Plant Info/Edit

 

The Plant Palette is quickly created without slowing down the user with having to make decisions on detail aspects of each plant. When feature decisions of the plant need to be made, select the Edit button to edit the plant information.

 

With the Project Plant Manager open, select the Edit button when a plant is highlighted to access the Plant Info dialog box. In this example the plant Pittosporum tobira ‘Variegata’ was highlighted when Edit was selected.

 

Plant Info dialog box appears when you highlight a plant and select “Edit” from the Plant Manager.

 

Plant Name

The botanical genius, species, and variety as well as the common name of the plant selected is displayed. This can be changed or edited as desired, for example, a different variety and common name entered.

 

Plant Code

The default code assigned to this plant is displayed. All of the plants in the Land F/X database have a unique code automatically assigned to them. This can be edited in this dialog box, effecting on this project plant, or in the Data Manager, which will effect that plants code for all projects. The Plant Code will assign a code to the plants in one of two methods:

§	GEN SPE: or the first three letters of the Genus, and the first three letters of the Species.

§	GS: or the first letter of the Genus, and the first letter of the Species.

You can assign which form of plant code you wish by going to the Preferences section of Configuration and Preferences.

 

Change Plant

If at any time, even after the plant has been placed into the drawing many times, the user desires a different plant to replace the original plant selected, choose Change Plant. The Add by Name dialog box will appear allowing you to select a new name to replace the previous name. If the plant was previously placed into the drawing, the drawing will automatically update and the new plant will be associated with the symbol.

 

Remarks

Any remarks pertaining to the selected plant will appear on a line just below the plant name on the Plant Schedule.

 

Detail

If a default detail was added to the plant category, such as Shrubs, it will be listed here. If this plant will require a different detail than the default one, select Set Detail to select a different one for this plant.

 

Container/Rootball Size

Select the installation rootball or plant caliper size for the plant selected. These can be gallon or box size, B&B for ball and burlap, or you can select Add New to add a size not listed.

Container drop down sizes as listed for “Shrubs”.

 

The Container/Rootball Sizes would be metric if you has set the drawings scale to metric.

F Remember: The container size will be the default size if you do not set it.

 

Caliper

If you wish to, you can define a caliper for a the plant, or you can select Add New to add a caliper not listed.

Caliper drop down sizes as listed for “Shrubs”.

 

The Caliper sizes would be metric if you has set the drawings scale to metric.

 

Size Range

If you wish to, you can define the size range for the plant.

 

Symbol width (feet)

This controls the width of the symbol as it is placed into the drawing. The default symbol sizes are 20 feet diameter for Trees, and 4 feet diameter for Shrubs. If the scale set were metric, the size would be in meters.

 

Symbol

The symbol selected for this plant is indicated in the box. As no symbol has been selected in this example, the box is empty. If you wish to assign a symbol to the plant, click anywhere inside the box.

 

Apply to All

If you are editing a plant type that has already been placed into a drawing, clicking OK after editing the plant information will change all of that plant type in the drawing to reflect your changes. If you want to only change a limited number of that plant type in the drawing to reflect the changes, uncheck the Apply to All option. You will be able to select any number of the type of plant edited with the standard AutoCAD selection types: window, crossing, fence, pickbox selection, etc. If you select window, only the plant in question will be selected in a group of plants.

 

This is valuable in changing only a few of a plant that you want to edit, for instance, to change a handful of a number of street trees to a different type or container size.

 

Shrub Area and Ground Cover Spacing

 

The Plant Info dialog box for Shrub Areas or Ground Covers is different from Trees and Shrubs in that it allows you to define the spacing between plants.

 

Container/Rootball Size

The sizes in the Container/Rootball Size drop down box include an “@” symbol after the size to signify the container size is planted at a certain spacing.

 

Container drop down sizes as listed for Ground Covers.

Container drop down sizes as listed for Shrub Areas.

 

Plant Spacing O.C.

Instead of a Symbol Width box as is located at Trees and Shrubs, a Plant Spacing O.C. box occurs with Shrub Areas and Ground Covers.

 

Plant spacing o.c. box at Shrub Areas and Ground Covers.

 

Manually fill in a number for the spacing as required for this plant. This is automatically considered inch units for imperial, and mm units for metric.