• Vectorworks Tip #226 – Stories and Levels – Levels and Columns

    Levels can be used to control the bottom bound and the top bound of columns. The levels can be in the current story, in the story above (the top of a column), or the story below (for the bottom of the column). This gives you a lot of flexibility to control…

  • Architect_064 Architect Special Interest Group February 2015 (pm)

    Vectorworks 2015 has the ability to tightly control the the settings for walls and slabs by using Stories and Levels. This does require care planning and setting up in the Stories dialog box and in the wall and slab style dialog boxes. This session looks in detail at setting up…

  • Architect_063 Architect Special Interest Group February 2015 (am)

    The questions for today focussed on how to set up wall styles for a renovation project. When you are creating the walls from a survey, you often have several different wall thicknesses, but if you use wall styles, you will end up with several wall styles, so it is better…

  • Vectorworks Tip #218 – Stories and Levels – Editing Default Levels

    If you do not like the names of the standard design layers and levels in your story set up dialog box, you can edit them by clicking on the Edit Default Levels… This dialog box allows you to change the default layer names, level names and level elevations for the…

  • Vectorworks Tip #214 – Stories and Levels – Default Levels

    Vectorworks comes with standard design layer and level settings. These design layers and levels can be used in your building projects to control the elevations of the building elements, especially walls and wall components.

  • Vectorworks Tip #210 – Stories and Levels

    Design layers might be the container for holding all of the building elements, but levels control the elevation of these elements.

  • Architect_062 Architect Special Interest Group January 2015 (pm)

    In this session we looked at setting up Design Layers, Levels, and Stories. There is always some choice about the elevation of Design Layers. The setting out of the Design Layers can be related to the top of the slab, and I usually set the elevation of the top of the ground floor…

  • Vectorworks Tip #206 – Stories and Design Layers

    Stories are the collection of settings for each floor; Design Layers are where you draw the information. You could think of Design Layers as being the container that you store all your design work in.

  • cadmovie1501_07 – Stories, Layers and Levels – Part 7

    Complex Wall Style When it comes to creating a more complex wall style, it is very important that you have already created all of the levels that you need. This image shows a more complex wall style already created. You can see the components in the classes I have used…