. When you get a revised drawing, import it into a new document and save it with the same name as the old consultant’s drawing, overwriting the old file. When you…
Referencing PDF Files – As with image files, PDF files can be drag-and-dropped into a Vectorworks file, or you can use the Import PDF… command. In either case when you import a PDF file, you have the choice of whether to import the file directly or whether to reference the file.
Referencing Image Files – When you import an image file you can choose to have the image file placed directly in the drawing, or you can choose to reference the image file. Why would you prefer one method over the other? If you are working with others and they are updating…