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Posted on May 12, 2013 at 10:38am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Some of my friends and colleagues will disagree with me here. Oh, well. To each, his or her own method of working, that's part of the joy of Vectorworks.
Now, there's a funny title for a post; The Joy of Vectorworks. But I digress.
I all seriousness, I use a lot of Vectorworks classes and some of my colleagues argue that I use too many. You'll have to decide for yourself and come up with your own strategy. Classes allow the specification of attributes to objects, and visibility…
ContinuePosted on May 7, 2013 at 3:30pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Layers are like sheets of tracing paper on a drawing board. They are useful in organizing and presenting information.
Specifically, right now, I am referring to Design Layers. Later on, I make some comments about Sheet Layers. Design Layers are for Designing, Sheet layers are for presenting. Sheet layers are like desktop publishing for blueprints.
In my stationery file, I have a basic layer structure. I'll pretty much always need to begin with these layers:
Posted on April 30, 2013 at 7:21am 0 Comments 0 Likes
One of the things I have always valued about my theatrical training and experience is the ability to find creative solutions to many different types of problems. Some call it thinking outside the box. We just don't believe there is a box.
That training and experience was accentuated when I assisted designer Peter Wexler. His work knew few boundaries as to what constituted theatre: museum exhibits, interiors, public space, performance facilities, the list goes on. Peter taught me that…
ContinuePosted on April 23, 2013 at 9:34am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Well, a lot really, but here's one thing.
A light.
Here I have a stock symbol for an ETC Source 4 19° degree instrument and a Vectorworks Light Object-Spotlight. The Vectorworks Light is selected, so the OIP shows options available for that type of device. One thing to notice is that VWX refers to Spread and Beam which theatrical light designers typically call Field and Beam. There are many options for 'focusing' a Vectorworks Lighting Object, both manually and through the…
ContinuePosted on April 15, 2013 at 3:55pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I really do believe that one day we'll all be paper free and that iPads will be ubiquitous. Who hasn't had outdated paper cause an issue somewhere in some production process.
Vectorworks Nomad is available to Service Select subscribers and lets users view, share, measure and annotate files. Version 2.0, released last week includes enhancements that allow new redline drawing shapes, a sheet layer sidebar palette, angle and path measurement modes, improved download and upload…
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