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This product requires VectorWorks Landmark 2008 or above.

For information on how to install plug-ins for Vectorworks, please see the VectorWiki article entitled Installing Plug-ins.

Once the plug-ins have been copied to the right place within the VectorWorks installation, they need to be added to the workspace. Below is a list of the files in this distribution, and a brief description of each. Items that should be added to the workspace are marked as a "menu" or a "tool" in the Type column. The other items are simply used by these features, and do not need to be added to the workspace.

This is a menu command for creating useful 3D data out of topo drawings imported from other CAD programs, such as Land Desktop or Microstation.

A typical topo drawing from another CAD program has 2D polygons that have been broken to make room for the elevation labels. Use the Compose Contours command to piece the polygons back together, convert them to 3D polygons, and to elevate them to the proper height. Then they're ready to be used as source data for a DTM.

When this command runs, it leaves all of the original 2D polygons and labels intact, making it easy to compare the before/after versions of the same geometry. The new 3D polygons will be created inside a group on the same layer.

To prepare the drawing for creating 3D polygons, just make sure that the 2D polygons and elevation labels are on a layer all by themselves.

Then run the menu command. If there are any labels that this command cannot reliably associate with their respective polygons, it will draw a red rectangle around the labels. Depending on which software was used to generate these polygons and labels, there may be some polygon breaks and label positioning that will be impossible to decipher programmatically. In this case, you should manually clean up those sections of the drawing, and then re-run the command. To make sure that this command can understand the drawing, make sure that the labels are positioned exactly between the endpoints at the polygon break, and that the label text is rotated to be parallel with the break.

This is an object that shows a list of all of the Stake objects on the active layer. The title and the field order can be changed, and the size and font of the text can be set using the standard VectorWorks Text menu.

If you place a Stake List object in the drawing, and then double-click it, or click the "Edit Stake Info..." button on the Object Info palette, the dialog box will open, allowing you to edit the Stakes. Most importantly, clicking the "Renumber IDs" button will renumber the IDs for all of the Stakes in the active layer. This means that you don't have to worry about duplicate IDs — just make sure to click this button before exporting.

To generate a text file containing all of the information shown in the Stake List, just click the "Export to Text File..." button in the Object Info palette. This will create a tab-delimited text file suitable for loading into a data collector.

Please note that the Stake List object will only show Stakes if the Label Reference parameter is set to one of the configurations that shows the ID. If the Stake ID is not showing on the drawing, there is no way to correlate it with information in the Stake List, therefore the Stake List object will not show it.

Shows the northing/easting of a point in the drawing. (In the figure below, there are Coordinate objects at the four corners.)

This is drawn like a line (2 clicks in the drawing) and reshaped like a line (just select and reshape with the 2D Selection cursor). It shows the bearing and the distances along the line. The bearing and distances are automatically updated if the Lot Line object is reshaped, or if any intersecting Lot Line object (on the same layer) is moved or reshaped.

If the document units are Imperial, the bearing will be shown in cardinal format (N 90° 00' 00" W). If the units are Metric, the bearing will be shown in azimuth format (270.00°).

The distances are automatically subdivided by intersecting Lot Line objects. Distances are from intersection to intersection, and are present on both sides of the line if the distances are different. So a series of colinear lot lines don't have to be drawn individually — they can all be drawn with one Lot Line object.

Set the tolerances to suit your drafting style. Show Dist Greater Than is the minimum distance that will be annotated (if Show Distances is checked). This should usually be set to zero. Close Gaps Less Than controls the auto-join feature of Lot Lines. If the distance to the next Lot Line is less than this, the Lot Line will trim or extend itself to the intersection. Set this to zero for faster performance, but to a higher number to avoid drafting errors when working at a small scale.

The Lot Line object can also do arcs. Just set the "Type" to Arc, and all of the appropriate parameters will become visible. Arcs can be specified using any 3 of the 8 parameters (radius, arc distance, tangent distance, chord distance, chord bearing, back bearing, forward bearing, and delta angle). The 3 parameters most recently changed will be the ones used; the values of the other parameters will be calculated from those. The parameters being used are shown under the "Arc Calc'd Using" label. When in arc mode, the Lot Line does not close gaps as it does in line mode, and it will not show distances sub-divided along its length.

Defines a stormwater detention area. Click on the tool, and then draw a poly by clicking the corner points of the area. Use the 2D Reshape Tool to change corner points to curved segments if necessary, or reposition the vertices. Enter the depth and the batter slope of the detention area into the Object Info palette, and it will calculate the volume of water to be contained. This object also creates pads for the DTM, so make sure you put it on the layer you're using for site modifiers.

Finds the elevation at the picked point along an object, and creates a block of text showing that elevation. This tool recognizes the following objects: Sewer Lines, Street Centerlines, Water Lines, and the DTM.

This object is drawn and reshaped like a polyline, and then it creates rows of parking spaces within that perimeter. There is a control point for setting the origin of the layout. Factors such as space width and length, row spacing, angles, etc., can be adjusted in the Object Info palette.

When this object is laying out the spaces, it will keep every space within the perimeter, and add to the space width to use all of the available area. It will also avoid placing spaces on top of anything, so you can put symbols within the perimeter, representing things like islands, peninsulas, walk-throughs, handicapped spaces, etc., and the Parking Area object will lay out the spaces between these objects and the perimeter.

