5/7/2023 0 Comments Vectorworks tutorials![]() ![]() That's NOT how complex subjects are taught! And the instructor demands that you have to know everything - in complete detail - BEFORE you can even begin to taxi the plane down the runway. It's like stepping into the pilot's seat of a modern jet airliner for the first time. The shear amount of complexity - everywhere - is overwhelming! And the program is constantly fighting the beginner with "gotcha's" at almost every turn. What happened to the promise of this coming great change, Jim? The rate of adding additional new material is decidedly pedestrian! There need to be LOTS more! And urgently!įor example, as a beginner, I really struggle with understanding how to get a project going from start to finish in Vectorworks. ![]() But - referencing PVA-Jim's YEAR-OLD comment above - there are - a whole year later - still far too few. Too little, too late! The webinars are really good. But it is - still - VERY MUCH - an obvious work-in-progress. I appreciate that Vectorworks University is an attempt to fix this problem. Vectorworks employs some really excellent trainers, but there seems to be a SERIOUS internal management disconnect with using their expertise to drive the composition of the Help files! The Help Section should be FILLED with (up-to-date to latest version!) Mini-Tutorials.Ī good excellent example of where this is done properly is Autodesk 3DS Max. Who is the often the BEST real source - and repository - of WHAT knowledge and tutorial help should be automatically provided to the Users in the Help section of the Vectorworks program? It's NOT the Technical writers. And most importantly, a USEFUL mini-tutorial on exactly HOW they can dig themselves out of the mess they got into! And to reflect this empathy helpfully by providing useful, practical advice in their instructions to users who have got themselves into a bind, and DON'T need a mere recitation of what the program does, so much as DO NEED a helpful ANTICIPATION of what their problem could be. They have obviously been written by a team of mainly Technical Writers.Īlthough Technical Writers generally have a good understanding of HOW the program operates, and are able to describe WHAT the program does, they generally (not always, of course) lack the hands-on experience that comes from personally dealing with the Users to ANTICIPATE the problems frustrated beginners get themselves into. Vectorworks is a VERY complex program, and it's very easy to get lost. Some of the relatively few tutorials put out on You Tube by professional trainers are more an overt introductory advertisement for their further training services, than an ongoing useful tutorial series in their own right. Every single one of those boxes needs ticking! Vectorworks has a real problem in regard to urgently needing a PLENTIFUL supply of free, high-quality, useful, up-to-date tutorials! Yes. ![]()
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