The Land F/X detail functions allow the End User to create and file details in a logical and systematic manner. A wide variety of Detail Graphics are available for quickly creating and building details. Detail insertion is assisted with the Land F/X detail file system, and details can be automatically associated with Schedule Items and Reference Notes.

The volume and complexity of details makes the Land F/X organizational database and detail builder an invaluable tool.

In This Section

• Saving Details

• Tools for rapidly creating a Detail, including Detail Graphics and Detail Hatch.

• Add Standard Details and Component Details to the project with the Detail Manager.

• Place details into a detail sheet drawing.

• Editing and automatic updating of details placed into the drawing.

• Insert Detail Callouts and Detail Callout Placeholders.

• Associating details with plants through the Plant Manager, irrigation components through the Irrigation Manager, and Reference Notes.

The Land F/X Detail system is intended for the user to save their construction details into, to utilize the capability of an advanced filing and search capability, and automatic handling of callouts and schedule references.

Details can be saved as Standard Details or Component Details.

• Standard Details are ones that you believe might be used over and over again on many projects. These details might include: curb and gutter, irrigation heads and valves, planting, seating walls, etc. Standard Details utilize a CSI numbering system, to specifically indicate the type of detail. This allows easy selection of details of a certain category, as well as simplifying the process of replacing a detail for a similar variation.

• Component Details are those where several details together describe a physical object, or Component. These may include complex multi-detail items such as decks, trellis, signage, or standard items such as planting details that have a very unique situation. Rather than scatter these details across the CSI numbering system, and having to decide which section is more applicable to a complicated object involving many materials, Component Details allow a more simplified filing structure. Component Details are often specific to a certain project, but can quickly be accessed for a future project that has similar needs, without needing to recall the exact project the details were created for.

Regardless of whether you intend to save a detail as a Standard or Component Detail, you must first insert a Detail Template to indicate the extent of the detail.

The Detail Size and Scale dialog box.

From the Detail Size and Scale dialog box the End User can, on the fly, pick various detail sizes and scales until they find the best fit for the assembly they wish to detail.

For the following example, the handrail from a bridge assembly is tall and narrow, so the 1B detail size would be a logical size first choice. Select the 1B detail size and try the 3”=1’- 0” detail scale to see how that fits the assembly. Selecting OK results in an outline of the detail at the crosshairs, as shown below.

Selecting a 1B detail size and 3”=12” scale results in a detail boundary that is too small for the desired detail assembly area.

It is quickly evident that this scale is not inclusive enough. Right Clicking will bring you back to the Detail Size and Scale dialog box, select the next scale down, or 1½”=1’- 0”. The outline of the detail area is again present at the crosshairs, but this time is larger reflecting the new scale factor.

Selecting a 1B detail size and1½”=1’- 0” scale results in a detail boundary that is appropriate for the desired detail assembly area.

When you have the size that you want, simply click to place the Detail. The Finished product will look like the image below.

Click on the location you wish to insert the detail template, area and the border is drawn along with the detail title and detail number placeholders.

When the detail template is inserted, the Insert Template feature automatically performs the following functions:

• Draws the outline border limits for the detail.

• Inserts the detail title, scale, and file number locations.

• Inserts the detail number location and draws the circle and title line.

• Sets the scale of the drawing to the scale selected for the detail.

• Loads all of the detail layers from the Land F/X Layer Manager, and sets the text layer as the current layer.

• Sets the text style for DETAIL TEXT, allowing the End User to immediately enter text.

• Sets the dimension style

Once the module has been inserted, the user can insert text, hatch, leaders, Detail Graphics, or other finishes to the detail in order to prepare it to be saved.

Standard Detail File System and Detail File Numbers

Standard Details are saved to a folder within the Land F/X directory structure at LandFX/Details/Standard. This allows all office staff access to the details in an organized and systematic manner. The details are saved with a detail number called a Detail File Number.

