Details Tools

Opens the Detail Manager. From here, you can add details to your project and view each detail to find out its detail number, along with other important information. You can also see which details you've placed in your drawing.

Opens the Project Manager, which contains the Sheet Index. Here, you can organize and edit the sheets associated with each Layout tab in your drawing. Because details are placed on Layout sheets, this feature is a valuable tool in organizing your details.

A Detail Report is a schedule of all details you've used in your project and included in your sheets. This tool allows you to place a Detail Report in your drawing or send it to a spreadsheet for further editing. You can choose to list all details, details by date, or details by category.

Opens the Reference Notes (RefNotes) Manager. RefNotes are "smart" objects or notations that you add to your Land F/X projects and assign with data such as cost and identifying text. RefNotes can be anything from site amenities to hardscape materials and objects that require length measurements (such as retaining walls).

You'd assign a detail to a RefNote if you needed to provide additional information about that RefNote in the construction documents that you wouldn't necessarily want to include in the Reference Notes Schedule (your materials schedule). For example, a detail can illustrate the exact specifications of a bench you add to your project as a RefNote, including its dimensions, installation information, and construction materials.

Opens the Detail Explorer. This tool gives you access to your office's entire detail library directly from CAD. From a single dialog box, you can create and edit a logical detail folder structure, save your details to folder, move details between folders, view thumbnail previews of details, and more.

A Detail Template is essentially a border around a detail that includes a title block, but it's also a scaling tool that scales the detail automatically for any sheet where it's placed. After you've drafted a detail at actual size, use this tool to select a plot display size and corresponding scale for your detail.

The template – and consequently, the detail, will will place at a constant detail size on your sheet (based on your Preference Set), regardless of what template scale is used when creating the detail.

It's important that you align a detail template correctly before annotating the detail within it.

A Sheet Template is a great way to organize a detail sheet neatly. In Paper Space of a detail sheet file, use this tool to set a non-plotting grid of guidelines for orderly detail layout. Refer to the GRID LAYOUT describing detail sizing.

Whenever you need to create a new detail or save changes to an existing one, use our Save Detail tool to pull the new or updated detail into our detail library, where you can access it directly from CAD. Save Detail automatically shoots a thumbnail preview slide of your detail and allows you to give your detail a title and number.

Need to make edits to a detail you've already placed in a drawing? Use our Edit Detail tool. You can select the detail in the drawing, which opens the detail's source drawing. You can then make the necessary edits and save the newly edited detail. You can choose to overwrite the original or save your edited version with a new detail number, leaving the original unchanged.

If you've made changes to the original source drawings of any details you're using in your project, use the Update Details tool to effect these changes in the details you've already placed in your drawing. The details in your drawing will update automatically.

Opens a list of all Detail Layer States. A Layer State is a saved set of layer properties, which you can assign to a drawing.

Once you've set your detail layers the way you want them, click this button to save them as a Detail Layer State. You can then use the Detail Layers tool to apply those layer properties to a detail.

Open our library of Detail Hatch patterns to place or edit a hatch. We've designed our detail hatches to resemble surfaces you'd typically use when creating a detail.

Our Detail Hatches will scale automatically based on the scale of the Detail Template where you place them. Then, once the detail is placed into a Layout, the hatch will look the same in all details where it's included.

Open our P-Hatch tool to:

• Enlarge, reshape, or otherwise modify a hatch, or
• Create your own custom hatches by "painting" them on the fly

Save a custom hatch pattern into our system.

Delete a hatch pattern from our system.

Open our Detail Builder Blocks library. Here, you can find an assortment of blocks you'd typically use as components in building a detail – from fasteners to connectors, framing materials, irrigation equipment, etc.

Using our Save Detail Block tool, you can save your own custom detail blocks into this library for use in future details.

Open our library of Elevation Graphics to place graphic blocks in your detail drawings. These blocks are constructed with an elevation (side) view.

Open our library of Plan Graphics to place graphic blocks in your detail drawings. These blocks are constructed with a plan, or bird's-eye, view.

Open our library of Discipline Graphics to place graphic blocks in your detail drawings. Discipline Graphics depict standard symbols used in specific industries such as civil engineering. Examples include sewers, stormdrains, and various callouts and arrow styles you might find handy in building your details.

