Topics Covered: Utility Menu / Workspace Editor 1:23 Customize (context) menus 1:58 Create New Plant 3:16 Get Plant Data -> Plant Database 3:24 Edit Plant (2D Graphics: Classes and Graphic Attributes) 9:07 Rotate Tool 12:39 Select Similar Tool 14:41 Add Surface 14:50 3D…
Main topics: Plant Tool Plant Definition Plant Preferences Massing Model Using the K key Editing Plant Definitions Plant database Update From Plant Database Copy From Symbol Create a new plant Plant Tool Preferences Reshape Tool Improvements to the Hardscape Tool Hardscape Object Settings Parking tools
This session covered: Concept of saved views/viewports 0:00 settings for layers & classes the navigation palette how to save views and adjust the settings 1:52 layer & class visibilities rotate plan access a saved view Note: a saved view is NOT connected to a viewport…
The main part of this session was around image props. The attendees want to look at the height of the image props, how they were created, and how they can incorporate these into plants. After that they want to look at some 3-D modelling.
This session looked at the challenges (bugs) encountered when counting plants in a worksheet, especially in regard of their height, spread and quantity. It also covered in detail how to create your own report (worksheet, schedule), how to edit an existing report (with its many record formats), showed the quickest…
Intermediate Tip – After you have placed plants, you can count them. Vectorworks comes with pre-made plant schedules that will count all the plants in the design. You can access these from the Tool > Reports > Choose Schedule… command and place them anywhere in the drawing.
Intermediate Tip – As well as the default classes for your plants, you can also create your own classes to control parts of the plants. In this image, you can see several other classes that deal with plants but are not the default classes. I use these classes to control…
Many of the plant objects that come standard with Vectorworks have a class structure already. You could call this the default class structure for plants. Generally the outline of the plant is on a specific class (Plants-Component-Outline) the color fill is on a specific class (Plants-Component-Color Fill) and the line…
Plant shadows can be individual to each plant, or can be connected to the document preferences. If you connect the plant shadows to the document preferences, it allows you to control all of the plant shadows on the entire document from one dialog box. If you create your plant shadows…
When you place a group of plants you have a choice to turn on Mass Planting. If you activate the mass planting option, Vectorworks will group your plants together removing all of the lines with the plants overlap. In the image you can see two groups of identical plants. The…