[Data tag for landscape area]

Thanks!   #OSTYLE#   gives me the style name without the inverted commas

 

Laura

[Data tag for landscape area]

Does anyone know how to remove the inverted commas/quotation marks from a data tag returning the style name for a landscape area (see attached)?

 

Definition is #Landscape Area#.#numPlants# No. #Landscape Area#.#Style Name Formula#

 

Thanks

[Subtracting areas in a worksheet]

Thanks Pat

[Subtracting areas in a worksheet]

H Pat

 

Sorry for the delay, here's a cut down version of the file

 

Laura

TestFile.vwx

[Subtracting areas in a worksheet]

I am trying to get a cell to give a value of one area subtracted from another as follows:

 

=AREA((L='Red Line Boundary'))-AREA((((L='SoP Existing') & ('SOP data'.'Character Area'='1 Entrance Landscape'))))

 

But clearly getting it wrong somehow.  As a workaround I've made the latter part one query in a row with zero height and subtracted the cells but can anyone tell me how to get the formula to work in one cell?

 

Thanks

 

Laura

[Existing tree tool issues in VWX 2026]

Thanks for the tip on root zones, will be useful.

[Existing Tree Groups]

Would be good to have the ability to combine the canopies of existing tree objects when they are groups (G01 etc as labelled by Arboriculturist).  Adding individual trees when they are very crowded is a visual mess (see example below without existing tree objects)

 

[Existing tree tool issues in VWX 2026]

This is still not working.  Tree ID number doesn't import at all - this makes it very difficult to place trees that have not been surveyed to co-ords.   The category imports as 'custom' because the surveyor writes A, B, C or U but presumably VW wants the exact wording which is not practical. I would also very much like to be able to import the RPA but there doesn't seem to be any capacity to do that unless I am missing something?

 

 

[Function in Worksheet to count parking stalls?]

Did this ever get resolved?  Just tried and it doesn't seem to be working.

 

Thanks

 

Laura

[Selling Landmark 2026 License]

Hi Lori, yes it is

 

[2D view of Cut and Fill is NECESSARY for landscape architects (make it easier)]

Will this include an ability for the site model to be coloured depending on the depth of cut and fill in each area?  Just been asked for this and realised it can't currently be done, think it can be in Civils 3D.

[Selling Landmark 2026 License]

As an update has now been parked but this does not affect functionality

 

Laura

[Hedgerow - Maximum Number of Plants]

Trying to make a mixed native hedge with 9 plants, but hitting a wall at 7.  It seems this is the maximum number of plants I can have in a hedgerow.  Can this be changed? Maybe 15 or so just to catch everything.

[Selling Landmark 2026 License]

Vectorworks Landmark Perpetual 2026 License £1,800 + VAT

 

Will transfer by Vectorworks License Transfer Form, but any fees for this payable by buyer to VW

 

This license is perpetual but will not be upgradable to VW2027 and beyond

 

Laura

[Dormer not inserting correctly]

Anyone know why the dormer is behaving oddly here?

 

 

Thanks

[Updating Curbs - Gravity can only be applied one curb at a time..?]

I tried that - edited the extrude component and deleted one of the loci, but unfortunately it did't work.  From memory it then added its own random second locus which was unhelpful!   

 

There's a checkbox to 'use edge modifier' so ideally that could be modified so that you could individually check boxes to use the back edge or the front edge, or both.

 

The other thing that's frustrating is that if you've carefully set all of the kerb modifiers to the right height (e..g for an existing site where the height is uneven) if you later have to remove a vertex from the kerb it all just pops back into its default position.

[Updating Curbs - Gravity can only be applied one curb at a time..?]

In this instance I had a site where I have the existing site model and had been given car park levels by the Engineer.  The Client wants cut and fill.  So I used the grade tool to add the Engineer's levels (I only had the base of kerb levels).   You can't really use kerbs for this because their levels can only be manipulated in 3D views and you need a central level for a radius kerb.   The idea was then for the top of kerb level to be added to the site model via the kerb modifier, but the problem is that the kerb modifier seems to be a '2 modifiers or none' thing, so I end up with another modifier that duplicates what I'd already done with the grades and sends my site model haywire.

 

Ideally what we'd have is the ability to have a front of kerb OR a back of kerb modifier (or both) to be  fully flexible.  That way I could have had modifiers only at the back (top) of the kerb and there would have been nothing clashing with the grades.

 

 

[Updating Curbs - Gravity can only be applied one curb at a time..?]

The Curb modifiers are clunky to use, if it had something like the radius grade with two levels and a rise over run in plan view I could use it like that, but you really need to be in 3D view to make it work properly.  I do that for existing kerbs, but for new ones it's far easier to use the gravity button to send them to the surface of the site model.

[Updating Curbs - Gravity can only be applied one curb at a time..?]

By the way this is what happens to the site model if you have a radius grade and use it to place a curb object that has modifiers - I think probably a clash of slightly different points along the curve.  Workaround is to move the grade to a different layer not referenced to the site model or perhaps could get rid of the front modifier.

 

[Updating Curbs - Gravity can only be applied one curb at a time..?]

Just checked - no

[Updating Curbs - Gravity can only be applied one curb at a time..?]

Second this, just finished adjusting a site model.  I have 143 curb objects and it looks like I will have to select each one individually, go to reshape, change to edit positions mode, and use the gravity button.  That's at least 4 clicks per curb object.  I've tried selecting them all at once but the gravity button doesn't appear.

 

Laura

 

 

[Grade Tool Glitches]

Just trying out the new VW2026 grade tool and it is a vast improvement.  Radial grades are great!

A few gripes:

 

• The polygonal grade tool doesn't seem to pick up other points on the grade network.  I have to place it, then move each end and back again for it to join.
• The ability to have a data tag for the levels is good, saves me setting my text size to 4 and then forgetting to change it back again.  Can we have the same for the slope text?
• Every so often the radial grade decides to divide itself into 2 radial grades and in that location absolutely will not make just one.  Workaround so far is to delete one, move the end point and then mess around with the radius point but for some reason that converts to a bezier so makes it a bit tricky.

[Curb modifiers revert if curb is split]

I've just tried deleting a vertex of the kerb - same result, the modifier immediately reverts to default

 

Laura

[Curb modifiers revert if curb is split]

I have a drawing with an existing kerb where I had carefully set all the points on the nosing/face modifier to follow surveyed carriageway levels.  I then needed to split it to make alterations.  On splitting it I found that the nosing/face modifier reverted to the top of kerb level and will have to redo the whole thing.  Seems like a bug, would it be possible to fix it? 

 

Laura

[Embodied Carbon Calculator / LCA for landscape]

My understanding is that excavations, which are almost inevitable in a landscape project, have by far the highest carbon impact so perhaps cut and fill would need to be worked in.  I think choice of materials in the landscape is almost inconsequential compared to that.

 

Laura