JONATHAN PICKUP VECTORWORKS LANDMARK TUTORIAL MANUAL 5TH EDITION TUTORIAL MANUAL WRITTEN WITH VERSION 2015

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1 SA E M PL 5TH EDITION TUTORIAL MANUAL WRITTEN WITH VERSION 2015 JONATHAN PICKUP VECTORWORKS LANDMARK TUTORIAL MANUAL

2 VECTORWORKS LANDMARK TUTORIAL MANUAL Jonathan Pickup fifth edition written with version 2015

3 Archoncad Architecture on CAD, Ltd. 10 Laws Place Napier, New Zealand T jon@archoncad.co.nz 2015 Jonathan Pickup - Archoncad All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, faxing, ing, posting online or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. Published in the United States. Vectorworks is a registered trademark of Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Adobe, Acrobat, and Reader are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems in the United States and other countries. The information in this book is distributed on an as is basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, neither the author nor Nemetschek Vectorworks shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book or by the computer software described in it. For more Vectorworks training information, or to purchase more copies of this book, please visit or call us at (410) There are several people I would like to thank: Steve Scaysbrook, Roger Williams, Bill Vincent, and my good friend Allan Baggett. Without them, none of my manuals would be as good as they are. A big thank you to my wife, Marie, and my kids. I need your support and understanding to spend the hours needed to create these manuals. Jonathan Pickup, January 2015.

4 Table of Contents Introduction... iii Project 1: Landscape Area Analysis...1 Project 2: Quick Domestic Project...15 Project 3: Domestic Project...33 Step 1 Document Setup...33 Step 2 Layer Setup...41 Step 3 Importing a Scanned Image...44 Step 4 Planting...46 Step 5 Hardscape...62 Step 6 Plant Counting...66 Step 7 Drawings and Annotation...70 Step 8 Editing Plant Placement...73 Step 9 Editing Plant Graphics...76 Step 10 Change Plant Grouping Project 4: Simple Commercial Project...91 Step 1 Document Setup...91 Step 2 Importing DXF/DWG File (Architect s Plan)...93 Step 3 Placing the Landscape Areas Step 4 Vectorworks Plant Database Project 5: Simple Park Drawing Step 1 Importing a Survey Drawing Step 2 Checking the Imported Drawing Step 3 Creating the Landscape Layer Step 4 Edit the Imported Drawing Step 5 Drawing the Paths Step 6 Adding the Lawn Step 7 Car Parking Step 8 Placing Plants Step 9 Counting Plants Step 10 Creating a Drawing Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual i

5 Project 6: Commercial Park Drawing Create a New File Importing a Survey Drawing Check the Imported Drawing Create the Landscape Information Create Car Parking Count the Car Parking Scheduling the Planting Scheduling Hardscape Areas Exporting the Drawing Revisions from the Consultant ii Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

6 Project 1: Landscape Area Analysis We can use one of the Landmark tools (Landscape Area) to analyze the landscape areas and to provide a budget price. This has a couple of advantages: it is quick, and you can make sure you are within the budget. At the very early stage of a project, the client may not want to pay you for a lot of work they cannot afford. Creating a quick concept with a budget figure will let you know in a few minutes if the client can afford your design. Open the file Project_1.sta from the exercise folder. This file is a Vectorworks template file. It has some drawn information already on it, so all we have to do is add the areas we want to the plan. Go to the Site Planning tool set. Choose the Landscape Area tool. Go to the Tool bar. Click on the Preferences button Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 1

7 This opens the dialog box where you can add plants, choose the look of the area, and so on. Later on, we will look at this dialog box in detail. Type in a Name for the landscape area. Click on the Tag Display pop-up menu. Choose On. This will show the name of each landscape area as we add it. Click on the OK button. 2 Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

8 Zoom in to make it easier to see the plan. You can use the scroll wheel on the mouse, or you can use the Zoom tool on the Basic tool palette. Move to the top-left corner of the site. Click once to start the landscape area. Move the cursor down the left-hand boundary, near the house. Click once. Move the cursor across the face of the house, just a small amount. Click once Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 3

9 Move the cursor up to the boundary. Click once. Move the cursor back to the start point. Click once. The landscape area has been created. Because of the choices we made on the Landscape Area Preferences, we have the name of the landscape area, and we also have the actual plan area shown. 4 Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

10 The Object Info palette now displays the information about the Landscape Area. Go to the Object Info palette. Change the Name of the area to Trees. This could be an area of tree planting. tag. Scroll down the Object Info palette to the Unit Price field. Enter a budget price for the planting, based on your area settings. If you are using metric, enter your price per square meter. If you are using imperial, enter your price per square foot. This is a very rough way of working, but it will give us a very quick price. The location of the area tag (the name and area) will get in the way of the other landscape areas we want to create, but we can relocate the 2015 Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 5

