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Working with Vectorworks

Interface

  • Vectorworks interface
  • Manage palettes
  • Getting started with commands and tools
  • Tools and commands for your Vectorworks version
  • Quick search and Smart options Display
  • Why has the interface of my French Vectorworks changed?

Organizing the drawing

  • Organizing my document
  • Getting started with layers
  • Getting started with classes
  • Searching through all layers and classes
  • Keep Vectorworks template up to date

Libraries & Resources

  • Getting started with the Resource Manager
  • New libraries in Vectorworks
  • Search in libraries

Exchanging & Collaborating

  • File types that can be imported
  • File types that can be exported
  • Importing PDFs or images
  • Importing DXF/DWG
  • Working with colleagues in the same document
  • Using a shared library
  • Working with the Project Sharing server

Tips & Tricks

  • Getting started with the Vectorworks Help manual
  • Splitting your screen into multiple panes
  • Shortcut keys for tools and commands
  • Navigating in a drawing
  • Snapping objects
  • Increase Vectorworks speed
  • Set Auto Save correctly
  • Set Quick Preferences
  • Did you know?
  • Working quickly with tool modes

Basic drawing objects

  • Drawing a 2D object
  • Drawing irregular shapes
  • Adding or clipping surfaces
  • Fast volume drawing
  • Creating a shell from solid objects
  • Adding or subtracting solids
  • Chamfering edges
  • Different object types

BIM - Architecture

  • Getting started with walls
  • Joining walls and wall components
  • Creating floor slabs
  • Stories and story levels
  • Creating sloping roof faces
  • Inserting windows or doors in the outer wall
  • Window over several stories
  • Inserting a window in a sloping roof
  • Inserting interior joinery
  • Inserting stairs
  • Creating a window with splayed edges in Vectorworks 2023

Garden & Landscape design

  • Creating a site model (DTM)
  • Geolocating a drawing
  • Creating a planting design

Interior

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interiorcad

  • Creating a custom part 3D
  • Assigning materials to parts
  • Creating a Cabinet 3D symbol library

Rendering

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Presentation

  • Getting started with viewports
  • Printing the design
  • Converting the design to a digital building permit (Belgium)
  • Using Title Block Border

Documentation

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