If you’re going to create a report to list all the parts of a building takeoff, the first thing you have to do is to decide what parts you want to report. Vectorworks will report anything you choose, but it can’t read your mind so you have to design your…
One of the most important uses for worksheets is the ability to automatically count objects in your drawing. For example, you might want to count all of your trees separate from all of your groundcovers. You can set up a worksheet to do just that. As you add trees or…
Topics Covered: Utility Menu / Workspace Editor 1:23 Customize (context) menus 1:58 Create New Plant 3:16 Get Plant Data -> Plant Database 3:24 Edit Plant (2D Graphics: Classes and Graphic Attributes) 9:07 Rotate Tool 12:39 Select Similar Tool 14:41 Add Surface 14:50 3D…
I was making a report to calculate wall areas. I found a new function to calcluate the area of a wall component by its name. =COMPAREABYNAME(C=’Wall-External’, ‘cladding’). You used to be able to find the area of the wall by its component index number, but I like this one much…
In this session we looked at the report from the earlier landscape session, but the users pointed out that the previous report only look for flat objects which is not much use on a sloping site. So the session took the report from the early session in tried to update…
In this session we wanted to look at the ability to create reports. In particular, the user wanted to look at how to create a report with areas of hardscapes along with volumes of hardscapes.
Intermediate Tip – After you have placed plants, you can count them. Vectorworks comes with pre-made plant schedules that will count all the plants in the design. You can access these from the Tool > Reports > Choose Schedule… command and place them anywhere in the drawing.
Check the spelling of your worksheets. When you select a worksheet you cannot use the right-click (contextual) menu to check the spelling. But you can go to Text on the menu bar and choose Check Spelling from there. This command checks for your worksheet looking for spelling mistakes. If it finds…
If you count objects with information attached, Vectorworks will automatically add new objects to the worksheet that have the same record format attached.
You can use the worksheet to edit objects in the drawings and you can use the worksheet to locate the objects from the worksheet.