podcast 093 – Parking Area Vectorworks 2010
The new Parking Area tool is a really fast way to create a large area of parking. It is fast, flexible and it counts up all the car parks dynamically as you edit the area.
The new Parking Area tool is a really fast way to create a large area of parking. It is fast, flexible and it counts up all the car parks dynamically as you edit the area.
To make a worksheet that counts everything, you need to remove the layer part of the criteria. This sounds easy, but you have to watch out.
Duplicating a worksheet and changing the search criteria to find all the plants, hardscape and topsoil on another layer.
Adding a part to your worksheet that will count the area of topsoil and calculate the volume of topsoil.
Adding a part to your worksheet that will count the area of topsoil and calculate the volume of topsoil.
In the last exercise we used classes to count specific sort of object. In this exercise we want to add some complexity to the worksheet. Let me explain, we have a project with four sites on it. For each site we want to count the plants, hard landscaping, the grass…
Editing a worksheet to count the plant in one site only.
Could you use Vectorworks for visualizing a wind farm? I think you could do this easily, watch this movie to find out.
Drawing a Road. What road tools can you use, will they all fit to the site model. There are different ways of making roads, some good for straight roads, some good for curved roads.
One of my Landscape clients works with large areas of planting. They find the place plant tool very slow. Much too slow to be useful. An new tool in Vectorworks 2009 makes planting large areas quicker and more powerful.