Want to create and save your own detail blocks, or bring your existing blocks into our Detail Blocks library? Use Save Detail Block. Like our Save Block tool, it will shoot a thumbnail preview slide of your block and save it into the Detail Blocks system for easy access.

Quickly cut a line in your detail or drawing with a specialized block symbol. A common symbol in the construction industry, a breakline symbol marks a break of undefined length in a linear object within a detail or drawing. Sections inside this break are typically identical on either side, such as a length of wall or fencing.

Our View Import tool, currently in beta testing, will allow you to bring in a selected portion of a detail, or a section cut, from a 3D Revit model into CAD.

Use Match Object to quickly place copies of blocks, hatches, and callouts – including all attached data.

Use Match Properties to select a "smart" block or hatch and apply its symbol and all other data assigned to it to another block or hatch.

Use Copy along Line to quickly place copies of blocks and callouts, including all attached data, along a path in your detail while setting the spacing to your specifications.

Use Triangular Array to copy blocks and place duplicates into a triangular pattern.

Use Rectangular Array to copy blocks and place duplicates into a rectangular pattern.

Use Mirror to copy several blocks and place them in an identical pattern mirrored across an imaginary center line.

You can create Detail Bubble Callouts on the fly when creating a detail, but you can also apply them to more than one detail by just copying the schedule from one detail to another. The Bubble Callout tool "knows" which callouts (and the corresponding detail numbers) are used in each Detail Template you place.

Detail Bubble Callouts work well with repetitive text and in details that have limited space. Because they're great at translations, they're also a perfect option when you need to create details in different languages.

Keynote Callouts are master callouts that are linked to a highly organized system of divisions and subdivisions. Our default Keynote Database is based on Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) specifications, but you can reorganize it to meet your specific needs. Because the number and text associated with each Keynote Callout are stored in a master database, you can reuse them across multiple details, sheets, and drawings.

Once you've placed Keynote Callouts on a sheet of details, you can run a Keynote Schedule. The schedule will catalog all the Keynote Callouts on that sheet into a single schedule for easy reference. As with our other schedules, you can place the Keynote Schedule directly in your drawing or send it to a spreadsheet.

Place a leader with text.

Place a leader without text.

Place a multiline text (MText) entry in a detail.

Place a single line of text in a detail.

Easily change text entries into multiline text (MText) entries in a detail.

Quickly change an entry of multiline text (MText) to a Multileader (MLeader) callout in a detail.

Open our Reload All Text Styles (REAT) tool to ensure that the Land F/X Text Styles in your detail match your settings from the active Preference Set.

Place a vertical or horizontal dimension of a line in a detail.

Place a dimension aligned with two points on an object you select in a detail.

Place a dimension for an angle between two lines in a detail.

Measure the length of an arc within a detail.

Place a dimension of the radius of a circle or arc in a detail.

Place a dimension of the diameter of a circle or arc in a detail.

Place a center mark within a circle or arc in a detail.

Add a dimension to the end of the last dimension placed in a detail, or continue that dimension.

Place a new dimension originating from the beginning (baseline) of the last dimension placed in a detail.

Save a Dimension Style (DimStyle) to use in details.

Use the Polyline Detail Enlargement tool to enlarge a portion of a detail and place it – to scale – within a custom polyline boundary in the same detail.

Use the Circle Detail Enlargement tool to enlarge a portion of a detail and place it – to scale – within a custom circle boundary in the same detail.

Placeholder callouts are referred to as "dumb callouts" because they're placed on a temporary basis to be associated with an actual detail at a later time. You can place them when you know you need to place a callout in a specific location but you're not sure exactly which detail will need to be called out.

Detail Callouts are "smart" callouts that refer to a specific detail.

After placing either a Placeholder or a Detail Callout in a drawing, you can use the Associate Callout tool to associate that callout with a specific detail.

The Update Callouts tool comes in handy when you've placed details in a drawing and need to move those details, along with their callouts, to another location. Update Callouts updates the Detail Callouts to reflect that new location.

Click this button, then click any Detail Callout to see a preview of the detail that's being called out.

From the Details Preferences screen, you can configure a number of settings for your details, including callout arrow styles, template size and appearance, Dimension Style (DimStyle) settings, and the location and organization of your detail library.