{"id":210,"date":"2013-02-13T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2013-02-13T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:40:14","slug":"first-2d-drawing-in-vectorworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/first-2d-drawing-in-vectorworks\/","title":{"rendered":"First 2d drawing in Vectorworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my Design for Digital Fabrication class we&#8217;re starting out with 2d vector drawings. I&#8217;ve used Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape for vector drawings in the past, but I&#8217;m new to Vectorworks. I&#8217;ve already found some very useful functions missing in other programs like the ability to auto-measure and label parts. So nice!<\/p>\n<p>We were asked to create a 2d drawing of an existing object. My parents are restoring an old card catalog that has plastic handles. about 1\/3 of them are broken, but they haven&#8217;t found a supplier for them yet. I&#8217;m going to try to 3d print it. But first, a 2d drawing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/handle_2d.pdf\">handle_2d<\/a>\u00a0&lt;- pdf link<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I represented to curve properly, as you can see in the photo below. (Note: This image is not the actual handle, but it&#8217;s very similar if not the same)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/card_catalog_larger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-212\" alt=\"card_catalog_larger\" src=\"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/card_catalog_larger-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/card_catalog_larger-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/card_catalog_larger-829x1024.jpg 829w, https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/card_catalog_larger.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my Design for Digital Fabrication class we&#8217;re starting out with 2d vector drawings. I&#8217;ve used Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape for vector drawings in the past, but I&#8217;m new to Vectorworks. I&#8217;ve already found some very useful functions missing in other programs like the ability to auto-measure and label parts. So nice! We were asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-for-digital-fabrication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}