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  • Vectorworks Tip #218 – Stories and Levels – Editing Default Levels

    • February 19, 2015
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    • jonathan

    If you do not like the names of the standard design layers and levels in your story set up dialog box, you can edit them by clicking on the Edit Default Levels… This dialog box allows you to change the default layer names, level names and level elevations for the…

  • Vectorworks Tip #217 – Attributes – Changing the Colours on Patterns

    • February 18, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Patterns have a foreground and a background colour and each can be edited separately. Click on the appropriate button to edit the foreground or background colour. This allows you to create other colours by combining the two colours.

  • Vectorworks Tip #216 – Site Modelling – Grid Entry Method

    • February 14, 2015
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    • jonathan

    For some users, this is the default way of recording information on site. If you are going to use the grid entry method, it is very important that you survey the site using the same strict grid on site.

  • Vectorworks Tip #215 – Plant Tool

    • February 13, 2015
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    • jonathan

    There are two ways to add plants to your plans. The first (and easiest) way to do this is to use the Plant tool. This tool is specifically designed to place plants and it offers 5 different ways to place plants. These different modes should suit most situations. 

  • Vectorworks Tip #214 – Stories and Levels – Default Levels

    • February 12, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Vectorworks comes with standard design layer and level settings. These design layers and levels can be used in your building projects to control the elevations of the building elements, especially walls and wall components.

  • Vectorworks Tip #213 – Attributes – Editing Hatches

    • February 11, 2015
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    • jonathan

    If you want to change the scale of your hatches, use the technique to change the local mapping, then save the locally mapped hatch as a new hatch. If you want to change change the background fill, line colors or line weights, use the Resource Browser to edit the hatch. 

  • Podcast 215 – Test Yourself Exercise – 7

    • February 10, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Chapter 7 is an introduction to 3D modeling. 3D modelling is important in Vectorworks (as you will notice from chapter 2). Chapter 7 covered techniques like extrusions, add solid, subtract solid and so on. You can use those techniques to create the bracket showing here.

  • Vectorworks Tip #211 – What is a Plant?

    • February 6, 2015
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    • jonathan

    A plant in Vectorworks is a special object that has a plan representation, a model (or 3D) representation, and plant data. All these parts are bound together inside the object called a plant. When you place a plant, Vectorworks places all of these parts together in the drawing. This allows…

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