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bob cleaver

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  1. Benson I feel like I gave you short shrift with my earlier post.  You always ask great questions and always support others.  In order to use the balance cut and fill appropriately, the rough grading would be for pads and add paving, building, drainage swales, mounding and site sculpting.  Developing a set of tools to use to develop site modifiers would be key to making a landscape architects grading design valuable.  
    Benson, thank you for all your efforts on this forum ! 

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  2. In California, civil engineers dominate the grading review process.  Landscape architects can provide 'grading studies' but are not recognized in municipal submittals for grading.  

    I like to provide grading studies but never develop balanced cut/fill review - the balance concept is valid but so many geotechnical considerations are required to ascertain how to provide a balanced site (is the cut valid for fill, what are the sub grade needs of paving and structures, drainage requirements such as swales and bioretention basins for retaining site water on site, etc).  The details of balancing a site at a schematic deign level make balancing a challenge -  

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  3. Thank You Pat !  
    Any time is appreciated 

    I have not succeeded with this -

    I have tried a few different options to no avail - 

    My next attempt was to allow ‘any’ instead or ‘all’ in the conditions filter 

  4. Trying to add plant info to Landscape Area Legend

    The goal is to have a legend with:

    1.legend show a graphic for the landscape area (done)

    2.legend show the landscape area name and total area (done)

    3.add plant quantities and latin names for each landscape area (3 tests added without results)  

     

    The VW file and screenshot enclosed.

    ss 2024-01-04.png

    bob's plant legend test 2024-01-04.vwx

  5. I refer you to the link below that has simple and well considered videos on VW including how to develop a site model that reviews extending contour beyond the site boundary and why that matters.  I am not sure this is the exact video, but once you are in the link you will see her terrific content.

     

  6. Vectorwork’s Tony K has a webinar where he combined 3 separate PCs into one site plan.   
    The goal of mine is to create a site plan in 2D and then a 3D model.  
    Tony’s webinar is excellent in working through the steps, but his PCs did not have the same distortion I have.

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  7. I am learning the best way to use the lidar function and the nomad app:

    I recently bought an iPhone 15 pro and used the lidar scan feature in the nomad app to produce the 2 scans in the file attached.

    The enclosed file has 2 scans performed on the same day.  The 2 scans are adjacent areas and there is an issue with vertical and horizontal alignments.

    This forum is the best solution for recommendations and I appreciate any recommendations for best practices.  

    VW forum 3D scans bob cleaver.vwx

  8. I am learning the best way to use the lidar function and the nomad app:

    I recently bought an iPhone 15 pro and used the lidar scan feature in the nomad app to produce the 2 scans in the file attached.

    The enclosed file has 2 scans performed on the same day.  The 2 scans are adjacent areas and there is an issue with vertical and horizontal alignments.

    This forum is the best solution for recommendations and I appreciate any recommendations for best practices.  

    VW forum 3D scans bob cleaver.vwx

  9. I like the vertical mouse 'LOGI' from Logitech - The Evolent models I used were short lived - 

    LOGI is comfortable for all day use - 

    I run the mouse wired and agree the wireless lag is annoying

    There are a few buttons that can be customized and Better Touch Tool app allows for customization - 

  10. A reminder:

    once a 'family' of boulders are developed, make each boulder style a 'plant' and take advantage of placing using the plant tools (single, in a row, random) and then variety using the OIP (random rotation, sizing etc) once placed,  then counting and other data in a 'plant list' worksheet 

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  11. I am adding this link https://macmost.com/linking-to-notes-and-documents-on-your-mac.html

    I regularly watch macmost.com on YouTube for tips and it appears I can hold notes and other images in a Notes file and then link to it in VW 

    I will try this and report back

     

    In the meantime I wanted to share Macmost as I find the advice there very straightforward and useful -

     

    Sorry, a MAC centric post here 

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  12. Thank you All

    While the drawings are evolving, I have text gathered from emails, my own notations such as things to consider down the road or websites for products (light fixtures, drainage products, new plants), screen shots and PDFs from other consultants, and managing them changes over time is key so the act of accessing the info is achallenge.  

    I do not like using outside apps to collect this info and then scroll between apps - 

    I have not considered a sheet layer and will give it a try - title the sheet 0 or ????? 

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  13. I import important notes and consultant drawing imports (usually PDFs) into the VW file (reference info) to easily review and have a record of this info as part of the file rather than having this info outside the VW file.  The info can be comments, reference info, text or images - 

    Do others manage this info within the VW file and if so where to put it - a drawing layer ?  this info can be removed when it is obsolete 

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