Jonathan

Matt, when you make the change get good training. your investment in training will pay for itself in productivity many times over.

here is a quickstart for everyone, just make sure you open it with Adobe Acrobat reader.

i have trained several people to use Vectorworks. You have to stop trying to use Vectorworks like another program, try to learn the basic concepts. I have a quickstart guide that might help, http://www.archoncad.com/quickstart-guides.html.

try these youtube movies
http://www.youtube.com/archoncad

I write training manuals for Vectorworks, I have online courses available and a regular online user group.
http://www.archoncad.co.nz