bob cleaver

Jeff, thank you for getting this fence concept to work This process feels awkward but the benefit is having the fence tool allow for quick design adjustments and develop studies and details - In plan, do we set the initial fence outline (post alignment) and then offset the next elements (rails/caps and then pickets/stringers) ? The fence layout is one polyline sent to surface of a terrain model - once the first ploy line is at the surface, then uses the offset tool for the other fence components. Vectorworks Design Team - would you consider having the fence tool work similar to the handrail tool on the stair tool ?? and allow dialog to offset the components ? Jeff's file provides the template of the desired effect - Having these fence styles in a library to recall quickly (on multiple projects) is essential Did you look at the marionette scripts ?? Marionette may be the best one trick solution for fences and gates ?? Developing a library of gates (via the door tool) allows use of the VW tool without too much trailblazing, but having an effective gate tool as part of the fence tool would be terrific -

to create the fence in the post's original photo, there would be 3 fence styles: 1 for the pickets 1 for the posts 1 for the rails Jeff - could the 3 styles be saved as a symbol ? AlanW has a marionette script for fences that may help us - I am not versed in marionette, but was able to, adjust the fence design

to create the fence in the post's original photo, there would be 3 fence styles: 1 for the pickets 1 for the posts 1 for the rails Jeff - could the 3 styles be saved as a symbol ?

Is there merit to having fences like the green one in Jeff's images be two fence styles placed along side each other - the adjusting of either the post, rails, and fence fill can be easily adjusted using the fence dialog (once you get accustomed to it) style 1 - post, caps, and rails style 2 - fence fill (pickets, stringers, and caps over the stringers/pickets) I wanted to use custom profiles for offset fence elements, but adjusting them after creation is not as easy as I would like

Save the drawing label for the viewport annotations - drawing labels are great just as they are and allow quick adjusting in the object info palette one detail = one viewport = one drawing label OR One viewport with multiple details within = one drawing label

When publishing multi sheets into a single PDF, many times the sheets do not maintain the class selections. This is especially true with irrigation classes - We will have classes for viewports and worksheets selected and saved, and when publishing the drawing set, the classes randomly turn off. The workaround is to check each sheet and publish them individually and then combine them into a single PDF. We could be missing a step in the save and publish actions - We assume we are not alone ??

Thank you Jeff - yes the plant catalog and database are in the same library/application support folder hierarchy and they lose their connectivity if moved ??

Hi Jeff - how do we share a plant catalog ?? when this info is in the library/application support folder system ??

We are using the data visualization (DV) to show impervious surface areas for municipal approval. The DV legend is nice but when I try to revise it and add columns for showing the square feet of the various impervious areas, the DV legend's cells have a 'special' filter applied - Can the DV legend allow for easy revising ? Thank you

and check plant massing in the OIP as graphics are affected by that option

a quick guess is to check classes as plant symbols use them for visibility

We have been using the 3 default comment entries in the plant style: comment 1: CA Native (Y or space) we like the positive Y and no negative entries 😉 comment 2: Evergreen (Y or space) comment 3: WUCOLS (VL, L M, H) different climate zones with different WUCOL ratings would be best handled with a record ??? then is the record attached to a plant database ???

make sure the new iMac allows for ram upgrades by the user I have an iMac Pro and ram upgrades is not possible -

You can save a landscape area and reuse it - You can use the eyedropper tool as well If you have the plants in the LA specified, the eyedropper will add them as well One thing I have not figured out is if you use the eyedropper and have the plant tag on the DL, the new LA plant tag travels away from the new LA and requires resetting the tag to be the way you want - it would be great if when using the eyedropper, the plant tag can be set by an additional click - OR - just use data tags for plant info in Annotations of a viewport - Hopefully someone else can pick up the plant tag issue and solve its location when using the eyedropper

check the database cell and organize the sum vales and summarize values to total or organize the cell entries that follow