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  1. Hi.

     

    I am trying to publish a design and it keeps saving as a lck file instead of a pdf.

    I have tried closing the program, restarting the computer, etc. I am still using 2023 version.

    Any solutions would be appreciated.

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  2. On 3/16/2023 at 3:50 AM, hollister design Studio said:

    Just a quick thought:

    Since you can't 'add surface' a single polygon out of all the separate pieces, I tried to just "trace" all of them into one polygon.

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    Now it's just one polygon that you can 'create objects from shapes' to a landscape area.

    There are 'non-area containing' connections between the shapes - so it's not adding to your sq m numbers.

     

    Kind of ugly, but....

     

     

    Thank you.

     

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  3. Hi again.

     

    I have a design with a pond, boulders and floating timber platforms.

    I am doing landscape areas for the plantings as the project is quite large.

    Around the pond I have numerous little pockets for plants. I tried adding surface and grouping them with the same outcome. I have multiple Landscape areas with multiple tags.

    I would prefer not to have individual plants for just this section. Is there a way of making these individual landscape areas act as one area with 1 tag?

    If not I will give this area it's own planting layout with individual plants.

    Thanks in advance.image.thumb.png.ae1b20315be53af80fb667c924e76330.png

  4. 20 hours ago, mike m oz said:

    3D polygons are planar so need to have only three vertices.  You need to either raise the 3D polygon ends in the centre of the image so they finish on the edge of the 3D polygon on the right or break the latter up into smaller triangles that join at the lower common point.

    But yes, creating many more simple polys might fix it. Just trying to not complicate things.

  5. 20 hours ago, mike m oz said:

    3D polygons are planar so need to have only three vertices.  You need to either raise the 3D polygon ends in the centre of the image so they finish on the edge of the 3D polygon on the right or break the latter up into smaller triangles that join at the lower common point.

    I am creating a garden bed in this instance. Could be anything. I am clicking on existing geometry like bases of fences, edges of drives. etc to create the polygon.

     

  6. 20 hours ago, mike m oz said:

    3D polygons are planar so need to have only three vertices.  You need to either raise the 3D polygon ends in the centre of the image so they finish on the edge of the 3D polygon on the right or break the latter up into smaller triangles that join at the lower common point.

    So contradictory to this VW video?

    https://www.google.com/search?q=vectorworks+3d+polygons&oq=vectorworks+3d+polygons&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l8j0i390.15088j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:81d919cc,vid:YbRW7-f-sJQ 

     

  7. Here it is as Nurbes curves and texture bed. However it is more than 3 Nurbes curves as there are straight and curved edges.

    I cannot seem to get the lofting to work as I think it only wants 3 curves at a time to work.

    I find how to get the texture bed to follow the 3D shape required at the correct spot elevations that I have in the Nurses Curves?

    What am I missing?

     

    drive.vwx

  8. Hi.

    I want to draw this highlighted drive.

    I have fiddled around for a few hrs and I cannot seem to find a way of doing it.

    It is existing, different widths and grades along it's length. It slopes from the house to the shed and down the to the entrance at the bottom of the screen shot.

    How would you go about drawing it?

    Cheers.

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  9. On 12/2/2022 at 11:41 AM, hollister design Studio said:

    I'm currently annotating a planting plan and having to deal with this...

     

    I always plan on doing a first pass a little bit wider than I want for the final.

    That way I can see which lines are crossing and then very roughly stack them in the right order.

    Note - if you do the first pass too wide then the leader line crosses will be all over the place - the key is to do just wide enough that you have room to manually resort the offending leader lines.

     

    In the second pass I align distribute they seem to get much closer with maybe only one or two crossing lines that I adjust manually.

     

    And in the third pass I align the labels (we like groups to be all vertical).

     

     

    Quick note about spacing in case you hadn't read this before - the tool uses the spacing between the top 2 tags when using "equal distance between shoulder lines"

     

    Second quick note - I just put up a wish list to add presets to this very useful, but not quite perfect tool!

    Thanks. I did not know about the spacing of the top 2 tags. This will also help a lot.

     

  10. 10 hours ago, Nico_be said:

    Hello,
    I have the same problem, this tool is not perfect, the lines always cross.  I have tried everything.  
    I use it sometimes to align the labels, but I modify them manually to remove the crossings.

    Thanks Nico. Not what I wanted to hear.

    Cheers

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  11. Hi again.

    I am struggling with aligning my plant tags automatically.

    I have a plan that has over 30 species of plants set out in a cottage garden style.

    I have always had trouble aligning the plant tags as they almost always crossover and are spaced apart at a spacing that I don't want. So I am always tweaking them or just giving up and doing it manually.

    What am I missing?

     

    The current plan:

    First try at aligning is 

    image.png.290a14cf8442b926e83c014e7a30f9e0.png

    I am drawing my alignment line where the pink line is every time. This is the result.

    Nowhere near the line I drew. All bunched up and crossing lines.

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    Second attempt: No better.

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    This was a bit better. But still crossed lines and no where near where I drew my line.

     

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    I could keep going with configurations, but a similar outcome.

     

    THANKS IN ADVANCE.

     

  12. 21 hours ago, Tom W. said:

     

    Your original screenshot above includes 8 jpegs so are they suitable for creating Image Props?

     

    Or search 'plants png' online for plant images with transparent background.

     

    I personally have never found suitable plant images online but that might just be down to the particular species I was looking for. I have instead taken my own photos + removed the background on Pixelmator Pro then exported as PNG...

    Thanks Tom.

    No, the Jpegs are plant parts, such as leaves.

  13. On 10/25/2022 at 4:04 PM, Tom W. said:

    As @Nico_be says .OBJ is the only file type there you can import but just be aware that using a 3D mesh for your plants may result in very large file sizes. The VW plants use Image Props to represent the plants in 3D. These are 2D images + give a good 3D likeness without tons of MBs.

    Thanks Tom W.

    Do you know a good source for image props of plants?

    Thanks in advance.

     

  14. Thanks Guys.

    I got them from CGTrader. I forgot to check the image types.

    There are some that are the right file type. They are 3D objects. Are they correct for what i want them for? I want to start getting a bigger variety of images for the 3D component for the plant symbols.

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  15. Hi All.

    I have recently bought these and cannot work out how to get them into VW.

    Can someone please point me to where I can get step by step instructions on importing plant images I have purchased and how to make them the 3D image for a plant.

    Thanks heaps.

    I seem to spend more time stuffing around with stuff like this than actually doing designs!!

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  16. On 10/15/2022 at 3:28 PM, jeff prince said:


    If you need a good photo program and run a Mac or IPad, I highly recommend Affinity Photo.  It’s powerful, inexpensive, and a perpetual license.  I like the iPad version best and use it with the pencil.  Worth the small investment and time to get up to speed with it if you have any photo editing or traditional rendering needs.

    Nah, Sorry, I use a PC. Thanks anyway.

  17. On 10/8/2022 at 5:10 PM, Tom W. said:

     

    The halo is still there, you just don't see it against the white background.

     

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    I think @jeff prince is correct: that not enough white was converted to transparent when the image was created + the only option is for you to go back + finish the job. Perhaps the issue was the fact that removing more of the white pixels around the perimeter of the plant was also going to the white flowers inside it. You can see some of this has happened already. But this is solved by painting the flowers back in again:

     

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    See: Halo Plant v2022.vwx

     

    Thanks everyone for your help. I don't have the software to do this. I will just have to not use these images in the future.

     

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