Land F/X saves and retrieves details within a Detail Categories file system. This system is based upon the 2004 Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) MasterFormat^TM 48 division classification of construction components.

The CSI classification system is designed for individual construction components. As details are made up of a variety of construction components, some alteration of the CSI system was necessary to reflect the detail filing requirements.

The Detail File Number that is assigned to a detail that is being saved is based upon an eight-ten digit system.

This results in a Detail File Number that has a clearly defined CSI Section Number, then the Category with the detail number in that category. For instance, the detail for a turf rotor head would entail:

32 (Exterior Improvements) 84 (Irrigation) 03 (Irrigation Heads) . 16 (Turf Rotor Heads) – xx (number within subcategory).

or 32 8403.16-01 (for detail number 01 in this subcategory).

This detail file system allows for a large number of details to be saved in any one specific category. In the above example, the file system allows for 99 potential details that are just turf rotors.

If there are multiple details on the page, when choosing Save Standard Detail, you will get a prompt to “Select Boundary of Detail to save”

When selecting Save a Standard Detail the Detail Category dialog box will appear to determine where to file the detail.

Detail Category dialog box

The Detail Category dialog box lists the Division, Subdivision, Category, and Sub Category for detail files. When you select a Division, the related Subdivisions will be indicated in the Subdivision column. Selecting a Subdivision will display the related Categories in that column.

In the bridge guardrail detail example above, select Division 06 – Wood, Subdivision 30 – Site Carpentry, Category 33 – Pedestrian Bridge, and SubCategory 23 – Bridge Guardrail.

The Detail Grouping in the bottom left corner is an advanced additional top-level grouping that is generally only used by extremely large companies with thousands of details and only a handful of highly specialized projects. In this fashion, they can still file their details by a standard detail number, but can have two additional levels of hierarchy above the standard detail number, for instance, adding BEIJ-WALK above a series a details, indicating they are all for the Beijing Olympic garden, the Walkway feature.

Detail categories selected by Division, Subdivision, Category, and Sub Category

With the subcategory 23 Bridge Guardrail highlighted, enter the detail number, located near the bottom right corner at the Detail Number: box, and click on Select.

The Detail Info dialog box will appear to allow you to fill in the title that will go in the detail, and other notes and information.

Note: The management of the detail categories is done with the Land F/X Preferences. You can also print a complete list of detail categories from there.

In order to select a detail number, you may need to browse through the details that have previously been saved in this category. Select Browse before deciding on a detail number and view any previously saved details. See below.

Detail Info dialog box.

Detail File:

This will be the Detail File Number, and is unique to this detail only. It is grayed out because the process to save the detail has established this number, and the End User cannot change it with this dialog box.

The Detail File Number is how the detail is saved, in this case 063033.23-02.dwg. The Standard Details are located in the directory LandFX/Details/Standard. The Detail File Number will also be displayed at the lower right hand corner of the detail.

Title:

This will be the detail title displayed on the detail. Enter this title as you want it to appear on the detail. In this example, the title will be BRIDGE GUARDRAIL.

Description/Notes:

This is a text field to be used as necessary to record any pertinent information the End User wishes to record about the detail. This field is entirely optional, yet can be useful to enter standard keywords, to facilitate searching the detail database at a later date.

File Date, Drawn by, Checked by:

If filled out, this is saved with the detail info.

Save:

Select Save after, at a minimum, filling in a detail title. The detail will be saved in the LandFX/Details/Standard folder and will be ready for use.

When you select OK, the detail is saved a dialog box will indicate:

The detail has been saved. You may discard the changes made to the current drawing.

The system has Wblock’ed out the contents of the detail boundary to the specified detail file. The can now move on to other details that may be in the current drawing, or discard the drawing entirely (although it is usually a good idea to file the source drawing in an appropriate place on the file server). If the user wishes to make further changes or revisions to this detail, you can either open the file manally, or use the Open detail capability of the Detail Manager or the Edit Detail button.

