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 defines and places plant objects, and creates new plant styles. See Concept: Plug-in object 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 defined in the Plant Style dialog box with parameters appropriate for the plant type, and/or by loading botanical data from either plant catalogs or a plant database. When plant styles are defined, some parameters can be locked by the style. Other parameters can be changed for each individual instance 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 instance parameters of individual plants can be changed by editing plant settings to allow for realistic variation among individual plants based on the same plant style. Each individual plant object can be edited to customize the parameters that aren't defined by the style.

Adding plants to the design

Plant settings

Creating plant styles

Editing plants