NikF Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Hello, is there any VW plugin available like Sketchup Placemaker, or Infraworks or something like Worldmashine to get any terrain/landscape map into VW!? Thank you and best regards Nik Quote Link to comment
rowbear97 Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 @NikF I wasn't familiar with Placemaker until now. Depending on where you are one can get similar data sets through GIS. Some of this is free and in other locations you have to pay. After you have determined the availability you can import legacy shape files and create and create a site model from the contours. With some extra knowledge of Marionette and some help from Vectorworks forum users you can create scripts that can query the data sets for building and assign buildings by use to a class and extrude them to their assigned height. I had some help to achieve this as shown in the attached image. Best of luck! 3 Quote Link to comment
J. Wallace Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 That looks great @rowbear97, well done. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted September 3, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 3, 2018 You could also explore the Modify by Record command. If you have a shapefile, which contains 2D polygons with attached data records, Vectorworks can read the records and perform mass actions on the polygons, such as elevate them to the appropriate Z value, and then extrude them by their relative heights. 1 Quote Link to comment
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