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Michal Zarzecki

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  1. That's really useful to know. I tried doing exactly that when you wrote about the Concat function for the first time and it didn't work. I will try again. Thanks again for help; big time!
  2. Sounds promising. See attached. Example Planting.vwx
  3. Hi @Pat Stanford, I am adding additional two columns: I set one to Records-Additional Plant Record-Rate and the other to Records-Additional Plant Record-Rate Unit If there is a better way, please share your method - I might be missing something.
  4. Hi All, Do you know if I can show plant density shown in a single cell in a schedule/ worksheet? So far, I managed to show the densities, as requested, but I needed to use another column to do so. Another thing is that it takes so much space and it's really wordy, e.g. "plants/ sq m" or "meters on center" rather than "no./ sqm" or "ctrs" or "c/c". Perhaps it is possible to alter these labels in some config files to suit custom needs? Any thoughts? Or shall I suggest it as an improvement in the Roadmap?
  5. Gosh! Now I see what I've been doing wrong all along. Of course, 'Plug-in Object Style Options' is not the same as editing the plugin style 🤦‍♂️. Oh Tom, many thanks for bearing with me.
  6. I think you don't understand me @Tom W.. I know how to change a class and where it lives in the OIP. But I can't change it and I can't find the parameter/ setting in the Door Style that controls it. When my door is saved as a named style the class can no longer be changed. I compared it with door styles in my v21 file (where I didn't have this problem) and I can't see what is different.
  7. It looks like simple answer is: when doors are saved as a named style, the class can no longer be changed, unless turned into Unstyled again. I am happy to be proven wrong and pointed to how to change the settings to be able to change class freely.
  8. Yes but which parameter is it? How to change it? There is no such parameter as Door Class that can be set. Although; interestingly, some graphical aspects can be controlled by Door Class (ie. I understand the class the object is assigned to). I have created a door instance in a class active at the time of creation and now I can't change it 🤷‍♂️. Within the door style I have a mix of what should be by style and by instance - as I had it in the previous version but I never had the problem with changing the class an end object is assigned to.
  9. Hi All, I recently upgraded my machine and eventually installed v22. In one of my projects transferred from v21 I have a couple of instances of doors used as gates. Having changed the style to Unstyled to now tweak some parameters I noticed that the 2D symbol doesn't respond to new parameters, such as width - it stays the same, although the 3D symbol changes as expected. When I created a new style from scratch in v22 it seems that i can't change the symbol or instance's class in OIP (it's grey), which I could do before normally, like with any other symbol. What parameter controls what the "Door Class" is actually?
  10. Hi all, I was wondering if anyone is able to advise if it's possible to add custom functionality to Existing Tree objects to create an indicative 2D shadow. In the UK, the British Standard suggest "plotting a segment, with a radius from the centre of the stem equal to the height of the tree, drawn from due north-west to due east". It can easily be drawn and added manually, but on sites with numerous trees this is quite laborious. If anyone has already created a script or otherwise such a functionality, I would be chuffed to bits to get some help with this. Are there any such requirements or guidance in other countries? What is required? Perhaps we could formulate a recommendation in the Roadmap?
  11. That is interesting. Definitely sounds sensible. @Anders Blomberg, that's crazy! I wouldn't have thought of that. Initially i was trying to use selection, but it didn't work in VW. Drawing a boundary is basically the same, but it is a more permanent and - I imagine - robust approach. I will give all the ideas above a go. many thanks, gents 🙏
  12. I have found this very frustrating in the past, but I seem to have bumped into a solution - by chance, producing another planting plan for a project. Here's what I do: 1. Annotate the plants and Landscape Areas that are easy/ unobscured first. 2. Use the Select Eligible Objects Data Tag mode () to attach tags to the [obscured] rest of plants/ LAs automatically. 3. I align leaders to arrange them neatly and consistently. If the leader arrow/ dot is not pointing clearly to the right plant or area, do the following: 1. Draw a line (horizontal or vertical or free form, doesn't matter) across the plant or LA you want to move your arrow/ dot to. This line will be used to anchor the arrow/ dot of your DT leader. 2. Move your arrow/ dot to make sure it snaps to that line. Sometimes, you may still see a bounding box of a wrong plant or LA reacting, but ignore it, move your cursor along that line and only release your mouse button (i.e. confirm your choice) when no bounding box shows. It works for me and I hope I described it in an understandable way to help you. It may work, but you will agree it's rather tedious. Let's join forces and make a coordinated feedback to VW that this has to change and they need to review and improve performance of Data Tags, especially in the Annotation Mode. Their Roadmap site is allegedly the best place to do that.
