Preferences

Setting Vectorworks Preferences

Vectorworks preferences are options that apply to every file you open, every time you run the program.

To change the Vectorworks preference settings:

  1. Select Tools > Options > Vectorworks Preferences.

  2. The Vectorworks Preferences dialog box opens. There are seven preferences tabs (Edit, Display, Session, 3D, Autosave, Interactive, and User Folders).

  3. Click one of the tabs to set the Vectorworks preferences for that tab.

  4. Click OK to save the settings.

Edit Preferences

Click the Edit tab to set preferences that control various edit functions in the program.

Vectorworks Display Preferences

Click the Display tab to set the display preferences.

Session Preferences

Click the Session tab to set general Vectorworks preferences.

3D Preferences

Click the 3D tab to set preferences for 3D edits.

Autosave Preferences

Click the Autosave tab to set preferences for automatic file saves and backups.

Interactive Preferences

Click the Interactive tab to set preferences for the display of the interactive drawing features, such as the cursor, selection boxes, and selection highlighting. See Drawing with Snapping for more information about snapping. See Selection and Pre-selection Indicators for more information about highlighting.

User Folders Preferences

You can designate which folder will hold your user data and preferences files. The subfolders within this folder mirror several of the standard subfolders in the Vectorworks application folder (Libraries, Plug-Ins, Settings, Workspaces, and so on).

This duplication of folders in separate locations makes it easy for users to do the following:

    Back up (or transfer to another computer) custom content and preferences

    Work in an environment where user permissions are limited (such as a school lab)

    Switch between users on the same computer

    Update the Vectorworks products with no loss of custom files

The Vectorworks products provide a variety of content to aid in drawing, but you can also create custom content and place it in your user folder (see Creating Custom Default Content Libraries). When the Vectorworks program presents content in a palette or dialog box, it includes content from your user folder as well as other available content that was installed. For example, when you select Modify > Hatch to edit a hatch, the Hatches dialog box shows default hatches from the Vectorworks folder (where the software is installed), and your user folder.

If the same file name exists in more than one folder, only the content from one of the files is shown in the Vectorworks program, according to the following priority: user folder, application folder. For example, if the following files exist, only hatches from the file in the user folder show in the hatch list in the Attributes palette in the Vectorworks program.

    [User]\Libraries\Defaults\Attributes - Hatches\Hatches_Default.vwx

    [Vectorworks]\Libraries\Defaults\Attributes - Hatches\Hatches_Default.vwx

If Vectorworks Design Series products are installed, you can also access custom content from shared workgroup folders on a network; see Sharing Custom Content Using Workgroup Folders.

Click the User Folders tab to specify the user folder.

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User Data and Preferences Folder

Resetting Vectorworks Preferences

Setting Document Preferences

Setting Quick Preferences

 

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