Land00050.pngUsing plant catalogs

As described in Concept: Plant style and plant data integration, the botanical data incorporated into plant styles can either be associated with plant catalogs or with the plant database. Using plant catalogs is recommended; the process is simple, and online catalogs are available from commonly-available plant manufacturers.

Plant catalogs are tab-delimited text files, which can be easily edited outside of Vectorworks if needed.

Accessing the plant catalogs

Command

Workspace: Path

Open Plant Data

        Designer: AEC > Plants

        Landmark: Landmark

        Context menu

Plant catalogs are accessed when editing a plant style or from the Open Plant Data command.

To access the plant catalogs:

1.      Follow the steps described in Selecting the plant data source, and choose Plant Catalog as the source of data.

If you have plant database selected as the data source, the Open Plant Data command opens the selected plant database instead; see Accessing the plant database.

2.      Select the command.

Alternatively, create or edit a plant style as described in Creating plant styles. From the Schedule pane of the Plant Style dialog box, click Get Plant Data.

The Select Plant Data dialog box opens.

3.      If you clicked Get Plant Data to obtain botanical information for a plant style, select a single plant and click OK.

The data from the plant catalog updates the plant style, as seen on the Schedule and Plant Data panes.

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Adding plants to the plant catalog

Creating plant styles

Creating plant styles from the plant catalog

Creating plant catalogs from the database

 

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