• Dealing With Walls – Part 4

    Joining Wall Components – If you have walls with components, you might notice that the walls do not join completely. The answer is to join the wall components.

  • Dealing With Walls – Part 3

    Joining Walls – Walls look better when they are joined. I often draw a small portion of the wall and join it later.

  • Dealing With Walls – Part 2

    Existing and Demolished Walls – If you are drawing an existing building, you will need existing and proposed walls styles.

  • Dealing With Walls – Part 1

    Simple Walls –  If you have Vectorworks Architect or Designer, the wall tool allows you to use Wall Styles, and to store Wall Styles in a Wall Style Library. We can start with drawing a simple wall.

  • podcast140 Changing Wall Lengths in Vectorworks 2013

    This is a small but useful change to wall technology. It will allow you to quickly update your plans without having to select dimension, or without having to drag your walls.

  • epodcast152 – BIM Special Interest Group

    BIM Special Interest Group – Workflow to create drawings using BIM. Starting with a blank file, the SIG will look at the workflow of setting up a project. Stories are important when setting up the project, because they control the layers. Walls and slabs can be drawn,and because they interact,…

  • SST_1111 – BIM In Action

    BIM stands for Building Information Model. However, this is only part of its meaning.  The advantages of BIM are that it that you can visualize the design earlier, it is faster to create drawings, changes to one area can automatically update on the drawings, and some objects can be linked…

  • cadmovie764 – BIM in Action Part 3

    Modeling the Walls. With the correct file structure and settings in place you can now draw the building, starting with the walls.