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Set Design - Vectorworks - Kenneth A. Larson

I started using CAD in the early 1990s, mostly using AutoCAD. Over the years, I slowly added new programs to my tool kit. After passing over many jobs requiring Vectorworks, I've recently started to learn this new tool. While not yet the best, I can work with existing Vectorworks drawings and for speed, use AutoCAD for swing sets that probably won't be saved. I have often been told that I am fast and that my AutoCAD drawings are better than "last season," as I quickly draw exactly what I want in AutoCAD, instead of adjusting BIM settings in Vectorworks to get close. I usually out-produce Vectorworks or SketchUp drafters. I gave up on MiniCAD 25 years ago because everything took twice as many steps as the program I already knew. AutoCAD is an excelent drafting tool if you need 2D Construction drawings, SketchUp, Rhino, and Vectorworks are better modeling programs, but not drafting programs. But the demand is for Vectorworks. You don't know there is anything better than Apple Pie, because you won't try French Appl Pie.

Member: Art Directors Guild Local 800 Set Designers and Model Makers, Computer Specialist. Member: Visual Effects Society.

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