The consensus for today’s special-interest group was to look at Renderworks styles and lighting. Renderworks styles were introduced in Vectorworks 2012 and they allow you to create a rendering style with lighting options, quality options, and background options, and then save those settings. If you store the Renderworks style in…
This session looked again at storing and organizing the plant library. One suggestion was to use separate files to store the plants in so that the plants would be grouped together by the type of use.
In this session we looked at importing a survey file and using the survey data to prepare for creating a Site model.
One of my clients was asking about drawing a stone capping on a wall. There are two ways to deal with this, drawing a 2D plan view, or correctly modeling the stone capping in 3D. This applies to more than just a stone capping, it applies to any wall that…
Like the other session this month, this session focused on creating and storing plants. this session also had time to look at storing plants in the default content and in the Resource Browser.
The main topic for this session was how to create a plant from scratch, rather than duplicating an existing plant.
This is the last landmark special interest group session for 2012. It gives us the opportunity to wrap up anything that’s outstanding for the subscribers this year. A consistent theme for the Landmark special interest groups this month has been planting. Vectorworks 2013 has a new dialog box for creating…
In this session we looked at two major topics; creating a landscape budget using landscape areas, and creating plants and adding them to your library. Vectorworks makes it very easy to find areas and calculate the percentages of areas in relation to each other. If you create your plants and…
In this session we looked at getting started with the project, based on information that had been measured on-site. In the situation the information was not imported from a survey, it was actually measured by the people in the office when they visited the site. The methods of measuring were…
In this meeting we continued our series on getting started with Vectorworks Landmark. An important part of creating a landscape plan is creating plants. In Vectorworks 2013, the plant preferences have been changed. There are now two dialogue boxes that control plant settings. The new settings with the two dialogue…