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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Roof Framing Plan

This is the fifth in the series of creating drawings, the Roof Framing Plan. For this drawing, you need to have the objects on the correct classes and layers. In this movie, there are several objects that are on the incorrect classes and need to be corrected.

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Friday, December 02, 2022

Creating a Framing Plan in Vectorworks 2023 - podcast 248

 This is the third movie in the series about creating drawings. In this movie we look at creating a framing plan, a plan that shows the walls, door and window openings, window numbers, lintels, and beams. We use design layers, classes, sheet layers, and viewports to set this up.



Thursday, December 01, 2022

Creating Drawings - Roof Plan

Carrying on with our series on creating drawings, this movie looks at creating a Roof plan. We will look at the design layer, creating and editing the object needed, create the sheet layer, viewport, etc. for the extended version of this movie check out: https://www.patreon.com/jonathanpickup




Podcast 245 Scale Site Plan

I saw someone on line have trouble with importing a PDF site plan scaling it to the correct size. This movie shows you how I do it. This is a shortened movie, to see the full movie:

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Custom Selection and Custom Tool Podcast 244

The Custom Selection and Custom Tool/Attribute is a powerful way to speed up your Vectorworks. You can use it to create custom tools that you can reuse again and again. The best thing is that you do not need to know how to program Vectorworks. 

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Creating a Site Plan in Vectorworks 2023

This movie is an update of an old movie, it shows how to create a boundary line, how to add the building to a site plan, how to create the site plan drawings, and how to calculate the site coverage (house /site ratio).