• Landscape Special Interest Group March (am) 2016

    Topics Covered: 00:00   site modelling 03:04   polyline and polygon smoothing 06:59   creating a site model 08:32   rendering options 13:04   default content (plants) 18:49   image prop plants 20:40   VB visual plant objects 24:00   plant default settings 30:11   solar studies 33:58   massing…

  • Vectorworks Tip 396 – Google Earth Pro

    I found out recently that Google Earth Pro is available for free. It has many features that make it the pro version, but so far I do not know what the all are. One feature I do like in the Pro version is the ability to draw a path and then…

  • 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…

  • SST_1508 – Roading in Vectorworks

    This manual is the last manual on the series on site modelling on site modifying because the roading tools quite often used as site modifiers. Don’t forget to refer to the previous two month’s manuals (1506 and 1507) for more information on site modelling. This manual looks specifically at the six…

  • 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

  • Vectorworks Tip 343 – Site Model Cut and Fill

    Every once in a while a client will get confused about what is cut and fill when dealing with a site model. Cut volumes are the parts that are removed from the site model, fill volumes other parts that are added to the site model.

  • Vectorworks Tip 338 – Site Model Settings – Graphic Attributes

    In Vectorworks 2016 there is now a faster way to set the graphic attributes on your site models so that it uses the class settings for the line weights, colours, and line styles of the class. This will allow you to usual classes to change the graphic style of your…