Creating an Interior Elevation With Convert Copy to Lines Command

For users of the Vectorworks Design Series products, interior elevations can be produced by Creating Interior Elevation Viewports (Vectorworks Architect required) or by Creating Section Viewports of the interior with a finite depth range (Vectorworks Design Series required). For Vectorworks Fundamentals users, there is an alternative method to create an interior elevation in Hidden Line render mode.

To create an interior elevation using the Convert Copy to Lines command:

  1. From the floor plan, select the wall for creating the elevation. If it has millwork or fixtures attached to or adjacent to it, ensure that they are selected.

  2. Fixtures inserted in (attached to) the wall are automatically selected.

  3. Select the view from which to create the elevation. For example, to view the wall from the right side of the plan, select View > Standard Views > Right.

  4. Select Modify > Convert > Convert Copy to Lines and choose Hidden Line Rendering.

  5. Select View > Rendering > Hidden Line. A hidden line group of the selection is created and selected. Select Edit > Cut.

  6. Select the detail sheet layer from the Layers menu and select Edit > Paste. Move the newly created interior elevation to the desired location on the detail sheet layer and add graphics, notes, and dimensions as required.

Alternatively, to achieve a similar elevation, create a viewport with hidden line rendering and annotate the elements with the Inner Boundary or Outer Boundary mode of the 2D Polygon tool (see Creating Boundary Polygons in a Hidden Line Rendered Viewport).

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