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  • Vectorworks Tip #210 – Stories and Levels

    • February 5, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Design layers might be the container for holding all of the building elements, but levels control the elevation of these elements.

  • Podcast 214 – Test Yourself Exercise – 6

    • February 3, 2015
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    • jonathan

    The purpose of chapter 6 is to have an exercise that brings together many of the drawing tools and techniques that you need into one exercise. This exercise is designed to reinforce the flow of tools from start to finish. It will use techniques that you have learned in chapters…

  • Vectorworks Tip #208 – Site Modeling – 2D Polys to 3D Contours

    • January 31, 2015
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    If you have a set of 2D polygons that represent contours, you can use the command 2D Polys to 3D Contours from the Landmark or AEC menu. This command will take your set of 2D polygons and convert them into 3D polygons at the appropriate heights. Then you can use…

  • Vectorworks Tip #207 – Working Planes with Dimensions

    • January 30, 2015
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    Sometimes when you place a dimension, the dimension snaps to objects that you are not intending it to. In this image you can see how the dimension has snapped to the front of one object and to the rear of the other giving me a measurement of the distance between…

  • Vectorworks Tip #206 – Stories and Design Layers

    • January 29, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Stories are the collection of settings for each floor; Design Layers are where you draw the information. You could think of Design Layers as being the container that you store all your design work in.

  • Vectorworks Tip #205 – Attribute palette – Patterns

    • January 28, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Attribute palette – Patterns. Patterens are the old way to create hatches. They do not always print the way you think they will, but the top line of patterns are still useful for creating tones. I often use the ones shown in this image.

  • Podcast 213 – Test Yourself Exercise – 5

    • January 27, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Chapter 5 was all about organizing information in Vectorworks. It is very important to learn how to use design layers, classes, sheet layers and viewports to create drawings. These concepts are extremely powerful and a fundamental to using Vectorworks effectively. In this exercise you should open up the test file…

  • Vectorworks Tip #204 – Site Modeling – Survey Input

    • January 24, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Survey Input. There are several ways to import information into your files to use for site modeling. Some ways are more useful than others, depending on the information you get from site. 

  • Vectorworks Tip #202 – What are Stories?

    • January 22, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Stories are a collection of settings that control the elevations of your building projects. I used to say that stories are a collection design layers, but with Vectorworks 2015, this is not correct. Stories are made up of design layers and levels and they work in combination to control the…

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