Arthur C. Clarke, the Author of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and one the great three in the Sci-Fi field has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
He was one of the greatest writers in the Sci-Fi field and a distinguished visionary, it is a sad moment for me, as 2001 is one of my favorite novel and has drawn much enthusiasm in my life for so much time.
Farewell Mr Clarke, I enjoyed your work so much, thank you.
I found this definition of trust to be comprehensive, according to Dr. Duane C. Tway, Jr. in his 1993 dissertation, A Construct of Trust.
He defines trust as, "the state of readiness for unguarded interaction with someone or something." He developed a model of trust that includes three components. He calls trust a construct because it is "constructed" of these three components: "the capacity for trusting, the perception of competence, and the perception of intentions."
Thinking about trust as made up of the interaction and existence of these three components makes “trust” easier to understand.
The capacity for trusting means that your total life experiences have developed your current capacity and willingness to risk trusting others.
The perception of competence is made up of your perception of your ability and the ability of others with whom you work to perform competently at whatever is needed in your current situation.
The perception of intentions, as defined by Tway, is your perception that the actions, words, direction, mission, or decisions are motivated by mutually-serving rather than self-serving motives.
While the dimension tools are very important and contain many options, their usage is very simple, as long as you keep them organized into classes, they are self explanatory and can be easily used.
Associativity
Dimensions are either associative or non-associative, an associative dimension keeps its connection with the vertices that it is measuring (these are shown in small red squares), you can edit them using (Modify -> Edit Constraints)
Usual Dimensions
Linear, Radial, Angular, Center Mark and Datum dimensions are the usual dimensions are very point-and-click interface.
Dynamic Measuring
Two tools provide dynamic measurements without creating a dimension object, these are:
Design/Sheet Dimensions
These are not really dimensions in the usual manner, but they really measure something so they are considered more of dimensions, they include:
They all provide readings that is the same in the whole Design layer, so they don't need to be associative to any object, instead they are associative to the page.
Dimension Standards
The common dimension standards are:
Annotating
Annotations can be mainly done using the usual Text Tool (1) and Callout Tool (Alt + 1), more specialized annotations can be used, like:
Move Tool (Shift + M)
The tool has two useful options, the first is that you can use the data bar to use a numeric value, so that it becomes the same as the Move option in the Modify menu; and its ability to become a cloning tool by setting the Retain option in its Preferences window.
Duplicate
And speaking of Duplicate options, two very useful tools are available (Edit -> Duplicate Array) and (Edit -> Duplicate Along Path).
Paste in Place (Ctrl + Alt + V)
The Paste in Place is the same as Paste to Front in Adobe Illustrator, which duplicates the object in the same location.
Lock/Unlock
These would be useful tools, I should try to use them occasionally.
Purge
The Purge option (Tools -> Purge Unused Objects) is very useful to decrease the file size and keep it clean.
Convert
These tools are very useful, the Convert To Lines (Modify -> Convert -> Convert To Lines) allows a 3D object to be converted into the 2D representation of its current view, also the Convert To Polygons turns it into 2D surfaces (where each polygon is considered a surface).Align/Distribute (Ctrl + =)
A good implementation of the tool for organizing and aligning objects, what's interesting is when I get to 3D editing (there is an Align/Distribute 3D which would be very useful to master), a something to remember is that it handles locked and 2D loci differently than normal objects.
Clip (Alt + C)
The clip tool might be useful in some occasions, where a functionality like select and delete is needed, there is a polygonal selection mode too inside of it.
Connect/Combine
While I think the Connect/Combine tool is less useful in 2D, in NURBS and 3D it would be very important, also its ability to handle Walls would be more useful than I initially think.
Useful Tools not used so often
Handling Surfaces
VectorWorks understands the concept of surfaces (2D/3D) and can handle them using the Surfaces commands (available in the Modify menu):
Calculating Centroid
A very simple way to calculate a polygon (or a number of polygons) centroid is to use the Model -> Engineering Properties -> Place locus at centroid -> OK
User Favorites
A simple way to save and edit your resources favorites (because there are too many resources in the current Resources Library and there is no way to browse it without opening each file from the Resources palette) is to go directly to your user directory and edit files in it.
