Jonathan Pickup

In this movie, I show you how to draw a quick building using Vectorworks walls, slab, foundations, roof, and roof framing. The techniques I use on this simple building can easily be used on a more complex building.

Angela, if i understand your question correctly, if you place the scale bar in a 1:50 viewport, it will scale correctly.

there are two ways to do this. You can use roof faces, or you can use the roof tool and cut out the bits you don't want. here is a movie on roof faces:

if you enter the information as "0.25m" Vectorworks will convert the number to mm

Here is a movie I made on stories, layers, and levels

I do understand. I really liked the written manuals. I used to write the step-by-step manuals for Vectorworks. Feed back from the majority of users was that they only wanted the movies.

I have been writing Vectorworks manuals and courses for the past 20 years, for several years I wrote the Vectorworks Essentials manual. Here is my latest online course. This course contains about 8 hours of video and it works though all the most important concepts for Vectorworks. This is a great course for getting started in Vectorworks. If you have been looking for a Vectorworks manual, this course is the updated video course from the old Vectorworks Essentials manual. https://store.archoncad.com/courses/general/vectorworks-foundation-2021/

Archoncad still has written manuals and updates them on a regular basis (when they are needed), see the link in my signature

I like stories, even if I don't use them a lot. I had a Novedge webinar this morning where i looked at stores, levels, and layers. one of my favourite tricks is to use stories for controlling the elevation of symbols, like light switches. Here is the link to the webinar:

I didn't think that this was too much of an issue. Once you have edited the default drawing label style, you can import it into another file to replace the one that Vectorworks has made by default. This should replace all the drawing labels of that style. I looked at editing the drawing label in my Novedge webinar this morning, around the 24 minute mark.

This is the same way that I do it. In 2021, you can change the class of the plugin object to speed up the revisions..

yes, sorry 31:20, I have the class settings walls.

I've post a YouTube movie on using the Data Tag tool to find information from a structural member and place it in a viewport

have a look at this movie, scroll to 36:31 for the information about the class overrides in viewports.

it is possible and a good trick to remember when pads and contours don't work easily. Still works in 2021 I have a few YouTube moves on site modeling: https://youtu.be/vD94_FWKhW0 https://youtu.be/y3eYdickZbE