vw for dummies! (qualche info)

[warburg]

hello to all, despite the August that looms I would also ask here some information about the use of vectorworks. I am using the demo of the 2009 version and in particular I am trying to understand the modeling functions.
the first thing that has bothered me is that to extrude a polygon you have to go to the menus, choose extrudes etc etc, which for me old autocad user is particularly incomprehensible. . In the same way it happens for the views, to change and move from one to another (typically from the plant to the asonometry and vice versa) you have to make the tray of the menus, when in the autocad environment just an icon.
I do not claim to find the same procedures that I already know in a new program, I just want to understand if someone can explain to me why it is better in this way!
autocad in modeling has always seemed to me "a wood", especially after trying google sketchup or bonzai3d, which have some brilliant and direct functions in the construction of solids and in their modification.
I'll add one last thing. Coming from autocad the typical work I will have to do to model is to import 2d designs in vw and then use them as a basis to extrude in the new environment. the best procedure according to you is to make polygons closed the different "pieces" and then extrude, or is there a sketchup type way to make more quickly recognize the areas to the program?

Thank you very much
and good holidays to those who make them
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Christian Christian

 

[lory.b]

Bye!
I'm sorry if I didn't answer you right now, but I'm on vacation and I'm just... or at least try to connect me only the necessary. . .
I guess you're using the demo of the Italian version.
I use the international instead, so it can be that it refers to commands and tools with the original name. I actually ignore their translation.

the first thing that bothered me is that to extrude a polygon you have to go to the menus, choose extruders etc etc.

mh, not necessarily, just use keyboard shortcuts. in this case command+e (on mac) and, I imagine, ctrl+e on win

In the same way it happens for the views, to change and move from one to another (typically from the plant to the asonometry and vice versa) you have to make the tray of the menus, when in the autocad environment just an icon.

even here you have more chance.
I use the numeric keypad. with even numbers you have all frontal views. with odd numbers the assonometric ones, with zero return to the view from above.
otherwise you can activate the pop-up of the views on the top date bar.

I'll add one last thing. Coming from autocad the typical work I will have to do to model is to import 2d designs in vw and then use them as a basis to extrude in the new environment. the best procedure according to you is to make polygons closed the different "pieces" and then extrude, or is there a sketchup type way to make more quickly recognize the areas to the program?

sketchup, as the name itself says, is a great program to quickly realize a project idea.
when instead you go to do things seriously then you have to struggle a little more and use cad seri programs.
being an architect I do not conceive the use of lines to represent surfaces. (but it is not just my opinion), when I amount a dwg I clean it properly and reorder classes/categories (but I do so that they have a prefix that distinguishes them from mine).
if it is possible, whether it is a drawing only 2d or that it should take out a 3d model, select everything and with the command he composed I try to get some closed polygons. if the operation does not give good results (80% of the times) reluctant with 2d polygons or with vw walls or with 3d polygons...
therefore, mainly for a 3d model birth from scratch, even having under the two-dimensional base made in vw, because I prefer to work with the object (walls, soles, pillars, etc.).

I hope I have given you some more info about using this program.
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I do.

 

[Matteo]

you could try a cad "explicit": cocreate, spaceclaim, solidedgest (to quote those who convinced me more, even at the interface level)

 

[warburg]

Thank you, lory. However vw is woody, there is nothing to do is saved only because it has a very friendly price and is perhaps the thing that will convince me. . .
What do you mean by "explicit" cad? I have seen some video tutorials of the programs mentioned, and I have to say that it is fantastic how solids "main" are, how many possibilities there are, sections that light up, planes that appear, solids created and modified in a blink of eye... is a party for those who model but for a "banal" architect like me maybe it is too much, and too little on other side... the bim actually seems to me the best solution, for the design of the new, while still I cannot convince myself that the bim is valid also in the restoration and renovation, in short, in case for me much more frequent than interventions on the old or modern existence.
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