11 Go to the Basic tool palette. Choose the Selection tool. Go to the Tool bar. Ensure that the second mode is active. This will allow us to relocate the Landscape area tag. Move the cursor to the blue handle at the top left of the tag. The cursor should change to a double-headed arrow (the interactive rescale cursor). Click once. Move the cursor to a new location. 6 Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

12 Click once. The tag will be relocated. If this location is not satisfactory, relocate the tag. Move the cursor to the blue handle at the end of the tag. The cursor should change to a double-headed arrow. Click once. Move the cursor to a new location. Click once. The tag will be relocated Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 7

13 Go to the Site Planning tool set. Choose the Landscape Area tool. Move the cursor to the top-right corner of the first landscape area. Click once to start the next landscape area. Move the cursor across the boundary to the top-right corner. Click once. 8 Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

14 Move the cursor down the boundary, near the house. Click once. Keep drawing your area until you get back to the start point. Click once. The landscape area has been created. The Object Info palette now displays the information about the Landscape area. Go to the Object Info palette. Change the Name of the area to Border Planting. This could be an area of border shrubs or ground cover Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 9

15 Scroll down the Object Info palette. Enter a budget price for the planting, based on your area settings. If you are using metric, enter your price per square meter. If you are using imperial, enter your price per square foot. Use the same technique to draw an area for the lawn. Enter the name for the lawn on the Object Info palette, and enter the budget price. Don t forget that you can use the Attributes palette to change the look of the areas in order to make it easier for the client to understand. Go to the Menu bar. Choose Tools > Reports > Create Report Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

16 This dialog box opens. We use this to set up the options for the report. Type in the name of the report at the top of the dialog box, where it says Title. Click on the pop-up menu, Listing objects with record. Choose Landscape Area Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 11

17 Scroll down the left side to find the field called Name. Click on Name. Click on the Add >> button. This will add the Name field to our report. The order in which you add the fields is important, as it defines the order of the budget report. Scroll down the left side to find the field called Area. Click on Area. Click on the Add >> button. This will add the Area field to our report. 12 Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

18 Scroll down the left side to find the field called Unit Price. Click on Unit Price. Click on the Add >> button. Click on the OK button. Vectorworks will search the file, looking for all your landscape areas. For each area you will see the name, area, and unit price. The report will be a worksheet (the Vectorworks version of a spreadsheet). Your report opens in a new window Jonathan Pickup Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 13

19 Click on cell D2. Type in an equals sign (=). Click on cell B2. Type in a times sign (*). Click on cell C2. Click on the green tick to complete this formula. Vectorworks calculates the cost of each area based on the areas you drew and the unit price of each area. The total price is shown in cell D2. If this is more than your client wants to spend, you will have to adjust your design by changing the areas or the prices. There is a lot more we could do with this worksheet, but as this is the first exercise, I wanted to keep it simple. For example, the worksheet could be added to the drawing, and the unit prices could be amended directly on the worksheet to get the project within budget. 14 Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual 2015 Jonathan Pickup

20 Jonathan Pickup fifth edition VECTORWORKS LANDMARK Tutorial Manual written with version 2015 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jonathan Pickup is an architect trained in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom with more than 25 years of experience. He received his Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He later spent more than eight years in England where he learned to use several CAD packages, including MiniCad, and began teaching this forerunner of Vectorworks. Upon returning to New Zealand in 1997, he established archoncad, a Vectorworks training and consulting company. He has written several Vectorworks training manuals for architects, landscape architects, educators, and design students. Jonathan also organizes the New Zealand Vectorworks User Group and provides its main direction. VECTORWORKS LANDMARK Based on his successful Vectorworks Landmark course taught in New Zealand and online, Jonathan Pickup s training guide provides Landmark basics and gently leads the new user through the completion of complex landscape plans. This tutorial offers advanced users guidance regarding the new features in Vectorworks 2015 as well as instruction on fundamental Landmark concepts. The topics discussed apply to both residential and commercial projects. The manual uses a series of exercises to reenforce the learning of Vectorworks Landmark program features and workflow capabilities, starting with a very simple exercise on landscape budgeting. Content and exercises build in complexity, and by the end of the manual the user will be able to use the plant database. create custom plants. edit the plant graphics. import drawings from consultants. create planting plans. send the drawings back to a consultant. NVM.VLM-2015 v1.0 Cover imagery courtesy of Jonathan Pickup