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 2010. 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 DIRECTORS
The training sessions are designed and conducted by Andrew Buchanan and Peter Neufeld.  

Andrew Buchanan is a practicing architect and Vectorworks expert who runs the Vectorworks course at CoFA.

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.

NOTE
Days 1 and 2 can not be done separately. If you enrol for day 1, you must enrol for day 2 and vice versa.

COURSE CONTENT
DAY 1 (Monday 12th April)
Session 1 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
An Introduction to Basic Drawing Tools & Commands

• Preferences and workspaces
• Page set up, set print area, layer scale, units
• Object Info Palette
• Understanding Cartesian and Polar co ordinates
• Using the basic 2D tools, creating and editing objects
• Heads-up data bar
• Smart cursor, snap points, 2d loci, Snapping palette, Snap Loupe
• Attributes: colours and fills, colour palette manager
• Hatches, gradients and image fills, line weights, markers.
• 2d Reshape Tool, Offset tool, Fillet Tool, Select Similar,
• 2d Rotate tool, rotate plan feature
• 2d Attribute Mapping Tool
• Send command
• Move command
• Compose, add surface and clip surface commands

DAY 1 (Monday 12th April)
Session 2 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Exploring Basic drawing techniques, commands and walls

• Duplication, Cut, Copy, Paste and Paste in place
• Mirror, Move by Points,
• Duplicate array, Duplicate along path
• Understanding and editing groups
• Resource Browser: Importing & creating resources
• Default content
• Creating and editing walls
• Parametric objects: doors, windows and others
• Dimensioning; creating your own dimension standard

DAY 2 (Tuesday 13th April)
Session 3 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
Understanding classes & layer
Office standards & protocol ideas

• Organising your drawing using layers
• Document preferences and creating templates
• Navigation Palette
• Understanding 2D/3D hybrid objects
• Using and editing Symbols
• Manipulating objects in 3D
• Unified views – viewing the complete 3d model
• Flyover, walkthrough and set 3D view tools
• Creating perspective views
• Using saved views for class and layer visibilities

DAY 2 (Tuesday 13th April)
Session 4 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Presenting the Drawing

• Design layers and Sheet layers
• Presenting and printing a drawing using Viewports
• Viewports and 3D models
• Live section viewports
• Rendered views using Viewports
• Viewport crops and annotations,
• Viewport Associative dimensions
• Annotation tools: Drawing labels, Callout, Keynotes, and General Notes
• Importing dwg's
• Design Layer Viewports
• QT VR Panoramas and objects
• Batch printing and batch PDF export

DAY 3 (Wednesday 14th April)
Session 5 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
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 14th April)
Session 6 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Rendering including Renderworks

• Different types of rendering modes:
• Open GL, Polygonal and Sketch Rendering
• Renderworks, Artistic Renderworks, custom Renderworks
• Render bitmap tool
• Creating, importing and applying textures to objects
• Using Shaders to create custom textures
• Mapping textures, 3d Attribute Mapping Tool
• Renderworks and Classes
• Lighting a scene
• Visualisation Palette
• Exporting rendered views
• Image file exports and imports
• Applying Renderworks backgrounds

DAY 4 (Thursday 15th April)
Session 5 (9:30am - 1:00pm)
Advanced 3D Modelling

• Difference between NURBS, 3d polygons and meshes
• Nurbs surfaces
• Extracting geometry
• Creating helix spirals
• Revolve along Rail
• Creating contours
• Loft surface with rails
• Solids operations
• 3D Power Pack fundamentals
• Changing and working with working planes

DAY 4 (Thursday 15th April)
Session 6 (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Office referencing structures, Animationworks, Worksheets, Resource Management

• Image props
• Examples of office referencing structures
• Workgroup folders
• A brief overview of AnimationWorks
• 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 2010. 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.

DAY 5 (Friday 16th April)
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 5 (Friday 16th April)
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.