lighttech11
Member
Hi there,
I'm currently a Senior Theater lighting design major and I'm looking to improve my drafting skills. I'm curious about the different ways that different designers, assistants, and draftsmen organize their Vectorworks light plot file, specifically in terms of layers and classes.
Some of the things I'm curious about:
-What design layers do you create/use?
-What classes do you create/use?
-Do you keep/draw all aspects of the design in one file (i.e., the plot, the section, elevations, even magic sheets all in different design layers)? Or do you create a separate vectorworks file for each plate that you're creating?
-Similar to the last question, do you draw the section in the same file as the light plot, and then do you put it on a different layer? Is that section then directly on top of the light plot layer in order to align with the drawing's origin? Or do you draw it off to the side of the light plot?
-How often do you use 3D modeling and visualization to help with the design, and if so, do you keep that 3D model in the same file as the light plot as well? Or do you do 3D visualization in a separate VW file?
Curious to here any and all answers. Thanks!
I'm currently a Senior Theater lighting design major and I'm looking to improve my drafting skills. I'm curious about the different ways that different designers, assistants, and draftsmen organize their Vectorworks light plot file, specifically in terms of layers and classes.
Some of the things I'm curious about:
-What design layers do you create/use?
-What classes do you create/use?
-Do you keep/draw all aspects of the design in one file (i.e., the plot, the section, elevations, even magic sheets all in different design layers)? Or do you create a separate vectorworks file for each plate that you're creating?
-Similar to the last question, do you draw the section in the same file as the light plot, and then do you put it on a different layer? Is that section then directly on top of the light plot layer in order to align with the drawing's origin? Or do you draw it off to the side of the light plot?
-How often do you use 3D modeling and visualization to help with the design, and if so, do you keep that 3D model in the same file as the light plot as well? Or do you do 3D visualization in a separate VW file?
Curious to here any and all answers. Thanks!