Concept Plant Manager

 

Concept Plants are a more generalized version of a Planting Plan and expresses the intent of the design and plant palette. This is done with planting groups rather than individual plants, and communicates the designers conceptual intent.

 

Land F/X provides methods to quickly produce Concept Plans and any data entered into the project for the conceptual work is directly available for input into the Planting Plan construction documents.

 

The Concept Plant Manager manages the plants and design groups for a project’s Concept Plan. You must open an existing project, or create a new project, to be able to access the Concept Plant Manager.

 

The Concept Plant Manager allows the user to add plants to the Plant Palette, edit the names of the plants, and associate plants and assign symbols for Plant Design Groups.

 

Concept Plant Manager Dialog Box

 

The Concept Plant Manager dialog box creates and organizes Plant Design Groups. These groups represent general categories of types of plants that apply to the project. Examples of Plant Design Groups might include:

§	Evergreen Street Tree, Deciduous Street Tree

§	Lawn Tree, Flowering Accent Tree, Conifer Background Tree, Windbreak Tree

§	Large Shrubs, Medium Shrubs, Low Shrub Mass

§	Shade Tolerant Shrubs

§	Large Accent Shrubs, Small Accent Shrubs

§	Low Ground Cover, Turf

 

The list of possible Plant Design Groups is endless. With each design group the user will assign a symbol to represent that group on the plan, and add a plant palette to the design group. The plant palette may consist of only one plant, but several plants that fulfill the intent of the design group may give the designer more flexibility.

 

 

Concept Plant Manager dialog box.

 

Plant Design Groups

Plant Design Groups are organized into four categories: Trees, Shrubs, Shrub Areas, and Ground Covers. When you click on the button next to one of these categories, the Plant Design Groups for that category will be displayed.

New: add a new design group.

Rename: renames the highlighted Design Group.

Delete: deletes the highlighted Design Group.

Import: import Design Groups from another project or template.

Up: moves the selected Design Group “up” on the list of groups in order to control the order of the listing on the Concept Schedule.

Down: moves the selected Design Group “down” on the list of groups in order to control the order of the listing on the Concept Plant Schedule.

Notes: add notes to further describe a Design Group if required. These notes will appear on the Concept Plant Schedule below the Design Group title.

Plant Symbol: click anywhere within the symbol box and access the symbol selection dialog box.

Symbol width: enter the desired width in feet for the symbol when it is entered into the plan.

 

Design Group Plant Palette:

When a Design Group is highlighted, add plants to the palette for that group.

Add by Name: add by the plant name in the same manner as for Project Plants.

Add from Project: add from another project or template in the same manner as for Project Plants.

Edit: edit the plant name as required.

Delete: delete a highlighted plant from the plant palette.

 

Place

Go directly to the Place Concept Plant dialog box to quickly place the Design Group plant symbol into your drawing.