5 Short Vectorworks Manuals List on archoncad.com

We have been busy at work, making it easy to find our training manuals. Today, we added 5 manuals to the short manuals page:

• 010 Dealing With Complex Roofs
  
• 015 Site Modeling
  
• 017 Creating a Solar Study
  
• 025 Creating a Room Finish Schedule
  
• 040 Modeling and Creating Drawings for a Joinery Unit

Roofs can really slow users down if they do not understand how flexible the standard Vectorworks roof is, there is so much you can do with it. In this tutorial we will look at a couple of roofs, and see if we can make the standard Vectorworks roof do want we want. Then we will look at using the roof face command an how we can use this to make the roof we want. I will show you a technique for making it faster, and we will look at roof framing and creating a truss roof.  This manual comes as a PDF and is 29 A4 pages. 

A site model is a way of looking at 3D data (spot levels or contours) in a way that allows you to see complex 3D models and 2D representations. VectorWorks uses the 3D information to create the models based on the data to help you understand the 2D and 3D nature of your site.

We will edit our site model to make it suit the existing site better, then we will change the site using site modifiers, 3D loci and landscape walls. 

When you are designing a building or landscape feature, you may be concerned about the affect of your structure on the surrounding buildings and landscape. Some of my clients have been asked to provide evidence that the building design does not adversely affect the neighboring properties. 

What is a solar study? In basic terms, it is where we use to VectorWorks to show where the sun is coming from and where shadows fall. In architectural terms, we would use the solar study to check the shadows from our building and how they affect neighbors. We worked on one project several years ago, where the client was worried about shadows from surrounding buildings affecting their tennis tournament. We had to model the surrounding site and apartment buildings to make sure that during June, there were no shadows on the Number 1 Court at Wimbledon. Solar studies are common with large buildings, and we hear from several clients now that solar studies are expected from by some councils for domestic projects. This manual comes as a PDF and is 16 A4 pages. 

You can use VectorWorks to create a room finishes schedule. You could use another program to do this, like Word or Excel, but then you would loose the link from the plan and room names to the room finishes. Vectorworks uses a space object to store all the finishes information. This manual will help you learn about space objects and how to use these to assign finishes to the object, how to edit the room finishes, and how to  to create the schedule of finishes. This manual comes as a PDF and is 15 A4 pages long. 

This is a case study on making a joinery unit. We will model the joinery unit quickly, to create a concept drawing. Then, we will create a detailed model that will give use all the parts to make the unit. We will use classes to control visibility, and we will use viewports and sheet layers to create the panel drawings. 

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