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!!!

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!! 

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