Fast Flats 2 is a little more user friendly :-)

 Fast Flats v1.2 Download Plug-in

v1.1 adds a button to create standard classes + minor bug fix.

v1.2 (29 August 2020) finally fixed the Andrew Dunning Bug™

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Fast Flats is a tool that makes theater and TV flats. It will do traditional broadway flats or Hollywood flats. Either 2D or 3D. And it will show a material estimate for the framing in the OIP.

Some people set the thickness of the flat skin to 0 and use it just for the framing.

And it has braces. So that’s fun.



To install:  Download the plug-in. Go to Vectorworks > Preferences.  Click on the User Folders Tab.  Mac users will have a button that says "Reveal in Finder".  Windows users will have a button that says something like "Reveal in Explorer"(?).  That will take you to a folder with the year of the version you are currently using.  Inside that folder will be a folder called "Plug-ins". Put the Fast Flats.vso file in the Plug-ins folder.

 

Then you need to add the tool to your workspace. The great Jim Wilson explains it here.