Browse and View

When you are saving a detail in the Detail Category dialog box, or using the Detail Manager, you may want to browse the details that have been previously created under a Category. As an example, select 04 Masonry, 22 Concrete Unit Masonry, and the Category 66 CMU Free Standing Wall Finished.

Detail Category dialog box with 042266 Category selected

With the Category highlighted, select Browse to view the thumbnail library of details that have previously been saved in this category. This will aid you in deciding what category detail number to assign the detail being saved.

The Browse dialog box after selecting ”Browse” from the Detail Category. This allows the End User to view the details that have been saved in that category.

Within the Browse dialog box you can more closely view any specific detail by selecting the View button.

Viewing a specific detail from the Browse dialog box

Component Details are those that relate to a complex component, where the grouping of the related details is more important than the CSI material structure. Alternately, the detail may just be clearly specific to a project, with no pressing justification to save it within the Standard Detail library. Component Details allow a simplified filing structure, and are saved to a folder within the Land F/X directory structure at LandFX/Details/Component.

As with Standard Details, the Component Details are saved with a Detail File Number, however, in a more simplified file system than Standard Details:

Component Category

Components are the physical objects that the details are describing. These components are in turn filed into a relevant Category. For instance, a Category could simply be “Bridges.” Yet you may further delineate categories, with up to three levels of hierarchy. So, you could have “Bridges”, under which is “Wood Bridges” and “Metal Bridges”, and under Wood Bridges could be “Girder Bridges”, “Truss Bridges”, “Rigid Framed Bridges”, etc. Component Categories require a one to seven character code, that must begin with a letter.

Component

The component is the physical object the detail is describing. While the name of the Component might be more generalized, such as “Pedestrian Footbridge,” the Component Code could be the project number the detail was originally created for, just a single letter or number, or some truncation of the title such as “PEDBRDG”.

Division

One of the 2004 Construction Specification Institute (CSI) Section Numbers that apply to the detail. One component might be very complex and require a number of Divisions, such as a complex element that has 03 Concrete, 05 Metal, 06 Wood, etc. If the component will only have one or a handful of details, or if the detail is either comprised of many different materials or just an overall detail, you can just select division 01.

Detail Number

A two digit number to define the detail.

The result of this detail file system is that Component Details are grouped by their component category, then by their specific component, and finally are grouped together within a logical CSI Division and detail number. This detail file system will be especially appreciated as your firm develops greater numbers of Component Details.

For instance, the detail for a wood trellis framing for a project with the number 03.305 might entail:

TRELW (Wood Trellises) – 03.305 (Project Number) – 06 (Wood) 02 (second detail in component)

or TRELW-03.335-0602

When selecting Save a Component Detail, the Save Component Detail dialog box will appear, to allow you to specify its Component Detail number.

Save Component Detail dialog box.

Category

Highlight the component category that applies for this component. Ones that have sub-categories have plus (+) signs next to them. You can add a component category, sub-category, or sub-sub-category if necessary.

Component

If you have already saved one of the other details for this Component, you can just select that Component. If this component has not yet been created, after selecting the appropriate Category, select New within the Component area.

New Component for bridge detail.

After selecting and/or adding categories and a component, the dialog box will display the relevant filing hierarchy for this detail.

Save Component Detail with Component Code and description.

Division

Select a CSI Division that best fits the detail you are saving. This is not critical, but is helpful in organizing the details for a complex component. In this example select 06 Wood and Plastics.

Detail Number

Now enter a two digit detail number. If other details presently exist for this Component, the Browse button will be active. As an aid to selecting a Detail Number, you can select Browse to view the other details and their Detail Numbers that have been saved

Press Select after entering a detail number and the Detail Info dialog box will appear.

Detail Info dialog box for the Component Detail example.

