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Using dashes also does create some issues with keeping classes organized, which I am trying to work around now as when you have layers like L-20-F--F , L-203----, L-403O--- etc, this causes different categories (e.g. L20, L30, L40, L50) to get mixed together because the order/priority of dashes versus characters. (see simple example below) You're right that the namign conventions require dashes...and in theory I can use different naming in file and have layer mapping on export setup....but that is asking for problems when other people use it! I guess I just have to live with wonky class organization

I've exported contours from VW to civil to bake a surface there, and I assume the workflow would allow for landXML exports, either from the contours or surface build in civil. See my comments above.... But I haven't personally done it for landXML.

Yes, it seems like a pretty simple fix....not that I am a programmer, but the visualisation rules are very straightforward. The current cut/fill visual is more or less useless in practice.

RHS would be pretty great....though not a nursery of course 🙂 In Ontario Connon's nursery is a good bet, would apply to a larger swatch of Canada. In Denmark, Kortegaard has some cleaner data on many of their plants.

There was a post from @Eric Gilbey, PLA not long ago asking for input on plants for the VW team to add. It may be useful to be somewhat specific, and they might be able to work on providing low-resource (image prop) plants covering some basic trees, shurbs, grasses, etc. Otherwise, you have Laubwork for very heavy/detailed 3D (e.g. trees/shrubs) and Globe Plants has various plant packages you can get that cover a certain amount of northern european plants. As luck would have it, I am putting the finishing touches on a plant catalog/plant resource file which contains all the plants from Hvilken Planter Hvor (approx 3000) with their respective data/description as provided in the book. However, this does not come with 3D/images....but I am doing an English/Danish version. Hopefully should be ready this week. With VW 2026, you are also now able to connect to Plantevalg in Norway, to get Norwegian data into specific plants with images.

Cant speak to other issues, but do you have the libraries downloaded? I don't think it should be relying on any online info for plants (except laubwerk)

Apple's pricing on internal storage is bananas. An external drive on thunderbolt should work just fine... It is more that programs like VW, adobe, ACAD, etc. are often very poorly optimized, and despite the absolutely massive increase in resources and horsepower, they just don't utilize these effectively - in part because they don't prioritize it since specs keep bumping up higher. Very far from being a VW problem, but I think the whole world would appreciate 1 year of no feature updates for all programs to have more highly optimized programs that can actually use processing power, multithreading (where possible) and memory efficiently. Alas....

I think having your own library is always necessary - since many details change regionally (common name, max size, etc) but I think that the new tool looks like a huge upgrade in terms of usability and a much better UI. Up until now, there has been trouble distinguishing between the plant database and catalogue, and it appears that the new version combines the ease of aspects like importing external databases via the catalog with the practicality of the database - while ga new UI so searching by plant characteristics is now few clicks away instead of going into a specific catalogue. I found the old mish-mash to be difficult and am hoping the new version smooths things out into the future. Of course, VW has a track record of releasing with perhaps a few too many bugs, but that's not something unique to the plant tool.

I think Revit is just e with coordinates; it is not a program that has native georeferencing or capacity for drawings to be in world coordinates whether rotated or not. As far as I understand, its really only working to align with other software (even autodesk software like ACAD) via survey points....which is their workaround. Perhaps thats a reason why VW has updated the survey stake tools to play better with Revit.

Looks to be so. I guess we (who are not working with ACAD) cant see that it comes in correctly within autocad. Not sure if this works then for REVIT, or other nonVW software.

My general strategy would be to have a clean file that I set the coordinate system, along with the project origin, and then import the drawing into that, along with the survey file separately. Not just for errors with projection/distortion, but to make sure it sits in the correct location. You could also just switch on the geoimage and see if its lining up correctly....and if it is, could be fine. just to make sure I understand -the drawing/geometry needs to be rotated then to have it actually aligned in real-world? versus changing the plan rotation like below? VW doesn't care what you have that angle set to, it will always export in true north with default settings. A symbol like i show can be used to then rotate the plan or geometry as needed....but I would definitely not be doing this in my own drawings since we need to work with surveys and real world (even if we havent set a coordinate system yet). https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/111701-angle-to-true-north/ However, you can try changing the Angle to True North in the georeferencing settings. Maybe @Benson Shaw or @Ben Beaumont came up with a workflow you are after. https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/103656-georeference-north/ I dont have too much time to set up a proper example file to test out how this all works...but there should be something along these lines.

OK - great! I will take a deeper dive into the tool to make sure no other critical points are missing, but from what I recall, you can set custom A1-A3 (production) and transportation values for each material, along with other phases which is good. In addition to having per-material C3-C4 to make it usable, it might be worth looking into adding phase D - which allows us to really take circularity into account. It might be worth having a conversation on what categories are NOT important to have (e.g. B2-maintenance is a large component of landscape CO2 emissions). There is a good possibility I might be jumping in on a large LCA for landscape project (creating a tool and dataset for the industry) in the near future, so I will be able to chime in with some specific pointers beyond what I have mentioned.

I believe there is an online DWG viewer from Autodesk you could use to check....but it has been awhile, and I think it might not be possible to check the coordinates of an object/geometry. Any other CAD program should do, but you should also be able to check by importing it into a clean VW file. The georeferencing tools work - but there is room for user error, depending on how the file was set up, the same as it can be in AutoCAD or any other program that can deal with world coordinates. I have received rotated drawings from architects, with an in-drawing site origin/compase rose that showed the rotation angle and allowed me to align it in my own drawing via snap and rotate....but this is a big no-no; any error at this stage is a huge liability. I asked them to resend their drawings, as its not my responsibility to create a drawing in non-world orientation. However, you can put in a symbol aligned with a given point in the site that is not being modified (e.g. SW corner of property line, or agreed upon point) where it shows a normal compass with north, as well as a line at the appropriate angle to rotate. To make sure I understand: Did you draw your plan in a specific coordinate system with rotated orientation in your VW file, where you can return it to true north/0 degree rotation?

weird. Maybe there is some setting for simplification? in the OIP, can you check the simplification tolerance? This determines the spacing between vertices in a curved shape. Low values give smoother shapes, but heavier geometry. I forget how this is set by default, or perhaps you changed it somehow and it remembers the last time you used it.

Maybe @Tony Kostreski had some tips. Pretty sure you can just use the border tool.... But when I tried fiddling with it briefly awhile back I had trouble with the attached sure modifiers