How To's
Below is an always growing collection of useful How To's that we are compiling based on client questions. We hope you find it helpful.
Currently there is no way to do this properly directly from Vectorworks. The best method we have found so far: 1) Export from the Design Layer(s) to S...
Fri, 30 Dec, 2016 at 9:41 PM
Project Sharing is a great new feature that arrived in Vectorworks 2016. In Vectorworks 2017, it received some enhancements that made it even better, includ...
Wed, 4 Jul, 2018 at 11:00 AM
If you are having difficulty with a file or a file has become corrupted, sometimes we will suggest doing a Layer Import to salvage data from the original fi...
Thu, 5 Jan, 2017 at 11:07 AM
Some Vectorworks users have a multiple monitor set-up they only part of the time (for example, they have a laptop and they occasionally connect to a second ...
Sun, 11 Feb, 2018 at 3:40 PM
If you use the Vectorworks feature "Log Time in Program" and you are on a Mac, the log file is kept within your user Library folder. By default th...
Sat, 7 Jan, 2017 at 4:28 PM
First, a bit of background information... There are two origins (0,0 locations) in every Vectorworks file, an internal (or "Vectorworks") origin ...
Fri, 3 Mar, 2017 at 8:17 AM
As a subscriber to the Vectorworks Service Select service, you are eligible to: Receive the new versions of Vectorworks when they are released. Access lo...
Tue, 12 Jun, 2018 at 2:37 PM
This error is coming from your operating system (not Vectorworks itself) and normally indicates that the you don't have read/write access to your Vector...
Fri, 7 Apr, 2017 at 8:31 AM
At Paxar we see quite a wide range of techniques used in Vectorworks files. We pay close attention to the best practices and we want to give you the best ad...
Thu, 1 Feb, 2018 at 7:33 AM
The Title Block Border in Vectorworks 2018 received a big overhaul to make it even more capable than before. (Title block functionality was previously part...
Tue, 19 Jun, 2018 at 5:38 PM