This is similar to the Standard Detail dialog box for saving a detail, in that the Detail File Number is displayed in a read-only fashion at the top, and the optional fields of Drawn by, and Notes are available if desired. At a minimum, fill out the detail title that you wish displayed on the detail. In this example, the title will be BRIDGE GUARDRAIL.

When you select OK, the detail is saved a dialog box will indicate:

The detail has been saved. You may discard the changes made to the current drawing.

Select Save, and the system will save everything within the Detail Boundary in the folder LandFX/Details/Component, as the selected Detail File Number. Further edits or revisions to the detail will have to be to that drawing. The current drawing can be discarded, but is usually good idea to file in an appropriate place on the file server, or even archive into that detail’s History.

The Detail Builder is a floating toolbar, with functions for the rapid creation of details. The shortcut to functions from the Detail Builder toolbar will all be correctly scaled for the scale of any detail, even if you have mulitple detail boundaries within a single DWG.

Detail Builder toolbar.

Detail Graphics provide a convenient access to blocks of individual pieces of elements and components used in creating and finishing a detail. These would include bolts and connectors, irrigation equipment, masonry blocks, precast concrete components, wood and metal framing members, door and window sections, etc.

The list of Detail Graphics is so wide ranging that the real intent of the Land F/X Detail Graphics is to allow a convenient process for the End User to add detail component blocks to the file system, and make those blocks immediately available through the Land F/X Detail Component system.

Land F/X default Detail Graphics.

The above listing is a basic beginning framework for what the final extent of the Detail Graphics will ultimately result in.

A quick method to add Detail Graphics on-the-fly as you create them is with the Save Block function. This function will automatically add a selected component as a block into the Land F/X Detail Component system, and allow it to immediately be available for input.

Detail Hatch is a set group of hatch patterns that apply to detail materials, and have a predetermined scale that can be End User refined, thus eliminating the worry about what scale a hatch pattern needs to be set to.

Detail Hatch dialog box. Note that the Groundcover and Site hatch patterns are also available from this dialog box.

The Detail Hatch dialog box allows the user to adjust the scale that has been predetermined for each hatch pattern. Simply click on a specific hatch pattern and select the View button.

Selecting “View” from the Detail Hatch dialog box will display an enlarged example of the hatch pattern. The Scale or Rotation can be adjusted with the slider bars at the bottom. Any changes to the hatch pattern are saved as the default for future use.

The Detail Manager will automatically open when selecting Details from the Reference Notes or the Detail Callouts. You can also open the function with the Detail Manager icon or pull-down menu.

The Detail Manager controls the details for the project. This function:

§ Displays thumbnails of any details that have been previously added to the project.

§ Indicates by Detail Number any details that have been previously added to the project.

§ It lists any details that have been placed into a drawing, along with the details sheet number and detail number.

§ Allows any added details to be reviewed, edited, or deleted from the project.

§ Allows Standard or Component Details to be added to the project.

Detail Manager. No details have been added to the project so none are visible in the thumbnails to the right or listed on the left.

Detail Info

Detail Info will bring up a dialog box displaying a larger preview of the selected detail, along with its information, and an ability to open the detail to edit it.

Delete

This will delete and remove a highlighted detail from the project.

Replace Detail

If you need to replace a detail with another, this button will allow you to easily do this, while retaining any references to the detail from any callouts, reference notes, plants, or irrigation equipment. If the detail has also been placed into the drawing, the revised detail will be inserted in its place. When you replace a standard detail, you will be prompted with the details within that category.

Import

Import one or more details from another Project or from a Template.

To add a Standard Detail to the project, select the Add Std button from the Detail Manager. The Standard Detail dialog box will appear.

The Standard Detail dialog box lists CSI Divisions on the left, and the corresponding Subdivisions and Categories on the right. Only Divisions with details saved in them will be viewable. The other Divisions do not have any details at this time, and thus are not available.

Standard Detail Dialog box. Only Divisions that have details stored within them are displayed.

