Chris Kaiser Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Is there a database that has plant images preloaded or do you have to do this manually everytime? Quote Link to comment
Jeff Prince Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 @Chris Kaiser Neither the Plant Catalog nor the Filemaker Pro Plant Database contain preinstalled photos for every plant, it's up to the user to populate the database. You are using "Plant Catalog" as your database source. Personally, I prefer using the "Plant Database" option as my database source. The only reason one would use either of these methods is to organized plant data and images, it really has no significance in making planting plans in the grand scheme of things. Seeing as images stored in a "Plant Catalog" can only be accessed in Vectorworks and lack key functionality for producing plant book, cut sheets, or simply retrieving nice images for use outside the Vwx universe..... Using Plant Catalogs is fool's errand, at least IMHO. Data like this should be kept so it can be accessed outside of Vectorworks for a variety or reasons... especially when you consider one day you may no longer use Vectorworks... but you will probably want access to all that plant data and imagery until you are old and grey... or significantly more-so than currently 🙂 More discussion here.... 1 Quote Link to comment
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