1804 – Workflow, putting together a large project
In the past we have looked at Design Layers, Classes, Viewports, Sheet layers, and other organising concepts. The purpose of this manual is to look at how to bring all these together to work on a large project. We will be looking in detail at some of these concepts to see how they would come together for a larger project.
The workflow that we can use for a large project depends on the type of large project that we’re talking about and the number of people working on the project:
- Large single building (school or office)
- Multiple building (school or office)
- Hospital
- Medium-density housing subdivision
- High-density housing (apartment building)
- Multiple building project with a single large building (holiday resort)
- Large hotel
- Motel
- Etc.
Most users are able to create symbols, and all users should be able to use symbols. Symbols are relatively small repeatable objects, and most Vectorworks users use symbols to speed up the drawing process. There are two workflows for using symbols: a quick workflow versus an inefficient workflow. Some users use the inefficient workflow because they don’t know how to make symbols follow the efficient workflow.
