In this session we looked at a complex roof and how to deal with it. The trick is to break the roof into sections and deal with each section separately. Part of this process uses the old Fit Walls to Roof… command which has now been renamed Fit Walls to Objects…
I have just completed an interview with Steve Scaysbook from Konstrukshon. Steve wanted to talk about the Stories concept in Vectorworks. He recorded the interview and have posted a link below. During the discussion we looked at three sketches that I had draw to explain different situations.
Stories in Vectorworks are a way to group design layers together. It’s a way of having several design layers and grouping these together to make a story of the building. So, for example, you might have a foundation layer and a wall layer that make up the lower story of…
When stories were introduced with Vectorworks 2012 there was a lot of discussion about how to use stories and whether you could use stories in a flexible way to create the type of buildings you wanted. There was also a lot of discussion about how to create split-level houses using…
This is the movie from the BIM Special Interest Group, August 2012, creating a BIM workflow, part 3, Roofing.
At my online webinar last night I was asked about where to purchase my manuals. The manuals in question were the larger, printed manuals with the embedded movies.
This is the movie from the first session BIM Special Interest Group, February 2012.
Setting up your layers correctly is essential if you want to use Vectorworks for BIM. Vectorworks 2012 has a new organizing concept called Stories which will require you to think carefully about how you organise your project into layers and stories.
Setting up Layers – Multiple Levels – This is a two story building project, with multiple levels, but only one roof. The setting up of the layers is easy enough, but drawing the walls requires careful work.
Setting up Layers – 3 Floors 2 Roofs – Setting up a project with 3 levels and 2 roofs is similar to the previous project with 2 roofs, you just need an extra story at the lower level.