  13. @Scott Lebsack, I can't agree. There is reason in that. If one wants/ needs their plant styles to be data rich, in order to provide detailed information to their clients or stakeholders, it is painstakingly time consuming to add all the data you want and trust to plant styles one by one. What I do when I have a new project and I am devising a planting palette for it, I prepare a spreadsheet with all plant data I NEED AND USE normally. I then use that spreadsheet as a plant catalogue, to import all that data to VW plant styles. Of course, I do that only when I have a number of new species. Once created, the styles can be reused in the future and even tweaked for improvement. Species with similar characteristics may be created quickly by duplicating one style and tweaking the dfferences. @BJRobinson, you seem to have a reasonable collection of your favourite and reliable plants already. If the only data fields you use in your schedules are Latin Name, Scheduled Size and Root Protection, then probably you are better off populating them directly in a plant style as you go. Otherwise, see my first paragraph here.
  14. Hi @jwlandscape, I do exactly the same - for my clients and local authorities, I provide an extended schedule summarising plant's features, benefits to wildlife and whether it's native or alien/ exotic. Not sure how PlantConfig files are defined in the Australian/ NZ release, but in the UK (and I think in the US too), there is Origin/ Provenance field, which I use. As @Katarina Ollikainen mentioned, you can adapt and extend your plant data configuration, but it involves editing config files (which are xml files editable in any simple text editor). And, as I mentioned above re your national release - there are often differences which make using files from other releases impossible without further editing. I've been there, trying to get my head around it in the last couple of months. You don't have to use Filemaker to do any of that. Hopefully, VW will completely change the way plant data is stored, accessed, customised and imported/ exported, so that's it's no longer such a time-consuming pain. If users' input is required, then let's join forces to influence future improvements in a coordinated and consistent manner. Don't hesitate to DM me.
  15. I seem to be in the exact same position. I've been waiting for several years for VW to create a properly working hedge tool with multi-species capacity, without any luck - even though it's such a major landscape component, used in almost every landscape project. I have exactly the same impression, @jeff prince. New or, in most cases, upgraded existing features have been advertised, whilst some others got broken and the really anticipated improvements never came to fruition. Very disappointing on the development side.
  16. Hi All, I have a large project where I have my planting scheme distributed over several drawing sheets. ATM, I have a single plant schedule, but I would like to create partial schedules for each sheet, showing only the plants within the given drawing extent. I can't seem to get my head around how to achieve that. I tried adding a Record to all Plants and Landscape Areas with the drawing/ area/ phase ID and use it in the schedule criteria definition to filter the plants. Unfortunately, I managed to get it work only for the Plant instances but not for plants within Landscape Areas. Any ideas or advice how to achieve what I am describing above would be very helpful.
  17. Hi guys, Following some digging, I found that my copy of VW has the US settings - I think this must have come from the trial version I used. I was wondering if someone who uses the UK version could send me a copy of the _CatalogFileConfig.xml. It lives in the Plant Database folder where catalogs are saved. Apparently, column names/ headers in Plant Catalogs differ slightly in different versions. I tried to get some help with this from VW [a few weeks ago], including the replacement config files, but no success so far 😕
  18. When I was preparing the file for you, I found the culprit. It was Heliodon. Its class was in fact set to no fill, but the "Set at creation" box was not ticked. When I set it to solid, the blue colour popped up as default. I set it to white and now everything is as it should be. Thank you both for your time with this.
  19. No no, I checked everything I could think of. The default attributes are set to By Class rather than to anything specific. I tried to reset Plug Ins too. Sounds like some sort of corruption :/. How surprising 🤷‍♂️
  20. Hi @Pat Stanford, yes it exlains it well enough - but the problem must be elsewhere. I pen and fill were set to By Class. I changed all that, as mentioned above, but the problem persists. What's more, whenever I create a solid 3D object (like Hardscape set to Slab or steps), they become blue. Even the textures get a blue tint. Even though blue is not used in class definition 🤷‍♂️.
  21. Hi guys, I was hoping someone could help me out with this issue I am experiencing in relation to the class "None". When creating objects originally, I had None used as an active class. It had pen set to blue, to easily spot any geometry that was not assigned to proper end-classes. And now, I can't get rid of that blue colour from anywhere, even though I have already changed pen settings in None to be black and fill to be none or solid white - nothing helped. Any advice how to change it now?
  22. I would basically like the same as for Retain but with different colour (which I control by class). Shall I then just duplicate the Retain symbol (with the prefix 1) and give it prefix 2? Is this what differentiate the different states?
  23. Thanks @Tom W., I have read it, but I still have a problem. In the Plant DB there are VW fields (sometime with different names than mentioned in the pdf you attached - e.g. in a Plant Style you can see Bloom Time, which in the DB pdf manual is referred to as Season; in the Config File there is only Blooms Begin), the NPS fields and DTP fields. In a spreadsheet, this means columns from A to AY. In the Config File, only files up to AF are listed. I know that I am able to handle it from the IT side, but I need some clarity in how to properly map the fields.
  24. Hi all, I was recently battling a bit with how my existing trees appear when I choose action such as Remove or Custom. Can I change the way existing trees are displayed in response to different proposed actions? For example, I would like my trees proposed for removal to be red rather than presented with a dashed line. I can't find the way to change the 2D graphics associated with these actions. Eventually, I used custom fields to be called Custom Action so that I can use these without changing the graphic style automatically and still have the information presented in a tree schedule. Any other ideas?
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