Swapping out trees from blocks and/or points from Rhino

Workflow
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Hi all,

I don’t know if Chat GPT is confused but it’s telling me that I can export points from Rhino as a native Rhino file and then import to D5 Render, then

  1. Go to Assets → Plants
  2. Pick a tree
  3. In the placement options, choose:
    4.:arrow_forward: Distribute / Scatter on Points*
  4. Select the imported point group in the Scene List
  5. D5 will place a tree exactly on each point location

I am not doing this successfully, I can’t even see where the placement options are to 'distribute/scatter on points - can someone please give me further explanation of this workflow, if it indeed should work - and if not is there another workflow for getting tree blocks/points out of Rhino and then to replace them with trees in D5 Render.

Thanks,

Martin

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Hi @mc1

D5 Render’s scatter tool cannot place trees on imported point groups from Rhino. Scatter only works on D5’s built-in plant assets and requires surfaces/areas as placement targets. There’s currently no official workflow to automatically scatter D5 trees on external point groups. Thanks :smile:

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Thanks for your reply.

Is there any workflow for swapping blocks or something else in Rhino to trees/cars in D5 Render? - I saw something with Sketchup that supposedly works