dspearman

before you create the dtm draw the poly to set the limits of the visible portion of the dtm. Then select both the poly and the survey points. Alternatively, select the already created site model and use the menu command "Edit Group" you may then draw a poly setting the limits. Exit group and the site model should show its limits. I think of the fence as the limit of influence of other site modifiers. Another way of thinking of it is as a limit of grading line. With a fence the elevation and slope values are irrelevant. In fact if you select a fence and look at the object info pallet they are not shown. Elevation and slope parameters relate to the pad configuration for a site modifier.

Is the units setting in the file 'feet' or 'feet and inches'?

3.2 mb of text!! How many data points do you have? One option would be to open it in excel and look at the data there to make sure it's clean. If you are on a mac you could also use bbedit.

My thought is that you are creating stake object but that the objects created are a long way from the drawing origin. After the import, but before clicking on the drawing look at the object info pallet. You should see that a number of stake objects are selected. This is the imported data. If you want to see them run the command View > Zoom > Fit to objects.

In the source title block symbol check to see if the text block is set to attributes by class. If so set it to anything else (eg. no fill black line).

Just move the two endpoints that are at 0 elevation. These should be located on the last elevation marker but are not. The rest are correct - assuming that you didn't move the site models z value. You will also have move the border and the legend.

VW is understanding the dash as a minus sign and doing the calculation correctly. You can use a space to separate the feet units from the inches unit. You will need to use a ' to identify the feet but if the units are set to feet and inches or inches, you will not need the inch marker.

1) the update button recalculates the changes from the site modifiers. If you want to change the source data, select the site model and run the menu command 'Edit Group' 2) This appears to be a bug that has been reported. To workaround you have to edit the two verticies that are at 0 height and reduce the size of the 'box'.

I think that the problem is that not all of your layers are in the same view. One option is to 'Layer Link' all layers to a separate 'Model' layer Make the model layer active and set the layer options to 'Active Only' You should then be able to see and manipulate the 3d view in registration. The other option is Stack Layers mode but I haven't spent a lot of time with this. Another option is to create a viewport and manipulate the view in the viewport with the flyover tool or the walkthrough tool. Final option is to put all of the stuff on one layer.

You need to use the Site Modifier Objects. As a hint - in VW pads can slope in a definable way. Set the new grades either using the Stake Object, or pads, or 3D poly's of class Site-DTM-Modifier. Using the Site Modifier tool draw a 'Fence' around the site modifiers - This is the limit of grading. Don't try to draw contours. VW will do this for you.

In pre 11 you can move the title block to a new layer (scale 1:1) and scale the layer the other stuff is on to 1/4"=1'. Make sure that when you set the layer scale that the check box - scale text is selected. Leave both layers visible. This will also work in 11 and 12 but isn't quite as elegant or flexable as viewports and sheet layers.

if you are using sheet layers and viewports you could place the schedule on a design layer and use a viewport to view it on the sheet layer. The 'scaling' of the viewport could handle the text size leaving the worksheet with whatever text size is easier for editing.

The poly line must have only arc and corner vertices. Even if you don't the command shouldn't be greyed out but will fail with an error dialog box. Also, you do have only the polyline selected when you go to run the Station on Polyline command - right? If you don't have a polygon or polyline selected the menu command will be greyed out.

Place the General notes on a sheet layer and use viewports to get them onto sheet layers for printing. By using multiple viewports you can simulate a multicolumn view.

I don't think it's in Landmark. I know it's in Designer and Architect.

Unlock the layerlink and use the command Move 3D. If you want to do the excavation for the building so you can calculate cut and fill you will have to use the site modifier tool to create a 'pad' at the depth of the excavation and a fence at the limit of the excavation. Dean

In the site plan file, create a layer link to the referenced house layer. This layerlink should be on a the site layer or another layer. Unlock (if neccessary) the layer link and move it into the correct registration with the site. Remember that the registration has to be in all three dimensions if your drawing is to be 3d. Once the layer link is positioned lock it. At this point the visibility of the referenced house layer can be turned off as you will view its content through the layer link. Viewports should refererence the layer that has the layer link rather than the referenced layer. That being done the house shouldn't move when you update the reference HTH Dean

I use the layer transparency for this all the time - but its only in v 12 and only on a mac. In V 11 I sometimes used a hatch with a very fine line for the fill. When printed it gave the effect of transparency although it didn't always look that way on the screen.

Take a look at the 3d polys that you are using for source data. Are any of their vertices a 0,0? You could also set the minimum elevation above the errent points and just dispense with them altogether.

If you place 3d loci at the control points and elevations, and turn on the snap to object constraint, you can draw the 3d poly's with the 3d polygon tool. I don't know why you would need to extrude. Also v 8 has a dtm feature. Vastly improved in later versions but I remember it, however vaguely, in v 8. This would be the alternative means.

If the text block is set to attributes by class it has one behavior. If the class attributes of the text block are over ridden it has another... I think that if it is set to attributes by class then it will self update based on the font selected for the drawing border but I might have it backwards.

Cadastral refers to the legal fabric. The answer to your question really depends on where you are. In Manitoba, Canada the Provincial governments website has downloadable files (dwg or shape). which gives me the property bounds. I have to take a whole town or a large chunk of a city though. In your own juristiction I would start there. Dean

With the fonts in the plug in title block base symbol; if the text has the attributes set to by class the plug in will use the active font in the drawing. If the text has line and fill set to something other than by class, the font will remain as it is set in the base symbol.

I think this goes back to the way a person works. I know plants fairly well and when placing them on a drawing (even a conceptual drawing) generally know what species and variety I have in mind. As a result I have all of my plants fully defined. Advantages major time savings when you go to do a planting plan consistent graphics within the plant selection makes it easy to review drawings and enforce standards A very quick and dirty costing even when doing concepts. Disadvantages More time up front doing the concept drawings. I have to have a sense of what the planting scheme is when initially doing the plan So I think that the question is really 'How do you want to work" There is an option to have it all. Place both generic plants and fully defined plants in your plant library. Make judicious use of the custom selection menu command and the replace plant button on the Object Info pallet Regardless, I think a few days polishing up the default plant library is time well spent.

VW 12 does not use the plants in the system folder of the existing document. The 'Default' plant library is located in the Library/Default/ folder of the vectorworks folder. To make plants available for all documents (or unavailable) edit the plants in that file.