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    Landscape Architect and Ecologist
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  1. How do I drape an image over terrain/ a site model? My image is a jpg with a pencil concept The image in the space is a texture in a rectangle I'm using as a visual guide at the size, orientation and position that I want the surface to be at. My site model is built from 3D polygons contours. Red poly is my referance object to orint image position I've tried the texture mapping route but get repeated crashes when I try and chhange the I and J dimensions - or the image size reverts just after it display at a larget size. I don't do a lot of 3D in VW and there seem to be a lot of possible ways to do this and a lot of ways that are a waste of time. So has anyone got a workflow that has a useful outcome? For the purposes of this I've centred my drawing on the origin.
  2. I will simply never go for CAD as a service type model. My experience with Sketchup put me off ever going that route. I want my models to be available to open without having to pay a sub for the rest of my life, so I won't be going further than VW2022. Will probably change to Rhino3D in the next few years.
  3. Why not just use a Saved View? I've just made a poster that'll be 2metres c .850 wide. I drew a 100mm box next to poster and zoomed until it was 100mm as measured onn screen and then saved that. For my screen that was 97%.
  4. unearthed

    Quiet Crash

    I've been used VW since 2004, currently using v2018, VWs crashing behaviour was new to me (coming from ACAD) so I logged what I was doing for a few years (and versions) but there was no discernable pattern, although usually I was doing something minor beforehand like writing text, or a simple 2D boolean. It sems much more stable than a decade ago but still happens. It would be nice if the code base was open so we could learn what is going on. I set it to save a backup every minute.
  5. .tin stands for triangular irregular network, it's an efficient way of sorting 3D coordinmate info in a vector format, basically the file is a list of xyz coordinates. It would really be easier if you can contact the surveyor direct - I always try to avoid client in the middle situations. I would normally use QGIS to open or process .tin, but these proprietary, closed-source files are often a pain to work with - here's soime info on using QGIS to work with .tin For anyone working with .tin the wikipedia page is very useful as .tin is not an open format.
  6. I have a questionnaire related to Passivhaus - would any of you in this or related work be interested in answering ten questions (some of which may help you think about your own practice). I'm working on achieving a better fit between Passivhaus and related design (also at industrial / commercial scale). Despite Passivhaus being a step change in building performance their gardens and landscapes are the same as conventional; a huge lost opportunity as to want Passivhaus means the client can think ecologically and holistically. Features / considerations would include: • Using plants to deplete local CO2 for air-intake (plant science and orchard related) • Manipulating tree shelter to split fog, rain and snow for better stormwater control (exploiting isotopic forms of water). • Planting-integrated PV arrays and wastewater/septic fields (selected low, and shallow-rooting plants) • Careful planted shading to control decrement delay..., (also manipulating when a plants leaves fall) and promoting a deeper level of landscape than most clients are willing to consider e.g. wildfire planning (no one is doing despite drastic changes in wildfire behaviour). I have a background in plant science, ecology and industrial ecology and facilities maintenance as well as landsape architecture and management. I'f I get any feedback I'll put the questions up here, or on my blog.
  7. Tell us what version your using more people likely to help you that way.
  8. Tedious as it sounds I often make an image of the page image contents ie all visual raster content and just have my vector linework in a viewport as an overlay - but I don't do renderworks / digital rendering so I can do this without affecting my output style. I've been a VW user since '04 and do think it can produce small files but I think the strength is in the name: it's Vectorworks, not rasterworks or allthingsworks, it does do vectors very well (as long as you only use hatches and stipples cautiously). Anything raster (or huge spatially) I do in QGIS or an image editor. My main large file issie is where there's a raster image with content outside the viewport - as VW does not clip this it can make for huge files, so I tile large images and put each tile in its own class - or make an image of the sheet view and drop back onto sheet - VW could make a lot of this much more seamless but they just endlessly add nonsense bells and whistles - it's annoying. If VW is being a real pain I use pdf995 but I find with 2018 it's very good - I have a license upto 2022 but have no use for the extra capability so won't change until I do need that.
  9. I've searched the forum and come up dry on this. I'm designing a poster which will have a 3D house model on natural irregular terrain and I want to show the flows of heat, dust, wind etc using arrows as in attached images. I realise these arrows are likely made as 2D in illustrator but am hoping for a 3D workflow. I can do this in sketchup but VW outputs look cleaner.
  10. I just draw my VP in model space, select it and punch Alt v v [the action shortcut on my system] and accept or modify the items in the VP dialog when it pops up - including which sheet to drop it into - it is a bit basic though and there's little customisation, and @ least in 2018 no control where the end up, ie placement is manual.
  11. How do I hide / turn off the pinned contant?, I see it every time I visit, I know it exists, none of it is releveant to what I do so how do I make it go away? as I really just want to see questions and topics of which I can seen nothing without scrolling.
  12. To see a sheet at paper / print scale for the various printers I might print to. To maximise usuable screen space as VW has a lot of visual crap that reducing drawing space - Why oh why does VW not a have a fullscreen view?? To have a meta / info for me sheet that I don't want to send out - with some extra classes.
  13. My 2 cents for what it's worth. I almost entirely use VW as a 2D tool (except for some large earthworks models and some contour work), it does produce nice sharp graphics and with a little care small-ish .pdfs, and arguably the best tool to produce page layouts and it's having a built-in spreadsheet make it unique in CAD afaik - saving a lot of manual copying and errors (Rhino is getting closer though). I see that SS may be perceived as a problem, but no large modern company is going to be even remotely squeaky clean, it's the nature of late-stage Capitalism - Lobbyist Wars and the Development of BIM Medium article on VW history - no ethics there at all. imo stay with what is already working for you. Also look at threads about VW2024, that should be enough to make anyone pause.
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