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Santa Barbara Vectorworks User Group Meeting
During the pandemic, we started meeting once a week. Usually on Thursdays. Usually at 5:00 but sometimes at 4:00 so East Coasters aren’t up past their bedtime.
All are welcome. No need to be in Santa Barbara. Anyone with questions and tips to share about using Vectorworks is welcome.
Videos from Meetings
Printing issues | Title Blocks | Publish / Print updates plug-ins, worksheets, viewports | Backgrounds in orthogonal views | Creating Renderworks Backgrounds | Create custom distributers | Script request | Project Tool in first mode has secret group trick | Niche symbols inserted into walls
David Hamer's stream deck demo | New cabinet tool | stair tool(s) and winders | object line styles | referencing images and pdfs | LIDAR | Grid Lines | New Grate tool
Recovering from corrupt files | transferring saved views | Data Vis on schematic views | Spotlight summary tool | Pad cut and fill calcs | Hidden line render options | Shaded rendering white models. | Low/Med/High details in doors, windows, viewports | counting symbols in worksheets for keys/legends | Duplicate objects in defined area w/ Marionette | Jesse Cogwell's menu command to distribute symbols in a volume | Redline tool and schedules | Images in worksheets | Objects in worksheets by data vis
Spaces and Data Tags | New tool for extruded trim in metal buildings | Point clouds | Lighting truss discussion | dwg imports | Visibility Tool | Auto Hybrids! | Script for creating views of 3D symbols | Don't use '#' in record names or field names! | Delete wall peaks | Fit walls to objects
The incomperable Ashot Shagirian and Geolocation presentation. See also Part 1 on 31 March 2023 and his Geolocation preview on 17 September 2023 and his amazing 30 August 2023 SQLite/VW integration. | Cloud rendering | Lighting for rendering (Area Lights in action!) | Create Animation Path from Saved Views | Scripts for managing classes and class descriptions
Getting data attached to symbols | Title blocks | AI Images (w/ Dave Donley!!)
Benson finds a bug in the Hatch Editor | Demonstration of the Matt Panzer Method (TM) of shaping walls | Using the 3D Wall Hole component of Symbols | 2024 Viewport Styles | 2024 Viewport Depth of Field | Geolocation preview | Text Sniper
2 November 2023
Click here for the meeting where Ishkra Nikolova, the Quality Assurance Manger for the Cloud Team at Vectorworks walks us through the Vectorworks cloud presentation portal and endures my endless questions about the Vectorworks iPhone app, Nomad.
Great worksheet questions. Autoplot example of quickly generating worksheets. Geolocation. Aligning Hardscapes.
Vectorworks Twitch?
Entertainment Drafting Standards. Curb Cuts. Jesse Cogswell’s great Locate Class Objects. The Visibility Tool. Vectorworks Task Management w/ Space Objects !!!!
Things I wish I had learned about walls a lot earlier.
VECTORWORKS 2024!!! Our own Scott Parker shows off his new creation: A brand new inventory system for entertainment in VW. Updates to walls and doors. Migrating to a new VW.
This was a legendary meeting. It marks the first time anyone opened up the terminal. Thanks to Ashot for sharing all this knowledge. | SQLite / VW integration | Skylights in roof faces - are horizontal roof hole cuts possible? | Simple Chain Motor strategies | VW drawing status tracker | Why did a work group library vanish? | New developments in VW Service Packs | Black, Blue, Red, Green Symbols
Still reeling from Ashot’s presentation of VW and SQLite. Design Days coming up around the country. Bartender. Title Block Records. Locally rotated distances. Fence Tool questions. Chain Link Fence Hack. Surface Array Tricks. Duplicate Along Path questions.
Managing Title Block Data, Rendering Drapes, Ashot Previews SQLite to VW Data, Nomad LIDAR, Amazing New Brick Arches Tool, Using Parameters in Worksheet Scripts, Crashing VW with Scripts in the Data Manager!!!, Using Symbols as Profiles in Extrudes and EAPs, NAS
General Notes, Keyed Notes, Switchy (?), Reference Markers, Renaming Viewports, Renumbering Sheet Layers, Comparing Worksheet Database Criteria!
There is no way to have planned these topics: Sonolgy | Wall Framing Command Design Layer Limits | How To Pack a Cargo Plane w/ VW | Finding Selected Objects in Groups | Project Management ?!?! | Vectorworks Log | Time Trackers | Flowcharts in VW | Point Clouds
Dialog Builder !?!?! | Using Lidar scans from Nomad in VW. | Tool Icons: Where do they live? | The Data Manager.
Energos?? Printing Labels. Resource Manger Tricks. Wall complaints.
Benson in space with prime numbers. Great worksheet questions and data tag discussion.
Great worksheet questions. Spinning wheelbarrow followup.
We never did get to the topic. Great truss tool from David Hamer. Nonsense from me. We had to stop recording in the middle for a while. How to renumber Sheet Layers!!
Walls: Styled and Unstyled
Roof Objects and Roof Faces
Door and Window Schedules.
Trusses, data visualization, and more with Don Ward.
Matt Panzer’s cool nudge tool. And more worksheets.
0-16:00 Juan introduces Vectorworks University
16:00 > Worksheets (part 1)
Data Tags!!
Web view, panoramas, service select.
GIS (part 2) with Vlado Stanev.
Problems submitting PDFs in Santa Barbara.
GIS (part 1) with Vlado Stanev.
Creating textures. With some missing audio :-(.
An unintentionally silent movie featuring Solid Modeling.