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Tamsin Slatter

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    Bug?

    in Site Design

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    Yes - many times. I just OK as many times as it wants me to, then save my file quick because VW crashes soon afterwards...

    Not sure that this has happened since going to SP2 R3 though...

    Symbol Info export

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    If you have records attached to symbols you can use the Tools/Reports/Create Reports option to select the fields from your records - these will be added to a worksheet which you can then export to Excel.

    Are these your own symbols or those provided with VW?

    Stippling

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yes - that seems to be a general problem with saved things. I would like to save hardscapes and stipples then apply them using the Convert to Objects option. But I can't - unless someone can tell me how?

    Dimensioning questions

    in General Discussion

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    If you want your dimension text to be a different size to the rest of your "standard" text, you could create a custom selection (Tools, Custom Selection - choose Type = Dimension) to select all the dimensions. Once selected, you can change the size of all the dimension text, leaving other, unselected text unaffected.

    DTM ???

    in Site Design

    Posted

    Hi Orangeman

    You need to convert your 2D objects to 3D objects. This you can do under the Modify/Convert/Objects from Polyline commands.

    You describe points for the planned heights. If they are just points, you should probably convert them to Stake Objects.

    If they are areas, you should use Pad. You then need a fence to limit the area of regrading.

    You then need to set your site model options (via the Object Info Palette) to determine how the cut and fill is to be reported. Click on Update and change your settings in the OIP to a Proposed view. You should see the contours update and the cut and fill update.

    Good luck!

    Error message with Layer Scales - see attached

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi

    Can anyone help? A former student has sent me a file which has developed a problem. Unfortunately, she can't tell me what she did to achieve this ("something - I don't know what") so I am somewhat in the dark. However, the problem is that the objects on each layer no longer line up with each other and appear to be scaled wrong. On examination of the layer setup, each layer is at 1:100. However, if I go into Document setup and look at the scale (without changing anything), I get the attached message:

    Any idea what's she's done or if there's a quick fix?

    Editing plant 2D graphics

    in Site Design

    Posted

    There is no reason why you shouldn't use the same base symbol for many plants. As follows:

    1) Drag your chosen symbol onto the drawing.

    2) Select and go to the Landmark menu.

    3) Choose Create New Plant

    4) Complete the details you need to complete including spread (this will resize your chosen symbol)

    5) You can, if you wish, add plant data from one of your plant lists. Click OK to accept your changes.

    6) Now for the next plant on the list, choose Place Plant.

    7) The plant you just created should be visible in the drop down menu. Click on the Settings button and again ensure that your recently created plant is visible in the box.

    8) Click on Duplicate.

    9) Complete the 2nd plant details as required (attaching plant data if you wish as before). The change in Spread will resize the symbol.

    So - no need to use the symbol editor.

    Now - the database.

    Yes - it's frustrating to have to load the entire list. The secret is to open the Filemaker Pro database and create lots of smaller lists based on your preferences. You can there edit plants and create duplicates of existing records. Any changes you make to the database will require you to update your VW plant lists (do this from the file menu on the database).

    One thing to avoid is having a long plant list with a name that will be first alphabetically - choosing Get Plant Data is a bit of a pain as VW helpfully loads the first plant list it finds and if that has 5000 records in it, tough. I created a list called AAA with 1 plant in it. That gets round that problem. I have other lists with shortlists of my favourite perennials, small shrubs, larger shrubs etc.

    What would be really nice though would be if VW could actually talk to the Filemaker Pro database. None of these intermediate lists would be necessary.

    Hope some of this helps and that I haven't missed the point.

    Cheers

    Space Tool - lack of understanding

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Thanks for all the responses - very helpful. I have tried the convert to space and yes of course that's always a great option with so many VW objects.

    I am now getting a view that I would use Space purely to be able to report on information about that space? In effect, it is a tool which allows me to create a record about that space.

    Space Tool - lack of understanding

    in Architecture

    Posted

    I spend most of my time training on Landmark as I'm a Landscape Designer by trade. However, a recent client has requirements which have had be "dabbling" in the Architect workspace. Please forgive my ignorance - it is largely to do with not being an architect I guess... but I would love some further explanation on the use and purpose of the space tool. I promise I HAVE read the manual and various workbooks...

    1) Clearly I can draw an area and it becomes a space object. However, the dimensions in the OIP do not exactly correspond with the area I have drawn. The length is the same, but the width is not.

    2) If I try to change the dimensions in the OIP, it has no effect on the object in the drawing area. Should it? Or am I missing the point?

    3) If I draw a space to precise dimensions, or create a space from existing walls, why do I need to tell VW the proposed area? Why can't it work this out? Again, please forgive my ignorance if I am completely missing the point!

    Many thanks

    Landscape wall bezier rendering

    in Site Design

    Posted

    Hmm - I am having problems with this too - and getting different results each time I render in final quality renderworks. In OpenGL only the top of my wall renders. In final quality, the texture doesn't seem to sit on the vertical surface at all...

    Will experiment some more and see if I can find an answer...

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