Hybrid Symbols. Hybrid symbol is the name given to a symbol that has a part for showing in plan view and a model part. This is a great technique, because you can design the plan part to look the way you want, while the model part can be the form you…
I have been helping a friend with setting up the User Folder. I noticed as I helped him, that several of his old library files had not been converted to Vectorworks 2010. This happens to me every time I update my version of Vectorworks. There is a solutions though, Vectorworks…
I’ve been spending the last couple of months updating my Vectorworks manuals for 2010. I have several clients asking if they should upgrade to the new version of Vectorworks. If you are working on Vectorworks 12.5, then yes, upgrade right now. There are so many advances in Vectorworks since you last…
This is a preference for symbols. I’m really glad to see this, it allows you to choose, symbol by symbol, whether or not the symbol will insert into a wall. I know you can change this on the Tool Bar, but this is way quicker, and much better for a…
This is something I have long wanted, the ability for the symbol to know if it should be inserted in the wall or not. In Vectorworks 2010, on of the Insertion Options is to turn off the wall insertion mode. This will stop the symbol from accidentally jumping into the…
If you have Vectorworks 2008 and above, you do not have to open the library file. When you have created a symbol, you can add it to your library file by using the Export command in the Resource Browser. All you need to do is to find the symbol in…
The structure for your Library should follow a structure that you can understand and use. For example, when I am drawing details I like to have a symbol folder with all my steel sections, another symbol folder with all my timber sections and a symbol folder with all the standard window…
Editing a symbol.
A group is not a symbol and should not be used for repeatable things. Groups are useful for collecting a bunch of stuff together, like a section or an elevation, but they have no use in your library files as you can’t access groups with the Resource Browser (the main…
Vectorworks comes with a lot of nice furniture, in the Libraries > Objects-Imperial or Objects-Metric. But, what if you want something special, like a Ray and Charles Eames chair? I recommend the sketchup warehouse (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/). Later versions of Vectorworks can import sketchup models, so you can download a chair from…