• Interactive Workshops June 2019 – Floors, Slabs, Columns, and Pilasters

    This workshop is about Floors, Slabs, Columns, and Pilasters. You might be wondering when to use a Floor and when to use a Slab. You might be like other users who use a Floor because they can’t understand how a Slab connects to a Wall. Watch these sessions. They will…

  • Architect Special Interest Group April 2018 (am)

    In this session, we covered how slabs and walls can come together—how adding components to slab styles and wall styles can really enhance the level of detail possible in your drawings—and how to create a more flexible detail viewport.

  • Architect Special Interest Group November 2017 (pm)

    In this session, we showed the flexibility and importance of using object styles in projects, reviewed how to create a slab for a complex set of walls—including adding slab drainage—and discussed setting up interior elevations.

  • Interactive Workshops August 2017 – Walls, Slabs, And Roofs

    Introduction Walls, slabs, and roofs are designed to interact. This means that when you connect a slab to walls, it will update when you move the walls. Roofs can be connected to walls so that parts of the roof are inside the building and some parts of the roof extend…

  • SST_1708 – Walls, Slabs, And Roofs

    Introduction Walls, slabs, and roofs are designed to interact. This means that when you connect a slab to walls, it will update when you move the walls. Roofs can be connected to walls so that parts of the roof are inside the building and some parts of the roof extend…

  • Vectorworks Tips 448 – Connecting Walls and Slabs

    When you create walls and slabs, you can connect the wall components to slab components. The first step is to set up a wall style with components. One of those components should be a core (I usually use the structural part of the wall for this). When you create the…

  • Vectorworks Tips 446 – Slab Textures

    Slabs can be textured by object or by component. What does this mean? When you texture the slab by object, the textures are applied to the top, bottom, and sides of the entire slab, regardless of the component textures. If you texture the slab by component, the texture of each…

  • Architect Special Interest Group May 2017 (am)

    In this session, we looked at slabs, and we looked at counting special parts, particularly objects where you might need to create a record format in order to count them.

  • cadmovie_1610-13 – What’s New In Vectorworks 2017 – Part 13

    Slab Association And Offset Edges – For a few versions now we have had the ability to connect a slab style to a wall style. This allows us to choose an association between components of the wall and the edge of the slab.