• SST_1708 – Walls, Slabs, And Roofs

    Introduction Walls, slabs, and roofs are designed to interact. This means that when you connect a slab to walls, it will update when you move the walls. Roofs can be connected to walls so that parts of the roof are inside the building and some parts of the roof extend…

  • podcast 178 – Replacing Walls Quickly with Wall Styles

    If you use wall styles, it is very fast to change the walls from one style to the other. Replacing Walls. This allows you to copy the walls from one layer and then replace the wall style to get a completely different wall, but one that lines up with the…

  • BIM_SIG_027 Special Interest Group July 2013

    In this meeting all we looked at was walls, Wall Styles, and assigning textures to wall. There are a lot of places for you to assign textures to walls, so the first part of the meeting is looking at those. The movie finishes with the best and easiest place to assign your…

  • epodcast180 – Drawing Walls to Accurate Framing Dimensions

    It is possible to set up your wall styles so that you can draw your accurate wall dimensions using the framing(all core) or the structural part of the wall. When you are drawing your walls, it is important that you create the walls to the correct dimensions. There is a…

  • BIM_SIG_024 Special Interest Group June 2013

    In this session the users wanted to look at inserting windows in a round wall. This was an issue that I saw on a user forum. In this session we looked at the Vectorworks window briefly but spend most of the time looking at a custom window.

  • Drawing a Stone Capping on a Wall

    One of my clients was asking about drawing a stone capping on a wall. There are two ways to deal with this, drawing a 2D plan view, or correctly modeling the stone capping in 3D. This applies to more than just a stone capping, it applies to any wall that…

  • Introduction to BIM- Drawing Walls – Part 13

    Walls With Different Heights – You can have walls with different heights, and you can have walls for different floor levels on the same layer.

  • Introduction to BIM- Drawing Walls – Part 12

    Exporting Wall Styles To The Wall Style Library – Save your walls styles to the wall style library, then you can use them on every project.