Outlander Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I use the reports function to create a list of the plants in my drawing and their quantities. In VW2008 my quantities are showing as (1) for every plant no matter how many times I copy the plant symbol. Now I need to count every plant by hand! Any reason why this might be happening? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 are you placing plants with the place plant tool? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted January 29, 2008 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 29, 2008 Ensure also that your report is summarising on Latin Name. Quote Link to comment
Outlander Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Tried placing plants with plant tool, tried summarizing w/ latin name. Neither make any difference. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 i would have to look at your file to know what might be wrong... send it to me jon@archoncad.co.nz Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 (edited) Could you explain how you got the plants onto the drawing in the first place? Were they created by you or did they come from the libraries that are shipped with VW2008? Edited January 29, 2008 by Andrew Stanton Quote Link to comment
Outlander Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 I created them myself in a seperate file, dragged them in with the resource browser, then used the landmark-create new plant tool to add the appropriate plant ID. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 VW is counting your plants as expected, but you need to help out the worksheet to get the numbers you want. Open your file and worksheet. Go to cell E2 Type in this code : =count. now your worksheet will count all the plants Quote Link to comment
rickf Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I am having this same problem. I did the step noted in the last post in this thread and I have the right count on most of my plants but some are still off. Quote Link to comment
rickf Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Actually, upon closer inspection, the count I appear to be getting is the number of group instances of the plant. For example, I use the poly-vertex placement mode to add 3 plants. I added another group of three. Instead of having a count of 6 plants I have a count of 2 plants. Is there a way to correct this? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 And this is under the "Quantity" field in the worksheet created from a Plant Record? If that is the case is there anyway you could attach your file or email it to me and I can check it out for you? Quote Link to comment
GOTS Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 I am having the same problem. The qty are way off, I've tried the =count but my cellE2 is not the correct cell. Its displaying numbers like 90 when there are only 5 etc Can someone please help me? Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Go to the into the Worksheet View menu and check the Database Headers row. This will show you rows 4, 6, 8, etc. Right Click on the row header for each Database Header Row (4, not 4.1, 4.2, etc) and select Edit Criteria. Add criteria to specifically list each Design Layer that has plants on it. Or if you have less layers with viewport to specifically exclude those layers. By default a worksheet counts not only the instance in the design layer, but also the instance in each viewport, even if it is outside the crop and can't be seen. So you probably have 5 on the Design Layer and then 17 viewports in the drawing. Hope this helps. 2 Quote Link to comment
pnobbs Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Thank you Pat, I set two criteria in my plant list: 1. 'Type is Plant' 2. 'Layer is (insert chosen layer)' This eliminated the double count created by the plant list adding the count of the viewport as well. Quote Link to comment
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