Scenery symbol libraries

[jarjones]

I am a scenic designer and new user to Spotlight, which came highly recommended by several colleagues. Are there any extended architectural symbol libraries that can be obtained. I'm looking for different styles of doors, windows, railings, etc. so that I don't have to create every element from scratch. It seems like they would exist for Architect; can I get some of those libraries somehow?

Thanks,

Jeff A.R. Jones

[klinzey]

For the basic stuff look in the SL-Scenic Elements.mcd file in the Object Library. The doors and windows are Plug-in objects so you can set the sizes of them once you place them in the document. Architect contains a much larger set of architectural type symbols. You also may want to take a look at some of the third party sites, many of them have symbol libaries available for download.

[jarjones]

Can I access the Architect plug ins without buying Architect? Also, how do I find these third party sites of which you speak? I just found the Third party items part of the Vectorworks site. Any suggestion on the best place to start?

Thanks for your help.

[klinzey]

To get access to the complete Architectural libary you would need to upgrade to include Architect.

Start looking for symbols at: http://www.vectordepot.com/ http://www.vectorbits.com/

and other sites listed at:

http://www.nemetschek.net/partners/other_links.html