June Newsletter and Free Training Series

[katie@landfx.com]

Latest News

Land F/X will be going to the 2010 Australian Irrigation Conference & Exhibition from June 8th-10th. Find out more about this great expo here.

We will be located at Booth #286. Come and stop by to say hello to Jeremiah and Katie, and see Land F/X in action.
Our expo price is unbeatable! You can save $1,000 on the price of Land F/X + Irrigation if you come to the event.

We have also added an assortment of new hatch patterns. To get all of the new patterns, just submit a tech ticket to our support team and they will process your request. To learn how to submit a tech ticket, just look at our article titled "Unbeateable Tech Support Service" below.

If anyone is interested in having LFX staff come to their city for group training, please let Katie know a major city in your area, and an approximate time in which a training session would best work for you. Past training sessions have been conducted in San Luis Obispo, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Orlando, FL; San Antonio, TX; and Salt Lake City, UT.

Land F/X can be found on Facebook. Become a fan here: Land F/X Facebook Page.


Success Story

Every month, Land F/X highlights a success story from one of our valued clients. This month we are featuring Morton & Pitalo, Inc., a leader in providing high-quality civil engineering, land planning, land surveying and landscape architectural services. They are celebrating 32 years of excellence, and we would like to thank their Senior Landscape Architect, Michael P. Scheele, LEED AP, ASLA, for submitting this success story.

Mike mentioned that M&P has "had many good success stories using Land F/X," but "one that stands out" to him regards a recent completion of "a large single family paseo-style subdivision project, containing numerous small, irregularly shaped planters bounded by paving. The project had to comply with AB 1881 - the recently enacted California Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance - so it made sense to do the planters in drip irrigation."

"After xref-ing in the planting plan, choosing select equipment from LFX Irrigation Manager, and blocking over polylines already drawn for the groundcover hatch, the set area for drip emitters function of LFX made this the largest, fastest drip irrigation plan I have ever prepared in my life! Thank you Land FX!!"

See the project below:
Sample of Project Sheet

More information about AB 1881 can be found here.

If you would like to be featured in an up and coming Success Story, feel free to contact Katie for more information.


Unbeatable Tech Support Service

We at Land F/X pride ourselves in our efficient, helpful, and considerate technical support staff. A client of ours, Bryan Spangle, with Hudson and Pacific Alliance, raved about the LFX benefits: "You are the only support service that I feel I am getting my money for. You guys are excellent."

We have devised a way for our users to get the fastest response possible to an issue or question, and that is to submit a technical support ticket.

To submit a ticket, select F/X-Admin from the drop down menu, and select "Technical Support."
This will open a ticket window where you can type your issue and click Send.

This is the best course of action to get an issue submitted to Land F/X Support. It will guarantee all support staff gets the message at the same time, which will result in faster response times.

Submitting a ticket is also what one should do for irrigation requests/changes.

Step by step instructions on how to submit a ticket using Bricscad and AutoCAD can be found here.

Many of our users also have new feature requests. We are constantly taking the time to network with other landscape and irrigation designers to make this the best program out there. John Conte, a long time client of ours, was thrilled when he saw one of his request implemented into LFX, and stated, "Thank you for taking my suggestion and making it a reality. I cannot tell you how gratifying it is to feel like my voice is heard in your organization." Let your own voice be heard, and create your feature request by logging into our community forum.


June Pricing Special

Land F/X is having a huge summer sale starting this month. If you buy 2 licenses of Land F/X, you will receive 1 for free!! This is especially invaluable for those offices who just have a single license, and have been waiting for the right moment to fully utilize Land F/X.

If you are interested in this sale, please contact our sales team at sales@landfx.com.


New Features

We have recently made some updates to our Project Files and Data Management.

There have been some recent changes to the layout and functionality of the Project Files dialog box and the way Land F/X can deal with the management of project data.

The video below will explain how the Project Files dialog box works, and the various ways to archive and restore projects.

Watch the Video Here: Project Files and Data Management

To see a list of all our new updated features, click here.


Webinar Schedule

Below is a list of dates, times, and topics that will be covered for the month of June.

June 11th, Friday at 10AM PST:
Dave will present a training webinar on designing spray and rotor irrigation systems. This will be a lengthy session, lasting about an hour and a half, and will be broken down into the following sections:
1. Preferences and Adding Equipment
2. Placing Heads
3. Determining the Water Source and Circuiting
4. Lateral Piping and Pipe Sizing
5. Mainline Piping and Pipe Sizing
6. Schedules and Reports

June 18th, Friday at 10AM PST:
Dave will present a training webinar on designing drip emitter, dripline, and custom drip systems. This session will be broken down into the following sessions:
1. Preferences and Adding Equipment
2. Placing Drip Equipment
3. Determining the Water Source and Circuiting
4. Lateral Piping and Pipe Sizing
5. Mainline Piping and Pipe Sizing
6. Schedules and Reports

June 25th, Friday at 10AM PST:
Dave will present a training webinar on the Land F/X Detail System. This will be a lengthy session lasting about an hour and a half, and will be broken down into the following sessions:
1. Detail Preferences and Management
2. Creating New Details with the Detail Builder System
3. Adding Details to a Project
4. Referencing Details
5. Placing Details into the Drawing Set and Editing Placed Details
6. Associating Callouts and Updating Callouts
7. Detail Customization and Configuration

To sign up for the webinar events, just call us and ask to speak with Katie, or send her an email and let her know which webinars you would like to attend.

If you ever miss a webinar, you may watch any previous ones here: Land F/X Videos, just click on the topic that corresponds.