cadmovie1039 – Introduction to Planting – Part 8
Finding a Plant – The Plant Database is designed to store thousands of plants, but how do you find the ones you want?
Finding a Plant – The Plant Database is designed to store thousands of plants, but how do you find the ones you want?
Finding Duplicate Plants – After importing, you might have duplicate records. You can reduce the chance of duplicates when you import data by choosing the Update records in found set option, but you might still get a few duplicates.
Importing a Plant Database – You might have an old version of the plant database that you have already added information to. This old databasse can be imported into the new plant database.
Plant Database – When you install Vectorworks, the installer will place the default version of the Vectorworks Plant Database in the application folder and in your User Folder.
Plant Graphics – If you do not like the look of the plants, you can edit the plant graphics to make the plants look like your drawing style.
Change Plant Grouping – Once you have placed the plants, you can edit the grouping. In my example, there is a single plant next to a group of plants. They could be combined together.
Planting – There are several ways to place plants using the Plant tool. You have to choose the appropiate mode.
What is a Plant? – A plant in Vectorworks is a special object that has a plan representation, a model (or 3D) representation and plant data. All these parts are bound together inside the object called a plant. When you place a plant, Vectorworks places all of these parts together in…
Introduction to Planting – Planting in Vectorworks is very important for designers and landscapers. But not every object in Vectorworks is a plant, only specific objects can be thought of as plants. A plant is to the combination of 2D graphics 3D graphics and data. These are combined together to create…
In this session we looked at the Landscape Area tool. The Landscape Area tool is extremely useful when you are trying to plant large areas, if you try and create a budget plan, or if you trying to create a landscape concept plan. The tool has several options we looked…