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I am trying to edit the plant style by instance-specifically the plant tag location and tag shoulder angle. In "edit style" I've changed what I think are the settings for those two variables to "by instance" w/ the toggle button on the left. Now those variables are no longer greyed out in the OI palette, which is good, but it still doesn't let me change them. Basically I want to change some of the plant tag settings by instance and not by style and be able to edit in the OI palette-can someone please advise how to do this?

Thanks to you both. I don't use data tags at all-do you have a good link/resource to describe how to use data tags in lieu of plant tags? (I'll also look into the script you suggest, Katarina, though its not for every plant so not sure if that is what I need.) Wish there was a way to simply use the eye dropper tool to match settings or select a bunch of plants to change settings for each one or something equally easy!

Does anyone know how to set up default settings for plant tags? Or, how to copy settings for plants tags from one plant to the next? I can't figure this out and w/ each new plant have to go in and manually enter all plant tag settings which is super time-consuming. I've posted about this before but didn't get any responses, hoping someone else has figured this out!

That worked! Thanks so much Jeff!

When I select the "poly edge space mode" when placing plants it shows a double row for every plant. I've checked older drawings and plant symbols and it doesn't do it there. I think it must be something in my "style" preferences but I can't seem to figure out what it is.

I am having some issues w/ creating plant styles in VW Landmark 2023: 1) When I create my plant, it automatically assigns some component of it to the class "none" even though I've carefully kept to another class such as vegetation-proposed-tree. So, when I turn off the layer "none" part or all of some plants disappear. I've tried editing the 2D graphic but there is no indication that any component is assigned to the "none" class there. 2)I am unable to edit the style on a particular plant on my drawing through the object info palette but I can do this in other older VW drawings. So, I have to go to edit style and change it there which is cumbersome. 3)I can't seem to manually change the tag angle in my drawing, and I can do this in other drawings. I have to go in to edit style and enter an angle which is also cumbersome.

Thanks so much for your careful description, Jeff! It worked!

Hi Jeff, Thanks so much for your response. Would you mind walking me thru the steps? I just don’t know how/where to do this when using the “plant list-simple” pre-formatted report. -Rose

Can someone advise how to select the plants for a plant list/schedule (using pre-formatted report plant list-simple)? I am working on a large residential project, & the project is in phases. I’d like to make a list for just the back yard, just the front yard, etc. but the lists just update to include all plants. I know I am missing something. Thank you!

My plant tags show two zeros after the decimal in the plant count. I can't figure out how to take these off. I've checked Document settings, units and set up but there is not an obvious fix there. Thanks, Rose

I am creating landscape areas and in my pdf on my screen they look fine but when I print them they come out almost black. I've intentionally used hatches that are very light-like the dots and diagonal dashes, but they are all like this. My only solution has been to change the opacity to 50% so that the true pattern shows, but unfortunately my text/callouts are then also at 50%. Any ideas of how I can solve this? Thanks! Rose

At this point I am just using 2D so the graphics are the only considerations. Looks like there is no problem w/ having polygons-just not sure if it takes up more memory. Thanks again for your help. Rose

Thanks again, Jim. I did try the split tool but it just breaks the polygon up into smaller polygons. Is there an additional step for splitting from polygon to polyline? I can probably just keep the contours as polygons-just trying to understand the process a little better.

Thanks for your quick reply! I was able to connect the ling segments and then when I used the command Modify>Compose it joined them all into a polygon. I tried to then use Modify>Convert to change to a polyline but it doesn't look like this is an option. So I then deleted the fill from the polygon and changed the line type so it looks like I want it to (single, dashed, joined line) but am I going to get into trouble down the road having all the contour lines as polygons instead of polylines? Is there a way to now change the polygon to a polyline? Thanks, Rose

I have imported a survey from AutoCAD and the contour lines are made up of thousands of connected line segments. I am trying to change their appearance from solid to dashed. I've edited the line appearance in the class but the contours show up as only partially dashed, which leads me to think that there are overlapping line segments . I'd like to convert all lines on each contour to a single polyline-can I do this? Thanks, Rose