Vectorworks has had irrigation tools for some time. In the past, the problem was that the irrigation tools were not suitable for real-world irrigation design. The new irrigation tools are designed to address these challenges. There are several parts to the suite of irrigation tools. You have to choose the appropriate…
Vectorworks has had irrigation tools for some time. In the past, the problem was that the irrigation tools were not suitable for real-world irrigation design. The new irrigation tools are designed to address these challenges. There are several parts to the suite of irrigation tools. You have to choose the appropriate…
Vectorworks comes with several irrigation tools. There is a tool for placing irrigation pipework, and there are two tools for placing sprinklers and drip emitters. When the pipework and emitters are placed, you can create a schedule of the parts.
There is a another method which places the worksheets on the drawing, but this only works if you have Vectorworks Designer or Landmark. There is a command to try to automate some of the work, the results are the same.
Editing the irrigation report.
Building the Worksheet to Count Sprinkler. You can get Vectorworks to count things to suit you, a custom way of counting. In Vectorworks we call this a report, and the results are shown on a worksheet. We can add reports together to collect all the objects we want.
Irrigation Pipe Work. The Landmark tool set has an Irrigation Line tool, but if you do not have Landmark, what can you do? The answer is to use a polygon, polyline or standard line tool, and assign these to a special class. We can use the class to control the graphic…
When you have one sprinkler symbol, the easiest way to make another is to duplicate and edit one that is already created.
Making a Database (Record Format). Vectorworks has a database concept called a record format. This concept allows us to attach information to an object. The information has to be an a structured form to be useful and that is the job of the record format, to structure the information.
Irrigation for non-Landmark Users. The irrigation tools and commands only come with Vectorworks Landmark or Designer. So, if you want to do this kind of work, should you bye Vectorworks Landmark?