It’s important to use Wall Styles. You can store Wall styles in your library, making them easy to use from the pop-up menu from the Tool bar. Once you have saved the wall style in your library, you can use them on all your projects, saving you a lot of…
There is a lot of talk these days about Building Information Modeling (BIM). Part of BIM is being able to share your Vectorworks file to other consultants using different computer programs. The technique for sharing your model is to export your model as IFC. When you give your IFC…
The Visualization palette shows the lights that are in the current scene, and if a viewport is selected, the Visualization palette shows the lights that are in the viewport. This allows you to edit light, shadows, the intensity of the light, etc. in this viewport without affecting the lighting in…
When you place doors in a wall, you can use the Offset Insertion Mode to ensure that you are accurately placing them. This will make it fast and accurate to place the doors as they will be in the correct place the first time, saving you from editing their position.
When you need to rotate an object this is the tool to use. Rotate tool works in both 2D and 3D and it can rotate the original object, or it can rotate a copy. In Vectorworks 2014 the rotating object has a preview to show you where the new object…
The Visualization palette allows you to edit the lights directly from the palette. Right click on the light in the Visualization palette, then choose Edit… This will open the settings where you can edit the light. This means that you do not need to changes layers or classes to look…
Doors in Vectorworks allow you to create 2D and 3D versions of the door or opening. If you create a door, there are several types of doors you can make (hinged, bi-fold, sliding, overhead) and you can also use the door to create an opening. So if you need an…
The Connect/Combined Tool is really useful for extending single or multiple lines to a boundary. In this movie I will give you a quick introduction to using this tool. Instead of using this tool you could use the Selection tool to extend lines, but that is slow and unreliable. This…
If you are using roof faces, you can use the Connect/Combine tool to join them together. You still have to choose which mode you will be using to join the faces together. In this example I have used the second mode, the Dual Object Connect mode. This can be a…
The Connect/Combine tool is can be used to extend multiple lines to another object. This makes it ideal when you have several lines that you want to extend to the edge of an object. In this situation you can’t use the Selection tool to drag all the lines at the…