Does tree maker work in nXt for Revit?

Does tree maker work in nXt for Revit? If so how do I load and use it?

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 18, 2014 at 3:28pm

We do not have a way to place the plants from Tree Maker into the Revit model, but we do let you map a family placed in the Revit model to a Tree maker plant. By loading this dialog, you can select a family from the Revit model and map it to a new plant that you create, or a plant selected from the disk:

For example. here I've mapped a Conifer to a column that was in the Revit model.

When I render the model, I see column is replaced by the Conifer:

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Permalink Reply by chris williams on September 18, 2014 at 3:38pm

can the ground cover option in materials be used and adjusted? What I really want is good grass ground cover.

Thanks for your help.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 18, 2014 at 4:13pm

I just tried it and it was broken for me.

It is supposed to bring the tree editor When you click on Edit for the GroundCover material, as below:

I got an error that told me that we were looking in the wrong folder for the Plant Editor.

Are you getting that error?

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 18, 2014 at 4:45pm

If the Edit button isn't working for you, you can use this work-around until I can test and post a new version.

When we map a material to a ground cover, we save the ground cover for that material as a file on the disk with the same name as the material, in a folder named for the model that is loaded.

For example, I just mapped the material "Default Roof" (which was what I had on the floor to be a ground cover) in a model that was named "furn2_2015". That save the file "Default Roof.ArGroundCover" in this folder:

C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Roaming\nXt\[Your Model name]\Materials

For me, that folder is:

C:\Users\rich\AppData\Roaming\nXt\furn2_2015\Materials

I can rund and use the nXt Plant Editor:

to load and make changes to that file, save the file, and start the rendering again to see the changed ground cover. Below I did that, and added flowers to the ground cover:

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Permalink Reply by chris williams on September 19, 2014 at 12:21pm

for me the reverse worked better. I found the *.ArGroundCover file - switched it's extension to *.ArPlant - opened it up with the tree maker program - edited it - saved it and re-named it back. I should be able to make a good grass.

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 20, 2014 at 10:21am

Here is some discussion about grass on our forum. It talks about using a ground cover, and also using displacement with a material (that is on page 2).

http://forum.irendernxt.com/forum/topics/groundcover-grass