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I am having trouble aligning a 3D object with the working plane. I have a cylinder and I want to align the center of one of the circular faces with the origin of the working plane. I can get so far as to align one of the faces with the working plane, but I can't center it on the origin. vectorworks 10, mechanical. mac osX.

I am having trouble placing 3D holes in the proper orientation with respect to my object. I have a 3D rectangular block. I want to drill a hole through it. When I go to place 3D hole, it snaps to the top/plan view and will only allow me to place the hole parallel to this plane. I want to be placing the hole perpendicular, i.e., into this plane. How do I do this? (There is no field in the hole parameters window which allows me to do this as there are for the 2D holes or tapped holes, i.e. the "view" field). I have also tried setting the working plane to the appropriate face but this also does not work, it continues to snap to the top/plan view. For reference I am working with Vectorworks Mechanical 10 for Mac OSX. thanks!

I've just recently purchased Vectorworks and am trying to learn it's interface and intuition. I have previously only used SolidEdge and am therefor finding it difficult to switch intuition modes if you will. I was wondering about how Vectorworks handled certain things that I am used to seeing/doing in Solid Edge. 1)Assemblies. I am accustomed to creating individual parts and then combining them in a seperate assembly as you would put together apiece of machinery. Is this done merely by creating all your parts in a single file? Perhaps seperated by layers or object classes? 2)Engineering drawings. Again, I am accustomed to creating a 3D solid part, then exporting that part to a drawing in which i can have multiple views of the part (top, right, left and isometric for example). how are multiple view, 2D drawings obtained from a 3D object in Vectorworks? 3)There are other tools I am also accumstomed to seeing, such as cutouts, revolved cutouts etc. Perhaps they have more of machining/shaping language in Solid Edge, but with what tools are such actions performed? I'm sure there will be more as I continue to explore the program...