JX Team

Thanks we tried copying the tags into a new file but the landscape area disappeared with the tag registering 0m2. We think the tags were referencing a class that must have been deleted. Still strange that the tags and hatch were still visible!

Landscape area disappears when moving tag or object, anyone had this problem before? The tag remains and area turns to zero? Is this a glitch? Is there an Audit tool to fix the drawing similar to AutoCad? Thanks

Hi, Vectorworks automatically rounds down plant numbers when using the landscape area tool. In mathematics a plant is not a plant when its value is 0.9, but is there a setting to round up? This would be useful as anything over 0.7 of a plant would have space to be planted, and it avoids a reading of 0 next to a certain plant in smaller landscape areas.

The issue that we are having is that we are working on a large subdivision drawing, with several different planting mixes. Each planting mix is applied to numerous different landscape areas, so many separate landscape areas have the same planting mix, as defined in the ‘landscape areas settings’ > ‘plant information’ dialogue box. When a design decision is made to alter a mix (which is happening regularly due to an iterative design process), that change needs to be propagated across several independent landscape areas. In order to update the mix to all relevant landscape areas, we have been updating the mix in the ‘landscape areas settings’ > ‘plant information’ dialogue box of one of the landscape areas associated with that mix and then using the eyedropper tool to match attributes to the other landscape areas intended to have the same mix. When we do this, not only does this update the species mix in the recipient landscape area, but the landscape area tag positions also take on the attributes of the landscape area that is used to propagate the changed plant mix. The landscape areas’ tag positions seem to be controlled by the ‘plug in parameters’ attribute, which seems to encompass many of the attributes of the landscape areas (eg. the planting mix associated with the landscape areas, as well as relative tag positions etc). In terms of the eyedropper attribute control, this seems to be all ‘lumped in’ to the eyedropper ‘plugin parameters’ attribute, which mean we cannot propagate the change to the planting mix from one landscape area to another, without it changing the tag positions also. It becomes laborious and time consuming to correct numerous tag positions every time a change is made to a planting mix. It seems to be a limitation that has a fairly major consequence for our work flow efficiency… In short: 1/ We need to be able to match the attribute of updated plant mix information in one landscape area, and propagate this to several other landscape areas without it affecting the individual landscape area tag positions. How can we achieve this? 2/ Have we got our workflow wrong here? Is there a way of creating a particular plant mix or plant schedule that can be associated with several landscape areas, whereby changes to the mix are centrally controlled by one mix schedule and these are linked or associated with multiple landscape areas? – in essence avoiding the matching attributes issue? Appreciate your advice, help and input. Happy to clarify the issue further, if not clear.

Hi, is there a way to enter plain text in a formula bar in Vectorworks? We want to manually enter the spacing of the plant per m2 as VW does not pick up the settings formula automatically

Hi Ozzie, Double checked your =('Plant Record'.'Mature Height') formula and it sorts our problem, so thanks for sharing that. Agree with you starting a fresh on the plant database, we stick to a small number of tried and tested plants here so having every plant in there doesnt make sense and may confuse things. Cheers Chris

Hi, we are not using the plant database, we have set up the plant list by duplicating the plant definition and setting up this way, we have set up all the plants we need, can we export the plants from the drawing into a new plant database record and start from there? cheers Chris

HI Ozzie, thanks but this hasn't worked, there is a work around attaching a separate record of width and height to each plant - http://learn.archoncad.com/2015/01/21338/podcast-210-why-is-my-vectorworks-plant-schedule-wrong/ http://app-help.vectorworks.net/2015/NNA/eng/index.htm#t=VW2015_Guide%2FSymbols%2FAttaching_Record_Formats_to_Symbols_and_Objects.htm%23XREF_10680_Attaching_Record http://app-help.vectorworks.net/2015/NNA/eng/index.htm#t=VW2015_Guide%2FSymbols%2FCreating_Record_Formats.htm However we need to test if this separate record attaches to the plant record when using the plant/tree in other files or drawings. A more automated, less labor intensive solution would be best!

Hi, When setting up a tree schedule table the height and spread value seems to be multiplying by the number of trees when using the formula- =’Plant Record’.‘Height’ Any help would be appreciated