For example most civil plans will show the location of backflow and meter and we will pick up the point of connection downstream the backflow. In this situation we would show the backflow and meter screened back (gray) because it is on the civil's plan. We would like to continue showing the BFP and Meter on our plans for reference and calculation purposes. In another project we are taping into an existing irrigation system (mainline, valves, controller... etc.). We will be replacing 2 valves. We typically show the existing mainline and valves as screened back (gray) and the new mainline full burn. This is something we run into a lot for certain retrofitting projects. We are not sure how to go about incorporating LandFX in this way.
I have attached examples of an old project not using LandFX showing what we would like the existing irrigation equipment to look like in the schedule (clouded in red) and on the plans. The symbols can remain the LandFX symbols but we would like to gray out existing equipment symbols like shown.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to how to maintain our standard graphics but use LandFX? Like I mentioned above we are ok with the symbols LandFX generates but would just like to screen back or gray out existing equipment.
Thanks, Amanda
It seems like you would be pretty well off if you just did a block edit on those equipment items and moved content to different layers. For the pipe, I would say to set up a different pipe class designed for "existing". you could then do a select similar on that pipe and move to "ByLayer" for the color.
It would be great to hear other methods as well!
Thank you Jeremiah,
We look forward to this future update and will continue doing what we have been doing, similar to what you have suggested.
Amanda,
We have a mockup of the new Source Data dialog box, which will allow selecting a different symbol. This is scheduled to get completed this year.
In the meantime, the workaround is very easy -- just edit the POC block, and move all linework to a non-plot layer. Then you can just place whatever symbol you would prefer on top of it. Or you could set its X and Y scale to be very, very small, still just to allow having a more preferred symbol be visible instead.
--J
Hello,
I have a follow up to this question asked almost a year ago.
We have been doing the suggested for irrigation blocks and have recently been looking at alternative ways to do this. What might be helpful is to have an existing irrigation symbol for the point of connection equipment as well as the valves. When selecting meters, backflow, and so on there is one block that is selected. Is there a way to swap between 2 different blocks, an existing block and proposed block. One option we looked into is using the "point of connection size" instead of the "water meter size". But we still want to show the location of the meter and calculate the pressure through the backflow and meter because sometimes we are given the pressure in the street or off site.
The reason why we would like to do this is because typically the civil will show the backflow and meter and we will pick up the irrigation point of connection downstream the backflow. Our office standard is to "gray out" the existing equipment and the civil's linework so we would like to continue graying out the civil's point of connection equipment.
Please let me know if this is an options.
Thanks, Amanda
It seems like you would be pretty well off if you just did a block edit on those equipment items and moved content to different layers. For the pipe, I would say to set up a different pipe class designed for "existing". you could then do a select similar on that pipe and move to "ByLayer" for the color.
It would be great to hear other methods as well!
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