Plants – Vectorworks plants in 2013 now have two parts to the Plant preferences. There are the plant settings which controls the current placement of plants, and then there is the plant definition that controls the overall definition of the plant in the file.
Last week, when I was looking at the plant database and Vectorworks 2013, I had trouble importing plants from my old plant database into the new Vectorworks 2013 plant database. At first I thought this was a serious flaw, but I have since learned that there is a way to…
This is the movie from the afternoon session of the landmark special-interest group. This session was slightly different from the morning session because we looked at starting a project from a hand drawing. We then created layers on top of the scanned hand drawings so that we could start our…
I have created other movies about image props, and how to make them, but it appears that there is still some confusion about how to deal with the images in Photoshop, then bring those into Vectorworks to create your image prop and put the image prop as part of your…
This is the movie from the first session Landmark Special Interest Group, July 2012.
Site modifiers, including the Landscape retaining wall. Many people struggle with site modifiers, especially the Retaining wall.
This is the movie from the Landmark Special Interest Group, April 2012.
Creating and editing plants and plant graphics
When you create plants, you can use the Vectorworks Plant database to get plant information. The Vectorworks Plant Database is a stand-alone application that is designed to store information and images on thousands of plants. It does not link directly to the plants in the Vectorworks software, but there is…
Plant Graphics – Enable Plant Rendering