Flyover Tool The Flyover tool is like a helicopter. You use it to rotate around the building to obtain different viewing angles, even from underneath or above. But you can’t walk into the building. That’s what the Walkthrough tool is for. You can use the Flyover tool from any view.
Quick 3D Views For Quick 3D views, use the numeric keypad on your keyboard. The numeric keypad is on the right side of your keyboard, if you have a full size keyboard. Use this for quickly typing in numbers.
Vectorworks and Document Preferences There is not a set of preferences that just deal with rendering. There are Vectorworks preferences (effecting all your files) and Document preferences which may have an effect over the look of your rendered views. The Vectorworks Preferences are preferences that affect every Vectorworks file, unlike…
Rendering is one of the fun parts of using Vectorworks. Rendering is where you bring together the lighting, the textures and the rendering settings to create the kind of visual presentation that you want. Vectorworks has a huge range of options when it comes to creating your rendered views. Do…
If you are going to present your work in a rendered way, textures are fundamental. Putting textures on your models helps your clients to understand what materials you are planning. Textures have a lot of power, but if you haven’t created textures before you might find this power confusing. These sessions…
Vectorworks 2015 has made huge improvement to textures. Textures can now have a surface hatch. The surface hatch will only appear when you view your model in hidden line rendering. If you set up your surface hatches correctly on your textures, you will see the normal part of the texture…
In this meeting all we looked at was walls, Wall Styles, and assigning textures to wall. There are a lot of places for you to assign textures to walls, so the first part of the meeting is looking at those. The movie finishes with the best and easiest place to assign your…
I had a client asking about a rendered view where you can see all the lights and shadows, but only in black and white.
Non-Blocking Rendering – I have several projects with high quality rendered viewports. When I want to render these viewports Vectorworks locks up and I cannot do anything until they are finished. Non-blocking rendering allows me to carry on working while these viewports are being rendered.
Clip Cube – The Clip Cube is a new navigation feature in Vectorworks 2013. If you have a large project, for example an urban design project, when you create an isometric or perspective view, you sometimes have too much information.