For Vectorworks 2017 we have five major new technologies: Resource Manager Camera Match Structural Member Objects Irrigation Tools Virtual Reality We will be covering these technologies in detail, probably later in the year or early next year, but in this manual there will be a brief overview of them. Last…
In the session we looked at the new Resource Manager, especially looking at how we should be using the new manager, how we should be organizing resources, how we should take control of the resource manager, and then we looked at updating our library files.
Landscape Area – The main change is the ability to save a landscape area as a resource so that you can reuse it on several projects.
Plant Tool Changes – There are a few powerful changes to plants. Spacing is a lot more flexible.
Save Column – There haven’t been a lot of changes to the column object, except for the ability to save a column. This is not the same as the object styles for doors and windows, but it does improve your ability to reuse columns on several projects.
Delete 3D Wall Peaks – For a long time we have been able to fit our walls to 3D geometry. The downside is that you end up with a wall that has peaks. While it has been easy to add these peaks it has always been troublesome to remove them, and…
Internal Elevations – This command will create internal room elevations, put them on a sheet layer for you, and create an elevation marker on the design layer that is linked to the viewports. And it is all editable.
Slab Drainage – This tool allows you to create a slab with falls to ta drain. Flat roofs are never really flat and this tool allows you to make better flats roofs.
Slab Association And Offset Edges – For a few versions now we have had the ability to connect a slab style to a wall style. This allows us to choose an association between components of the wall and the edge of the slab.
Property Line – There have been many requests to make the Property Line more flexible. Vectorworks have been listening and they have improved the Property Line to make it much more flexible. You can set the units on the segments, choose which segments are annotated, etc.