Revit® for Planting Design

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• Intro/TOC
• Quick Start to Planting Tools
  • Place a Tree, Shrub, or Groundcover
  • Label and Schedule
• New and Advanced Planting Tools
  • 2024 Upgrades So Far
  • Toposolids and Groundcovers
  • Adjacent Plants for Copy Along and Fill
  • Customize Plant Size Parameters
  • Customizing a Planting F/X Family
  • Steps to Request Features

0:00 – 8:10: Intro/TOC

Dark Mode (6:39)

8:11 – 41:42: Quick Start to Planting Tools

Creating or opening a Land F/X project (8:18)

Opening the Plant Manager (9:27)

Adding a plant to a project (10:18)

Editing a plant (12:11)

Plant symbol options (13:42)

Place a Tree, Shrub, or Groundcover (14:31)

Placing a tree (14:31)

Coping trees or shrubs onto a path using our Copy along tool (15:31)

Edit Plant tool (17:26)

Adding a shrub (18:49)

Searching for a plant using partial keywords (18:56)

Adding a plant to our database (20:25)

Editing a shrub (21:56)

Placing a shrub (22:57)

Filling an area with a plant using our Fill With Plants tool (23:17)

Copying and placing plants using our Clone Plant tool (23:56)

Turning one plant into another using our Mimic Plant tool (24:11)

Adding a groundcover (25:05)

Editing a groundcover (26:48)

Placing a groundcover (28:49)

Label and Schedule (34:15)

Labeling plants using our Group Label tool (34:15)

Natural plant spacing (a cross between triangular and rectangular spacing we developed) (34:49)

Error checking your labels using our Verify Labels tool (35:55)

Error checking your plan or locating specific plants using our Highlight tool (36:40)

Question: Should all plant labels be placed in the model or in the sheet? (37:50)

Answer: For now, you should place them in the model, but we're working on developing the ability to place them in the sheet as of presentation time.

41:43 – end: New and Advanced Planting Tools

Toposolids and Groundcovers 41:43

Adjacent Plants for Copy Along and Fill (41:43)

Adjacent Plants tool (41:43)

Customize Plant Size Parameters (42:49)

Editing the plant size parameters and schedule columns (42:49)

Running a Plant Schedule (45:57)

Reorganizing the Plant Schedule (47:21)

Customizing a Planting F/X Family (49:04)

Accessing a family to edit (52:32)

Editing a family (53:28)

Planned upcoming updates to the plugin (56:21)

Steps to Request Features (56:59)

Question: Will there be the ability to include plant symbols in the Plant Schedule? (59:02)

Answer: Yes, it's at the top of our development list, along with custom ordering of the schedule columns and the ability to save it into the Preferences.

Question: What about the ability to modify contours and toposolids? (59:53)

Answer: No, we're focusing on planting, site amenities, irrigation, hardscape, etc. Other existing plugins are already focusing on site work and topography.

Discussion of Revit becoming largely reliant on plugins for specific disciplines, much like SketchUp – at least in the short term (1:00:28)

Question: Can the Planting F/X Plugin for Revit import the design from CAD? (1:01:11)

Answer: Yes! (The planting plan, anyway, along with the assigned data and Preferences.) Our intention is that you can work between CAD, Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino, and your plan will look the same across all platforms.