• 1702_02 – Creating Drawings for A Landscape Project – Intermediate Topics

    The previous section was all about beginner topics, which everyone should know. This section is all about the intermediate topics that you will need to know in order to create your drawings from the 3D model. This section will be about how the 3D parts of the design work.

  • Landscape Special Interest Group March (pm) 2017

    In this session we looked at trying to create a hatch pattern that would create a random paving pattern and whether this would be achievable using hatches or whether it would be better using tiles. We also looked at creating areas of landscape area for quick planting areas, creating random…

  • Landscape Special Interest Group February (am) 2017

    In this session we looked in detail at attaching tags to planting and hardscapes and how this relates to creating drawings using viewports and sheet layers. We also looked at the detail of using a hardscape as a site modifier.

  • Landscape Special Interest Group January (am) 2017

    This session looked at the problem of creating several curving driveways and paths. The texture should follow the curve and the path. We focused on using the Hardscape tool. This gives us the shape that we needed and there is also the ability to have the hatching follow the shape…

  • Landscape Special Interest Group February (pm) 2016

    Topics Covered: 00:00   using the brick symbol to create a barbecue 01:27   regular polygon tool 03:25   laying out the first course of 22 bricks in a circle 04:30   create a copy of the first course to create the second course of bricks 05:47   duplicate array…

  • Vectorworks Tip 369 – Creating the Fall to a Hardscape

    Now that you can create a fall to your hardscape objects, you have different ways of setting the fall. You can set the fall by percentage, by ratio, or by elevation at the start and the finish.

  • Vectorworks Tip 364 – Hardscape Objects Have a Fall

    From 2016 onwards hardscape objects can be designed to have a fall. Previous versions of Vectorworks only allowed the hardscape object to be flat, now you can choose to slope the hardscape.

  • Landmark_SIG_082 Special Interest Group November (am) 2015

    Main topics: Plant Tool Plant Definition Plant Preferences Massing Model Using the K key Editing Plant Definitions Plant database Update From Plant Database Copy From Symbol Create a new plant Plant Tool Preferences Reshape Tool Improvements to the Hardscape Tool Hardscape Object Settings Parking tools

  • Landmark_SIG_081 Special Interest Group October (pm) 2015

    Main topics: creating a site model from an image importing a shape file using GIS information from a local body website site modifier contour mode hardscape changes in Vectorworks 2016