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Hi all,
I've made a couple of half-hearted attempts to learn about data tags but either things jump in at too advanced a level or they're too long and boring. I can't find anything specifically on VWU.
Does anyone have any suggestions of good videos or web pages that start right from the beginning?
I'm good at VW so think I'll pick them up quickly, would just like it spelled out right from the beginning how to use them. I'm ultimately looking to create my own custom tags. I'd also like to understand how they are an alternative to the built-in plant tags.
Thank you very much in advance 🙂
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Seven years on and we still can't organise the basic building blocks of Vectorworks?
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Helen,
It's been renamed - one of the many helpful updates that VW2022 has had with regards to the plant tools 😉
Under the plant style settings, it's on the Appearance tab and is now a tick box called "Apply fill across plant grouping".
Quite annoying as "Mass plants" was very clear.
Screenshot below:
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Hmm in this instance I disagree with Jonathan Pickup!
What those boxes/circles are are showing the rootball size and the excavation area.When you set up the plant, go to the Root Zones tab. You will see two options (as below) - Root Ball and Planting Excavation. On both of these make sure the top option is set to "Bare Root (None)" for Root Ball and "None" for Planting Excavation.
This will get rid of them.
IMO they should be turned off by default but you can make your life slightly easier by setting up one plant and then duplicating it (by going to the Site Planning tool set, clicking on Plant and then on the spanner and pencil button at the top of the page - select your plant there then press the Duplicate Style button at the top of the page.
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Got to say that I totally agree with @Marshallae that this functionality is totally redundant and only serves to make setting up and editing plants more complicated. Most people set up their plants rigorously - by working through all the relevant screens and inputting correct information. It would be easy to spot errors by checking the plant report used to generate nursery orders. This is just an extra layer of complication which is unnecessary and confusing for those who are beginners to VW
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Just to add to this (in case anyone else is searching) - I am having the exact same problem. Spent ages looking for a carriage bolt in Fasteners, but for some reason it's in Detailing. And I've had to manually put the nut and washer on the other end.
Maybe @SMannVW you could elaborate where you got the above from please? -
On 11/29/2021 at 1:01 PM, E|FA said:
It seems like the UI graphics are getting less legible with each version. Rolling back to 2019 icons would be an improvement. And it doesn’t help that my eyes are getting worse as the years go by.
Agreed. Also think it was silly to make such a big change to their location AND change the graphics so much as well. Changing the icons could've waited until the next update (or, like, just not be done at all because it's completely pointless at best and confusing at worst)
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Scenario: I have lots of things to rotate. I go Option + = to get the rotate tool, do the action, press X, click on the next object, Option + = again etc. etc.
It would be easier if there was a "suspend" key I could hold down to re-invoke the selection tool. Does such a thing exist? As it should do!
Thinking about it, I could probably change the rotate shortcut - I hate Option + = as I always have to look at it due to there being so many similar keys on that side of the keyboard.
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Realised I never replied to this - thank you so much @Julian Carr - your code works perfectly 🙂 I really appreciate it - have used it a couple of times now. Thank you
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That's really helpful - thanks @AlanW
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Hi all,
I've never used Vectorscript (but do have a compsci degree and could cobble together code if need be!) but I was wondering if you think it would be possible to achieve the below, and if so if you have any tips on where to start.
I would like to take a landscape site survey (AutoCAD DWG import) and turn the text fields for spot heights into stakes, where the value of the text would become the stakes Z value.
For ease, I think the location of the stake would have to be the text's centerpoint - they usually come in with an X (symbol) marking where they are, but there is nothing to link the text and this symbol together apart from proximity, so I don't think it would be easily doable.
This would in effect give me a terrain for a 2D drawing.
I could easily enough isolate the level text onto their own layer.
Your thoughts would be appreciated!
Thank you.
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On 3/11/2020 at 2:11 PM, hchen4 said:
Hi Guys,
Is there a faster way to turn grading points into stakes? we usually get survey with only grading points, it's very time consuming to manually type in..
Thanks
Agreed. It would be great if there was a way to create stakes based on the text values at those locations.
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I'm on Mac. Will go and install the latest SP and see if that helps!
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Sometimes I put images onto sheet layers - materials, plants, that kind of thing. For the past couple of weeks I've grouped some images and gone to resize them, but when I do they disappear and I end up with grey rectangles with a black cross through them, and no way to get the originals back except digging through the backup files and pasting them back in again. An example is below.