Note that this object is intended for use in defining a "parking area," not an entire "parking lot." A complete parking lot is a complex thing, with feeder lanes, fire lanes, handicapped spaces, etc. All of these factors would be difficult to parameterize in a universal way. So the Parking Area object was designed simply to do the sub-sections of the parking lot which have regularly positioned parking spaces. Most parking lots will require two or more Parking Area objects, plus some additional drafting.

The Parking Along Path object is drawn like a polyline, and can be reshaped with the 2D Reshape tool, or with the vertex editing controls in the Object Info palette. A straight set of parking spaces can be created by drawing a 2-vertex poly, or additional vertices can be used to define a curved parking row.

Factors such as space width and length can be edited in the Object Info palette. The space length determines the minimum distance between the stripes. The maximum distance will depend on the degree of curvature.

This object automatically counts the number of spaces created, and the space numbering can optionally be displayed on the drawing.

In 3D, the stripes are shown as 3D polygons. If a DTM is present in the drawing, the 3D polygons will be sent to the surface of the currently displayed DTM (the existing or the proposed DTM, whichever is currently visible when the object is regenerated).

This object makes it easy to manage the data associated with a sewer line, including plan views, profile drawings, and worksheets.

To create a sewer line:

1. Click the Sewer Line tool.
2. Pick points in the drawing which define the path of the sewer line, starting from the lowest point.
3. Double-click the last point to complete the creation process.

A sewer line object is created in the drawing. Use the Attributes palette to assign a line weight, a line style, etc. to the object. Use the Object Info palette to select between Sanitary or Storm, and to assign a line name. Check the 3D Detail box if you want an extruded pipe and manholes created in 3D.

The plan view aspect of Sewer Lines can be edited using the 2D Reshape Tool, or by typing X/Y coordinates into the vertex editing controls in the Object Info palette.

The elevation information in the Sewer Line object can be edited by double-clicking the object, or by clicking the Edit button in the Object Info palette. The Edit Sewer Line dialog opens. The currently selected manhole is hi-lighted in red in the drawing (not shown here). Enter the desired values, then click the Apply button to accept those changes, or click the Prev or Next buttons to apply the information and move to the previous or next manhole.

Note that the Send Rim To Surface button is only enabled if a DTM object is present in the drawing.

Click OK to accept all of the edits, apply the information to the selected Sewer Line object, and return to the drawing window. If you have already created a profile and/or worksheet for the selected Sewer Line object, click the appropriate Update button(s) in the Object Info palette to update the associated information.

The Sewer Line object also provides the ability to create a worksheet which shows all of the data. To create the worksheet, click the Create/Update Worksheet... button in the Object Info palette. If the worksheet already exists, all of its data will be overwritten with the information in the selected Sewer Line object. Formatting changes, such as fonts and borders, will not be overwritten.

The white columns can be edited; the grayed columns are calculated given the values in the white columns. After editing the worksheet, click the Update From Worksheet button in the Object Info palette, to apply this information back to the Sewer Line object.

Once a sewer line has been created, and the appropriate information entered, a profile can be created by clicking the Create Profile... button in the Object Info palette. This creates a Sewer Line Profile object, which shows the profile view along the length of the sewer line, including elevation views of the manholes. If a DTM is present in the drawing, existing and proposed grade lines are shown. If the sewer line crosses a street, another sewer line, or a water line, the crossing is annotated automatically within the profile graphic (not shown).

Here is the Australian version of the sewer line profile. It works the same way.

Use the Street Centerline Tool to draw streets in plan view. Click in the drawing at each location where there should be a PVI (point of vertical intersection).

Use the 2D Reshape Tool to edit the vertices of the Street Centerline object. Corner vertices can be changed to arc vertices, either using the 2D Reshape Tool, or by changing the vertex type in the Object Info palette.

To set the elevations of the PVIs, click the Edit Elevations button in the Object Info palette. In the dialog box that appears, step through the PVIs and enter the desired elevations and/or percent grades. The segment of the street currently being editing is hi-lighted in red in the drawing. If Modify DTM is selected, a pad will be created following the center of the street. The Start/End Radius parameters are for cul-de-sacs, when using Street Centerline objects in conjunction with the ROW object (see below).

To create a profile (i.e., a long section) of the street, click the Create/Update Profile button in the Object Info palette.

Use the Water Line Tool to draw water lines in plan view. Use the 2D Reshape Tool to reposition the corners. Click the Edit Elevations button in the Object Info palette to specify the elevations at each corner. The corner being edited is hi-lighted in red in the drawing.

The ROWs object is created using the Create ROWs from Streets command. This object requires a Property Line object to be present, to define the limit of construction, and it requires Street Centerline objects to be present, from which it can generate the following geometry:

• curb lines
• sidewalk lines
• front personal property lines (the R.O.W. lines)

Factors such as R.O.W. width, street width, and sidewalk setback can be edited in the Object Info palette.

If a radius has been assigned to the start or end of a Street Centerline, a cul-de-sac will be drawn.

The distances along the R.O.W. lines are automatically annotated with Lot Line objects.

If changes are made to the Property Line or Street Centerline objects, click the Update button in the Object Info palette to get the ROWs object to pick up the changes and regenerate the lines.

Before creating ROWs object...

After creating ROWs object...

Here is a closer look at what it's doing...