This tool has three modes, the third mode is used to split and trim objects with a line. This mode is ideal for trimming objects like polygons, rectangles, etc. With this mode, you get to choose which side of your split line will be retained. That makes this tool really useful for trimming up polygons, circles, landscape areas, and even viewports.
Microsoft has just released an iPad version of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The first time you can now edit Word documents using Microsoft software on your iPad. In the past, there have been third-party applications that will allow you to edit your Word documents. These third party apps have not always worked consistently. Now at last you can use Microsoft software to edit your Word documents.
This tool has three modes, the second mode is used to split objects with a line. This mode is ideal for splitting objects like polygons, rectangles, etc. In this image you should notice that I'm trying to split a rectangle that is on top of two other rectangles. The new mode in Vectorworks 2014 allows you to split just the selected object. This is extremely useful. If you have previous versions of Vectorworks you can achieve the same thing using the Option all Alt key.Here is a great blog with some Q&A on site modelling from my friends at novedge.
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If you need to cut or split objects, you will find the Split tool ideal. It can split object, or it can trim them. There are three modes. The first mode is used to split an object and it works best with linear objects line walls, lines, etc. The second and third modes work best on objects that have an area, like polygons, floors, landscape areas, etc.
When you're creating landscape areas, Vectorworks tends to draw these as if they were projected down onto a flat plane. In reality, the site may be sloping, so the area of the site is actually greater than the plan area shown on the drawings. The difference between the playing area and the actual area can be calculated using basic trigonometry.
I have been doing some research on building construction and documentation and I came across this great book "Building Construction Handbook."
When you export DXF/DWG files, You should check to see what you had exported from Vectorworks. What you need is a DXF/DWG file viewer. DraftSight is a free viewer that lets professional CAD users, students and educators create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight runs on Windows¨, Mac¨ and Linux. You might want to try this getting started guide as well.
It's tempting to upgrade your Operating System (OS) when a new version comes out. However, there are some problems when you choose to upgrade.
When you insert many of the standard Vectorworks objects, they automatically assign themselves to particual classes. If you dont want this to happen you have to turn off Auto Classing. If you tun on Auto Classing, all of your standrd Vectorworks objects will be assinged to their standrd classes.
This is a Vectorworks preference, Which means it applies to all files. You will find this preference on the Session tab in the Vectorworks preferences. If you activate Use Sound, every time you move near a clickable point you will hear a click from your computer. Some people find this useful, other people find it extremely annoying. You can turn down the volume of the sound so that when it clicks it is quiet.
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When you try to share files with another user, you are likely try to e-mail the files to them. But there is a limit to the size of the files you can e-mail, usually about 5 MB. One of the ways of sharing very large files is to use an online resource like www.hightail.com. Hightail allows you to create a free online account where you can upload your files and then send a link to that. You can also pay a subscription and have access to a large online storage facility we you can send very large files, up to 10 GB per file.
This is a another command from the contextual menu. This command makes it really fast to mirror an object vertically. Because you can use this from the contextual menu, you don't have to select the object, just right-click on it and choose the command.
This is a command from the contextual menu, it makes it really fast to mirror an object. Because you can use this from the contextual menu, you don't have to select the object, just right-click on it and choose the command.
If you need to find a word or phrase in your file and edit it, this command will do that. It will find single instances of the word, or can replace all occurrences in the entire file. This is a great way to update your drawings.
I sometimes spell words wrong, and sometimes I just type them wrong. Vectorworks has a check spelling command on the text menu, but the quick way is to use the contextual menu (right-click).
I used this book Building Construction Illustrated when I was at college learning to be an Architect. It is well written, and it clearly explains the basic concepts of building construction. I recently bought this book again, in Kindle form so that I can have it with me whenever I need to access it. If you are starting out, or need a refresher, get this book.
When you insert many of the standard Vectorworks objects, they automatically assign themselves to particular classes. If you dont want this to happen you have to turn off Auto Classing. If you tun on Auto Classing, all of your standard Vectorworks objects will be assigned to their standard classes.
The contextual menu is accessed when you right-click. If you right-click on an object you will get a menu that shows commands appropriate to the object, if you right-click in an empty part of the drawing you will get a different menu. The menus will change depending the objects you click on. The contextual menu is often the quickest way to access commands.
This is a Vectorworks preference, Which means it applies to all files. You will find this preference on the Session tab in the Vectorworks Preferences. If you activate Use Sound, every time you move near a clickable point you will hear a click from your computer. Some people find this useful, other people find it extremely annoying. You can turn down the volume of the sound so that when it clicks it is quiet.
This is a Document Preference. It controls the linking of the Sheet Borders to the sheet number and name. If you activate this preference, standard sheet borders will automatically update when you edit the sheet numbers and names.
This is like the opposite of the Add Surface and it also makes it easy to create complex shapes. Like Add Surface, you can access this command from the Modify menu or the Contextual menu (right-click).Viewports are the most powerful way of creating drawings and Vectorworks. Viewports allow you to create drawings with different:
If you're not using viewports you're only running on half your cylinders.
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This is a great command. Add Surface makes it easy to create complex shapes by adding together simple shapes. You can access this command from the Modify menu, or the easier way, right click on the objects you want to add.
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.
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