Configuration of Preferences in Land F/X

 

A review of the Land F/X Preferences will allow you to quickly configure Land F/X to work closer to the way you work. It’s best to review the Preferences early on in the process of using Land F/X, however, changes to the preferences can be done at any time.

 

Selecting the Land F/X Preferences dialog box.

 

Upon selecting Preferences, there will be four categories for review:

 

General: Preferences for fonts used within the Land F/X program (such as for schedules, callouts, titles), and the Detail Module size and callout.

Planting: Preferences for the type of Plant Code and Plant Labels.

Plant Sizes: Preferences for the list of plant sizes, default plant size, the number and type of fields in the schedule, and the default cost for plants.

Irrigation: Preferences for the Valve Callout, pipe data, and schedules.

 

General Preferences

 

Preferences dialog box as it appears when opening, with the “General” Section open.

 

Fonts

 

The fonts listed in the font text styles box of the General Preferences are those fonts that Land F/X that are used within the program coding. The most common fonts to review early on in using Land F/X are the Schedule Text and Schedule Title fonts, which control the fonts for Planting and Irrigation Schedules, and Reference Notes Schedules.

 

Highlight a font style and select the Edit button. The Land F/X Font Manager dialog box will appear (see Font Styles under Adding Fonts and Text Styles in the Land F/X Help file).

 

 

Font Manager dialog box after selecting the “Schedule Text” font to edit. The list of Land F/X fonts is indicated in the “Font:” pulldown down box.

 

The Font Styles are listed to the right, and the Schedule Text font is highlighted. The specifications for this font, along with a preview, are listed to the left. Click on the Font: pulldown down to access the available fonts for this style.

§	Refer to Adding Fonts and Text Styles in the Land F/X Help file to indicate how to add your fonts to the Land F/X font list.

 

Land F/X controls text size by Point Size. Our Scale function will control the scale, so a 10 point font will automatically be scaled properly in Model Space or Paper Space to plot at 10 point size.

 

Planting Preferences

 

The Planting Preferences control:

§	Plant Code: to define how you want to reference the plant with code.

§	To allow or not allow duplicate symbols for plants. If this box is unchecked to NOT allow duplicate symbols, once you select a symbol for a plant, you will not see that symbol available again.

§	Determine the type of Plant Callout you will use and the type of extension line to that callout from the leader line.

§	The arrow type used to point to ground covers or shrub areas that you are calling out.

 

Planting Preferences dialog box.

 

Clicking on the Plant Label box will display the options for plant labels.

 

The Plant Callout formats that are displayed when you click on the Plant Label box.

 

If none of the labels are just what you are looking for, select the closest option for what you want, then click on the “Open Files” button below the Plant Label box. This will open the two files that pertain to the label selected. Move the information around as desired, or add more information as indicated in the Help file under Customization / Callouts / Plant Symbol Callout.

 

Plant Sizes Preferences

 

The Plant Sizes dialog box controls various aspects of what will be in the Plant Schedule, and how it will be displayed. This dialog box allows a great degree of flexibility, and allows the User to add their own individual fields.

 

 

Irrigation Preferences

 

The Irrigation Preferences dialog box controls the type of Valve Callout, and allows you to review the defaults for the Pipe Data and Schedule Data. You do not necessarily need to review the Pipe Data and Schedule Defaults at this time, as it is very easy and natural to do when you are doing the Irrigation Plan.

 

The Irrigation Preferences dialog box. Clicking on the Valve Callout box will display the options for the valve callout.

 

Open the drawing Irrigation Symbols.dwg in the LandFX/Administration folder. This is 8½x11 sheet size drawings with the irrigation symbols provided by Land F/X, and will help familiarize you with Land F/X symbols.