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  • BIM_SIG_016 Special Interest Group January 2013

    • January 21, 2013
      • Architect
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    In the session we talked about creating template files. When you create a template it is tempting to put everything in the template that you think you will need. Unfortunately, this creates a very heavy template file with lots of textures, hatches, line types, and symbols that you might never…

  • Interactive Workshops January 2013 Design Layers and Classes

    • January 17, 2013
      • Interactive Workshops
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Design layers and classes are the two most important organising concepts that you need to understand in order to create drawings in Vectorworks. I still find some users are confused about when to use a layer and when to us a class to organise their drawings. I use three simple…

  • Landmark_SIG_017 Special Interest Group December 2012

    • December 22, 2012
      • Interactive Workshops
      • Landmark
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    This is the last  landmark special interest group session for 2012. It gives us the opportunity to wrap up anything that’s outstanding for the subscribers this year.  A consistent theme for the Landmark special interest groups this month has been planting. Vectorworks 2013 has a new dialog box for creating…

  • Landmark_SIG_016 Special Interest Group December 2012

    • December 21, 2012
      • Landmark
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    In this session we looked at two major topics; creating a landscape budget using landscape areas, and creating plants and adding them to your library. Vectorworks makes it very easy to find areas and calculate the percentages of areas in relation to each other. If you create your plants and…

  • BIM_SIG_015 Special Interest Group December 2012

    • December 18, 2012
      • Architect
      • Interactive Workshops
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    The session was intended to be an open question-and-answer session. My aim was to cover several topics. However, there were two main topics that came up in the session. The first topic was space subjects and how to edit the labels, and the second topic was default content.

  • Interactive Workshops December 2012

    • December 11, 2012
      • Interactive Workshops
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Each month we have a series of online webinars based around the short sharp training manuals that I write each month. Several clients have asked if I’m recording the session so they can watch it later. This month I decided to try recording each session and posting it here so…

  • Landmark_SIG_015 Special Interest Group November 2012

    • November 26, 2012
      • Landmark
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    In this session we looked at getting started with the project, based on information that had been measured on-site. In the situation the information was not imported from a survey, it was actually measured by the people in the office when they visited the site. The methods of measuring were…

  • Landmark_SIG_014 Special Interest Group November 2012

      • Landmark
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    In this meeting we continued our series on getting started with Vectorworks Landmark. An important part of creating a landscape plan is creating plants. In Vectorworks 2013, the plant preferences have been changed. There are now two dialogue boxes that control plant settings. The new settings with the two dialogue…

  • BIM_SIG_014 Special Interest Group November 2012

    • November 21, 2012
      • Architect
      • Public Posts
      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    The Vectorworks stair tool was introduced for Vectorworks 2011, but this still seems to be some confusion about how to use the stair effectively. At first look, the stair looks powerful but complicated. It’s important to understand the concept behind the stair so that you can use the stair quickly…

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