Continuing on from the Special Interest Group 033, were now starting to take our project into the conceptual design drawings for a single unit. You have a choice – you can create your drawings in a separate file (the referenced house file) or you can use the combined site plan…
In this session the attendees wanted to look at section viewports, using the clip cube to make section viewports, how to move section markers, and how to use class overrides in viewports. For this session I used to three-story building that I have used previously.
Users in this session wanted to look at how to control the attributes of the objects the drawing. The short answer is that you have to use the Attributes palette. But there are several options on the Attributes palette, which you have to understand in order to use it effectively. If you…
In this session we looked at two main topics. The first topic was how to set up a two-story building without using stories. The second topic was how to set up unexploded view of a project as in the image to the left.
In this session we looked at two main topics. The first topic, and the one we spent most of our time discussing, was line types in Vectorworks 2013. The second topic was working drawings and how to stop accident removing information. In this topic we looked at design layer viewports…
Customisation -Depending on your skill level you can do a little bit of customizing and Vectorworks or you can do a lot. By customizing your workspace you can improve your speed of drawing enormously, because you can make the hard-to-find tools easy to find.
Clip Viewport – You can use your clip tool to edit the crop of your viewports without having to enter the viewport. If your viewport does not have a crop object, Vectorworks will make one.
Editing Viewports – You can edit viewports by double clicking or by Right-clicking on the viewport.
Design Layer Viewports – Some people use Design Layer Viewports to help create the document sets. The reason they do this is because it allows them to look at a design layer and see pretty closely what the drawings going to look like.
Class Over-rides in Viewports – This is such an important technique. It allows you to create viewports that show quite different information by overriding the graphics you assigned to your classes on specific viewports.