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EXAMPLES

EXTRA EXERCISE

EXERCISE : BAR INTERIOR

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Doors and Windows

Vectorworks has what are termed Hybrid Objects. These objects can look different in 2D and 3D, making them perfect for both architectural plans as well as visualisations. Vectorworks doors and windows are Hybrid objects, for example in plan view a door will show an arc for opening radius but act just like any other object in a 3D view.

Plug-Ins:

The Resource Browser contains many ‘Plug-Ins’ for your Vectorworks model.

Vectorworks has a huge library of pre-built door and window objects which correspond to real-life manufacturing standards. To activate a plug-in simply select it and drag into the drawing space.

If you know exactly which door or window you require then this is very useful, today however we will be looking at making our own from the default window and door symbols (These can also be found in the Building Shell Pallette).

Doors and windows can be snapped into walls and then repositioned in plan view by selecting the plug-in at one of its ends and moving it along the wall (make sure you use the double-headed angled arrow cursor).

Using the Object Info Palette we can now adjust settings such as height, width and configuration (along with the option of having a door open or closed in 3D). You can also adjust the elevation height of a window.

Extra editing controls are accessed by double-clicking on the plug-in object. This will open up a large box with a number of different tabs. Here you can adjust in more detail the makeup of the object (For example you can adjust the thickness of a sill or add a door threshol.

Floors and Ceilings

There is no 'Floor' Tool in Vectorworks as such, instead we draw the floor area using a 2D Tool and then give it a depth (usually a negative extrusion as discussed in session 2). In todays session we will look at two different ways in which to achieve this.

• Drawing the Floor Area: It is often useful to draw the floor first and then use this as a guide around which to construct the walls. This is especially useful when modeling one room for visualisation. You may have done a site survey and have all of the internal measurements, in this case it is easier to construct an accurate 2D shape rather than straight away determine the individual lengths of multiple walls.

When drawing walls around the Floorplan template make sure that you use the appropriate wall drawing mode from the mode bar. You do not want to have your walls sitting inside the floor area if you have spent time constructing it accurately!

• Using the AEC Command: Vectorworks has inbuilt commands which can be used for quick and easy construction of walls and floors. They are located in AEC>Architectural menu.
  
  The Create Polys from Walls command can be used to create flooring and ceilings from multiple walls. Select all of the walls that form contained spaces and access the command (Note that you must select wall objects only for the command to work). Select either Gross or net (room) Polys and see the results.
  
  It is useful to first group all of the polygons created so that they can be edited easily. Enter the group , they can now be extruded either individually or together. The benefit of extruding individually is that they can all have separate textures applied.
  
  The Create Walls from Polys Tool takes a polygon and constructs walls around it. The polygon can include curved points but the program may have trouble with excessively complex shapes.
  
  The curved part of the polygon will produce curved walls made up of many individual straight walls. This is different to the curved wall tool which is made of a single wall. This means that it is trickier to position symbols into the wall where desired.

These tools are very useful if you need to draw complex floor shapes and don't feel confident drawing using 2D tools!

The Floor shapes that you construct can often simply be duplicated and moved up to act as your ceiling object as well!