The Show Clip Cube is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the Tool bar. It is ideal for creating a three-dimensional clip from your design, allowing you to focus on part of the design.
Another quick preference is Zoom Line Thickness. This preference is designed to help you see your line weights by emphasising thick lines. The more you zoom in the more it emphasises the thicker lines. This elevation has some lines thicker than the others, but with…
Auto Join Walls is another quick preference that you can add to your Tool bar. It is used to automatically join walls together.
The preference Show Other Objects While in Edit Mode allows you to choose if you want to see other objects that are outside of the group (group/viewport/symbol/etc.) that you are editing. It is one of the Quick Preferences that you can add to the Tool bar.
The right-hand end of the Tool bar contains the Quick Preferences. These are Vectorworks and Document Preferences that you might want to change quickly.
The Data Bar and Edit Group Button on the Tool bar, by the Quick Preferences, can really speed up your drawing.
If you are using Vectorworks with a standard workspace, then you will find that your keyboard has shortcuts for the modes on the Tool Bar.
The last mode on the Tool Bar for the selection tool is for the Connected Walls mode. This mode is only available if you have Vectorworks Architect, or one of the designer packages.
The Selection tool has a mode group that allows you to choose the shape of the selection marquee. Changing the shape of the selection marquee can speed you up or slow you down depending on what you are working on.
One of the first things you should learn how to do is to control the Selection tool. I know it sounds like a basic tool, and it is, but it is also very useful and has a lot of subtlety.