Control Your Cameras!

In this movie we are going to look at four areas of cameras. First of all we will look at the visualisation pallet and see how the visualisation palate can be used to activate cameras and deactivate cameras. Next will look at find tuning a camera to get just a view you want, then we'll look at how we can use cameras to create viewports and finally we will look at editing cameras in a viewport.

Vectorworks Tip 353 - Camera Effects - Depth of Field

The term depth of field describes how much of your photo will be in focus. The camera tool now allows you to control how much is in focus using Depth of Field. But the way that controls how much is in focus is to do with the aperture of your camera. If you're an old school photographer you'll understand how aperture relates to depth of field, but if you're a modern digital camera photographer you may not understand this. In simple terms the larger the number for the aperture (f-22) the more will be in focus, the smaller the number for the aperture (f-2.8) the less will be in focus.

Vectorworks Tip 350 - Setting Up a Perspective Section Viewport

If you create a section viewport and place it on a sheet layer, you are limited to using a 1-point perspective. If you want to show a 2-point perspective, you should place the section viewport on a design layer, use a camera to view the section, then use the camera to create a viewport.