How to create a section viewport from a model
June 17, 2008
1) Go to “View”
2) “Create Section Viewport”
3) Click on first point to begin section cut
4) Click on second point to end section cut
5) Designate direction of cut and double click, a box will come up “Create Section Viewport”
6) Create a “Name” for the viewport
7) Designate which sheet layer for the viewport to be located (Sheet Layer 1)
Click on the “Layer” tab and turn on layers you wish to show up
9) Make sure the “Display Objects Beyond the Section Plane” box is checked
10) Set Scale
11) “Rendering” should be set to Hidden Line
12) Click on the “Advanced Section Properties” tab
13) “Length Range” should be set to Limited by Section Line Length
14) “Depth Range” should be set to Infinite
15) Click “OK”
16) Click “OK” again
17) The drawing will take you to the new viewport and you are now ready to draw over the model in annotations
Any questions just ask!!!
YWA address won’t show up on title block!!!
June 17, 2008
When placing a YWA titleblock on a new sheet layer our address may not show up.
1) Double click on the “Classes” tab in the “Navagation” toolbar
2) Scroll down and click on the “Class Name” Titleblock
3) Click the ”Edit key”
4) Change fill style to “None”
This will fix the problem!!
Tracing a PDF
May 16, 2008
If you bring a PDF into VectorWorks to trace over and the file is working very slow you can try this to make it work more quickly.
-open the pdf (outside of VW)
-save as a JPEG
-Import the file by going to:
-File
-Import
-Import image file
-then find your file
