Place Concept Plants

 

Use the Place Concept Plants floating toolbar to access the Plant Design Group symbols to be placed into your drawing.

 

 

Place Concept Plants floating toolbar with icons for Trees, Shrubs, Shrub Areas, and Ground Cover. The floating toolbar can be closed at any time by clicking on the ‘X’ in the upper right hand corner. To reactivate, select Place Concept Plant as above.

 

The Place Concept Plants floating toolbar has a icon button for the categories Trees, Shrubs, Shrub Areas, and Ground Covers. Select the category desired and the Design Groups selected for that category are displayed.

 

Selecting Trees from the Place Concept Plants floating toolbar will list the tree Design Groups and their corresponding symbols.

 

Select the Design Group you wish to place into the drawing by clicking on the description in the list to the left, or the representative symbol to the right.

Place the design group trees into the drawing.

 

Place design group shrubs into the drawing as desired. All plants are placed in Model Space.

 

Shrub design group placement added with the trees.

 

 

Place Ground Cover Line Type Borders

 

Land F/X assumes a hatch pattern for all ground covers, and a non-plot controlling polyline border is required.

 

To add a graphical edge to the ground cover areas, use one of the Land F/X graphic lines to border the area. These are available in the Graphics Toolbar. In this example, the Scallop Line function is used to draw an edge for the ground cover. Make the active layer L-PLANT-EDGE for a thicker line, and to provide control of the line weight you use.

 

See the Scallop Line feature for how to add this.

 

Scallop Line example.

 

The Scallop Line can be used to provide an edge to a hatched area, or, if you encircle the entire area with the Scallop Line, it will provide the hatching border, as it is a polyline also. Add the ground cover hatch fills at the intended ground cover areas by either using the non-plot border polyline, or if the Scallop Line is closed around an area, using the Scallop Line.

 

Placing the hatch patterns in the ground cover area.

 

Another Land F/X line type that can be useful is the Random Pointy Line function.

 

Place Turf Stipple Hatch

 

The turf areas in this example are hatched with the Land F/X Stipple Hatch pattern. This produces the effect of a gradient pattern denser at the edge. The Stipple Hatch pattern was selected as the pattern to represent Turf when the concept plant palette was setup.

 

With the Place Concept Plant floating toolbar open, select the Ground Cover icon. Of the ground cover options, highlight the Turf Sod Design Group. Select one of the turf non-plot polyline layers and keep clicking towards the inside of the area until it is hatches.

 

Select the border polyline of the area you want to hatch.	Click anywhere in the interior of the hatch area. The stipple starts the first gradient.	Click again anywhere in the interior. The second stipple gradient is added.
Continue to click again anywhere in the interior, and more gradients are added.	The final interior area is ready for selection, and the hatching will be finished.	After selecting the last interior area, or right clicking at any time, the border polylines will be turned off, and the finished hatch pattern will be displayed.

 

The Stipple Hatch was developed for carefully designed densities and widths of areas so that it looks good on small areas as well as large.