Vectorworks Tip #239 – Site Modelling – Site Modifiers – Multiple Pads
You can add more than one pad inside a Grade Limits (boundary). This allows you to create several site modifiers to create the changes you want inside a single Grade Limits.
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Vectorworks Tip #239 – Plant tool – Mass Planting
- April 3, 2015
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When you place a group of plants you have a choice to turn on Mass Planting. If you activate the mass planting option, Vectorworks will group your plants together removing all of the lines with the plants overlap. In the image you can see two groups of identical plants. The…
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Vectorworks Tip #238- Levels and Simple Walls
- April 2, 2015
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Levels can be used to control the elevations of walls. If you set up the required levels, you can use the Object Info palette to connect the walls to the levels. If you change the level elevations, it will update the walls.
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Vectorworks Tip #237- Attribute palette – Creating a Tile
- April 1, 2015
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Tiles are substantially easier to create than hatches. Where a hatch uses repeatable lines, a tile uses a repeatable set of lines, polygons, circles, rectangles, etc. This means that instead of trying to figure out how the lines repeat you can just draw what you want. Because tiles contain objects…
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Vectorworks Tip #236 – Site Modeling – Site Modifiers – Pads with Slope
- March 29, 2015
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When you create a pad you can choose to set that pad to a slope. You can control the start and direction of the slope using the slope indicator on the pad object. The bottom of the slope will use the elevation from the object info palette.
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Vectorworks Tip #235 – Plant Tool – Placing Plants in a Triangular Array
- March 28, 2015
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Use this mode when you want to place multiple plants in a triangular array Vectorworks will use the plant size and spacing from the plant definition, and the plants will be placed orthogonally on the screen. Use the rotate plan tool to rotate the plan to suit the site boundary…
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Vectorworks Tip #233 – Attribute Palette – Modifying the Local Mapping of a Tile
- March 26, 2015
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There are times where you want to change the rotation or the scale of your tile, but just for one object. In this situation you can use the attributes palette to change the local mapping of the tile assigned to the object. You can also use the attribute mapping tool…
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Vectorworks Tip #232 – Site Modelling – Site Modifiers – Pads
- March 14, 2015
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These are your first type of site modifier. They are usually flat, but you can add a slope to the pad if you want. Use pads to create flat or sloping areas on a site model. Pads can be square, rectangular, round, polygonal, any shape you want…
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Vectorworks Tip #231 – Plant Tool – Place Multiple Plants in Rectangular Array
- March 13, 2015
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Use this mode when you want to place multiple plants in a rectangular array. Vectorworks will use the plant size and spacing from the plant definition, and the plants will be placed orthogonally on the screen. Rotate the plan to suit the site boundary if you need to.
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Vectorworks Tip #230 – Stories and Levels – Slab Levels
- March 12, 2015
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Levels can be used to control the setting out of your slabs (the Z reference level). If you set this up carefully, it can be a very powerful setting to automatically control the height of your ceiling relative to the structural objects.