Land F/X version 6.60 available

[Jeremiah Farmer]

Land F/X version 6.60 is available for installation from the Update feature in the software (6.64 as of this announcement).
No, we didn't skip 6.50, it ended up being a maintenance release.

The Planting module saw the addition of the Photo Callout, and placement of a Photo button throughout the software. We also added basic Size fields to the plant database.
The big change within Irrigation was many changes with the Mainline Sizing, taking into account the feedback and needs of golf course designers. Manual Flow Zones may now be created to have ultimate control with the sizing. Also, Shut-Off Valves can now be set as either Open or Closed, to limit the sizing to certain areas.
We also had to tweak a few things for compatibility with some recent installations on Chinese-language Windows. This then led to numerous other changes for multi-language installs.
We were able to get to a great number of wishlist items, such as Zoning having the ability to specify square footage of commercial areas.
The SketchUp Connection saw several minor tweaks, as many more users have been working with this feature and submitting their feedback.
And we were also able to make several important changes to the installer, to make the installation process as flawless as possible.

Keep the ideas coming our way. On the queue for the next couple months are several pending changes for the Details and RefNotes modules, integrating photos with the Irrigation equipment selection process, a complete Lighting module, and more.

The complete update list is as follows:

Site Development, Zoning, editing color selection, editing a color will not overwrite color description; creating a new color allows selecting an RGB Truecolor.

Plant Copy Along Arc, inverse arcs are created correctly.

Size Mainline, saves demands with Open Shut Off Valves; carries back previous values from Closed valves.

Project Files, Save As Template, translates illegal apostrophe character in template name; additional error handling during save process; numeric precision improved.

Project Files, Archive, deselecting Deactivate will only allow Deleting if Archive or Export is selected.

Insert Detail Template, additional Imperial scales added to list.

Critical Analysis, Critical Station Flow renamed to Maximum Station Flow.

Plant Info, when entering a plant group or size larger than the field length, system will attempt to automatically increase the field size.

Assign Drip Emitters, number of emitters changed to dropdown box, Model textbox widened.

HotFix: Equip Info dialog, checking for valve callout will not generate error when editing valve directly from Irrigation Manager.

Installer, uses WSH library rather than WMI to check for existing MySQL installation.

RefNote Schedule, allows re-generating more than one schedule.

HotFix: Runtime Schedule, setting valve runtimes individually will not generate error.

Drawing Startup, if AEC object enabler to scale drawings is present, it is reset to not scale on insert.

HotFix: Pipe Callout, will not require pipe sleeve to already have a size associated.

Shut Off Valves place as either Open or Closed; Equip Info dialog box allows toggling Open/Closed status; Highlight Station and Mainline Size respect Closed status.

HotFix: Loading of Preferences when editing a detail will not generate error if the detail has not been added to a project.

All Schedules, output to Table object, sets Standard table style active.

Verify Laterals, uses common entity selection function that supports selecting a Work Area.

Size Lateral Pipes, uses common entity selection function that supports selecting a Work Area.

Irrigation Manager, Import equipment from other projects, equipment is logged as if added individually.

Project Files, New Project, base on Template, irrigation equipment is logged as if added individually.

Pipe Callout, allows calling out a pipe that has been manually sized.

Edit Detail, compatible with custom Detail Store Folder.

Update, Restore Options, ability to download all hatch patterns.

Common Place Hatch function, additional error handling for Bricscad when hatch is not defined.

Size Lateral Pipes, scanning of Xref for assigning of plants to Drip areas, additional error handling for unloaded xrefs in Bricscad.

Place Head, unfreezes head layer if necessary.

Plant Manager, Add Plants to Project, Genus list, cross-breed plants are integrally sorted.

Size Mainline, pipe leading to Quick Couplers is set to minimum size.

HotFix: Copy Plants Along Arc, copy logic will not result in duplicate plant at start point.

Plant Info, when changing a plant type, enforces symbol selection; Apply to All is disabled.

Copy Plants Along Line/Arc, discards Z value of current UCS.

Runtime Schedule, several minor issues addressed.

Set Viewport Scale, Rescale Objects, also processes RefNote callouts.

Size Mainline, initial system recursion optimized; use of Select Valves option will not result in unrelated pipe set to Zero flow and pressure.

Irrigation Manager, Adding equipment, manufacturer selection changed to web-based content.

Project Files, alerts user is support is about to expire, or has already expired.

Drawing Startup, when opening a detail, if a project has been associated with the detail for callout purposes, project association is retained.

Loading of Preferences, if drawing is a detail and has been assigned to a project, loads Preference Set for that project.

Runtime Schedule, initial operating capability.

Plant Schedule, uses common quantity display function for metric preferences and displaying quantities over one million.

System Variable reactor, when opening a Metric detail that has a project associated with it, will not incorrectly set LTSCALE.

Place Head, does not allow placing heads if the drawing has a Dview Twist.

RefNotes, Editing an Area or Volume, changing from TrueColor to Hatch, entities are correctly changed to Color ByLayer.

Common Place Hatch function, accounts for AutoCAD bug when changing scale or rotation but not pattern.

Zoning, Site Development, allow setting Opacity of areas.

Save Block, if unable to locate Slidelib.exe, attempts to download on demand, otherwise directs to manual installation.

RefNote Schedule, with Entire Palette option and output to Table, empty Quantity column is not displayed.

Project Files, Restore, Restore project from landfx.com, prompts for project number; redundant data and detail validation skipped for faster import; highlights project after successful restore.

