#Vectorworks viewer annotation series

#Vectorworks viewer annotation series

The Vectorworks Design Series products contain additional annotation objects. Text, callouts, and other annotations, as well as 2D objects, can be added to the viewport. To view other objects on the sheet layer while in Edit Annotation mode, select Show other objects while in editing modes on the Display tab of the Vectorworks preferences (see Vectorworks Preferences: Display Tab). A 3D object can be dimensioned in any view, but you must align the face that is to be dimensioned with the screen plane to get an accurate measurement. Therefore, a 2D object in the viewport must be dimensioned in Top/Plan view. The dimensions are automatically updated if the design layer object changes.ДЄnnotations are 2D objects that are placed on the screen plane. The dimension tools snap to the objects in the viewport as if you were dimensioning the design layer. Use the various dimension tools from the Dims/Notes tool set to add dimensions to the viewport (see Dimensions). The Exit Viewport command becomes available from the ModifyВ menu, and the Exit Viewport AnnotationВ button is visible in the top right corner of the drawing window. The Edit Viewport dialog box opens (see Modifying ViewportsВ for a description of the dialog box parameters).Д¬lick AnnotationsВ and then click OK to enter Edit Annotation mode.ДЄlternatively, right-click on a viewport and select Edit Annotations from the context menu.ДЄ colored border around the drawing window indicates that you are in an editing mode. With the viewportвЂ™s sheet layer active, select the viewport by clicking on it with the Selection tool. To add annotations, including dimensions, to a viewport: Use the Edit Annotation mode to add annotations and dimensions in viewports, and to edit those annotations and dimensions later. These page layout rules allow for rapid cut and paste in place.Creating Annotations for Sheet Layer Viewports 55mm margin on left side for text.Дetails are 1 per page on an A4 sheet makes for an independent flip book so you can look at detail while looking at plan. We have gone back to having a separate independent 2d detail file.Д®ach layer is its own detail, the structural intersection is located on the origin (0,0). Lastly a vp can not be Copied and pasted between files so you can not reuse annotated details in a new file. If you change the position of the wall in the model- your detail has not changed, but you still have to do work on the detail as the underlay is moved. If you like your text to line up then you have to relay everything out. Ie you have to open one viewport to access notes to copy. Notes inside a vp annotation can not be easily copied and pasted. The time saved in drawing coordination is lost in vp managmenent. Simple, huh? So, I had some hopes for this new Detail Section Viewport thing, but, it seems maybe its main claim to fame is just facilitating automatic drawing coordination?.Д«asically, I wish there were a way to have a sheet layer or sheet-layer-like viewport on a design layer, lying flat on the working plane, over which details could be drawn and then 'viewported' to sheet layers. If I want to show elements that are beyond the section plane, I basically trace them from the original 1 1/2' section viewport and copy them to the design layer. It's then easy to move the detail SLVP and/or adjust its crop size. The trick is to keep the 1 1/2' Section Viewport and the drawings that are on the 1 1/2' scale Design Layer in the same place, for pasting back and forth, in place, between the two.

Also, if in the larger section you've detailed a portion of the building in order to figure out the relationships of details (such as in the porch roof example) it then means there are two places where things need to be updated should anything change (not that anything ever changes!.).ДЎ.) Create a 1 1/2' section viewport on a dedicated sheet layer Дў.) Take a first pass at detailing in that viewport (based on the model and/or which informs the model for further development, such as maybe the framing & sheathing for the porch roof and the bird's mouths at the eave plate and wall ledger) Д¤.) Paste it In-Place to a 1 1/2' scale Design Layer Д¦.) Do a cropped Sheet Layer Viewport of, say, just the eave, at the desired scale Д§.) Do my dimensions, callouts, etc. But it's that time-consuming editing that I'm trying to avoid (especially when subsequently further reducing the size of a detail to get it to fit on a sheet). Thanks Peter, yes, that's what I've typically done in the past.