VectorWorks Training for Professionals

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This hands-on course will suit beginners to intermediate users and will offer a good grounding for optimising your use of VectorWorks 2008. Attendees will get course notes and discounts apply for attending multiple days. To register for any of the days, download the PDF to the right and fax or post it to OzCAD. Places are limited so early bookings are essential.

COURSE DIRECTOR
The training sessions are designed and conducted by Peter Neufeld.  

Peter is a stage lighting designer who has conducted VectorWorks courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian Film, Radio and Television School at Ryde as well as other places around Australia. Peter also tutors at CoFA.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
This course is considered a formal CPE contributor for architects and each hour of participation will be able to be recorded as one formal hour of CPE against the annual Architects Registration Board requirement for architects.

COURSE CONTENT
DAY 1 (Wednesday 12th November)
Session 1 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
An Introduction to 2D

• Preferences and workspaces
• Page set up, set print area, layer scale, units
• Resource Browser and Object Info Palette
• Using the basic 2D tools
• Smart cursor, snap points
• Understanding Cartesian and Polar co ordinates
• Attributes: colours and fills, gradients and image fills, line weights
• Importing resources
• Constraints palette
• Compose, add surface and clip surface commands
• Send command
• Move command
• 2D reshape tool, 2D rotate tool
• Mirror, duplicate and duplicate array
• Understanding and editing groups

DAY 1 (Wednesday 12th November)
Session 2 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Exploring the hybrid objects, classes and layers

• Creating and editing walls
• Viewing the 3d model: Flyover, walkthrough and set 3D view tools
• Parametric objects: doors, windows and others
• Dimensioning
• Creating, inserting and editing symbols
• Importing symbols from other files
• Understanding classes and layers
• Creating Classes and using Class Graphic Attributes
• Class and Layer visibility
• Classes and Plug-in Objects

DAY 2 (Thursday 13th November)
Session 3 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
Organising and annotating the drawing

• Organising your drawing using layers
• Design layers and Sheet layers
• Stacked layers
• Presenting and printing a drawing using Viewports
• Viewports and 3D models
• Rendered views using Viewports
• Viewport crops and annotations
• Live section viewports
• Drawing labels and titleblocks
• Annotations

DAY 2 (Thursday 13th November)
Session 4 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
The World of 3D Modelling

• Batch printing and batch PDF export
• Importing and exporting with other applications dwg/dxf etc.
• Extrudes
• 3d primitives, domes, spheres, cones
• Add and subtract solids
• Filleting 3d objects
• Multiple extrudes and meshes
• Sweeps
• Extrude along path

VectorWorks Training for Professionals - Landmark

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This hands-on one-day course will suit both beginners and intermediate users of VectorWorks Landmark 2008. It will offer a good grounding for optimising your use of the software and will include a lesson on the Australian Plant Database. If you are new to VectorWorks, then we recommend doing days 1 and 2 above as well.

Attendees will receive a set of course notes. To register, download the PDF to the right and fax or post it to OzCAD. Places are limited so early bookings are essential.

COURSE DIRECTOR
The training sessions are designed and conducted by Peter Neufeld.

Peter is a stage lighting designer who has conducted VectorWorks courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian Film, Radio and Television School at Ryde as well as other places around Australia. Peter has also tutored at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.

DAY 1 (Friday 14th November)
Session 1 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
Using Landmark

• Using the Australian plant database
• Adding to the database
• Using the plant tool
• Incorporating hand sketches into a VectorWorks drawing
• Creating plant schedules
• Creating property lines
• Landscape walls
• Working with Hardscapes
• Existing Tree tool
• Massing model

DAY 1 (Friday 14th November)
Session 2 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
An Exercise in Landmark

This session will comprise an exercise involving the importation of an architectural drawing and its incorporation into a landscape design. We will emulate a real world situation as closely as possible and guide you through to its conclusion, using title blocks and dealing with printing and plant schedules, etc.