@hollister design Studio happy it helped you.  Since you have actual 3D geometry of plants, there are some cool possibilities with plant objects...   This is a demonstration I made for one of my Vectorworks tutoring clients.  He wanted to see lots of graphic data about plants.  So this single plant object houses all of this information using classes, 2D geometry, image props, and a 3D model.  You get different display characteristics via class control.  This is obviously reliant upon a