There is no direct way of changing Plant Tool Preferences - links to global Plant Tool settings are no longer available under the "wrench and pencil" button's "plant tool preferences" - this instead now leads only to individual plant object style settings (see other thread for screen caps of this).
The plant tool defaults to the last placed plant data for spread, height, and spacing.
Previously plants were inserted at their style parameters and could be adjusted per instance, if the style setting allowed this.
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Open the plant tool.
select a plant style
place it - no matter what plant object parameters are the first plant comes in at 10' spread and 15' height (and the following plants come in at the last inserted plant objects parameters.)
notice in OIP that spread and height do not match style data.
right click to edit style.
change size parameters from "by instance" to "by style"
click ok
now plant is correct size height. - BUT now you can't individually set the parameters to custom size/height.
right click to edit style.
change size parameters back to "by instance".
click ok
Plant stays the correct size AND is individually customizable.
BUT NOW if you select another plant object (like a large maple) it will come in at the previous plants parameters.
If you do the above to get the plant style to work, this now resets the plant tool to this plants parameters (in this case the maple is 15' x 15')
switch back to a small helianthemum, the plant tool inserts at the last plants size.
This is NOT the behavior of 2021 or 2020
In 2021 when I click on the 'Plant Tool Preferences' button in the tool bar I get the "Advanced Plant Preferences' menu with global 'Plant Tool' options. Here you are able to set the TOOL to use "by style" parameters. All plants are inserted at their style parameters and can be adjusted per instance if the style allows this.
In 2022 when I click on the 'Plant tool Preferences' button I get the 'Plant Preferences' menu - this menu adjust the active plant objects plant style preferences and doesn't seem to directly affect the plant tool globally. And it doesn't have an option for 'use Plant Style' for any of the size/spacing options.
SCREEN CAPTURE:
PLEASE FIX THIS
You made the plant tool less usable and disabled custom plant symbol sizes.
Obviously if I leave the style set to 'by style' i won't have this problem.
But then there is no possibility to have custom plant symbol sizes.
Custom plant symbol sizes are invaluable when laying out dense planting beds.
And on top of that I have hundreds of custom plant simpls that are set to "by instance" as that worked perfectly well in pervious versions.
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I wrote about this here but got no response.
There is no direct way of changing Plant Tool Preferences - links to global Plant Tool settings are no longer available under the "wrench and pencil" button's "plant tool preferences" - this instead now leads only to individual plant object style settings (see other thread for screen caps of this).
The plant tool defaults to the last placed plant data for spread, height, and spacing.
Previously plants were inserted at their style parameters and could be adjusted per instance, if the style setting allowed this.
Attached video description
This is NOT the behavior of 2021 or 2020
In 2021 when I click on the 'Plant Tool Preferences' button in the tool bar I get the "Advanced Plant Preferences' menu with global 'Plant Tool' options. Here you are able to set the TOOL to use "by style" parameters. All plants are inserted at their style parameters and can be adjusted per instance if the style allows this.
In 2022 when I click on the 'Plant tool Preferences' button I get the 'Plant Preferences' menu - this menu adjust the active plant objects plant style preferences and doesn't seem to directly affect the plant tool globally. And it doesn't have an option for 'use Plant Style' for any of the size/spacing options.
SCREEN CAPTURE:
PLEASE FIX THIS
You made the plant tool less usable and disabled custom plant symbol sizes.
Obviously if I leave the style set to 'by style' i won't have this problem.
But then there is no possibility to have custom plant symbol sizes.
Custom plant symbol sizes are invaluable when laying out dense planting beds.
And on top of that I have hundreds of custom plant simpls that are set to "by instance" as that worked perfectly well in pervious versions.
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