Vectorworks Training for Professionals

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This hands-on course will suit beginners to advanced users and will offer a good grounding for optimising your use of Vectorworks 2009. 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 many Vectorworks courses at various universities and both private and public institutions around Australia.

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 (Monday 13th July) THIS DAY IS NOW BOOKED OUT
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 (Monday 13th July) THIS DAY IS NOW BOOKED OUT
Session 2 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Exploring the hybrid 3D capabilities of Vectorworks

• Understanding 2D/3D hybrid objects
• Creating and editing walls
• Parametric objects: doors, windows and others
• Viewing the 3d model: Flyover, walkthrough and set 3D view tools
• Creating perspective views
• Understanding and editing Symbols
• Saving views and accessing them
• Wall Styles

DAY 2 (Tuesday 14th July) THIS DAY IS NOW BOOKED OUT
Session 3 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
Organising the drawing

• Dimensioning
• Understanding classes & layers Office standards and protocol ideas
• Organising your drawing using layers
• Manipulating objects in 3D
• Fit walls to roof command
• Using saved views for class and layer visibilities
• Annotations
• Stacked layers
• QT VR Panoramas and objects

DAY 2 (Tuesday 14th July) THIS DAY IS NOW BOOKED OUT
Session 4 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
The World of 3D Modelling

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

DAY 3 (Wednesday 15th July) THIS DAY IS NOW BOOKED OUT
Session 5 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
Renderworks

• Different types of rendering modes
• Renderworks
• Artistic Renderworks and Sketch
• Creating custom textures
• Creating shaders
• Importing and applying textures to objects
• Mapping textures
• Renderworks and Classes
• Lighting a scene
• Radiosity
• Render bitmap tool
• Exporting rendered views
• Image file exports and imports

DAY 3 (Wednesday 15th July) THIS DAY IS NOW BOOKED OUT
Session 6 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Presenting the Drawing

• Design layers and Sheet 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
• Batch printing and batch PDF export
• Creating and applying records
• Creating worksheets

Vectorworks Training for Professionals
Landmark Australia

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This hands-on one-day course will suit both beginners and intermediate users of Vectorworks Landmark 2009. 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 Landmark, then we recommend at least doing days 1 and 2 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.

DAY 1 (Thursday 16th July)
Session 1 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
Using Landmark Australia

• 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 (Thursday 16th July)
Session 2 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
An Exercise in Landmark Australia

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.