This is a document Preference that tells Vectorworks to save the rendered viewports. The advantage of this is you do not have to update the viewports each time you open the drawing, which could save you a lot of time. The disadvantage is that saving the rendered viewports can make your files much, much larger. In a simple example, turning on the viewport cache made the file grow from 7MB to 12MB.
This is a Document Preference that tells Vectorworks to place all dimensions into the Dimensions class. This is OK as long as you don't want to have dimensions for different drawings on the design layer. In that case, turn this off and have different classes for various viewports.
It is easy to create a set of drawings with a lot of viewports and Vectorworks will automatically name them for you, but if you let Vectorworks do this for you, the viewport name will not let you see where that viewport has been used. In this image you can see some of the viewports have the viewport number/sheet number. Other viewports tell you what they are. This makes it easy to know where these viewports are located.
It's so important to consistently use classes when you creating drawings. if you're not consistent about using classes, you going to have a lot of trouble making sense out of your drawings. You will find that things you want to appear don't, things you want show up won't. Then you'll say that Vectorworks is difficult to use. It's not Vectorworks's fault, it's your fault for not being consistent with your classes.
Use the Trim tool to remove parts of objects up to a boundary object. With this tool, you just click on the part that you want to delete, and Vectorworks will shorten the object back to the nearest boundary object. … Continue reading visit http://ift.tt/1hjblTM
Use the Trim tool to remove parts of objects up to a boundary object. With this tool, you just click on the part that you want to delete, and Vectorworks will shorten the object back to the nearest boundary object. This is a great tool for quickly removing the parts of the drawing you do not want.
There are three modes on the Tool bar, choosing the right mode makes the tool so much easier to use. If you want to split a single object, use the first mode, if you want to split multiple objects, use the second or third mode.
The Split tool is extremely useful cutting and splitting objects. For example you could use the Split tool to cut a line, a rectangle, a site modifier, or even a viewport.
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The Z key is used to temporarily zoom into a part of the drawing. This is the quickest way I can think of to draw in Vectorworks. Of course you could zoom in and out again if you used the scroll wheel on the mouse, but it's not as easy as the snap loupe. This image shows the screen zoomed in with the snap loupe.
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When you are drawing multiple click objects like walls, polygons, etc. it is easy to make a mistake. To fix the last click, use the Delete key on the keyboard, it will remove the last click. Keep deleting to back to the start of your object. This works on almost every tool and command.
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I often find when I teach new users that they get confused by the Interactive Appearance settings. They can sometimes confuse users about which objects are selected and which objects are preselected.
I have tried several options over the years, but now I use these settings. I use 30Operations because that way I only get the AutoSave after I have completed 30 things, rather than a time interval (which always seems to come up at the wrong time). I like to save several versions of the old files so I can go back and find a good version of something that I might have changed.
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When you use Occluded Selection and Snapping you might want to snap to, or select objects inside the model, but that preference makes it hard to do. This image shows the model in OpenGL rendering.
This is a Vectorworks preference that will speed up the way that you work in 3D by making it easier to snap not to the parts of the model that you see. Instead of snapping being based on the stacking order, the snapping will be based on the way that the objects appear in the view.
This preference is one of the Vectorworks preferences. To activate this preference, you have to open the Vectorworks Preferences from the Quick Preferences menu on the Tool bar. It allows you to create duplicates on top of each other, which can be useful in drawings and modeling.
This preference is one of the Vectorworks preferences. To activate this preference, you have to open the Vectorworks Preferences from the Quick Preferences menu on the Tool bar. It it used to center objects in the drawing window when you change views. This makes the preference very useful in 3D modelling when you often change the view.
The Use Layer Colors preference is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the toolbar. It is used to activate or deactivate the layer colors that you can assign to your layers. It is very useful when you have a multistory building, allowing you to see which for the building is not lined up with the others.
The Autosave preference is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the toolbar. It is used to activate or deactivate the Autosave preference. It is also very helpful to see whether your autosave has been activated.
The Black and White Only preference is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the toolbar. It is used to turn off all the color in the view, leaving you with just black and white objects. It will remove any greyscale colors.
The Show Clip Cube is one of the quick preferences that you can activate on the toolbar. It is ideal for creating a three-dimensional clip from your design, allowing you to focus on part of the design.
The Data Bar and Edit Group Button on the Tool bar, by the Quick Preferences, can really speed up your drawing.
One of the first things you should learn how to do is to control the Selection tool. I know it sounds like a basic tool, and it is, but it is also very useful and has a lot of subtlety.
The third mode allows interactive rescaling (reshaping) on all objects. This is not the normal way that I use this tool. The reason I don't tend to use the tool this way Is that allows you to Reshape all these selected objects. Sometimes, you might want to move the objects but with this mode you can accidentally end up reshaping them.
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