landartma

[Landartma]

In the process of loading most used plants into resource manager.  Everything seems to down load from the data base but the plants are getting assigned a standard height and spread of 12'8" and spacing of 11'.  Whats the setting to make the uploaded plant take on the sizing of the plant in the database.

[Tamsin Slatter]

Before inserting any plants on the drawing, click the Plant tool and then the Plant Tool Preferences button on the tool bar. Click Advanced Settings and then Placement: Size. Change all the options to Use Plant Style.

Then the plants will be inserted using the size you defined in the style.

 

I suggest that you update this tool preference in your project templates, so that it is always set this way whenever you choose the Plant tool.

[Landartma]

Thanks think I got it.

[konst]

@Tamsin Slatter 

On 4/19/2020 at 1:38 PM, Tamsin Slatter said:

Before inserting any plants on the drawing, click the Plant tool and then the Plant Tool Preferences button on the tool bar. Click Advanced Settings and then Placement: Size. Change all the options to Use Plant Style.

Then the plants will be inserted using the size you defined in the style.

 

I suggest that you update this tool preference in your project templates, so that it is always set this way whenever you choose the Plant tool.

How do I update the tool preference in my project templates....could you please show me the way..???

Konstantinos

[Boh]

When you click on a tool and then adjust its preferences in the tool bar they become the default tool settings for that  tool in that file.

 

Alternatively if you have a parametric object whose settings you want to become the defaults for the tool which created it then you can use the eye dropper with “pickup tool sets” checked in the eye dropper settings. E.g if you have a revision cloud in your file with the correct settings then double click on the eye dropper tool to activate the eye dropper tool settings, put a tick in “pick up tool sets”, close the dialogue click on the revision cloud.

Now if you activate the revision cloud tool it will use the settings picked up from the cloud already in your file.

Edited April 27, 2020 by Boh

[konst]

@Boh hi and thanks for the response...My problem is a little bit more complicated....When I create a new plant and i export it to user libraries using the "export plant" command

and after that i use this specific plant on a new project , the plant style changes....What i mean is that the spacing mode is alternated in "custom spacing" although i ve given the "distribution by rate" property ..... and i cant figure out a way to correct it....

[Boh]

Sorry @konst that wasn’t what you’re after. I’m afraid I’m not familiar with plant styles. Hopefully @Tamsin Slatter can help.

[Tamsin Slatter]

@konst - it's as I said above - when you create a plant style, you set the default values. But when you USE the plant, any of these settings can be overridden by the active settings in the Plant tool's preferences. Edit the preferences in the tool and set everything to Use Plant Style, then insert the plants. This will use the style values instead of custom values.

[konst]

@Tamsin Slatter thanks a lot...Ithink i ve got it now...