Concept: Plants overview

In the Vectorworks Landmark product, plant objects are inserted from a plant style and can be customized individually per instance. The Plant tool both defines and places plant objects and creates new plant styles.

●       A plant style prescribes the 2D and 3D appearance, parameters, and botanical data for a specific type of plant. Use one of the many plant styles that come with Vectorworks, or create your own. The plant style is specified from the Plant Style dialog box with parameters appropriate for the plant type, or by loading botanical data from either plant catalogs or a plant database. When plant styles are defined, the parameters apply by default to all plants of that style inserted in the drawing.

●       A plant object or plant instance refers to a specific plant that is inserted in a drawing with the Plant tool. The plant object is based on a plant style, but like many objects in Vectorworks, the parameters of individual plant instances can be changed by editing plant preferences to allow for realistic variation among individual plants based on the same plant style. Each individual plant object can be edited to customize its parameters, either before placement by Setting object properties or after placement for selected plant objects from the The Object Info palette.

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Adding plants to the design

Creating plant styles

Editing plant instances

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