As an example, add a redwood header board mow strip detail to the project. Selecting 32 Exterior Improvements, 94 Planting Accessories, and 13 Landscape Edging, and click on Select.

Standard Detail selection, with selected detail category highlighted. Note that you can navigate among the various sub-categories at the upper left portion of the dialog box.

Highlight the desired detail and select OK. The detail will appear in the project Detail Manager.

Detail Manager with the header detail added.

Notice that the added detail is listed to the left under “Details”. That means the detail has been added to the project but not yet placed into the drawing. When it is placed into the drawing it will be listed under “Placed Details”, and will include the Sheet Number and Detail Number.

To add a Component Detail to the project, select the Add Comp button from the Detail Manager. A dialog box will appear listing the Categories that have Component details saved. Categories that have Sub-Categories, or Sub-sub-Categories will have a plus (+) symbol next to them, clicking on them will expand that item. Highlight the desired Category and select OK.

Categories that have Component Details saved.

After selecting a Category, the Components filed within that Category are displayed.

Component Details for the selected Category. In this case, there is only one Component within the Category, selected in the upper left. The details within the Component are displayed, with an ability to View them.

The upper left corner lists the components that have details. The lower left corner lists the details by name in the component. These are saved by a two digit CSI Division and a two digit detail number. In this manner, if there are a large amount of details for a particular component, they would be grouped by CSI Division.

Highlight the detail you wish to add to the project and select OK. As all of the details for this component interrelate to one another, a dialog box will ask if you wish to add all details for that Component, or just the one selected. Click Yes and all of the details for this component will be added to the project. Click No and only the detail you highlighted will be added to the project.

Adding all of the details for the selected Component. These are indicated along with the Standard Detail added earlier. Notice the ordering lists Standard Details first with their numerical CSI system, then Component details.

Use a Detail Callout Placeholder when you want to quickly define where details will be needed, while associating a detail with them at a later time. This is useful if you are not sure if the detail exists in the Standard or Component Detail libraries, or if you want a graphic reminder of what details you will need to develop.

Inserting Detail Placeholders is a similar process to the Detail Callout procedure, except that you do not have to associate a detail with the placeholder at the time of insertion.

Select the type of detail callout you wish, either Section, Arrow, or Circle (as defined in Callout above), and insert the placeholder. The Detail Placeholder symbol is different from a Detail Callout in that is dashed, to identify it as a placeholder.

Detail Placeholder sequence.

Finished Detail Placeholder callout. The “Associate Callout” function will have to be used to associate details to the placeholders at a later date.

Detail Callouts can be of two types:

Detail Callout is used to refer to a specific detail that has already been added to the Detail Manager, or that you know exists as a Standard or Component Detail.

Detail Placeholder is used to signify that a detail will be associated with this callout at a future date.

Step 1 – Select Insert Detail Callout

When you select Detail Callout the options for the callout will appear.

Detail Callout Option dialog box.

The Detail Options are:

Detail Section which will create a section line at the location of the component to be detailed.

Detail Arrow will point with an arrow to the component to be detailed.

Detail Circle will encircle the component to be detailed.

Section Flag allows pointing along a section line.

Section Double provides an alternate method of pointing along a section line.

Plain option allows inserting a callout with no arrow option at all.

Include detail title: when this box is checked, the title of the detail will be printed alongside the callout.

For example, select Detail Section. The command line will ask:

Start detail cut.

Select point 1 on the drawing to define the start of the detail cut flag. The command line will ask:

End detail cut.

Select point 2 on the drawing to define the end of the detail cut flag.

Select point 3 which will define where the horizontal leader line will occur.

Select point 4 which will be the start of the detail callout circle.

Detail Callout sequence.

Finished callout.

F Remember:

§ The first callout leader line will be inline with the two points you just entered, so some care should be taken that you are satisfied with the angle of the two points you selected.

§ The detail cut flag (or two thick lines on each side of the leader line, to signify where the detail is being taken) will occur between the first two points above. Some care should be taken that you are satisfied with the length of the detail cut flag.

