Jeff Prince

The solution I provided used classes and the Existing Tree Symbol to accomplish what I thought you said you needed. When I open the file you posted, it does not have any Existing Tree Symbols in it, rather just exploded blocks and circles representing trees, so your problem look more like a 2D linework classification exercise. You can make classes for Demo, Existing, Relocate, etc. You can then make the attributes of those classes graphically unique. Finally, you can select the exploded blocks and circles, assign them to a class, and then set the object attributes to "by class". The objects will inherit the properties of the class, just like the Existing Tree Symbol example I posted earlier in this thread. The attributes of your objects in the drawing that are representing the trees (red and blue circles I presume) do not have their attributes set to "by class", hence their graphic attributes will not change when moving them to different classes. hope it helps, Jeff

Good luck buddy.

if the work is important enough to revisit in the future, you should have it archived as PDF. If you don’t trust tech, laser engrave your plans onto metal or stone plates 😉 Vectorworks, or any company, could go out of business at any moment or determine that supporting your legacy work is of no financial benefit to them. You have to have a plan that does not include proprietary file formats that are largely unsupported in our industry.

Sounded like a job ad to me. If you search the forum, there are many discussions about how to make this workflow successful.

You might want to link this post to a Job listing here on the forum.

Your texture for the plant needs : Reflectivity -> Glow -> No to “emit light” and “add matter reflectivity”

I haven’t had a reason to use Sketchup in years after switching to VWX. Even with some of VWX’s parametric tools leaving a bit to be desired, it’s way faster doing everything in one program than modeling x2 in separate ones. I’m also in the landscape industry. I haven’t run into anything I can’t model in vectorworks… except plants with complex branching and leaves.

I don’t know anything about C4D, I thought we were talking about Vectorworks 😉

Not an issue these days.

This is the good stuff, nice work! Tensile fabric structures are cut with catenary curves and shouldn’t sag in the middle, @bcd example is the ideal.

I was being sarcastic, hence the prolific use of 🙂s There are other programs you can use to make really nice stairs that do the BIM and rendering easily, it’s just not VWX at the moment.

It’s amusing to me that anyone thinks the stairs generated with the built in stair tool is worthy of focusing on in a rendering 😉 It makes good basic stairs to suit a variety of BIM needs. It makes stairs that are passible for most rendering context where stairs are not the stars. But if you want high levels of detail, you just have to model it manually. That is the case for many things in Vectorworks. Use the parametric tools to roughly model something and use for documentation, use a deconstructed copy to embellish for your renderings. And use 2D details to document the nuances of the design. That’s the promise of BIM right, replicate our old CAD ways 😉

I believe so. The problem with using hard paths is they will eventually change, such as when working on a different OS, having to work off a portable drive, or simply archiving a project and removing it from where live projects are stored. Hard paths just create more work for you.

That’s probably the easiest solution. Have you considered trying one of the 3D tree maker programs and building your own? Many moons ago, I used to do that with Accurender inside AutoCAD/Rhino. All these plants were made by hand over 20 years ago, it’s a lot easier these days 🙂 The tree with the green bark is a Palo Verde, a common desert plant that no plant library I have seen models correctly.

Are you hard pathing your projects? I haven’t experienced any problems using relative pathing.