I am on OSX 10.15.6 and VW 2020 SP2.
Any advice? Is this a common problem?
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Hi,
Somehow my VW2018 seemed to have become corrupted - every file I opened would be OK for a bit, but whenever I did something "complex" (anything from looking at a sheet layer to using the Compose command) it would hang and I'd have to kill it and restart, when it would do the same thing.
I thought I would re-install it, so downloaded the 2018 Series E installer. Whilst that was downloading I tried to uninstall it from my system, but the Uninstall program wouldn't work (same as this thread. So I followed the instructions there for a manual uninstall, but the installer gives me an error as per the attached.
I've tried deleting everything I can from VW2018, like stuff from Library/Application Support, but to no avail.
Any ideas would be very much appreciated!
Thanks
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3 hours ago, Boh said:
It's not the answer but if all you want to do is scale or rotate an existing hatch then a cool trick is to first use the attribute mapping tool to get it looking right then right click on it and choose "New hatch from locally mapped hatch..."
That I can (just about!) manage! What I'm trying to do is create a herringbone hatch based on different dimensions to the Herringbone Parquet one I'm basing it off. My issue is that I just can't work out what the numbers mean! Their modules appear to be 51 x 202, so the repeat is 2 x 202 and the start on Level 2 is about 51, but I have no idea what the dash factor is, or the offset and how it's reached.
Spent ages looking for a tutorial to spell it out like I'm five, but no luck! I've resorted to tweaking the numbers and seeing what happens!
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And here I am, three years later, with a computer science degree and a reasonably high skill level at Vectorworks, searching the forums and trying to make sense of the bloody hatch editor! They are such a fundamental part of the software - the basic fill for objects in so many applications - that it's insane there is not an easier way to customise and create them.
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On 7/22/2019 at 4:11 PM, Tamsin Slatter said:
Is there anything else accidentally selected when the user creates the plant?
I don't think so! It's strange - sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
On 8/14/2019 at 12:49 PM, JanH said:Hi - I have the same problem - did you ever find a solution to this @phin?
No! Next time I will keep a close eye and see if I can repeat it though...
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Hi Rob,
Thanks for your reply.
Creating plants isn't like conventional symbols - there is no option for setting the insertion point, unless I am missing something?
We are drawing circles, then going to Landmark > Create New Plant (or Create Plant Style From Selection in VW2019).
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Hi,
Could someone please explain to me how the origin/axes work when you create new plant symbols?
I'm with a group studying Vectorworks, and we create plants by drawing a circle on the page and, with it selected, going to Landmark > Create New Plant.
When it comes to placing these plants, sometimes they work fine but occasionally they go off the screen somewhere and you then have to find them, double click to edit the graphics and move the circle to the origin point.
Exactly what is it that causes this problem?
Thanks.
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Oh amazing! Thank you @markdd ! I had no idea 😊
I'll delete this thread shortly so it's not a totally pointless waste of space!
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My workflow is:
I make changes to my model, I've set up several sheet layers, using cameras, to show the views I need, and I've set the render style for those. But I have to click and wait for each one to render before going onto the next one. Would be great to have some kind of batch render setting so I could set them all going without having to do them manually. (Have searched, couldn't find a duplicate - apologies if there is one!)
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On 5/30/2018 at 4:11 PM, grant_PD said:
3. The ability to drag and drop images into VW. This would be a global wish not just a sheet layer wish, but I do a lot of that here.
Unless I'm missing something in your question, I can do this already - I can drag images from either Finder or another app, like Chrome, straight into a Design or Sheet Layer. Or is this just a Mac thing?
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Hi all,
I've searched for this but to no avail (but don't believe it's not been answered already - apologies for potential duplicate).
I'm a VW3D newbie, and when it comes to getting plants into my model, I see two main ways:
1. Image props
2. Plant symbols with 3D data
In terms of having a good workflow and saving on duplicating effort, it would be far more preferable to place all my plants with the Plant Placement tool. I have been creating new Plant Symbols for ones not included in the libraries, and using Image Props as their 3D data, or bringing in a transparent PNG.
My question is this:
In order to get a plant density that looks great in the 3D model, the plant spacing has to be ridiculously tight. Like three times tighter than you would ever do in real life.
Is this unavoidable, or is there a clever trick I'm missing?
What do you guys do to get round this?
Thanks in advance!
Fi
Best resources for learning about data tags?
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Great - thank you @Tom W. - I'll go check them out 🙂