The detail callout is now associated with the detail selected. Notice that the callout bubble appears blank. This is because you have not yet placed the detail into the drawing, so Land F/X does not yet know the sheet and detail number to indicate this detail. When you place the detail into the drawing, no matter what sheet it is on, simply update the detail callouts and this information will automatically be filled in.

If the detail you were associating with this callout had already been placed into any drawing of the project, then the detail callout would have had the sheet number and detail number automatically filled in.

Detail Arrow simply puts an arrow point at the first selection click, and Detail Circle simply asks for the center and outer edge of a circle before placing the callout.

Examples of the three different types of Detail Callout leaders, Section, Arrow, and Circle.

Step 2 – Associate a detail with the callout.

When you insert a Detail Callout, the Detail Manager for that project will appear. This will indicate any details you have previously selected for the project. You can either click on one of the existing details added to the project, thus associating it with the callout, or add a Standard or Component Detail to the project if necessary.

Detail Manager, displaying details in current project, including recently added one to be associated with the current callout.

After selecting OK, the callout will be associated with this detail.

You are able to place detail callouts within a Component Detail. This is useful to have one overall detail, that then references the other details in the component. As the detail references can not be assigned until the details are saved, there are two general ways to accomplish this:

§ Insert a Detail Callout Placeholder into the detail while initially defining it; then after saving all the details for the Component, use the Edit Detail button to click on the detail File Number to edit the finalized detail. You can now Associate the Placeholder Callouts to become Detail Callouts and save the changes to the detail.

Land F/X inserts details into Paper Space much like schedules and notes. This greatly speeds up the detail insertion and display process.

The User may have a standard Detail sheet template that has an existing non-plot grid into which details can be placed. Land F/X offers a Detail Sheet Template function that will draw an appropriate grid on the fly, of any rectangular shape.

You will be prompted for the Upper Left Window of the sheet template. After clicking at that location, move the curser towards the lower right corner of the sheet template. The template will be viewed as you move the curser, indicating the size and number of detail modules, with the maximum possible detail modules spaced evenly through the area.

Click the location of the lower right corner when you are satisfied with the sheet template layout.

Click points 1 and 2 to define the sheet template area.

The number and size of the detail modules will change as you move your curser from point 1 to point 2. Click the lower right corner when you are satisfied with the template layout.

F Remember:

§ The Detail Sheet Template is drawn with layer Z-DETL-NPLT, and is a non-plot layer so you can turn it off after use, or leave it on and it will not show up on a plot

§ After drawing the Detail Sheet Template, it will act as a block so you can grab and move it to a final position if you wish.

Important! You may only place details onto a single layout tab within each drawing. Land F/X will associate the DWG with the sheet, so you are limited to having details only placed on a single paperspace tab within each drawing.

With a Sheet Template available as a guide, insert the details that have been added to the project, but have not yet been inserted into a sheet.

Open the Detail Manager and select a detail to insert. The first time you insert a detail into a drawing, you will have to indicate what sheet number that drawing is, so the database can keep track of what detail and sheet number each detail is.

Filling in the Sheet number and title on the Select Current Sheet dialog box. You must fill in a sheet number, but it is not necessary to fill in the Sheet Title.

When you select OK you will be prompted for the detail number:

Prompting for the Detail Number.

The system will automatically suggest the next available number. You can assign any detail number you wish, and the system will verify that there are no other details on the current sheet with the specified number in use.

The outline of the detail module size of the detail you are inserting will appear at the cross hairs, with the insertion point at the lower left corner. Move the detail to the lower left corner of the appropriate Detail Sheet Template module where you want the detail to appear,

The AutoCAD Object Snap is automatically turned on when inserting a detail, with the snap set to Intersection. In this way, you will be consistent in where you insert your details. The Object Snap will then automatically be turned off after detail insertion.

