Vectorworks, Building an Octagon Truss & Editing Truss hinge

I’ve created a video showing how to build an octagon and edit hinged truss to 45°. Plus adding Braceworks settings to allow easy...

Vectorworks

Vectorworks: The Gold Standard for Entertainment Industry Drafting If you teach or work in stage design and technical production, Vectorworks stands out as the premier CAD package—especially for theatres, live event venues, and schools. Not only is Vectorworks...

Making White Models using VectorWorks, part I

A tutorial showing how to create a basic ground plan of a simple set in Vectorworks. We then explore working planes that allow us to print each wall from its “front” view. These will then become the actual white model walls.The tutorial is shown at a...

White Model via Paper & Vectorworks.

Now that we’ve printed out all the parts to our model, it’s time to assemble the paper into a simple 3-D...

Drawing a Theatrical Flat in 3-D using Vectorworks

Instructional video showing a method of drawing a theatrical flat using VectorWorks. The result is a flat in...

Drafting a flat using VectorWorks

Drafting a 2-D theater flat using Vectorworks. This is just one method, of many, for drawing a 4×8 B’way style flat. It runs about 20 minutes and covers a lot of the tools/functions in...

Vectorworks Classes, Layers, Viewports, 3D Flat

I show how I use classes and layers to keep things organized within a 3D Flat symbol. I also show how to make several viewports to show the flat from various angles on a sheet layer. Here’s a file with the 3D Flat symbol520.50 KB to play...