Transitioning to Land F/X

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• Intro/TOC
• Top Myths We’ve Heard
• The Fast-Track Plan/Applying This Workflow
  • Dive In
  • Integrate Land F/X on the Go
  • Customize as You Go
• How to Get the Office On Board Today

0:00 – 3:02: Intro/TOC

3:03 – 5:28: Top Myths We’ve Heard

Myth: The First Project with Land F/X will take longer to do than the old way, and you’ll miss the deadline.

• For both large and small projects, automation will make up for time spent learning.
• Even the first project will be faster.

Myth: Land F/X has a steep learning curve.

• It’s actually easy out of the box, and you can learn intermediate and advanced skills over time on a real job.

Myth: Land F/X will take a week to customize.

• You can customize on the go in a new project.
• You can also customize in an hour or two beforehand using an old project.

5:29 – 1:00:05: The Fast-Track Plan/Applying This Workflow

• Start your new drawing just like you always would, or jump in with a project that’s halfway done.
• Assign a Land F/X project, and scale right away.
• Build up your smart design palette of plants quickly.
• Start placing, and learning the quick placing tools on the go.
• Watch each week’s 3-minute Power Tip video.
• Add more skills on every project.
• Hardscape/Site tools (RefNotes), templates, details, 3D Connection, Discipline Graphics library, F/X UCS, Work Areas.

Dive In (8:05)

Intro to F/X CAD (8:05)

F/X CAD is our Autodesk authorized AutoCAD engine, sold and supported by us.

Intro to Land F/X (9:30)

Land F/X is a license for our series of AutoCAD plugins, which adapt CAD to landscape architecture, irrigation design, architecture, etc.

Integrate Land F/X on the Go (10:34)

Using the Land F/X Copy Along Line/Polyline/Arc tools on regular CAD blocks (10:48)

Starting a new Land F/X project and selecting a Preference Set (11:55)

Opening the Plant Manager and adding plants (13:30)

Saving a custom plant block into Land F/X using our Save Block tool (14:30)

Editing a plant from the Plant Manager and selecting 2D and color symbols (16:28)

Using our Match Properties tool to replace regular “dumb” CAD blocks with “smart” blocks (17:20)

Labeling plants (17:55)

Using our Highlight Plant tool to highlight all instances of a selected plant throughout a drawing (18:00)

Error checking plant labels using our Verify Labels tool (18:50)

Editing a plant in a drawing (19:25)

Assigning a hatch pattern and a color symbol to a groundcover (19:55)

Placing a groundcover (20:20)

Placing a Plant Schedule (20:44)

Building a plant palette (21:41)

Customize as You Go (30:45)

Adding a new plant size (30:45)

Adding custom columns to the Plant Schedule in the Plant Sizes Preferences (31:48)

Importing plants from another project (33:38)

Editing a plant’s symbol size and applying it to a custom block (35:08)

Using Match Properties to round out the planting, replacing blocks and hatches with smart versions (37:15)

Copying plants (and their data) using our Match Plant tool (42:00)

Once you’ve saved your custom symbols into our library, they’ll be scaled automatically when you place them in a drawing.

Keyboard shortcuts for placing plants (43:50)

Overview of our Power Tip videos (44:32)

Customizing layer settings (45:30)

Overview of the Land F/X Preferences (45:50)

Preference Sets (46:10)

A Preference Set is a saved set of styles your entire office can use to follow the same standard.

Customizing layer colors, names, linetypes, etc. (46:33)

Creating a new Preference Set based on an existing one (47:30)

Labeling plants (49:15)

Selecting a plant label style, arrow style, plant code style, etc. in the Planting Preferences (51:20)

Placing a Plant Schedule (52:34)

Options for configuring a Plant Schedule (53:30)

Creating a colorized plan using our Color Render tool (53:38)

Plant Outlines and Plant Shadows (56:40)

Quick overview of our site tools (57:47)

Placing a Work Area and then placing a schedule of objects within that Work Area (58:50)

1:00:06 – end: How to Get the Office On Board Today

• Download the Land F/X App on your phone. Start watching Power Tip videos and showing them to colleagues right on your phone.
• Just start implementing it yourself.
  • People will realize you’re blazing through your deadlines. Win-win!
  • Watch our Planting F/X Setup webinar next.
• 3. Get Land F/X installed on every designer’s computer.
  • Licenses are network based – sharable!
  • Link them together to a shared server install – everybody benefits from customization on the go.
• Train the office for free!
  • Land F/X webinars: Organize your own free lunch and learns.
  • Land F/X Documentation
    • Also watch the short or long videos linked on each documentation page.