In this session, we looked at the function of stories and levels compared with design layers, as well as how to easily create elevations.
Architect Special Interest Group December 2017 (pm)
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Architect Special Interest Group December 2017 (am)
In this session, we looked at how to set up design layers and stories for a project with a complex building design.
Architect Special Interest Group May 2017 (pm)
In this session, we looked at three main topics. We looked at how to create a car park area that slopes in two directions, we looked at creating a building project that does not use stories, and we looked at how to control the graphics of wall components.
epodcast191 – Story Levels With Symbols
This is a new technique in Vectorworks 2017. You can use a level to control the insertion point of a symbol. In this example I have a symbol for a power outlet with a 3D component. If you create a level for this symbol, you can set the height of the symbol using the level. When you need to change the elevation of all the power outlet in that story, change the level elevation. All the power sockets on that story will update.
Getting Started Special Interest Group June 2016 (am)
In this session we looked at why you should be creating a 3D model, rather than 2D drawings, what the advantage is and how to get started.
Architect Special Interest Group June 2016 (pm)
In this session we looked at what information should be stored in a tempalte file and what should be stored in Default Content.
Vectorworks Tip 296 – How To Remove a Story
Beginner – Stories in Vectorworks are an essential organising system for architectural design, and if you wanted to remove a story from a Vectorworks model, you can. But remember to adjust the remaining stories.
Vectorworks Tip #238- Levels and Simple Walls
Levels can be used to control the elevations of walls. If you set up the required levels, you can use the Object Info palette to connect the walls to the levels. If you change the level elevations, it will update the walls.
Vectorworks Tip #234 – Levels and Stairs
When you create your stairs, you can choose to connect the start (bottom step) and the end (top step) of your stair to levels. This will allow you to create several levels to control the starting and stopping of stairs so that they matched the various levels in your project.
Vectorworks Tip #230 – Stories and Levels – Slab Levels
Levels can be used to control the setting out of your slabs (the Z reference level). If you set this up carefully, it can be a very powerful setting to automatically control the height of your ceiling relative to the structural objects.
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 the height of your columns automatically.
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 the walls, slabs, classes, levels and stories to make sure that the walls and slabs are linked to the levels, and to each other. Continue reading
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 to use unstyled walls. This will make it faster to draw and faster to create demolition walls for the project. When you change wall styles, you can choose the alignment of the exiting and replacement wall. Using Stories in a single level project can be productive, allowing you to link parts of the project to levels, making it easy to change the setting out of the project quickly. It can be useful to sketch out the structure of the project, it will make it easier to work out the Stories and Levels for the project.
Vectorworks Tip #222 – Stories and Levels – Creating New Levels
If you want to create new levels, click on the New Level… button. You can create as many levels as you need to complete your design. Keep the level names short and concise.
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 current project, but these do not change the overall default layers and levels for every project.
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 slab to 0. Using a sketch section thru a project, we can set up project Design Layers and Levels to replicate the settings from the sketch. At the end of the movie we look at how to create a window that spans two floors.
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 to control them.