Bloom Schedules

• Bloom Schedule Overview
• Schedule Destination
• Sending a Schedule to a Spreadsheet
• Creating a Macro for a Schedule in MS Excel
• Entire Palette & Include Xrefs
• Editing or Regeneraing Existing Bloom Schedules
• Applying the Current Schedule Settings as the Default
• Work Areas
• Make the Bloom Schedule Narrower, or Change the Column Widths
• Schedule Text in Uppercase (or Upper and Lowercase)
• Related Webinars
• Troubleshooting

You can use our Bloom Schedule tool to create a Gantt chart style schedule of all trees, shrubs, Shrub Areas, groundcovers and plant mixes you've placed in a drawing or added to a project. The resulting schedule will display the bloom color information from our master plant database, including primary and accent colors, and season of bloom.

Bloom Schedule Overview

Open our Bloom Schedule tool:

 

 

 

 

 

The Bloom Schedule dialog box will open.

 

 

The Bloom Schedule dialog box allows you to customize several settings for your Bloom Schedule.

 

 

 

4. Use this menu to control whether each plant will be listed by its botanical or common name, or both, in the schedule.

 

 

 

Here is an example of a Bloom Schedule:

 

Schedule Destination

The options in the Destination area determine the location where you want to place your Bloom Schedule.

 

 

 

 

Sending a Schedule to a Spreadsheet

Exporting a schedule to a spreadsheet using a program such as MS Excel gives you an infinite number of options in formatting and enhancing that schedule. In a spreadsheet, you can easily make edits, add specific calculations, create new information columns, and make the schedule available to a client or contractor who doesn't have AutoCAD.

 

 

 

Creating a Macro for a Schedule in MS Excel

A macro is a recorded set of actions that can be applied automatically to a spreadsheet with the click of a button. You can create your own macro in Excel to include custom columns, carry out automatic calculations on preset columns, and much more. For example, you might need to calculate the percentage of the plant total occupied by each plant in a project. With a macro, you can carry out these calculations instantly. See our article on creating a macro in MS Excel for a schedule.

Entire Palette & Include Xrefs

 

 

 

Editing or Regenerating Existing Bloom Schedules

If you open the Bloom Schedule tool in a drawing that already includes one or more existing Bloom Schedules, you'll see the Schedule dialog box, which includes the following buttons:

 

Applying the Current Schedule Settings as the Default (Coming Soon)

Schedule Text in Uppercase (or Upper and Lowercase)

You can control whether the text in any of your schedules appears in all uppercase, or in upper and lowercase, from the General Preferences. For instructions, see our Schedule Text in Uppercase Knowledge Base article.

Related Webinars

• Ask Us Anything! Spotlight on Plant Schedules Join us for the first "Ask Us Anything," which focused on Plant Schedules, including the massive 2023 update that overhauled the Plant Schedule dialog box and opened new possibilities for your Plant Schedules. (1 hr 7 min)
• Plant Schedules: Land F/X provides a wide range of options for configuring a Plant Schedule for your landscape design. We’ll show you how to organize your columns and include or omit elements such as plant symbols, codes, cost estimates, spacing, and plants from your Xrefs. Join us to explore these choices and pick up valuable insights for crafting your ideal schedule. (1 hr 5 min)

Troubleshooting

Issue: My Bloom Schedule is too long. How can I break it up?

 

Issue: Text in the Bloom Schedule columns is overlapping

Issue: Error: Not all plants in the drawing match the project data

 

Issue: Error: Non-Planar Entity

 

Issue: Schedule title is overlapping the rest of the schedule text (or is too large, too small, or appearing in the wrong location)

 

Issue: You are unable to send your Bloom Schedule to an Excel spreadsheet

 

Issue: The Bloom Schedule is not recognizing or calculating objects in an Xref

 

Issue: Work Areas are not recognizing or calculating a Shrub Area or groundcover hatch

 

Issue: The screen flashes several times when you place a Bloom Schedule in Paper Space

 

Issue: Text boxes are displaying in your drawing where your Bloom Schedule text should be

 

Issue: Outside Limits error message in the Command line / you are unable to place a Bloom Schedules / can't see your Bloom Schedule in Model Space

 

Issue: "Cannot find Work Area title" error message when placing a Bloom Schedule in a drawing with Work Areas

 

Issue: You tried to create a Bloom Schedule for a Work Area in your drawing, but the schedule did not appear when you tried to place it

 

Issue: Your Bloom Schedule is listing plants that are not in your drawing

 

Issue: You saw an "Unable to read plant list" message when trying to run a schedule

 

Issue: Your Bloom Schedule is taking an excessive amount of time to generate even though you don't have very many plants placed in your drawing

 

Issue: CAD freezes or lags after you place a Bloom Schedule

 

Issue: You saw an "Automation Error. AcRxClassName is not in the system registry message" when attempting to place a schedule

 

Issue: Your schedule header is showing up in the Arial font (and you don't want it to)

 

Issue: You ran a Bloom Schedule, and a plant's color(s) are missing – either the species itself is entirely missing from the schedule, or the species is listed in the schedule but there's no color in the columns beside it

 

Issue: Automation Error. Description was not provided message, when attempting to run a Bloom Schedule