Edit the underground/sectional profile of a landscape area?

[Amanda McDermott]

Hello, is there a way to edit the shape of the underground elements of a landscape area? In this instance, I want the section to be somewhere between 'v' and 'u' shaped, rather than a right-angled box...

[Amanda McDermott]

@Katarina Ollikainen @Pat Stanford might you know please? I've tried subtracting solids, but that doesn't work. I've also tried decomposing/converting the landscape area to a group (which isn't my preference because I'd like it to be a landscape area with data) but those things just crash vectorworks...

[Pat Stanford]

I don't have an answer for you.  Sorry.

[Katarina Ollikainen]

@Amanda McDermott, unfortunately, that's not possible. The Landscape area cannot do this (yet) - it can only have vertical sides.

I assume you're working on something like a rain garden and need a thicker volume at the centre?

I can only suggest creating the landscape area and duplicating it to a separate layer, but in the same position. Ungroup the first LA and remove all but the component you want rounded. Use the fillet or chamfer tool to round off the component edges. Go to the second LA, remove the bottom component, return it to the same layer as your rounded component. You now have a LA of the top layer and an extra volume of material at the bottom - it will still have the material the component had and you can get the volume of it in a report.

However, It won't drape and cut the site model as a bona fides landscape area would do.

[Amanda McDermott]

Thanks for the workaround @Katarina Ollikainen. Hopefully the (yet) means it's in the pipeline?!

Edited September 29, 2023 by Amanda McDermott