Plant Inspector and Appearance
Set the size of a selected plant and edit its appearance without confusing editor symbols with presentation models.
A selected plant exposes physical Height and Spread in the Inspector. The appearance entry opens Edit style…, which owns rendering settings. The former long list of profile-specific Inspector accordions is no longer the place to edit plant appearance. The separate Plant information view shows botanical details for the associated catalog species when available.
Select the plant and set dimensions
Choose Select and click a plant. Edit Height or Spread in the Inspector, using project units or an explicit unit suffix. The application can constrain values to the supported size range for that form and show an adjustment notice. These dimensions describe physical size, not elevation above the ground.
Open the appearance dialog
Use the Inspector’s appearance entry, whose action is Edit style…. Check the source and target names in the dialog: a selected instance can inherit a project style and have its own local changes. Manage project styles opens the project-level styles when a project is available.
Choose the representation to edit
Use 2D editor symbol for the plan symbol, 3D editor symbol for the editing representation, Photoreal on-screen for the live presentation model, and Photoreal HQ export for the high-quality export representation. A change to a simplified editor symbol is not a promise that the photorealistic model changes in the same way.
Set colours and local appearance
Plant colors supplies shared colour choices; representation-specific settings can inherit or override them. The plan-symbol page provides forms, canopy appearance, component marks and layer visibility. Other pages expose their own controls for the selected plant. Use Inherit where available to return a field or section to its inherited value.
Apply or cancel
Inspect the representation preview, then use Apply to commit the draft. Cancel, Escape or closing the dialog leaves that draft unapplied. Check whether you are changing only the selected instance or editing a shared project style before applying: a shared style can affect other plants that use it.