Sophie Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Hi, I have a vectorworks file with a survey on it, including tree information. This has accurate sizes of trunks, canopies, and the name of the trees. Is there a quick way of converting this to something more meaningful in VW? Instead of using the Existing Tree Tool and starting from scratch by 'tracing ' over the top of them, can I select and convert in some way? thanks Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted April 6, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 6, 2011 Hi Sophie Not easily I'm afraid. If you had all the data in a spreadsheet we might be able to copy the information across to the Existing Tree records, but there is no magic button I'm afraid! Quote Link to comment
Sophie Posted April 6, 2011 Author Share Posted April 6, 2011 oh thanks Tamsin, but you disappoint me!!!!!! you mean it's hard graft all the way? Quote Link to comment
Sophie Posted April 6, 2011 Author Share Posted April 6, 2011 Is there a Uk tree database I need to download ? I thought I'd done the plants one, but perhaps not, or maybe it doesn't transfer to the existing trees.... they all seem to be US... Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted April 6, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 6, 2011 Sophie Open up the Vectorworks Plant Database and choose File>Create Existing Tree List. This will refresh the tree list with the UK data that we added on the course. Tamsin Quote Link to comment
Sophie Posted April 6, 2011 Author Share Posted April 6, 2011 (edited) Thanks Tamsin, I did try try that, but nothing happened. I selected 'UK plant data' and followed the steps above. It asked if i wanted to replace the existing tree list with currently displayed list of plants. I yes yes and it seemed to load 5000 plants, but no change to existing tree list. Edited April 6, 2011 by Sophie Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted April 6, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 6, 2011 OK - further details. In the Plant Database, click on Search. In the category field, choose Trees. Click Find. This will select all records with Trees as the category. Then run Create Existing Tree List. Confirm that you want to overwrite the existing list. Quote Link to comment
Sophie Posted April 6, 2011 Author Share Posted April 6, 2011 Bea and I are both struggling to do this..... sorry. meanwhile I thought I'd double check i had downloaded the coblands database. I'm not sure i did, but when i double clikc on the uk coblands plant data it just says that windows cannot open this file. sorry Quote Link to comment
Sophie Posted April 6, 2011 Author Share Posted April 6, 2011 it's a USR file... is that the correct format? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted April 6, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 6, 2011 You should not need to have anything to do with the USR file - just follow the instructions above and any data in tha database which is in the trees category will be included in your Existing Trees list. Quote Link to comment
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