Planting Plan Basics

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• Intro/TOC
• Setting Up Your Project
• Importing Plants
• Templates
• Adding Plants
• Planting Preferences
• Tools for Designing

 

0:00 – 4:07: Intro/TOC

 

4:07 – 6:25: Setting Up Your Project

Opening or starting a project (4:20)

 

Numbering and naming the project (5:05)

 

Selecting the proper Preference Set (5:35)

 

The Project Manager (5:55)

Note the newly adjustable Sheet Index (as of May 2015) (6:11)

 

6:26 – 9:29: Importing Plants

The Plant Manager (6:26)

 

Organization and category creation in the Plant Manager (6:50)

 

Importing plants from a Land F/X project (7:30)

 

9:30 – 10:59: Templates

Setting up a master planting plan template (9:30)

 

 

11:00 – 14:34: Adding Plants

The wiki-based Land F/X plant database (11:00)

 

Searching for a plant by genus name or “sounds like” (11:50)

 

Editing a plant after adding it to a project (12:45)

Note that if you mistakenly place a plant in the wrong category (such as adding a tree in the shrub category), Land F/X will lock you out of the appropriate symbol category. In this case, you’ll need to go back to the Plant Manager and move the plant into the correct category. (13:15)

 

14:35 – 20:04: Planting Preferences

The Planting Preferences (14:35)

 

Customizing the Plant Labels (15:10)

 

Customizing the Plant Schedule (15:50)

 

Label options (Paper Space or Model Space) (16:56)

 

The Plant Sizes Preferences (17:20)

 

Question: Can the software show nursery availability for each plant? (19:20)

Answer: We hope to make this option available, but it can be tricky to show this stat due to nurseries’ propensity to show every plant they’ve ever grown, rather than just available plants, in their catalogs.

 

20:05 – end: Tools for Designing

Work Areas (20:50)

Placing a Plant Schedule with plants grouped or limited according to Work Area (example: different phases of a project) (24:00)

 

Setting the Scale (26:05)

 

Scaling different Work Areas separately (28:00)

 

Labeling Plants (29:40)

• By Group (30:00)
• By Single plant (31:46)
• By Connecting Line (31:57)
• By Connecting Arc (32:32)

 

Error checking the plant labels with the Verify Labels tool (33:42)

 

Error checking plant placement with the Highlight Plant tool (34:53)

 

Moving plant labels (39:05)

 

The Match Properties tool (41:43)

 

Options available when placing groundcovers: (43:14)

• Draw a bounding polyline “on the fly”
• Exclude shrubs
• Select “multiple” (for example, to exclude pavers from a groundcover hatch)