Reports – Another major benefit of BIM is the ability to create a multitude of reports, e.g. about objects, areas and many other data. Vectorworks has a built-in worksheet system that you can use to create these reports. If you have never seen the Vectorworks worksheeets before, I recommend you…
In this session we looked at the Landscape Area tool. The Landscape Area tool is extremely useful when you are trying to plant large areas, if you try and create a budget plan, or if you trying to create a landscape concept plan. The tool has several options we looked…
I was teaching some of my clients the other day and I mentioned being able to count the number of symbols in the plan. We were looking at the interior design of commercial projects. They were not aware that you could count all the symbols easily with worksheets. Counting the…
This was the first session for the landmark special interest group. The users decided that they would like to learn more about worksheets, especially how to combine a worksheet that would count the planting, hardscape, and landscaped areas. If you do create this kind of worksheet it’s possible to save…
This was the second session for the May BIM Special Interest Group. There was only one attendee, so he was able to guide the direction of the session. We look at worksheets and creating a window schedule.
Images in Worksheet cells – This is a technique I have been waiting a long time for. This is the ability for the worksheet to display images based on the selection criteria in the worksheet. For example, a picture of every Plant for the Plant counting worksheet. Or another example would…
With the introduction of Detail Viewports in Vectorworks 2013, we are looking at how this will change the way you create your drawings. In this webinar we looked at how to create the new viewports, how they can be used, and how they might change the way you create your drawings.
Vectorworks 2013 introduced several new concepts. Two really important concepts are the detail viewports and the hierarchal classes. My belief is that both of these concepts are going to change the way you structure your classes and the way you structure your sheet layers. In this Special Interest Group will…
At my online webinar last night I was asked about where to purchase my manuals. The manuals in question were the larger, printed manuals with the embedded movies.
If you use the correct techniques, it can be very quick to create a landscape budget. One of the nice things about Vectorworks is that if you create a landscape budget in one file you can then save this to your user folder and have it available on every project…