Bairdg Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Like copy a line or curve with a selected point on that line or curve and then insert it elsewhere using this point as an insertion point. Like copy with basepoint in Autoad. Quote Link to comment
jwlyon1 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I think move by points is the answer here. It's new to 2008 (I think!) and it's stuck down on the bottom of the basic tools palette. Shift+m is the hot key. To use it to copy, open the little settings for the tool and select "retain original." It works almost exactly like AutoCAD's move and copy. Quote Link to comment
Bairdg Posted July 23, 2008 Author Share Posted July 23, 2008 I think move by points is the answer here. It's new to 2008 (I think!) and it's stuck down on the bottom of the basic tools palette. Shift+m is the hot key. To use it to copy, open the little settings for the tool and select "retain original." It works almost exactly like AutoCAD's move and copy. Thank you so much - I've been using VWorks for about a month after 6 years of AutoCAD and this is the command that I have been missing the most. Makes life much easier - but I still miss AutoCAD Quote Link to comment
jwlyon1 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I also moved from the AutoCAD beast to VW about a year ago. Let me tell you, VW may have a few tools missing that ACAD had, but overall, I find that VW actually works like it is supposed to. I can actually work in 3d and successfully create my sheet views and details from the model. ACAD always broke or just looked horrid. And workgroup referencing, while it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of xrefs, I've found to be much more stable and useful. The interface for controlling visible layers and classes per viewport is so much easier than the same highly cumbersome method in ACAD. VW is much more a what-you-see-is-what-you-get app than ACAD. All I'm saying, stick with it! Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Don't forget Paste-in-Place: very useful, unique to VW. Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 (edited) Don't forget Paste-in-Place: very useful, unique to VW. A great tool. Not unique to Vectorworks. Acad has had it for many years..."paste to original coordinates" I'll add that it comes up as a context menu item by default. Edited July 23, 2008 by brudgers Quote Link to comment
Jershaun Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Coming back to the copy command, vw isn't as good as the Auto(Manual)CAD one. In ManualCAD, one selects a base point ONCE and then one creates all the copies of the object. In vw, one has to select a base point EVERYTIME one has to make a copy. In this case ManualCAD is better-unfortunately. Quote Link to comment
dovermyer Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Thank you so much - I've been using VWorks for about a month after 6 years of AutoCAD and this is the command that I have been missing the most. Makes life much easier - but I still miss AutoCAD Bairdg...I'm in that same boat. I just started this job a month ago & they use Vectorworks for custom structural assemblies. I'm in the process of evangelizing the benefits of AutoCAD/Inventor. VW looks like it would be perfectly fine if you're drawing houses or pretty pictures for presentation...on a tight budget. But when it comes to making accurate 3D assemblies from a library of parts quickly, it seems to fall flat on its face. The killer for me is that 2D objects do not retain their XYZ locations when you're in a 3D view in VW. That's simply unusable in my opinion. This means you can't sketch a layout in 2D, then use that 2D to place your 3D accurately while in an isometric view...something I consider to be a basic function in any 3D package. Good luck chopping down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring! Quote Link to comment
visard Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 dovermyer - Have you tried to layout your sketch and convert all to 3d polygons, which sets their positions in XYZ, then review in isometric? Quote Link to comment
dovermyer Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I hadn't tried that approach visard. Thanks. I assumed that it wouldn't work, since neither open nor closed polylines are 3D in VW and not all objects can become polygons. Guess I shouldn't assume all terms are used properly... Quote Link to comment
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