galloloco Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Hello, I am new to VW 12.5. I am trying use the BIM approach to a project and I am having tons of question. For example: *Can you draw/design in a 3D view? *The Dims in the 3D view are different - even using the ruler. How do you measure stuff in a 3D view *I have a 12' wall that I must put an arch into. How do I draw the arch that I want to cut through the wall? Do you use the "protrusion/cutout tool? *Can more than one person work on the same model at the same time? *and on and on and on and on and on Thanks for any enlightenment! Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 You can try searching these boards for answers to all your questions and links to beneficial tutorials and plug-in support. Quote Link to comment
Charles Chandler Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 In VectorWorks, the basic approach to architectural drafting is that you draw in 2D, and sometimes you do a little editing in 3D. Nine times out of ten, if you're drawing in 3D, there's some feature that you don't know about that could have accomplished what you're trying to do with simple 2D drafting. VectorWorks doesn't really do 3D dimensioning per se. If you just want to check a dimension in 3D, you can rotate the current view until the thing that you want to measure is parallel to the screen, and then use the Tape Measure tool to measure it, or use the Linear Dimension tool to pull a dimension. All of this is working in the screen plane (the "DCS" in AutoCAD), and any dimensions that you create will remain in the screen plane, no matter what you do. To insert an archway into a wall, place a Door object into the wall, make the configuration "Cased Opening", and then select the type of arch you want (Round, Arc Segment, Ellipse, or Gothic) from the Top Shape pop-up. Only one person can be working on any given document, but multiple documents can all be brought together into a master document using "workgroup referencing". This is like x-ref'ing in AutoCAD. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Maybe the above needs a bit of clarification: "drawing in 2D" means that you work in a 2D plan and the 3D-stuff "just happens". Now, "9 out of 10" depends on what kind of buildings you design: I do a lot of 3D editing and create objects in 3D-views. 2D-only objects do not "live" in 3D-space at all. This includes among other things dimensions and text. The location of any snappable 3D-point can be easily checked with the cursor. As comes to the BIM-approach, VW has a quite decent database and reporting system. This, combined with the extremely useful "dual classification" (layers and classes) and the quite large lexicon of objects, makes VW a pretty good BIM-program. Just do not try to use VW in the same way you've used AutoCAD! Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Using VW means learning to live in ' Hybrid Space' where objects like walls have both editable 2d and 3d components. Once you get used to working this way there is really not much difference between 2d & 3d. Viewports and Layer Links make sense of it all . Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Can more than one person work on the same model at the same time? You might find this discussion of interest: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=74342 Quote Link to comment
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