Tamsin Slatter

You can use drawing tools over the top, but they will not affect the existing lines. Just draw new objects as you have experienced. Yes - it's not quite like Illustrator, but you can do a lot with the 2D Reshape tool - explore the options. For example, you can add a new vertex at an existing midpoint, etc. But you can't just click anywhere on the edges - midpoints and endpoints only. Have fun!

2D Reshape? You can use this to move vertices, add or remove them, but also transform them into different types of vertex.

No - only that I get a lot of users contacting me puzzled that they have lost other graphic elements in the symbol because they have rendered their plants. They only want the massing effect and want to retain other elements, like colour and linework.

Or you could try placing your Section Viewport on a Design Layer (a Design Layer Section Viewport) and then creating a Sheet Layer Viewport that includes your Section Viewport.

Any of the symbols provided in the Plant Objects and Plant Objects02 files (that come with Landmark), contain Interior Linework in its own class. But if you use Mass Overlapping Plants, you will lose all of this. Instead, use the method I mention above. Do NOT check Mass Overlapping Plants on the Plant Definition. Place your plants and then use the Navigation palette to turn off the Plants-Components-Outline class. This works a treat.

If you are using the symbols provided within the plant Objects and Plant Objects 02 files, I would NOT recommend using Mass Overlapping Plants. This hides everything within the plant symbol other than the rearmost polyline. So, if you want to retain colour and you have that somewhere else in the symbol, you'll lose it. Instead, use the symbols provided in the two files I list above, and use the Plant-Components-Outline class to hide the individual outlines and then use Modify>Show>Show or Hide Plant Styles to render. This will draw in the sketchy outlines around each group. But you must use a placement mode other than Single Plant Placement. Hope that helps.

Hi Sorry - missed that this was a section viewport. If you edit the advanced properties of the section viewport and click on Attributes, you can choose to display the original attributes of objects for the cut plane. But your extracted surface will not be the cut plane. you should be able to see the objects beyond the cut plane, if you have chosen to do so. You can choose if these objects should show their original attributes.. Hope that helps

Do you have Display Planar Objects checked on the Viewport?

There is also a setting under Document Preferences where you can hide detail with the scale is smaller than one you designate. Check here - it could be that your working viewport is at a different scale to the one that is not working?

Have you found the Plant Objects and Plant Objects 02 resource files? On the Resource Browser, choose the Files menu and choose Add New Favorites. Navigate to your Applications/Vectorworks2010/Libraries/Objects Landscape and Site folder. In there, you will find the files I mention above (and lots more). Highlight those files and click OK. This will add these files as favorites. On your Resource Browser, you can now choose these files from the files list. ou will see there are many more plant/tree symbols. Double-click the one you want to use, click on the Preferences button on the tool bar to define your plant. You can also draw your own graphics, select them and then choose Landmark>Create New Plant. Hope that helps.

Hey Pat - we were typing at the same time!

Class all the different polylines so that you can differentiate between them in the worksheet. Create a new worksheet Right-click on the row to contain the selection criteria and choose Database. For the selection criteria, choose Type=Polyline and then click OK. In the first cell on that row, type =C. This will return the class name of any objects that meet the criteria. In the second column, type =CriteriaArea(). This will return the area of the items that meet the selection criteria. Give me a shout if you need any further help with this.

Do you have Use Planar Attributes checked in your OpenGL settings?

You might find this document useful. Not sure if it will help with this specific issue, but will give you some general migration tips... http://www.vectorworks-training.co.uk/Buy_Vectorworks/Renderworks.aspx Thanks

Hello The process should be: Create the Truss, leaving it's Z at 0. Convert to Light Position. Set the Z of the Light Position to 6000. Add your lights - they pick up the Z of the Light Position, not the truss within it. Hope that helps!

Hi Jeremy You could add a bit of Bump to it, but ultimately, the closer your view is to the surface, it will remain flat. CINEMA 4D has a Hair and Fur facility that can fluff up your grass.

Hi Ari I would always recommend looking at the main Nemetschek site for the latest information on system requirements, but if you take a look here, you'll find a not-too-technical explanation of what all the bits mean... http://www.vectorworks-training.co.uk/Buy_Vectorworks/Vectorworks_System_Requirements.aspx Hope it helps!

Create a blank file. Import the textures you want for that group into it (as described above). File>Save - give it meaningful name describing group. On the Resource Browser Files menu, choose Add Current to Favorite. Repeat until done.

Hi Jayden Do you have Renderworks? If so, you can use the Send to CINEMA 4D command on the file menu to open your model in CINEMA 4D. Alternatively, File>Export>Export CINEMA 4D (3D only) produces a .c4d file that you can open in CINEMA.

I don't think there's a limit - just a limit to how large you want your file to be. To clarify: Purging removes things from your current file, IF they are not actually used on the design. Other resource files (the files from which the textures were originally imported), are not touched. The Resource Browser is just that - a browser of the resources in other files. That list of favorite files is just a list of filenames. When you click on a file name, you can see the resources available in that file. To use those resources in your current, active document (the one you've got open on your drawing area), you need to import those resources. You can do that by choosing Apply, which imports and applies at the same time, or Import, which just copies the resource into your active document, but doesn't apply it to anything. This makes it available to be applied on the Render tab though. Hope that helps.

Hi Jim Have you tried using a sketched hidden line? Choose Hidden Line as the Background Render and then Edit the Settings. You can choose a Sketch mode for your Hidden Line render.

It is SO cool - particularly for those of us who won't see 40 again...

Try Modify>Convert>Copy to Lines This will give you a series of lines from the Front view that you can use wherever you wish. Your 3D elements will remain intact.

Hi Mark A good place to look for an overview on how to do this is Vectorworks Help. I'm not saying "RT!M", it's just that there is a great diagram in there that will help you. If you want a fuller tutorial, there is one in the Vectorworks Service Select portal, for VSS customers. If you want to know more, give me a call. Cheers

It's my pleasure.