Setting Document Preferences

Document preferences apply only to the current drawing, and they remain in effect until they are changed. When you create a template, the current document preferences are saved with the template (see Cutting Sections).

To change the preference settings in the document:

  1. Select File > Document Settings > Document Preferences.

  2. Alternatively, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac) in the drawing area, and select Document Preferences from the document context menu.

    The Document Preferences dialog box opens, with the following tabs: Display, Dimensions, Resolution, Plane Mode, and Plan Shadows (Vectorworks Architect or Landmark required for Plan Shadows).

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

Document Display Preferences

Click the Display tab to set the display preferences.

Dimension Preferences

Click the Dimensions tab to set the dimension preferences.

Default dimension standards are presented in the following table.

Standard
Description
Text Placement
Marker Style
Text Rotation
 
 
Above Dim. Line
Within Dim. Line
Slash
Arrow
Aligned
Horiz.

Arch

Architectural Standards

X

 

X

 

X

 

ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

 

X

 

X

 

X

BSI

British Standards Institute

X

 

 

X

X

 

DIN

German Standards

X

 

 

X

X

 

ISO

International Standards Organization

X

 

 

X

X

 

JIS

Japanese Industrial Standards

X

 

 

X

X

 

SIA

Swiss Standards

X

 

X

 

X

 

ASME Dual Side By Side

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

 

X

 

X

 

X

ASME Dual Stacked

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

 

X

 

X

 

X

Resolution Preferences

Click the Resolution tab to set the resolution preferences.

Plane Mode Preferences

Click the Plane Mode tab to set the plane mode preference, depending on how you prefer to work and what you are drawing. Planar tools, such as the Rectangle tool, normally can operate in either the screen plane or in the current working plane, which is usually the layer plane. With this preference setting, planar tools can be set to operate in the screen plane only, active 3D working plane only, or any available plane, depending on the option selected. This setting does not affect tools that require an active working plane, such as the NURBS Curve tool, tools like the Split tool that always operate in the screen plane, or tools that are not affected by the planar choice, such as the Eyedropper tool. See Vectorworks Modeling Environment for a discussion of how planes function in the Vectorworks products.

The plane mode preference does not affect the Object Info palette planes list.

ArchLand.pngPlan Shadows Preferences

In the Vectorworks Architect and Landmark products, click the Plan Shadows tab to set the shadow style preferences for plants and massing models. These preferences apply in Top/Plan view for plants that are set to use the document preference shadow settings (available only in Vectorworks Landmark; see Plant Definition: Render Pane) and for massing models set to display shadows (see Creating a Massing Model).

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Setting Vectorworks Preferences

Setting Quick Preferences

 

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