VectorWorks 2008 manuals!
We have just completed the new Essential Tutorial Manual for VectorWorks 2008. This is a major update to this successful VectorWorks manual.Essential Tutorial Manual for VectorWorks 2008
Product Description
* Ideal for beginners and intermediate users
* Introduction to VectorWorks
* Learn 2D Drawing
* Introduction to 3D modeling
* Introduction to Drawing Buildings
* Learn about Worksheets
262 pages, over 730 illustration, 85 movies.
The VectorWorks Essentials manual is designed to take you from no skills in VectorWorks through to a competent beginner level. It is designed to teach you all the things that are need to give you a good, solid foundation in VectorWorks.
This manual comes as a text book with an included CD-ROM. The text book is written in a conversational style, and is designed to be easy to read and understand. The manuals uses pictures to show what is going on and often uses diagrams to explain concepts that people find hard to understand. This manual is designed for visual people.
The manual starts with very simple VectorWorks concepts because these are the foundations to mastering VectorWorks. Then there are a series of 2D drawing exercises finishing with a drawing exercise that brings all your skills together.
The manual continues with an introduction to 3D modelling, then moves into drawing a building and viewing it in 3D.
The manual comes with an extensive appendix that has additional information.
Table of contents
0. Introduction
0.2 Real World Sizes 6
0.3 New Ways of Drawing
1. Introduction to VectorWorks
1.2 Palettes
1.3 Filing
2. Getting Started
2.1 Basic Concepts
2.2 Selecting and De-Selecting
2.3 Constraints
2.4 Viewing
2.5 Creating Objects
2.6 Modifying and Editing Objects
2.7 Text
2.8 Dimensions
2.9 2D Drawing Exercise
3. 3D Modelling
3.1 Extrude
3.2 3D Viewing
3.3 Simple Solid Modeling
4. Making Drawings in VectorWorks
4.1 Design Layers
4.2 Classes
4.3 Assigning Objects to Layers and Classes
4.4 Viewports And Sheet Layers
5. Drawing Buildings
5.1 Set up the Layer Heights
5.3 Inserting Doors and Windows
5.4 Creating a Roof
5.5 Create 3D Model
5.6 Creating Sections and Elevations 2D Method
5.7 Creating Live Sections and Elevations
6. Worksheets
6.1 Area Calculation for Site Coverage
6.2 Reports - Window Schedule
6.3 Counting Planting Areas
Appendix 1 Introduction to CAD
Appendix 2 Palettes
Appendix 3 Graphics
Appendix 4Setting Up Building Projects
Appendix 5 Fixing Drawing Problems
Appendix 6 Preferences
