Creating Plant Symbols/Styles from spreadsheet

[smak]

Hi All, 

 

Our office has been utilizing Plant Tools for a few months now, and we're loving the efficiencies--automatic plant schedules, data tags, etc.

 

Up to this point, we've been making each plant style individually, and slowly adding to a shared workgroup library.

 

Knowing that we are going to utilize this workflow, I'd like to create new plant symbols/styles for every plant that we will likely use as an office. We don't need much information associated with the plants--just Latin Name, Common Name, Category, Spread, Height, Spacing, Scheduled Size, and (1) Comment Field.

We have a master Excel spreadsheet with all of this plant data already--

 

I've worked through the steps in the "Creating Plant Styles from the Plant Catalog," (link below) including reformatting our master Excel spreadsheet to match the field mapping from VW.

 

https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2022/eng/VW2022_Guide/Plants1/Creating_plant_styles from_the_plant_catalog.htm?agt=index 

https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2023/eng/VW2023_Guide/Plants1/Importing_plant_catalog_data_from_a_spreadsheet.htm#h

 

My issue specifically revolves around setting the spread and spacing of the Plant Style from the spreadsheet/Plant Catalog.

 

There doesn't appear to be fields dedicated to spread or spacing in the Plant Catalog--I can edit the plant spacing from the "More Plant Style Settings..." but the spread and spacing don't seem to be linked to any data from the Plant Catalog. 

 

 

I know I'm missing something here--is there a way to create new Plant Styles that include spread and spacing from a spreadsheet?

 

Thanks,

 

Steve

 

 

[SometimesWorks]

Did you have any luck with this one, Steve?

I've come up against the same wall and am not keen on hours and hours of data entry either.