The User directory can be easily accessed by Tools -> Options -> VectorWorks Preferences -> User Folders -> Explore
And you can simply save a shortcut from it for later accesses.
Symbol Types
When navigating the library, you can find different kind of symbols, they are mostly are:
The symbol has a small "3" icon in the right lower corner of its thumbnail, it is a 3D-only symbol
The symbol has no small icon in the right lower corner of its thumbnail, it is a 2D/3D hybrid symbol
The symbol label is in black, it is an ordinary symbol
The symbol label is in blue, it is a group symbol (when inserted, it will be a group)
The symbol label is in red, it is a plug-in symbol which includes some VectorScript logic in it or a symbol that is translated to a high-level object in VectorWorks (a wall, door or even a DTM)
Color Charts
To easily calibrate your printer to your current color library select Tools -> Utilities -> Create Color Chart then print the group that gets in the middle of the page.
2D Reshape
I think the 2D Reshape tool is one of the greatest tools in the CAD industry for editing vector entities, it can achieve so much in no time.
Its ability to add and remove vertices visually is very good (much like Adobe Illustrator), also its new multi-vertex selection mode (when the cross-hair is visible) is great, you can stretch parts of the polyline by selecting the vertices to stay connected and move them as a single edge.
Also the ability to select multiple vertices and then delete them is a huge improvement, you can even change a Bezier edge (or segment) into a straight segment by selecting the vertex point and deleting it directly.
2D Polylines with a single curved edge
The simple way to create a curved side of a polyline is to point to the bezier curve control point and drag-click over it, it will give the same result as setting the Polyline tool mode to Bezier Vertex Mode.
While you can use the mode directly if there are many successive curves, to switch to the mode (using the U key) and then returning to the Corner Vertex Mode every time a single curve is needed is too much of overhead to make such a shortcut very important.
Arc/Circle
The Arc and Circle tools are very versatile, they can be used in many modes, you may try to fiddle with them before actually using them, that might give you a good idea about what should be used in which situation, especially the "Arc by 2 points and point on arc" which is similar to the arc tool in the SketchUp application.
Compose/Decompose
These tools can be accessed from the Modify menu.
The Compose is a great tool, it takes lines/polylines/arcs and connects them together into a single polyline, the great about it is that it doesn't need the polyline components to be closed, it automatically fills the missing edges and hides the by default, you can later reshow them using the 2D Reshape tool.
Decompose is logically the equal to AutoCAD Explode (mostly, I suppose), you give it a polyline and it turns it to its basic form (lines and arcs).
They don't work on symbols, but by converting symbols into group (Modify -> Convert -> Convert to Group) and then ungrouping the, they work correctly on them.
Object Info Palette
While the Object Info Palette is not limited to 2D objects, mastering it is crucial to easily use VectorWorks.
It can be used to edit a single or multiple objects, when selecting more than one object it displays their number and the common properties in them, you can click on the three small circles beside the objects count to turn it into Individual Edit mode (it turns the 3 filled circles into 2 hallow circles with 1 filled circle between them) , this retains the selection and allows for editing the individual object properties, and you can cycle between the selected objects by the back and front arrows beside the three circles.
Groups Shortcuts
Drawing Order Shortcuts
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I've had some time in the web design profession (both personally and professionally), but I found this book to be of particular interest to me: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design.
It walks through the design process through the systematic (yet beautiful) selection of layout, colors, textures, typefaces and images; I think this method works well with my way of thinking.
Some of the new findings in this book:
Layout
The VectorWorks is a big monster that I'll learn piece-by-piece (and many pieces I'll never manage to learn), but some of the many parts I'll try to cover in the next posts:
Some other parts I might start to (finally) learn about, but I'm not sure when:
Other parts I will certainly not cover:
I've started to learn VectorWorks a week ago, and it might be the time I finally leave AutoCAD for good.
I'll need these keyboard shortcuts in the day-to-day use to become faster:
