EC1 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Is there a way I can change the thickness of the lines of my plant symbols after they have been drawn? I thought this would work through classes by changing the thickness of the line which that class is on but it doesn't seem to change anything. I am on Windows, VW 2008. Quote Link to comment
Ozzie Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Apply attributes by Class Quote Link to comment
EC1 Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 yes, I did that and it appears correctly when you are in 'edit plant', but once oou exit out of there it does not appear correctly in the drawing. Quote Link to comment
Ozzie Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 What scale are your plants in? Is it because the plants shrink to the Spread size? What line wieght size are you using? Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I think Ozzie is on to something. In 1:1 scale the difference between line weights is hard to see. I tried setting the pen weight of an inner detail line of a plant symbol to 2.00 in 1:1 scale and couldn't see the difference. Changing the scale to 1/4" (1:48) made the difference VERY clear. michaelk Quote Link to comment
EC1 Posted January 20, 2010 Author Share Posted January 20, 2010 Hi, I did sort it out in the end, you need to apply the classes, make sure all your plants are on the same layer and then use View/Show/Show or Hide Plant Styles. I agree at some scales it is hard to see the difference, the way I was testing it was by printing which is how I knew it wasn't working. Quote Link to comment
Tim P. Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I have a similar question. Is it possible to change the line thickness of the outlines that can be rendered around 2D plant symbols? To clarify, I don't mean the Plants-Component-Outline Class. Quote Link to comment
Tim P. Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 The outlines that can be rendered around 2D plant symbols are associated with the "None class" in my file. If the line thickness is changed in the class and "Make All Attributes By Class" is checked in the Attributes pallet, the outlines appear to change in the "Edit Plant Definition" window's "Top/Plan Preview" box. The lines do not render differently in the drawing. Do other Vectorworks users have success changing the line thickness? Quote Link to comment
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