The Vectorworks Design Series products perform space planning and programming studies, and create schematic floor plans.
The Space tool is available for Vectorworks Landmark and Spotlight software but is not present in the those workspaces. It can be added to the Landmark and Spotlight workspaces (see Creating or Editing Workspaces).
These features can be combined in various ways depending on your preferred workflow:
● To begin the design process, draw the spaces. Reposition and reshape the spaces to develop a schematic floor plan. Then create the walls automatically from those spaces.
● Begin with a solid model, and then create the exterior walls from the model.
● Create the walls first, and then create the space objects automatically to determine the areas enclosed by the walls.
● Using space programming, import an adjacency matrix that was provided by a client, and automatically create a bubble diagram and a stacking diagram. Reshape and reposition the space objects in the bubble diagram to create a floor plan, and then create the walls automatically from the spaces.
● Create the initial schematic design with polylines instead of spaces, and then convert the polylines to spaces.
● Create the model with stories, and associate the net/gross volume of the spaces along with the stories.
Use the Space tool to create a schematic floor plan. The Vectorworks Design Series products can then automatically create walls from those spaces. To track room finish data on a schedule, add finish information to the spaces. If necessary, IFC data (including extended space properties used by the General Services Administration) can be attached to the spaces. The net and gross volume of a space can be associated with story elevation, so that as story layer levels change, the space volume adjusts accordingly.
If walls or polylines that represent spaces already exist in the drawing, use space planning commands to create spaces from the walls or polylines.
When creating and updating spaces, the visibility of walls can affect the spaces, depending on the situation and action:
● When creating spaces, only visible walls are taken into account
● When updating existing spaces (clicking Update Boundary from the Object Info palette), only visible walls are taken into account
● When existing spaces are regenerated, for example due to changed space labels, a new height value, or moved walls, wall visibility has no effect on automatically bounded spaces, because the spaces are already associated with the walls.
See Editing Space Boundaries for more information.
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