In this session, we discussed revisions: when to make a drawing a revision, tips on file names, title blocks, adding revision data, revision clouds, and keynotes.
Landscape Special Interest Group May 2018 AM
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Tag Archives: callout
Landscape Special Interest Group October 2017 am
In this session, we looked at exporting DWG files, ensuring that new classes have the visibility that you want, managing your saved view settings, attaching images to plant tags, and changing your Callout Tool preferences.
Architect Special Interest Group July 2017 (am)
In this session, we covered how to transfer Vectorworks resources from one computer to another, clarified several points from last month regarding the Callout Tool, discussed how settings work together to create complicated objects in WinDoor, and answered numerous questions regarding windows.
Architect Special Interest Group June 2017 (am)
In this session, we looked at creating keynotes and legends with the Callout Tool, working with details, and how best to modify the shapes of simple details.
Architect Special Interest Group December 2016 (am)
In this session we looked at referencing a DXF/DWG file into a project. Referencing means that if the file is updated, it will automatically be imported when you open the file again. Then we looked at the callout tool and in particular, how to use it with the notes database, creating door and window elevations, and a discussion about using symbols with story levels to control elevation.
Architect Special Interest Group October 2016 (am)
In this session we looked at callouts, the notes database, and customizing the workspace.
Landscape Special Interest Group July (am) 2016
In this session we looked at modifying viewports, 3D textures, and creating callouts that use a database and legend. A large part of the session was not recorded because Jonathan mistakenly forgot to restart the recording at on point. The resulting movie is very short.
Annotation – Part 24
Callout Tool, Editing the Note Database – You can add notes, delete notes and edit the notes in the note database. Continue reading
Annotation – Part 23
Callout Tool, Creating a New Note Database – You can create your own note database for the Callout.
Annotation – Part 22
Callout Tool, Place as Keynote, With More than One Legend – Using more than one keynote legend allows you to group all the roof notes together, all the wall notes together, or set up ConDoc notes.
Annotation – Part 21
Edit Keynote Legend – The keynote legend can be edited from the Object Info palette, you can format the text on the Keynote Legend with the Object Info palette.
Annotation – Part 20
Callout Tool, Place as Keynote – The Callout tool is faster if you get the text from a note database.
Annotation – Part 19
Callout Tool With Text From a Database – The Callout tool is faster if you get the text from a note database.
Annotation – Part 18
Callout Tool – The Callout tool makes it fast and easy to add notes to your drawings.
cadmovie828 – Annotation Tips and Tricks Part 2
Callout tool. You can assign test styles to annotation objects by dragging and dropping the text style from the Resource Browser to the annotation objects. You should be able to assign text styles to callouts in the callout preferences.
cadmovie561 – Intermediate Annotation Part 7
Change the Keynote Order in the Legend. After all the notes are placed, you may not be satisfied about the order of the keynotes. The default order is the order that the keynotes are placed,but this can be changed.
cadmovie559 – Intermediate Annotation Part 5
Adding More Notes to The Note Database. Normally, you will have some notes that you have used before. These might be notes in a word processor, or they might be notes form other Vectorworks drawings. You can use these notes to fill in your note database. This can be a really quick way to get the notes into your database.
cadmovie558 – Intermediate Annotation Part 4
Adding Sections and Notes. If you use the note database, you could easily have hundreds of notes in the database. This makes it hard to find the notes you want. The answer is to divide your note database into sections. you could then have all the notes that relate to a section of work, or a building element together, making it easier to find the notes you want.
cadmovie556 – Intermediate Annotation Part 2
Editing a Callout.
cadmovie557 – Intermediate Annotation Part 3
Creating a Note Database.You can use the callout tool without using a database if you want, but you are losing a lot of power. The callout works really well if you get the text from a database. This allows you to set up database of standard notes that you can use on job after job. You can even set up an office database so that several people can look at the same database and share notes.