Screen Plane/Layer Plane with Plant Graphics

When you edit the plant graphics in Vectorworks, one object in the plant controls the Mass Overlapping Plants. If you separate the plant components, you will find that there is a stacking order to the plants. It is important that you respect this order. If you do not, you will find that groups of plant with mass overlapping plant activated do not look the way you want them to.

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When you edit the plant graphics in Vectorworks, one object in the plant controls the Mass Overlapping Plants. If you separate the plant components, you will find that there is a stacking order to the plants. It is important that you respect this order. If you do not, you will find that groups of plant with mass overlapping plant activated do not look the way you want them to.
In this image, the plant outline should be solid green, but because of an error, none of the plane of the polyline in the plant.
This is the plant graphics that should be shown on the massed plants.

When you edit the 2D Plant Graphics, you have to make sure that have the back most object (the object that creates the massed overlapping plants) on the screen plane.
Use the Object Info palette to change the object to the screen plane.

The plant will not look any different until you exit the plant.

When you exit the plant, Vectorworks will re-draw the massed overlapping plants, using the color of the object that you wanted.

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