User manual NEMETSCHEK VECTORWORKS LANDMARK 2011 GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] 2011 Getting Started Guide The contents of this printed guide and accompanying exercise CD were originally created for Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. by Steve Hader. Table of Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Section 1: Program Installation and Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Installing the Vectorworks Landmark Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Exercise 1: Launching the Program and Opening the Starting File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Exercise 2: Adjusting Preference Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Section 2: Creating the Base Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Exercise 3: Importing a Site Plan PDF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Exercise 4: Drawing the Property Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Exercise 5: Drawing the Site House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Exercise 6: Drawing the Adjacent House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Exercise 7: Drawing the Paved Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Exercise 8: Drawing Existing Vegetation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Section 3: Laying Out Constructed Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Exercise 9: Drawing the Privacy Fence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Exercise 10: Drawing the Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Exercise 11: Drawing Seat Walls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Exercise 12: Inserting Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Section 4: Setting Up Landscape Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Exercise 13: Drawing Hardscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Exercise 14: Drawing Planting Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Section 5: Creating the Planting Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Exercise 15: Placing Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Exercise 16: Introduction to the Plant Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Exercise 17: Placing Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Section 6: Evaluating the Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Exercise 18: Evaluating the Current Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Section 7: Editing Landscaping Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Exercise 19: Moving and Reshaping Landscape Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Exercise 20: Modifying Multiple Plant Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Section 8: Creating Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Exercise 21: Optimizing the Landscape Plan Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Exercise 22: Creating Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Exercise 23: Working with Plant Schedules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Exercise 24: Printing Landscape Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This tutorial will introduce you to key tools and techniques for drawing and editing, as well as a streamlined workflow to provide the proper framework for exploring the full power of Vectorworks Landmark on your own. Note: Renderworks must be installed for proper operation of all exercises with rendering commands. Important: For free tutorial updates, exercise checking files, bonus content, and instructional videos from the Landmark Getting Started website, see www. nemetschek. net/training/2011/landmark-2011-getting-started-guide. php. Overview of the Design Process In this thematic tutorial, you use Vectorworks Landmark to design landscaping for a halfacre (0. 54 acres [0. 219 ha]) residential site. [. . . ] Press the X key, and select the pool deck boundary rectangle, and then press the Delete key to remove it from the drawing. Examine the completed pool deck hardscape object, as shown below. Drawing the Pool House Walls Next, you draw a rectangle, and then you convert it to walls for the pool house. 12. Double-click the Rectangle tool , and then adjust settings as shown above. Click OK, and snap the rectangle to the inside left midpoint of the center of the seat wall boundary polygon, and then press the X key twice to clear the selection, as shown. Vectorworks Landmark 2011 Getting Started Guide | 57 13. In the Resource Browser, double-click the Ext-Siding-Framing wall style to activate it. In the Create Objects from Polyline dialog box, adjust settings as shown above (make sure the Delete Source Poly option is disabled), and then click OK to create the walls, as shown above at right. In the Object Info palette, change the selected walls' Layer to Architecture (the walls disappear, and No Selection is displayed in the Object Info palette). In the Navigation palette, activate the 02-Working-Architecture saved view. Notice the walls are now visible, as shown. Note: Visibility of the Base Plan layer and Demolition class are on by default in all saved "working" views except the 08-Working-Scan saved view. This is intentional for the design phase so you can see all aspects of the site as you develop your design. In your own designs, you can adjust visibility accordingly for all saved views after completing the design. Next, you insert a door in the pool-side wall. Click the midpoint of the pool-side wall and insert the door, oriented as shown. 58 | Vectorworks Landmark 2011 Getting Started Guide Drawing the Pool House Roof Next, you create a roof from the pool house walls. 16. Press the X key twice, and then hold down the Shift key and select all four pool house walls. In the Create Roof dialog box, change settings (. 53' [. 162m]; . 46' [. 140m]; 10. 00' [3. 048m]; 1. 50' [. 457m]) as shown at left. Click OK to create the roof, and then press Ctrl+5 to adjust the display. In the View bar, notice that the Upperstory layer is now active (so you can see the roof), as shown at right. Save the file. Vectorworks Landmark 2011 Getting Started Guide | 59 Exercise 11: Drawing Seat Walls In this short exercise, you create a seat wall with the Wall tool, and then you create a roof object for the seat wall cap. The completed exercise is shown in the following figure: Drawing the Seat Wall You start the exercise by drawing half of the seat wall. If you did not complete Exercise 10--or you are unsure of your file's accuracy-- open the GS-VWLx10. vwx file. In the Navigation palette: · Activate the 02-Working-Architecture saved view. · Select the Design Layers tab, and then turn off visibility of the Base Plan layer. In the Resource Browser, scroll down and expand the Wall Styles section, and then double-click the Seat Wall wall style to activate the Wall tool. [. . . ] Right-click the worksheet and select Send > Send to Back to place it behind the drawing border, as shown below at right. Notice that the worksheet interferes with the landscaping plan. Placing the Plant List Worksheet on the Drawing You start the exercise by placing the plant list worksheet on the drawing. 112 | Vectorworks Landmark 2011 Getting Started Guide Resizing Worksheet Columns Next, you adjust column widths to display missing text or eliminate the interference with the viewport. 3. Drag the right edge of the B column header to increase its width until all text is visible, and then drag the right edge of the A, D, and E column headers to reduce their width, as shown at left. Close the worksheet to update the plant list, and then clear the selection and examine the completed landscape plan drawing, as shown at right. [. . . ]