Tree Point style

[allywhite666]

Hello I am a bit of a novice so please excuse the ignorance of my question.

I am drafting for surveyors and have set up my description keys and point groups but am having problems with my trees and the symbol that I want to use for them.

I used the tree symbol that comes with AutoCAD just for a test and I don’t even know how to get that tree to scale using the field description.

I would like to use a symbol like the one below (or something similar) that has a spread and a trunk.

I'm using the description TR 6 .5 8 conifer being "TR spread trunk height species", the species is mostly not used, but can use anything that will make it easy (i.e. I can tell the surveyors to change the code).

Not sure if it is possible but would like the trunk to scale on the symbol and the spread also and the hatch in the trunk to exclude the text. Below is an example of what I'm trying to achieve.

Any suggestions of how I can achieve something like this will be appreciated. Please remember I am a novice and may need step by step instructions as I have always done things the old fashioned way and edited trees by hand.

Any help would be appreciated and thanks for reading.

[allywhite666]

Thanks Joe.

[Joe-Bouza]

You're welcome 🙂

[Anonymous]

can anyone upload a decent video tutorial on this?

[asarafrazi]

Hi, I have a block in my drawing with radius 1 m and I changed the point style option = use Fixed scale so fixed the problem , Every time we are importing points and they coded like=  Tree 20 then tree is gonna draw for us with 20 m (R) ..

[tcorey]

I haven't produced a video, but I did make a blog post on how to create a block that can have different trunk and drip (or, as the OP calls it, "Spread") sizes.

http://timsc3dblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/this-blog-is-going-to-be-written-while.html