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Hi,

 

I am NEW to VW having moved from from Autocad. I am fumbling my way through most problems but this one has me stumped...

 

If I want to create an object from shapes or add a hardscape/landscape item I get a list of items I can add from the VW Styles menu (Hardscape/Landscape/Plants). However if I open the Resource Manager there are way way more items to choose from. 

 

If I'm in the resource manager I can for example Apply an item like a tree and then insert it in the drawing, however all the different surface textures (bricks/paving etc) I can't use. How do I get these into my Hardscape/Landscape menu?

 

I have watched the key resource manager videos but can't see anything related to this.

 

Many thanks.

 

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Hi Marcus.

If you want the fastest route to find the Hardscape styles from the Resource Manager, in the search field, in the top of the resource manager, type in hardscape, and hit enter. You should see these pop up immediately.

You can click through the folders on the left where the Vectorworks libraries are held…you’ll find them lower in the list where there are site objects.

One feature I love is found when you activate the hardscape tool…once you click on the hardscape tool from site planning tool set, in the mode bar at the top, you will see what we call the resource selector pull down menu which may say “hardscape style:”. Once you click into that pull down, you will see what looks like the resource manager, but it is only revealing hardscape styles.

At the beginning, you will find the ones Vectorworks has provided…once you have added your custom made hardscape styles, you will see them there too…just in your favorite or user folder.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Eric

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Hey Eric,

I can find the Hardscape styles in the Resource Manager no problem. The 2 things that I'm stuck on:

- I can't find a lot of these styles in the Hardscape Tool 

- I don't know how to get the items out of Resource Manager (a good example being Renderworks Textures in the Visualization folder) to use them. As mentioned I can extract objects like a plant or furniture (although that still seems like a clunky approach) but textures, styles, finishes etc I can't use?

Thanks for the quick response.

Cheers

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