Getting Started with Planting F/X for Revit®

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• Intro/TOC
• When to Use Revit for a Design
• Who Planting F/X Benefits
• Installing and Setting Up a Planting F/X Library
• Assigning a Planting F/X Project
• Adding a Species, Editing Parameters, and Placing Families or Areas
• Tagging/Labeling, Scheduling, Color Render
• New Features!
• Professional Plant Tag Families
• So Many Families
• New Groundcover Hatches
• Automatic Rootball Settings
• Our Development Roadmap

0:00 – 6:59: Intro/TOC

7:00 – 13:00: When to Use Revit for a Design

• Start Something in Revit sooner rather than later.
• If your company primarily uses Revit.
• Position your company as being "easier to work with" – get more jobs!
• As a student – challenge yourself now!

13:01 – 16:36: Who Planting F/X Benefits

• Anybody placing a plant who wants the species, install size, and appearance to be more accurate and faster.
• Longtime Revit users needing more flexibility and a better symbol library.
• Landscape architects new to Revit.
• BIM managers with landscape design staff wanting to get them into Revit.
• A firm already using Land F/X in AutoCAD.

16:37 – 28:04: Installing and Setting Up a Planting F/X Library

Installing the Planting F/X for Revit Plugin (17:12)

Setting up your LandFX folder and Revit library folder(21:01)

Connecting to Revit library location (21:47)

Preference Sets (26:28)

28:05 – 30:30: Assigning a Planting F/X Project

30:31 – 46:36: Adding a Species, Editing Parameters, and Placing Families or Areas

Searching our plant database (31:07)

Adding plants to your project (32:35)

Adding new species to the plant database (34:03)

Editing plants (36:02)

Placing plants (36:33)

Adding data to placed plants (37:08)

Selecting plant families (symbols) (40:05)

Selecting photo symbols (41:37)

Placing groundcovers (44:05)

Adding color to groundcovers (44:53)

46:37 – 56:58: Tagging/Labeling, Scheduling, Color Render

Labeling plants with our Group Label tool (46:37)

Copying plants along a line (47:11)

Filling an area with plants using our Fill with Plants tool (48:03)

Moving labels around (49:15)

Checking a plan for errors using our Verify Labels tool (49:49)

Highlighting plants using our Highlight tool (50:36)

Labeling by Connecting Line (51:22)

Selecting plants adjacent to a selected plant using our Adjacent Plants tool (51:32)

Assigning the characteristics of one plant to another using our Mimic tool (51:46)

Placing a Plant Schedule (53:22)

Color Render (55:46)

56:59 – 1:13:26: New Features!

Professional Plant Tag Families (57:08)

So Many Families (59:58)

New Groundcover Hatches (1:02:00)

Automatic Rootball Settings (1:02:50)

How groundcovers are placed on toposolids (1:08:34)

Our plans for including color plant symbols in the Plant Schedule (1:10:10)

Tooltips for learning how our tools work in CAD (1:11:55)

1:13:27 – end: Our Development Roadmap

This year's goals:

• 2025 support (imminent as of presentation time).
  • Recompiling for the big .NET8 change.
  • .NET8 means: Modeless dialog boxes for a new feature we're cooking up!
• Type parameters for all plants (imminent as of presentation time).
  • Big change – taking our time to get the switchover right.
  • Our goals:
    • Existing designs will not change from Instance parameters.
    • Options to upgrade old designs to Type parameters.
    • All new designs use Type parameters.
  • Plant portfolio.
  • Mix and match 2D and 3D symbols.
  • Concept Plants & plant mixes.
  • Hardscape (RefNotes) Manager with all our CAD hardscape hatches and your data.

6 months, 2025, and beyond:

• Design F/X Detail Manager in Revit.
  • Detail system v2 already in the works to make AutoCAD details easily transferable to Revit.
• Generic content and manufacturer content.
  • Families, hatches, and details.
  • Boulders, benches, hammocks, etc.
• RefNotes amenities, lengths, schedules, callouts/tags.