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Welcome to the first video on drawing the garden bench.
This is a great little project for us to start out on, it'll really get you started thinking in 3-D as you draw.
It is fairly challenging with lots of different parts and one of the things that we’re going to do is, after we generate this model;
this will actually be your first drawing,
this is what you will do you, you will draw this guy and then from that we are going to come up with a parts list.
Not only a list but the objects drawn out in appropriate views so that you can see what their dimensions are,
and if you were a carpenter you could take these dimensions and actually cut these things out and put it together.
One of the reasons we are able to do this is layers.
If you will remember layers have two primary functions.
One is giving us the ability to have different scale on one sheet.
As an example these are a different scale than these parts.
The other thing that layers do for us is they allow us to show different views on the same sheet,
so not only do we have different scales we have different views.
Here we have a left view, here we have a left isometric view,
if we look at the arm here we’re looking in plan view at that,
the seat front we’re looking at plan view there,
these arms we’re looking in left view and right view.
The back leg we’re looking at it in a left view.
The back support is in left view and this arm support, we’re looking at it in front view.
So by setting up different layers we can show different views and different scales.
Now that takes care of layers.
We’re also going to set up different classes here they are.
I'll come back to this in a moment but I just wanted to show you that I gave all the pieces their own class,
so if it's an arm it goes in the arm class if it's a back leg it goes in the back leg class.
Now I could have drawn this in the class of “None”, which is right here, this is the default class that Vectorworks gives you with the program.
They give you two –“None” and one for dimensions.
We could have drawn everything right here and none but by setting up these classes and
by putting all these parts in to a class that’s appropriate to them,
we are able to generate a schedule.
And the schedule is based on the information that we put into the computer, this part called back leg for example
tells us that we have two of those part that are made out of ta 2 x 6 ,
you’ll need 72 inches are 6 feet in order to get this part.
This is a fairly simple parts list, I want to keep it simple on our first stab
at this just so you can go through moves of actually setting it up.
So let’s go back and look at our layers and classes.
Your job now is to go into your drawing, oh actually I have one other thing before we do that,
let's go over here and take a look at the document settings.
I want you to draw this on a legal size, 14” x 8.5” , let’s go to drawing area
and you can see that I put in 14 x 8.5, that’s legal size that is a size you will be able to print on normal desk jet printer.
If we do 17 x 11 you will not be able to it printed out so that’s why I chose legal size.
Let’s get rid of show watermark and let’s get rid of show page breaks.
We want to see the page boundary of course.
That's good, that's all set now let’s go up here to drawing units.
And let’s set the units for inches and show unit marks,
we want to see the little tick marks.
Fractional is the rounding style we want , you can choose how ever you like to display your fractions.
Fractional precision at 1/16”, the rest of this can stay the way it is.
And the grid, let’s go in and turn the grid off, get rid of show grid,
leave the “Show 3D Grid” and now you can go to Object,
just have all of those checked, angle, these are alternate angles.
And “Smart Points” make sure you have this selected
Acquire Smart Point if the mouse stops for .5 seconds, and Set Datum if mouse stops for 1 second.
Smart Edge, we don’t need to do anything with that and Distance, we don’t need to adjust it either.
All of your document preferences are set up.
Now what you need to do is go in and set up your layers and classes, so when you go back to that again.
Layers, here they are. Layers do not arrange themselves alphabetically, they arrange themselves the way you want them.
They are in a stacking order, so for example I have the title block on the bottom of the stacking order,
if I wanted to move it up I can basically just do that, just slide it up, now it’s at the top, but I’m going to keep it at the bottom.
So set yours up this way can just click and drag them around like I did there.
Notice that schedule layer is checked right now because that’s the sheet that I’m on, that’s the layer that is active right now.
The sheet that I’m on has that as the active layer, I guess that is the best way to say it.
Don’t worry about that little mark.
Oh, and make sure that you not only pay attention to the stacking order but to the scales.
I might add that if you are using a template that you have already created and it has layers and classes that we are not going to use,
I would recommend deleting them. Make sure you don’t delete your title block layer because that is where you have your title block drawn.
But anything else that you have in there that you are not going to use for this drawing, I would go ahead and get rid of it because it is going to get
confusing to you. You can just click on them to delete.
Make sure that you set the scales the way I did and elevation that is telling us where the ground plane is
and that 0 is perfect.
Lets go to classes. Now the classes that I have developed are for the parts of the garden bench –
the arm, the backboards, back legs, so on and so forth.
Notice that the dimension and None class are Vectorworks classes generated by the program. Also notice that they are in capital letters.
We are going to put all of our classes in lower case so that we can easily tell the difference between a class we made and one Vectorworks made.
For example, if you go to the Resource Palette and grab a door or a window or a cabinet or a plumbing fixture, they will come in to the drawing with their
own class and they will be capitalized.
You can change the Vectorworks classes to ones of your choosing.
When you set up your classes be sure “Use at Creation” is selected as I have it here.
The file, just for now is just a simple white.
The lines a just solid lines and set the line weight up as I have.
Having said that, let’s go ahead and change these guys here , I’m going to click on seat board and I want to change that to .25.
Now if you don’t have .25 in your dropdown, if you have .20 or .30 just get close.
The only thing I would like to see is your dimensions with a lesser light weight than the object you are drawing.
Let’s go ahead and change seat front to .25.
OK Alright, there we are! We have all of our classes all four layers and we are ready to draw.
So go ahead and take a few moments and set this up,
and once you get your layers and classes set up, you get your sheet size to legal size,
your scales set properly, we will be ready to draw.
I will see you soon, I look forward to it.