Land F/X 103: Understanding Blocks and Customized Rendering

• Intro/TOC
• Create Your Own Blocks
  • Custom Plan Graphics
    • Custom Discipline Graphics
• Using Land F/X Colored Blocks
  • Placing Context
  • Turning on the Color!
• Dial in Your Color Palette
  • Using Block Data, Site Color, and Color Render
• Other Things to Customize
  • Plant Callout Style
  • Text Styles

0:00 – 4:36: Intro/TOC

4:37 – 34:13: Create Your Own Blocks

Exporting a block from SketchUp into CAD using Parallel Projection (4:37)

 

Creating a “scene” of the SketchUp block (saving camera location, visible layers, etc.) (8:00)

 

Exporting the block using 2D Graphic (8:35)

 

Setting the units for the block when imported and exporting the block (10:20)

 

 

 

Custom Plan Graphics (12:28)

 

Importing the block into CAD using the INSERT tool (12:28)

 

Placing the block and zooming in (14:02)

 

 

Customizing the linework in the block (14:15)

(For detailed instructions, please see our Section Cut Details from SketchUp Power Tip.) 

 

 

Loading a Layer State (15:00)

 

 

Saving the block into Land F/X using the Save Block tool (16:30)

 

 

Adding the block as an Amenity Reference Note (RefNote) (20:45)

 

 

Placing the RefNote (block) (23:30)

 

 

 

Custom Discipline Graphics (25:15)

 

Overview of the Discipline Graphics library (25:50)

 

 

Creating a custom block to save in the Discipline Graphics library (26:45)

 

 

Opening the layer where the block will be drawn (28:30)

 

 

Drawing the block (29:25)

 

 

Saving the block (31:35)

 

 

Placing the block from the Discipline Graphics library (32:45)

34:14 – 49:18: Using Land F/X Colored Blocks

Placing Context (34:14)

Placing blocks of known relative size (example: people) to provide a scale reference (34:30)

 

 

Examples of some of the available blocks in our Plan Graphics library (35:45)

 

 

Placing Plan Graphics (36:00)

 

Placing dynamic blocks along a polyline using the Copy Along Polyline tool (with random rotation) (37:40)

 

 

Turning on the Color! (39:00)

 

Adding color to blocks by turning the Site Color tool on (39:00)

 

 

Customizing the colored blocks by changing the color fills (40:25)

 

 

Turning the color layer on and off (42:10)

 

 

Placing a color hatch within a closed polyline boundary (42:35)

 

 

Note: The Boundary command won’t work with 3D polylines. (43:35)

 

 

Adding more color fills throughout the site (44:20)

 

 

Isolating layers for easier hatching (46:30)

 

 

Un-isolating the layers (48:50)

49:19 – 56:34: Dial in Your Color Palette

Turning Color Render on (49:19)

 

 

Example of a Plant Schedule that includes colorized plant symbols (49:55)

 

 

Previewing a colorized plan (50:20)

 

 

Using Block Data, Site Color, and Color Render (51:05)

 

Using the Block Data tool to change the color symbol assigned to a block (51:05)

 

 

Using the Regenerate command, or turning color off and back on, to reconcile the draw order (51:50)

 

 

Regenerating the Plant Schedule to show the correct symbols (53:05)

 

 

Placing photo callouts for plants and other blocks (54:20)

 

 

Bringing a colorized plan into a photo processing program such as Photoshop for further rendering (55:50)

56:35 – end: Other Things to Customize

Plant Callout Style (58:12)

Changing the Plant Label (Plant Callout ) style in the Planting Preferences (58:12)

(For detailed information, please see our Customizing Plant Labels Power Tip.)

 

 

Text Styles (59:20)

Changing the Text style and point size using the General Preferences (59:20)