Vectorworks Fundamentals

This 3 day course will establish solid CAD practice using Vectorworks. One of the main objectives of this course is to enhance user's confidence in taking control of the program rather than being overwhelmed by its versatile power and complexity.

Strong emphasis is therefore devoted to best practices and approaches at this introductory level derived from experience and working solutions. Step-by-step progress under the close supervision of KLC tutors is the key to being able to achieve these core CAD skills.

This course is open to applicants with basic technical drawing skills and computer literacy.

Day 1

• Role of CAD / introduction to the Vectorworks software
• Setting up Workspace & Basic options
• Basic skills – drawing & selecting objects
• Editing skills – combining shapes, mirroring, rotating & grouping objects
• Working to scale, setting preferences & saving templates
• Drawing & moving objects accurately

Day 2

• Further editing tools – fillet & offset
• Introduction to basic attributes & editing groups
• Duplicate arrays – linear, rectangular & circular
• Room plan graphics – walls, windows & doors
• Drawing up a room plan
• Further attributes including hatch, gradient & image fills

Day 3

• Drawing elevations – methods & techniques
• Creating image fills for elevations
• Creating symbols & introduction to Resource Browser
• Organising the drawing using Design Layers
• Labelling the drawings & simple title block text
• Converting drawings into PDFs