• Welcome to the New Web Site

    This is a completely new website, with a brand-new structure. Everything will communicated through this site, mainly using this home page. Everything that I want to communicate with you will be on this homepage, which is just a continuous blog. This blog now contains everything that I have written from…

  • Referencing in Vectorworks

    Referencing in Vectorworks is the ability to link your current Vectorworks file to an image, PDF, or another Vectorworks file.

  • SST_1204 Industry Foundation Classes

    IFC stands for Industry Foundation Classes. The classes referred to in IFC have nothing to do with classes and Vectorworks.

  • Simplifying Polygons in Vectorworks

    With so many vertices the polygon from inner boundary works very slowly because it has so much to calculate. It would be nice if Vectorworks had a simplify polygon command. There is a simplify 3-D polygon but this does not have an effect on 2-D polys.

  • I’m Constantly Surprised by Vectorworks

      I’m constantly surprised at what Vectorworks is able to achieve. There seems to be nothing that Vectorworks cannot do. A few months ago i blogged about a case study that Nemetschek Vectorworks had produced on one of my clients (icebreaker). They have really taken to Vectorworks (and my training)…

  • What is the Value of Free Information?

      I was reading a blog recently about the value of free things. I thought this was an interesting blog because the questions the concept of free and whether we should give away free information.

  • Repetition is Important When Learning Vectorworks

    Prior to running my Vectorworks courses online, I used to run them in a classroom. At the time it seemed like the best thing that I could do. I was aware at the time that repetition was important, and the way the courses were structured, it allowed time for the…

  • Feedback on Special Interest Groups for Landmark

    Thanks again for creating the VW Landmark Special Interest Group.  I think yesterday’s session on plant symbols was very helpful, especially since I’m just about to embark on creating my own set of 2d symbols.  I’m definitely going to use classes to control the graphics, but keep them to a…

  • Icebreaker Breaks New Ground

    I was really pleased to see this case study about Icebreaker. Icebreaker has been a client of mine for some time, and so I was really pleasing to see Vectorworks do a case study about how they have implemented the training I have completed with them. The case study is…