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  • Vectorworks Tip #225 – Attributes – Tiles

    • March 4, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Tiles are a great way to create graphic fills for your drawings. Tiles allow you to draw lines, polygons, circles, rectangles, etc. to make repeatable patterns.

  • Vectorworks Tip #221 – Attributes – Editing Patterns

    • February 25, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Although patterns are an old technique, they might still be useful. Vectorworks can only present about 64 patterns (due to the size of the palette) but you can edit the patterns that are there. The command is in the Edit menu.

  • Vectorworks Tip #217 – Attributes – Changing the Colours on Patterns

    • February 18, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Patterns have a foreground and a background colour and each can be edited separately. Click on the appropriate button to edit the foreground or background colour. This allows you to create other colours by combining the two colours.

  • Vectorworks Tip #213 – Attributes – Editing Hatches

    • February 11, 2015
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    • jonathan

    If you want to change the scale of your hatches, use the technique to change the local mapping, then save the locally mapped hatch as a new hatch. If you want to change change the background fill, line colors or line weights, use the Resource Browser to edit the hatch. 

  • Vectorworks Tip #205 – Attribute palette – Patterns

    • January 28, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Attribute palette – Patterns. Patterens are the old way to create hatches. They do not always print the way you think they will, but the top line of patterns are still useful for creating tones. I often use the ones shown in this image.

  • Vectorworks Tip #199 – Basic Tools – Local Mapping of a Hatch

    • January 14, 2015
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    • jonathan

    You can use the Attribute palette to change the angle, size, offset, and flipping of the hatch. Click on the Fill Hatch Settings button to open the dialog box, turn on Local Mapping, then edit the settings to suit.

  • Vectorworks Tip #196 – Basic Tools – Assigning a Hatch

    • January 7, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Use the Attributes palette to assign hatches to your objects. Click on the Fill Style pop-up and choose hatch. After choosing Hatch, click on the pop-up menu to choose the hatch from the current file or from Default Content.

  • BIM_SIG_040 Architect Special Interest Group February 2014 (pm)

    • April 24, 2014
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    • jonathan

    Classes are very useful for setting up drawings. This session looked at techniques for using classes. Should we start the drawing with everything on the None class and then gradually add classes?

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