The detail is inserted and automatically scaled to fit into Paper Space. Any callouts in the current drawing that are referencing that detail will be filled out with the correct number and sheet number.

Now the project database will automatically relate this detail to the location and sheet number you placed it. This location will be referenced to the Planting and Irrigation Schedules, Reference Notes, or detail callout within any other drawing of the project. If you should delete the detail and place it at another location on this sheet or any other sheet, the new location will automatically be the new detail indication.

F Remember:

§ You can freely move details as required after you place them.

§ If you numbered a detail wrong, or want to change the order of detail placement, delete and re-insert the details as required. The Detail Manager will reflect any changes in numbering or order that you make.

§ If you want a detail on a completely different sheet, delete the detail and go to the other sheet drawing and place it there. The Schedules, Notes, and Callouts will automatically reflect any changes to numbering or sheet placement that you make.

§ If you need to change the number of a sheet, simply do that from the Project Manager, and all references to placed details will now reflect the revised sheet number.

If, after placing details into a detail sheet, you may find that you want to make some changes or alterations to the details. Select the Edit Detail function to edit details.

The command line will ask:

Select detail or callout to edit:

With the pickbox select either a placed detail or a callout referencing a detail. Note that you can also select the Detail File Number of a recently saved detail. The selected detail's original AutoCAD drawing will open. Edit the detail as required.

If the editing is to pertain to all future use of this detail, simply save changes to the drawing.

If the editing creates a variation of the original detail, save the detail as a Standard Detail or a Component Detail using the Save Detail feature. When the system asks if you wish to overwrite the existing detail, select No to enter a new detail number and title. If you wish to change the Title of the detail, you can select Yes to overwrite, which will bring up the Save Detail dialog and allow you to edit the detail title.

After the editing is finished, select the Update Details function to update all of the details in the drawing.

When you select Update Details all of the details on the sheet will be redefined into the drawing from their original locations, and will retain their current numbering system. This will result in any editing changes that were performed to be reflected throughout the sheet.

After selecting Update Details, a dialog box will indicate that all details in the current drawing have been updated with their most current versions.

After a Detail Callout was associated with a detail, and that detail was inserted into a drawing of the project, the callout can be updated to reflect the detail number and sheet number connected with it. As callouts in the current drawing are automatically updated as the detail is placed, this is only necessary if the corresponding detail was placed onto a different DWG.

When you select this function, the callouts on the current drawing will be updated.

Before selecting Update Callouts.

After selecting Update Callouts. The two Detail Callouts are updated because they had details associated with them that were inserted into another drawing. The other callout is a Placeholder Callout that has not yet had a detail associated with it, thus it is dashed.

Associate a callout to assign a specific detail to that callout. You can associate a Placeholder Callout or a Detail Callout.

The command line will ask:

Select callout to associate:

After selecting a callout you will be taken to the Detail Manager. From the Detail Manager, either select one of the details you have already added to the project, or add a Standard Detail or a Component Detail and highlight that detail. The callout will then be updated to a Detail Callout, and be filled in with detail number and sheet number if that detail has been inserted into a project drawing.

Select the Placeholder Callout to be associated with a detail.

After selecting a detail from the Detail Manager, the Placeholder Callout is updated for that detail.

F Remember: The Associate Callout function works on any callout, not just Placeholder Callouts. Use this function to associate a Detail Callout where you either change your mind or have made a mistake in its detail association.

Details can be associated with the project plants when you add them to the project, or at any later time with the Project Plant Manager. It is often more convenient to associate details to the project plants after most or all of the Planting Plan is complete, and you have a good idea of the detail requirements for the project.

The first detail you select for a plant in a plant group, such as Trees, should be the most common detail for the group, and will be the default detail for that group. As the default detail, this detail will automatically be associated with all of the plants in that group. This is because, more often than not, most of the details for a plant group will be the same detail. After adding the first detail, or the default detail, select Edit to add a different detail for each plant that has a different detail than the default detail.

