Selecting the plant data source

Plant names, botanical information, and other plant data that is used for the plants in the drawing can come from one of two locations, as described in Concept: Plant style and plant data integration. The Choose Plant Data Source command selects the preferred source of plant data 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.

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

Updating plant data from Vectorworks

The plant catalog or plant database records can be updated from associated plant style data. Normally, this occurs automatically (unless the Update the Plant catalog with Vectorworks Plant style changes / Update the Plant Database with Vectorworks Plant style changes option is deselected in the Choose Plant Data Source dialog box). This command manually updates the catalog or database records, which is useful when the option is deselected.

Online plant catalogs cannot be updated.

To update plant data manually:

1.      Select the command.

2.      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 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.

3.      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 plant data

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

To update plant styles:

1.      Select the command.

2.      All plant styles in the current file are compared to the plant catalogs or plant database, and matching records are updated. The plant’s 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.

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Concept: Plant style and plant data integration

Selecting the plant data source

Creating plant styles

Using plant catalogs

The plant database

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