Selecting the plant data source (legacy)

Command	Workspace: Path
Choose Plant Data Source	Design Suite: AEC > Plants Landmark: Landmark Context menu

You can get plant data, including plant names and botanical information, from the plant catalog or plant database; however, these are older workflows that are no longer recommended. 

All the plants and plant data in the plant catalog are included in the Vectorworks plant library. Additional plant data can be obtained from an external source using the Create Plant Style from List command to batch create styles from a data spreadsheet (see Creating plant styles from a list), or by copying data into an existing style from a Vectorworks partner nursery (see Copying external plant data). See Concept: Plant styles for more information.

The Choose Plant Data Source command selects whether to get plant data from the Vectorworks plant catalog or plant database when working with plants in Landmark and specifies whether the data source is updated when the plant style changes.

To select a plant data source:

Select the command.

The Choose Plant Data Source dialog box opens.

Click to show/hide the parameters.Click to show/hide the parameters.

This choice applies when accessing plant data in all Landmark features.

Updating the plant catalog/database from Vectorworks

If you are using a plant catalog or the plant database, changes to the plant style data can also update the information in the plant catalog or database. For data to be exchanged, the plant styles must be associated with a corresponding plant from the catalog or database. This association is based on the botanical name of the plant.

When Update the Plant catalog with Vectorworks Plant style changes or Update the Plant Database with Vectorworks Plant style changes is selected in the Choose Plant Data Source dialog box, any changes made to the plant style are automatically updated in the associated plant catalog or database for matching plants.

Only the plant catalog/database where the plant originally came from is updated. Other catalogs/databases that might contain the same plant and data are not updated.

When Update the Plant catalog with Vectorworks Plant style changes or Update the Plant Database with Vectorworks Plant style changes is deselected, the plant catalog or database can still be updated with plant style information by selecting the Landmark > Update Plant Data command, as described below. 

You can update all plant styles at once with current plant catalog or database information by selecting the Update Vectorworks Plant Styles command, as described below.

If you're using a plant database file from a version of Vectorworks prior to 2018, the synchronization of images between the plant style and the plant database cannot occur even when using the Migration Manager during the version update, because the older plant database file does not include the new functionality. To fix this issue, export the records in the plant database with the File > Export Records plant database command. Then import the records into the plant database with the File > Import Records plant database command.

Command	Workspace: Path
Update Plant Data	Design Suite: AEC > Plants Landmark: Landmark

This command manually updates the catalog or database records with associated plant style data, which is useful when the Update the Plant catalog with Vectorworks Plant style changes / Update the Plant Database with Vectorworks Plant style changes option is deselected.

Online plant catalogs cannot be updated.

To update plant data manually:

Select the command.

All plant styles in the current file are compared to plant names in the plant catalogs or plant records in the plant database, and matches are updated automatically. The plant’s botanical (Latin) name is used to determine the match.

If no match is found, the Update Plant Catalog and Database dialog box opens, listing plant styles that don’t have a match.

Mark the plant styles to add by placing a check mark in the Insert column. Select the plant catalog to update with the marked plant styles by choosing it from the Insert in Plant catalog list.

Updating plant styles with the plant catalog/database

Command	Workspace: Path
Update Vectorworks Plant Styles	Design Suite: AEC > Plants Landmark: Landmark

All plant styles in the current document can be updated automatically from the plant catalog or plant database.

To update plant styles:

Select the command.

All plant styles in the current file are compared to the plant catalogs or plant database, and matching records are updated. The plant's botanical (Latin) name is used to determine the match.

If no match is found for a plant style, the Update Vectorworks Plant Styles dialog box opens, listing the plant styles that were not updated for your information.

Editing plant styles

Concept: Plant styles

Using plant catalogs (legacy)

The plant database (legacy)