Using plant catalogsUsing plant catalogsAs 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.
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.
Click
to show/hide the parameters.
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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