Loft Surface – One Rail mode. In this mode you need to have a cross-section through your object and around the want to move it along. This allows you to create very complex shapes very simply.
Vectorworks has a spell checker allowing you to check the spelling of individual blocks of text, all the selected text or all the text in the entire drawing.
This is a great command for selecting objects that join each other. You will find this command in the contextual menu, so when you right-click on an object, you can select all of the objects that touch the selected object.
Associated Dimensions can be quite powerful, but if you don’t want to use associative dimensions there is a document preference that allows you to turn this on or off.
Loft Surface – Loft With No Rail. The Loft Surface tool creates a 3D object based on NURBS curves or 3D loci. You need to have a series of cross-sections through your object, then you can use the Loft Surface tool to create a skin across these.
Dimensions – Notes with Dimensions. In Vectorworks 2015 they have added the ability to attach notes to your dimensions. The dimension note will always appear on the opposite side to the dimension. It will also stay with the dimension, which means when you move the dimension text relative to the dimension…
Select Similar Objects – This tool allows you to click on an object, and based on the criteria chosen, select all the objects that match this criteria. This is extremely useful when you want to select all walls of a particular class, wall style, etc.
Vectorworks 2015 has several new site modelling improvements. The three main improvements are the changes to the visual appearance of errors in your site modeling and 2 new road tools. The changes to the visual appearance of errors in your site model are such a timesaver, several clients have pointed out…
I’ve recently been having trouble with my Macintosh and I spent a couple of hours today online with Apple support. During the phone call they asked me to do several things when restarting my computer, things like checking diagnostics, safe booting, Internet recovery, and reinstalling the operating system. A lot of…
If you create text styles you can connect them to your custom dimension standards. This means that every time you place a dimension it will automatically set the text to the right style, ensuring that all of your dimension text is the way you want it.