Getting Started with Vectorworks Course

Getting Started with Vectorworks Course

Our online VectorWorks course has huge advantages over a traditional classroom taught course.  For a start, you have a lifetimes access to the lectures. This allows you to revisit lectures time and again, which is vital when you are learning a new piece of software and impossible in the face to face classroom. Our online Vectorworks course also allows you to learn at your own pace and to repeat the same lecture several times until you have fully understood and digested the information.  lectures are in bite-sized chunks so it easy to remember focused pieces of information without getting lost in a larger more complicated chapter of information.

Vectorworks Landmark® is now the premier landscape design software in the world. Fully compatible with other leading software programs like AutoCAD, VectorWorks comes with a fully integrated plant data base that other software packages simply can’t beat.  It allows garden designers to become much more productive and enables them to create ready made libraries of construction details that can be easily replicated and reused.  VectorWorks Landmark allows you to work with other professionals, such as architects, engineers and surveyors, and produce stunning, detailed drawings for planning purposes as will a tendering and estimating.

Our Online Vectorworks Landmark course is divided into two sections. Part 1 details the basic setup and 2D drawing functions and is suitable for all industries and disciplines. Parts 2 is specifically designed for the landscape and garden design industry. 

Part 1: Setting Up Your Workspace

• Setting Up Preferences
  Managing VW Settings
  Introduction to the Screen & Pallets
  Page Size grids, auto classing and Templates

Basic Drawing Techniques

• Drawing & Selecting Regular Shapes
  Drawing irregular Shape & Curves
  Understanding X & Y Coordinates and Creating Objects
  Resizing & Changing Objects
  Move, Copy & Move By Point
  Duplicate Array & Duplicate Along a Path
  Fillet Chamfer & Mirror Objects
  Circles with Even Divides
  Fills & Line Weight
  Hatches & Gradients
  Resource Browser Setup
  Text Styles, Callouts & Notes
  Dimensioning preferences
  Classes & Layers
  Viewports, Sheets and Printing

Part 2: How to Import a Land Survey or Architects’ File

Drawing Your Own Site Survey

• Drawing The House
  Adding Door and Windows
  Triangulation
  Offsets & Curves
  Levels & Spot Heights
  Setting out Plan

Setting Out Drawings

• Creating a setting out plan

Working with Hard Landscape

• Creating Steps & Walls
  File Organization and Resources
  Using The Hard Landscape Tool
  Calculating Areas & Reports

Planting Plans

• Adding Plants
  Place Plant Tool
  Creating Your Own Plant Definitions
  Editing Plant Definitions
  Creating a Plant Symbol
  Vectorworks Plant database

Creating Mixed Planting Beds

• Creating a landscape Plan

VW Plant Database

• Adding Your Own Plants
  Importing a Plant database

Plant Schedules and Reports

• Using the pre-installed plant lists
  Creating your own Schedule