What plant information is shared?
PlantMaster to Vectorworks: Botanical name, Common name, Code name, Container/Purchase Size.
Vectorworks to PlantMaster: Botanical name (for matching only), Common name (for matching only), Code name, Schedule Size (matches to Container/Purchase Size), and Quantity/Count.
Are my plant/symbol pairings saved across multiple computers?
No, plant symbol pairings are stored to a hidden file on the machine used when first pairing a plant to a symbol.
You can access and copy the hidden file if you wish to migrate your pairings to another computer – please contact us at [email protected] for further assistance.
How can I utilize my own custom plant styles/symbols?
In order to utilize and ‘pair’ plants to your custom styles and symbols, you need to move those custom styles into your Vectorworks Resource Libraries.
Typically, these are just ‘.vwx’ files located in your Resource Manager directory at “Vectorworks Libraries > Plants > _Plant (Styles)”.
We recommend reviewing Vectorworks help documentation found here, for further information.
What do I do if one of the plant symbols doesn’t quite match a plant I want to add?
If you know ahead of time that you don’t have a good match, then you can pre-create a custom plant style, see the above question “How can I utilize my own custom plant styles/symbols?”.
However, most likely, you may not realize until you are in the middle of the process of sending your plants to Vectorworks. In this case, you will want to find the closest match, and then once you’ve submitted and created your new plant styles, you can go and directly modify the plant style via your Resource Manager in Vectorworks.
Note that Vectorworks has now ‘paired’ that plant to the original symbol you selected, so if you want future instances of that plant to use your new custom symbol, you will need to copy it into your managed Vectorworks Library — then remember to select the newly created plant style the next time that you go to add that plant to Vectorworks.