SketchUp Connection, Import, displays progress as downloading missing slides/components.

SketchUp Connection, Export, if no plants in drawing, alerts user.

Size Mainline, pre-selects POCs, and if only one displays dialog box for that POC.

Size Mainline, allows creating manual Flow Zones.

Irrigation Schedule, switching Sprays from Nozzle to Group, Quantity setting is correctly set to match dialog.

HotFix: Plant Schedule, processing logic for Local Common name will not generate error when Quantity is selected to appear before name.

Site Development Schedule, does not display Total unless at least one area has a cost associated.

RefNote Schedule, including of Xrefs, does not include xrefs that are unloaded or placed onto a frozen layer.

Zoning, allows setting each area to be calculated as units per acre, or FAR percentage.

HotFix: Place Head, Toro Precision Rotary adjustable nozzles have their GPM calculated correctly.

Mainline Size, when sizing a looped mainline for a maximum flow, friction loss is calculated per balanced GPM as per valve distance from POC.

HotFix: Mainline Size, repeatedly sizing a mainline with multiple concentric loops will not cause some segments of pipe to lose their association to connected entities.

Mainline Size, method of determining loops improved to account for multiple and/or concentric loops; function processes all paths to valves.

Common DEG function, renamed to avoid conflicting with third-party customization.

Plant Schedule, allows selecting additional language Common Name.

Head Info, allows changing Design PSI for a Custom Drip Emitter.

OpenDCL loader, uses existing library installer if already downloaded.

Mainline Size, additional error handling for pipe with missing connected entities.

Plant Data, converted to web page, integrated international Common Name support.

Plant Manager, Add Plants, Filtering by Data, deselecting previous selection restores to no filter.

Tech Support, for Bricscad, does not prompt to copy files.

Paperspace Reactor, only attempts to reload details if AutoCAD version is greater than 2004.

Plant Photo Callout, scaling of photo, text and drop shadow improved for Metric Paperspace.

Plant Photo Callout, Right Click during leader placement will remove leader.

Project Files, Restore, loads Preferences as necessary before restoring project data.

HotFix: Editing a Shrub Area, and making changes other than changing the hatch pattern, will not cause the hatch pattern to be mistakenly doubly placed.

Common GoLayer function, error handling to avoid hard error when layer preparation fails.

Pipe Label, additional error handling to account for legacy pre-3.03 plans, and pipe with missing size data.

Plant Manager, Place Plants, Photo button added.

Mainline Size, Select Valves option, valve numbers are sorted by common valve number sort function.

Error Handler, sends error report using Ajax Post rather than CDO.

HotFix: RefNote Callouts, attribute is created with Middle Center alignment.

SketchUp Connection, assigning components, after component is selected, dialog box is automatically closed.

Detail Manager, scanning of changes to detail placement, compatible with non-standard layout tab names.

Common Write Local XML function, error handling for missing file permissions.

Preferences, Irrigation, British Metric classes added.

Plant Manager, Edit Plant, Place Plants, compatible with mixed-case variations of same Group name.

Save Detail, existing notes are displayed in dialog box.

Common entity selection, filtering for Work Areas, discards Z coordinate values after coordinate translation.

Mainline Size, displays maximum pipe size for given velocity.

Place Dripline, logic for determining selected polyline segment improved.

Zoning, Percent Used and Number of Stories added.

Internal Text label creation, Right and Center aligned text aligns along Bottom.

Area Total, loads quantity display preferences as required.

Plant Manager, Add Plants dialog boxes finessed for Bricscad.

Common View Web Page, uses default web browser if OpenDCL library fails to initialize.

Project Files, Export, Import, Deactivate, Activate consolidated into common Archive and Restore operations.

Restore Options, Plant Blocks correctly flagged in update process.

RefNote Schedule, calculating Length items, processes items in nested xrefs.

Initialization, allows manually specifying a language.

Plant Schedule, Space between Plants option allows toggling additional spaces added with Symbols at Plan Size.

BatchMan, error handling when saving file; additional error handling when opening files.

Reactivate, does not confirm action if license is missing.

Mainline Size, saving of Flow Zones, valve type moved to longer field for compatibility with non-English installs.

RefNote Callout, allows calling out an item multiple times.

Head Info, Replace function, logic improved for finding matching item for Bubblers and Drip Emitters.

Valve Callout, when renumbering valves, will not mistakenly add valve prefix twice to first valve.

Size Mainline, with a looped mainline, calculation for determining percentage of flow for each side of loop improved.

RefNote Schedule, output to Excel, area and volume quantities do not include suffix notation.

Common View Web Page function, uses OpenDCL library rather than DOSLib.

Plant Photo Callout created.

Water Source, default text compatible with non-English installs.

HotFix: RefNote description validation will not generate error.

Startup, auto-deletes RegApps if corruption is detected.

RefNotes, Edit Item, if description is longer than 254 characters, attempts to auto-adjust remarks field.

HotFix: Irrigation Schedule, output to Modelspace for a Metric plan, scaling of text and blocks corrected.

HotFix: Irrigation Manager, Add Controller to project, selecting a Controller Accessory, will be added to the project correctly.

Plant Schedule, minor finessing of plant name title.

Language files, support for Asian keyboard setup.

HotFix: Concept Schedule, common quantity display function will not generate error.

License Validation, compatible with future changes to license system.

HotFix: Common retrieve local XML function, type-o corrected.

HotFix: Common XML archive functions, translate illegal slash character to a hyphen.