Selecting the Default Detail button will bring up a dialog box for the plant group that was selected. In this case, the group Trees was selected, and the detail dialog box displays details for Tree Planting.

Detail dialog box for the detail group Tree Planting.

The upper left corner of this dialog box displays the sub-categories for the detail group Tree Planting. The detail numbers and titles for the highlighted category are listed on the bottom left, and a thumbnail of the details is indicted on the right. Select any detail and click on View, and an enlarged image of the detail will be visible.

When you highlight a detail and select OK from the detail dialog box, that detail will now be the default detail representing all trees in the project. If some of the trees require a different detail, highlight that tree and select |Edit, and associate a different detail as required.

Select the appropriate default detail and specific details as required for the trees, shrubs, and ground covers. These details are now stored with the project and are ready for placement into a drawing with the Detail Manager.

F Remember:

§ At any time you can replace the default detail for a plant group with another detail by selecting Default Detail from the Project Plant Manager. This does not change the details for plants that where associated with specific details other than the default detail.

§ After you have assigned a default detail to a plant group, you may add more plants to the group By Name or By Project. These new plants will automatically be assigned the default detail.

Details can be associated with the irrigation components when you add them to the project, or at any later time with the Project Irrigation Manager. Selecting the Detail button will display the Standard Details for the corresponding category of details.

Standard Details displayed for association with irrigation equipment.

Select the appropriate details as required for all models in the heads, valves, auxiliary equipment, and drip categories. These details are now stored with the project and are ready for placement into a drawing with the Detail Manager.

F Remember:

§ When you Import irrigation components from another project, the associated detail information will also be brought into the current project, in order to allow a quick process of importing data and information.

§ Checking the View All box will display all equipment types, allowing easy specifying of detail for each.

Reference Notes are a powerful tool for managing notations that reference to text descriptions. They also allow an easy ability to specify a detail, with a more textual representation of the condition, than utilizing a Detail Callout would allow.

Select the Detail button to open the Detail Manager. If no details have been added to the project, the Detail Manager will be blank. Select either a detail you have already added to the project, or select a Standard Detail or a Component Detail to add to the project and associate with this Reference Note.

After placing the detail, you can select to include the Detail column on the Reference Note Schedule, having it automatically appear next to the corresponding note.

Even though the Land F/X detail system is built around adding and placing details one at at time, you can create a standard detail sheet rather easily. The process would be as follows:

§ Create a temporary project, or use an existing project with its details

§ Assemble the desired details in the Detail Manager, and place them into a drawing

§ Save the project as a Template in the Project Files screen, and save the DWG into an appropriate location as a Detail Sheet Master

§ When ready to use the detail sheet on a new project, base the project’s Sheets and Details on the template, to bring in the details with their sheet references

§ Open the Detail Sheet Master DWG that has the placed details in it, and save it into the new project’s folder

§ You will also need to associate this DWG with the new project from the Project Files screen

§ You may very well need to change the sheet number, which can easily be done from the Project Manager screen

To print the details created with Land F/X, or to just print all the details come with it, you can use the Print Details function. You need to have a blank drawing open, and after clicking Print Details, the Page Setup dialog box will appear. You will need to select an appropriate printer, CTB file, and specify an 8½ x 11 Portrait layout – if you do not have such a layout selected when you click Ok, you will be notified that you need to do so.

Once you have selected your Portrait Letter layout settings, the Print Details dialog box will appear:

Print Details dialog box.

You have four options to select which details to print:

§ All by Date: This option will print both Standard and Component details, saved on or after the date specified; the next time you Print Details, this date will default to the last date you printed all details.

§ Standard by Division: This will print only Standard details, within the selected division. Note that the list of divisions only displays the divisions that have details within them.

§ Component by Category: This will let you select any single Component detail Category, to print all details within it.

§ All Details: This will print the entire detail library, both Standard and Component, and reset the Details Last Printed date to today’s date.