SketchUp: Place Site Amenity Tool
- Place Site Amenity Tool Overview
- Adding a Site Amenity
- Placing a Site Amenity
- Related Videos
- Troubleshooting
The Place Site Amenity tool allows you to browse and specify site amenities offered by a number of manufacturers in our site amenities product library. You can use this tool to add specific products such as benches or bike racks to your project and place them in your SketchUp model.
You'll need to open a new or existing Land F/X project before using this tool. You can create a new project in SketchUp, or open as existing project, using the Projects Tool.
Place Site Amenity Tool Overview
Open the Place Site Amenity tool:
LandFX toolbar, Place Site Amenity button
Land-FX menu, Place Site Amenity option
The Land F/X Place Site dialog box will open.
You can now begin adding a site amenity.
This dialog box will be blank if you haven't yet placed a site amenity in your SketchUp model.
Adding a Site Amenity
Click New in the Land F/X Place Site dialog box to begin adding a site amenity.
The Select Manufacturer dialog box will open. Here, you'll see a list of site amenity manufacturers in our database.
Scroll to and click the logo of the manufacturer whose site amenity you want to specify.
You'll now see a dialog box that lists products offered by the selected manufacturer.
1. Use this menu to select a site amenity type offered by the selected manufacturer.
2. Select a site amenity subtype within the type you selected from the menu.
3. Series: Select the series of the amenity you want to spec.
4. Change Manufacturer: Click this link to go back to the Select Manufacturer dialog box, where you can select a different manufacturer.
5. This area shows thumbnail images of site amenities in the selected type and series. Click a thumbnail image to select a series.
When you select a site amenity series, the Select Model dialog box will open.
Here, you can select a model from the series you selected by clicking the thumbnai image for that model.
You can click the Visit Manufacturer Website link in the bottom right corner of the dialog box to open the manufacturer's Web page about the selected site amenity model.
When you select a model, you'll see a dialog box showing a close-up of the thumbnail image of that model.
Click Add to Project to add the selected model to your Land F/X project.
You can also choose to click More Info to go to the manufacturer's Web page on that model.
The Land F/X Place Site dialog box will open, now displaying the site amenity model you selected. The model has been added to your project.
Placing a Site Amenity
You can only place site amenities in your design once you've added them to your project.
In the Land F/X Place Site dialog box, click the thumbnail image of the site amenity you want to place in your SketchUp design.
You'll now see the symbol for the site amenity you selected in your SketchUp model, in the location of your cursor.
Click a point in your design to place the site amenity. As you move your cursor, the symbol will pivot horizontally around the point you have set as its start point. Click again when your cursor is in the location you would like to set as the end point for your site amenity.
The site amenity will be placed between the two points you set. A second symbol for the same amenity will now appear and follow your cursor as you move it throughout the screen as before. Click to set start and end points for additional placements of that site amenity.
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