[Archoncad] Weekly Digest 7 (blogs and movies for Vectorworks)

This week, the following posts were added to the learn.archoncad.com web site.

Online Workshops For December Available for Bookings
http://learn.archoncad.com/2012/11/9714/online-workshops-for-december-available-for-bookings/

The December online workshops will be looking at all the topics we covered this
year. What a year it has been for the subscriber site. The website changes have
been dramatic, the site is searchable, and many more movies have been added.

epodcast167 - Wall Framing Core of Wall
http://learn.archoncad.com/2012/11/10423/epodcast167-wall-framing-core-of-wall/

In previous versions of Vectorworks, you were unable to tell Vectorworks where
in the wall you should put the wall framing.

Landmark_SIG_015 Special Interest Group November 2012
http://learn.archoncad.com/2012/11/10414/landmark_sig_015-special-interest-group-november-2012/

In this session we looked at getting started with the project, based on
information that had been measured on-site. In the situation the information was
not imported from a survey, it was actually measured by the people in the office
when they visited the site. The methods of measuring were a theodolite and a
tape measure. This is enough information to give the heights in the setting out
from known points on the site.

Landmark_SIG_014 Special Interest Group November 2012
http://learn.archoncad.com/2012/11/10396/landmark_sig_01-special-interest-group-november-2012/

In this meeting we continued our series on getting started with Vectorworks
Landmark. An important part of creating a landscape plan is creating plants. In
Vectorworks 2013, the plant preferences have been changed. There are now two
dialogue boxes that control plant settings. The new settings with the two
dialogue boxes allows for more flexible plant placement.

Guide to Productivity
http://learn.archoncad.com/2012/11/10398/guide-to-productivity/

Vectorworks is extremely powerful when you use it correctly. There are many,
many productivity techniques you can use to make Vectorworks faster. But it's
not just about customizing Vectorworks, there are many  basic techniques that
will make you faster. In this post there are over 180 links to movies. I believe
that these are the tools and techniques that you need to learn. If you learn
these tools and techniques you will find that it's not just more productive to
use Vectorworks, you will also find it's more fun.