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Tamsin Slatter

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. Hi Johnny

    Select the Window and click on the Settings button on the Object Info palette. Click Classes on the left menu. You can specify different classes for the many different elements that make up the Window. The class itself should then contain the texture you want to use.

    Hope that helps!

  10. Hi

    Best not to use the hanging angle for the truss as this does indeed cause this problem if the truss is converted to a Light Position... The instruments will pick up the Z value of the light position,

    Instead, you need to leave the Truss with a hanging angle of 0. Convert to Light Position and then run Spotlight/Visualization/Create Plot and Model view. This creates two design layer viewports, on different layers, of the Light Position - one of which you can rotate to be angled as you want, the other can be used to display the Top/Plan view.

    Then, create approprite sheet layers with Viewports to display the design layers (and their design layer viewports) as appropriate.

    Hope that gets you started. Try running the command on a single light position in a blank file, to get your head around what the command is doing.

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