Land F/X Proudly Presents 11.0

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• Intro/TOC
• What Has Happened in the Past Year?
• New Documentation
• New Features
• Add a Wishlist Item While You Watch!

0:00 – 1:20: Intro/TOC

1:21 – 13:35: What Has Happened in the Past Year?

Company News (1:21)

• Travel Events: ASLA Expo, IA Show, Labash, Tri-State, ASIC, training event, Irrigation Australia, vacation, Landscape London
• 3,916 tech support tickets (15/day)
• 31 Webinars
• 30 Power Tip Videos
• 48 newsletters
• 310 new clients
• 3 new employees

But What About New Features? (4:50)

• Vastly updated installer
• F/X CAD 2015 with an all-new ribbon interface
• 131 new documentation pages
• 50 updates (average of 5 punchlist items each)
• 5,142 lines of code (21/day)

What Are Some of Those New Features? (9:50)

• SketchUp: Site Amenities
• Planting: Match Properties, Paint Mode
• Irrigation: Dialog box changes, Runtime Schedule updated, Center Pivot
• Details: Explorer improved, Naked callout, Bubble improvements, Template by drawing window
• Metric centimeter support (big project in Bahrain)
• Nuke tool for drawing cleanup
• 2015 support, BatchMan, Circuit, Schedule work area
• Cloud licensing, cloud data partially complete

13:36 – 16:16: New Documentation

New Working With AutoCAD documentation section (14:00)

Configuration Settings section (14:20)

Display Model & Layout Tabs (14:40)

Settings in the Options dialog box (14:50)

16:16 – 54:29: New Features

SketchUp Site Amenities System (16:35)

Manufacturer catalogs (16:50)

Browsing site amenities (17:10)

Adding, placing, and rotating site amenities (17:30)

Sending site amenities to CAD (18:26)

Updated CAD Ribbons (and New Land F/X Ribbons!) (19:45)

New Planting Features (22:20)

The Match Properties tool (updated to include the capability of drawing a window to match several plants to an existing plant at once)(22:50)

Paint Mode (new feature) (24:05)

New Irrigation Features (26:20)

A note on the Nuke tool (26:35)

Updates to the Runtime Schedule feature (re-engineered for faster performance, generating a Runtime Schedule instantly for even larger projects) (29:00)

Place button added to Irrigation Manager for placing equipment (31:45)

Schedule button added to Circuit dialog box (32:20)

New feature: Center Pivot Irrigation (32:50)

• The Center Pivot Calculator (36:30)
• Center Pivot Span Configuration (37:30)
• Selecting a Center Pivot emitter (40:00)

New Details Features (42:46)

Window button added to the Detail Template dialog box, allowing you to simply draw a window that will become the detail template (allows for size customization) (44:00)

New Bubble Callouts features:

• The ability to reorder the Bubble Callouts (Renumber checkbox added to the Detail Bubble Callout dialog box) (45:20)
• Drag-and-drop capability in the Detail Bubble Callout dialog box (45:20)
• The ability to edit Bubble Callout text using the MTEXT editor (45:35)

“Naked” Callouts (include only the text – no callout items) (47:00)

New Detail Explorer features (48:14)

• Show Empty Categories checkbox (48:14)
• Right-click menu in the Details list (allows for adding, editing, or deleting a detail) (48:39)
• Import and Export buttons added to Detail Explorer (for moving details between projects)(49:00)
• Print button added to Detail Explorer, as well as expanded detail printing functionality (49:10)

New Cloud Licensing (51:58)

Example features:

• Allows Land F/X to maintain and update a plant database in real time.
• Validates Land F/X license automatically whenever you access a Land F/X tool

54:30 – end: Adding a Wishlist Item While You Watch!

The Save Block tool now turns off Grid Mode automatically when you save a block, meaning your blocks won’t have an unintentional grid in them. (Watch Jeremiah add this code to the software.)