Planting F/X for Beginners Part 2

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• Intro/TOC
• Sheet Setup for Planting Sheets
  • New Work Area
  • New UCS
• Drafting Tools
  • Exclude Shrubs from Groundcover, P-Hatch, Multiple, PolyDivide
  • Match Plant (Clone Plant), Paint Mode
  • Edit Plant Mid-Design
  • Mimic (Match Properties), XCOPY, XCORO
  • Highlight Plant
  • Group Label
  • Photo Label
• ACAD Layer Controls (Freeze/Thaw/Color)
• Concept and Generic Plant Workflows

0:00 – 3:49: Intro/TOC

Last time on Planting F/X for Beginners Part 1, outline (2:04)

3:50 – 27:10: Sheet Setup for Planting Sheets

New Work Area (5:08)

Separating a schedule onto two different sheets using Work Areas (5:08)

 

Creating, naming, and scaling a new Work Area (5:55)

 

Placing a schedule and selecting a Work Area (8:09)

 

Accounting for Xrefs (10:53)

 

Changing Work Area scale (16:17)

 

Labeling plants at different scales (16:49)

 

How Land F/X scaling works with Work Areas (17:17)

 

New UCS (19:06)

Using our New UCS to set the rotation at which you view your plan (20:27)

 

Using our Restore UCS to return to a previous view of a plan (22:45)

 

Setting a UCS for a specific Work Area (24:14)

 

Using Restore UCS inside a viewport (25:17)

27:11 – 51:23: Drafting Tools

Exclude Shrubs from Groundcover, P-Hatch, Multiple, PolyDivide (28:01)

Exclude Shrubs tool (28:01)

 

Painting hatches with our PHatch tool (30:10)

 

Using the Donut command to place a circle with a perfectly spaced circle within it (33:05)

 

Using our Site Color tool to add color to blocks (34:25)

 

Using our Multiple tool to exclude objects from a hatch (34:46)

Note that the Multiple and Exclude Shrubs tools won't work at the same time.

 

Using our PolyDivide tool to divide a closed polyline area into set portions (36:28)

 

 

Match Plant (Clone Plant), Paint Mode (39:28)

Note: Our Match Plant tool is now known as Clone Plant, and our Match Properties tool is now known as Mimic.

 

Clone Plant (formerly known as Match Plant) (40:26)

 

"Painting" plants into a design using Paint Mode (40:32)

 

 

Edit Plant Mid-Design (42:34)

Changing a plant's data and symbol (42:34)

 

 

Mimic (Match Properties), XCOPY, XCORO (43:53)

Mimic Plant (formerly known as Match Properties) (43:53)

 

XCOPY and XCORO (45:39)

Copying and placing groups of plants and their attached data using our XCOPY and XCORO tools (43:53)

 

Highlight Plant (47:09)

Highlighting each placement of a chosen plant species using our Highlight tool (47:09)

 

Work Area suffixes (48:53)

 

 

Group Label (49:19)

Editing labels using our Group Label tool (49:19)

 

 

 

Photo Label (49:51)

Calling out a plant using our Photo Callout tool (49:51)

 

 

51:24 – 56:49: ACAD Layer Controls (Freeze/Thaw/Color)

Why Land F/X linetypes are all ByLayer and not on layer 0 (51:24)

 

Using our XLayer tool to find out which layer a line is on (53:18)

 

Changing a viewport layer's color (54:54)

 

Freezing a viewport (55:32)

 

Customizing the Plant Outline tool linetype (56:50)

56:50 – end: Concept and Generic Plant Workflows

Creating plant mixes with our Concept Plants tool (56:50)

 

For further information on Concept Plants, see the following Power Tips:

• Concept Plant Tools in 3 Minutes
• Plant Mixes

 

Labeling Concept Plants and placing a Concept Plant Schedule (58:49)

 

Changing Concept Plants into project plants (59:20)

 

Assigning percentages to plants in a Concept Group (1:00:12)

 

Generic Plant symbols (1:01:41)