As in other built environment specialisms, there is an ongoing push towards BIM in Landscape Architecture. There are many reasons why this is a good idea. Unfortunately at this point landscape architects aren’t spoiled for choice in terms of friendly and efficient software to enable BIM workflows - …

Reach out to me, lets make your scheduling tool according to your specification. If it doesnt exist lets create it together. You already got my email, ready to help any time.

Hi Hugh - [image] Hughecchapman: spot coordinate; spot elevation Unless I misunderstand, you can make those in recent Rhino 8 SRs with a block that contains the following text field: %<PointCoordinate(“Block”,“Z”)>% -wim

Many thanks Wim I’ll try this out

I can’t get this to work but I think I’m setting it up wrong.

Hi Keith - [image] Keithscadservices: I think I’m setting it up wrong. It sounds like it, yes. -wim

In other words a quick demo would be nice :wink:

It might be a curly quote issue. %<PointCoordinate("Block","Z")>% Run Text Paste the string Turn the text into a block -wim

Thanks! Got it working. I was literally thrown off by the ease. I’m used to working with fields in ACAD. [image]

Thomas Chapman has been making some nice tools for landscape. A free plugin thats has some good spot elevations and slopes etc. He is also working on an open database for plants and it seems to be looking at scheduling. Its in Alpha i think but could be interesting to get in touch with him as well. …

Many thanks for this link @Martin_Johnson - just the kind of thing I’ve been hoping to find! And yes - I’ll fire up the latest version of Lands Design in R8 and get in touch with Asuni with some clear constructive feedback. I finally finished a sizeable thing in Revit this afternoon so hopefully I’…

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It might be a curly quote issue.

%<PointCoordinate("Block","Z")>%

Run Text
Paste the string
Turn the text into a block

-wim

Help with dynamic annotation of height

Text Formula for Z height?

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