Mastering Plant Style Manager in VectorWorks 2026

 The plant style manager is fantastic for managing your plant Styles. It does require that your plants be placed in a style form not just some random shape. This is actually a small part of a large movie where we covered it in detail in my community: https://www.skool.com/vectorworks-training/about

Effortlessly Connect VectorWorks to Your Plant Database

Learn how to make the most out of Vectorworks' plant catalog and database systems. Jonathan demonstrates how to link your landscape projects to either the vectorworks plant catalog or database efficiently. By connecting plants to the right databases, designers can harness accurate information and streamline their workflows. The text-based plant catalog is highlighted for its ease of use, making it simpler to find and categorize various plants. Meanwhile, the graphically-rich plant database is touched upon, showing how long-time users of Vectorworks can exploit its full potential by connecting legacy data.

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Controlling Plant Tick Style with Vectorworks Class Settings

Unlock the full potential of your vector graphic styling with Jonathan as he delves into an advanced tutorial on managing ticks and dashed lines using Vectorworks classes. Whether you're designing intricate plant illustrations or precise technical drawings, understanding how classes can control graphic elements is crucial for enhancing your design workflow.

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Control Plant Graphics

I saw somebody having trouble controlling plant graphics, if you use classes inside your plant objects, plant graphics are easy to control, let me show you how. #jonathanpickup #vectorworks

epodcast193 - Plants and Row Spacing

Vectorworks 2017 introduced a change to the plant spacing. in the past your plant spacing was a specific number and that was it. Now, plant spacing can be a specific number or it can be "Best Fit." The idea of best fit is that Vectorworks will try to put as many plants as it can using the spacing that you have specified,  but it will always place plant start click and at the end click. As well as that, Vectorworks added the option to have the row spacing different from the plant spacing.

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Landscape Special Interest Group December (am) 2016

In this session we looked at how to add an image prop to a plant, how to create a plant, how to create and edit a custom workspace, how the plants connect to the Vectorworks plants database, how to use the Plants Database, and a quick introduction to using record formats in viewports.

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Vectorworks Tip #255 - Plants - Placing a Plant Schedule

After you have placed plants, you can count them. Vectorworks comes with pre-made plant schedules that will count all the plants in the design. You can access these from the Tool > Reports > Choose Schedule... command and place them anywhere in the drawing. 

Vectorworks Tip #251 - Plants - Creating Custom Plant Classes

As well as the default classes for your plants, you can also create your own classes to control parts of the plants. In this image, you can see several other classes that deal with plants but are not the default classes. I use these classes to control the visibility of my plants allowing me to create concept drawings and construction drawings from the same plant by changing the class settings in the viewpoints. This saves me a lot of time redrawing plans.

Vectorworks Tip #247 - Plants - Default Plant Classes

Many of the plant objects that come standard with Vectorworks have a class structure already. You could call this the default class structure for plants. Generally the outline of the plant is on a specific class (Plants-Component-Outline) the color fill is on a specific class (Plants-Component-Color Fill) and the line work is on a specific class (Plants-Component-Interior Linework). Having parts of the plant on different classes allows you to choose which parts you want to be visible in the various viewports.

Vectorworks Tip #243 - Plants - Plant Shadows

Plant shadows can be individual to each plant, or can be connected to the document preferences. If you connect the plant shadows to the document preferences, it allows you to control all of the plant shadows on the entire document from one dialog box. If you create your plant shadows with a black color and a 50% opacity, the plant shadows appear to be gray and see-through.

Vectorworks Tip #239 - Plant tool - Mass Planting

When you place a group of plants you have a choice to turn on Mass Planting. If you activate the mass planting option, Vectorworks will group your plants together removing all of the lines with the plants overlap. In the image you can see two groups of identical plants. The left group of plants has Mass Planting activated, the group of plants on the right has Mess Planting deactivated. You can see the difference between the two groups of plants one just shows a large shape, the other shows individual plants and it shows them overlapping.

Vectorworks Tip #235 - Plant Tool - Placing Plants in a Triangular Array

Use this mode when you want to place multiple plants in a triangular array Vectorworks will use the plant size and spacing from the plant definition, and the plants will be placed orthogonally on the screen. Use the rotate plan tool to rotate the plan to suit the site boundary if you need to.

Vectorworks Tip #211 - What is a Plant?

A plant in Vectorworks is a special object that has a plan representation, a model (or 3D) representation, and plant data. All these parts are bound together inside the object called a plant. When you place a plant, Vectorworks places all of these parts together in the drawing. This allows you to see the plan view, see the 3D, or create a report that shows the data.

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Vectorworks Tip #105 - 3D Modelling - Plant Image Props

There are now several files with Vectorworks image props from my friends at OzBreed. OzBreed specialise in improved varieties that are tougher, more uniform and often need less maintanence and water, striving to provide better plants for landscape professionals and home owners alike.

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cadmovie1036 – Introduction to Planting – Part 5

Plant Database – When you install Vectorworks, the installer will place the default version of the Vectorworks Plant Database in the application folder and in your User Folder. visit http://ift.tt/1hjblTM