It could, it has the tools, but the implementation is just heavily geared to architects. but it's very frustrating how many hours of my precious time I waste having to 'work around' VW all the time. If I was designing buildings and doing patios and flower beds it would be fine I guess. I like the tools, and on paper it seems great but in reality it just doesn't really seem to work very well for designing the larger landscapes, dams, roads etc that I need it for. It's fine for dealing with small gardens, but the way the software is written it is not set up to handle more than a few hundred vertices on 2D shapes which is very limiting (and it taxes the CPU while barely using the RAM or GPU of the computer to handle rendering or display). The site modelling, editing and rendering (along with pathways) is painful to use for my purposes - which is disappointing for such pricey software. This feels like a major limitation of Vectorworks for working with landscapes. over several hectares this is very laborious and time consuming!

Unfortunately neither method really does the trick.Īs you can see it ends up crossing the contours over, so I have to go in and manually edit them. Maximum Deviation will let you set a small allowable offset from the original poly shape, but at the cost of probably keeping more vertices than you need. Minimum Distance with a long Minimum Distance will give you a small number of vertices, but it may not follow the original poly very closely. So it you have a poly with an length of 100' and you specified a Minimum Distance of 5' it would give you at max 20 vertices and delete all of the others.

It says that there can not be vertices spaced closer than the minimum distance specified. If this was over 5' it might not be close enough.

If this was over 50' it would be a good simulation. If the original had 40 vertices and you said the max deviation could be 6' from the original, it might replace those 40 vertices with 4 straight sections that simulate the original. One example would be a gently sloped curve. Maximum Deviation works by removing vertices that are not required to keep the simplified poly with the specified deviation of the original.

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