Place Plants: Planting F/X for Revit® Plugin
Quick video
After you've added plants to a project using our Planting F/X for Revit Plugin, you can begin placing them in your plan. For more information on Land F/X projects and how they work with Revit and CAD, see our documentation on:
Placing Trees and Shrubs
If you haven’t done so already, add plants to your Planting F/X project.
You can place plants in either a 3D view or a 2D view. A 3D view must be present in your file before you can place a plant.
Open the Plant Manager, and highlight the tree or shrub you want to place.
Click Place to begin placing the tree or shrub.
Important: You need to use this Place button or the Planting F/X ribbon tools to place, copy, or array plants. The native Revit Copy and Array tools do not copy the object data in a way that our Label and Verify Labels tools can track, resulting in incorrect quantities. Only use Planting F/X tools for placing any plants in your plan.
Move your mouse over your plan.
The plant family that's currently assigned should show up as ready to place, in the style for the view you’re currently using (3D or 2D).
2D view
3D view
Click to place the plant. Continue moving your mouse around the site and clicking to place.
2D view
3D view
Press the Escape (ESC) key twice to stop placing plants. You can now either continue placing plants or start using other tools on these plants such as our:
Quick video
Tree Rootballs
Planting F/X includes a Rootball tool that allows you to define the shape and size of the underground portion of a tree's planting area in your landscape plan. Rootballs offer the following advantages:
- Ensure proper space allocation for roots
- Provide stability
- Prevent conflicts with underground utilities
- Simplify the installation process for landscaping contractors
For further information and instructions, see our Tree Rootballs documentation.
Shrub rootballs are not significant enough to conflict with anything in your project, so our Planting F/X Plugin for Revit doesn't include an option to assign rootballs to shrubs.
Placing Groundcovers
Groundcovers are now placed on floors and toposolids/sub-divisions.
Currently, while subdivisions on toposolids can be helpful for defining planting areas and beds while adjusting topography, they are not ideal if you also need to calculate cut and fill for grading. Cutting or splitting the toposolid instead of subdividing it may work better at this time. Use your discretion on the best use of toposolids for your project needs, knowing that whichever method you use to draw it, you'll be able to place a groundcover plant on it.
Note that the shared parameters will not be filled in for the floor or toposolid/sub-division before you place the groundcover.
Open the Plant Manager, and highlight the groundcover you want to place.
Click Place to begin placing the groundcover.
Click the floor or toposolid/sub-division where you want to place the groundcover.
You'll see a Ground cover placed message if the plant places successfully.
The command will end, and if you select the floor or toposolids/sub-division, you'll see that the LAFX parameters have been added, and the plant can now be called out and scheduled.
Coming soon: Set a desired floor or and toposolid/sub-division type to receive the assigned hatch.
Currently, Planting F/X groundcover floors and toposolids/sub-divisions will automatically import and set the 18" or 450mm depth plant bed with Earth material and create a custom floor or toposolid/sub-division type for it specific to the selected hatch. For now, you can edit this type as desired for different profile materials/depth, such as mulches or landscape fabrics.
Related Webinars
Quick video
- Getting Started with Planting F/X for Revit: Start your journey with Revit and our Planting F/X plugin. We also present our roadmap for future development and show off some new features such as automatic rootball placement and some recent additions to our collections of families and label styles. (1 hr 22 min)
- Intro to Planting F/X for Revit Plugin: As always, our goal with this plugin is to bring the planting design learning curve as low as possible. We cover installation, Planting F/X projects, the Plant Manager, plant placement as families or floors, group labels, Verify Labels, instant schedules, and rendering options with our default family library. (1 hr 12 min)
- Revit for Planting Design: We focus on more tools and show how to tackle more complex workflows in Revit with Planting F/X. We go over customizing the defaults, implementing some labeling strategies, editing floor types, and working with multiple views. We also showcase some new tools and review our most recent development progress. (1 hr 3 min)
- Importing Plans into Revit: If you're being asked to bring your design into Revit and you're a landscape architect or irrigation designer, this webinar is for you. We'll cover first steps, basic orientation of Revit, the pros and cons of certain strategies, importing the DWG linework either 2D or Civil 3D and making toposurfaces and floors, and first-step methods for importing your landscape and irrigation plans. (1 hr 5 min)
Troubleshooting
Issue: Revit Plants don’t show up in 3D View, but do show up in site view
Issue: You placed a tree or shrub in 2D view in revit, but the symbol did not appear
Issue: LandFX: Your license is invalid and this product has not been activated properly on this system
Issue: "This is not a Land F/X plant" error resulting from missing LAFX parameters on placed plants
Issue: Groundcovers won't place on toposolid subdivisions in Revit 2024 and 2025
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