Edit Plants

 

The planting design and production document process needs to be fluid and flexible. It is common to have to change plant types, names, symbols, quantities, or container size at any point during the construction document process.

 

The View/Edit Plant function allows the user great flexibility in changing the Planting Plan at any time. All aspects of the planting information can be changed and the changes reflected automatically throughout the plan.

 

 

The View/Edit Plant function will ask, “Select plant” at the command line. Select the plant you wish to redefine and the Plant Info dialog box will appear.

 

Plant Info dialog box from the View/Edit Plant function.

 

Change Plant

The Change Plant button assumes the user wants a completely different plant to replace the selected plant. Clicking on the Change Plant button will bring up a list of plants currently in the project for that plant code (i.e., trees). The process assumes your first choice to replace the edited plant is with another one from the project.

 

List of plants currently in the project.

 

If you want to change the plant to a plant not currently in the project, select the Add New button at the bottom of the above dialog box. This will take you to the Add by Name process, to add a plant to the project by name.

 

When you add a new plant you will see that plant’s Plant Info dialog box.

 

Plant add with the Add by Name process.

 

Review the plant information for this plant in the Plant Info dialog box, and select a symbol and symbol size for this new plant. Now click on one of the two buttons at the bottom of the Plant Info dialog box:

OK: When you click on OK, all of the plants within the drawing that you selected to edit will be changed to the new plant, with the new plant symbol, and any changed container size. The symbols throughout the drawing for the old plant will change to the new symbol selected, and any callouts for the old plant with be changed to a callout reflecting the new plant and the new plant container size.

Select: When you click on Select, an AutoCAD pic box will appear to allow you to use any AutoCAD selection process to pick some of the old plants that you want changed to the new one. Use this is you are only changing some but not all of the old plant.

 

Rootball/Plant Size and Symbol width

The rootball, or container size, can be changed to any larger or smaller size. The new size will automatically be updated on any plant labels already entered into the project.

 

Symbol

Click on the symbol in the box and the Plant Symbol Library for that plant type will appear. Select the new symbol and all existing symbols on the drawing will be updated when you press OK.

 

Select

Select allows you to select the individual plants of the plant type being edited. This might be advantageous if you are changing only a few of a certain plant type. When you click Select you will go to the standard AutoCAD selection methods, window, crossing, individual selection, etc. If you chose to select by window, only the plant type being edited will be considered in a mass planted area.

 

Select plant to be redefined.

Change the rootball size from 5 gallon to 15 gallon, and the symbol to a different symbol.

 

Select the new symbol from the Symbol Library.

After changes select OK. Selecting OK will change all of this plant in the drawing to the new symbol, and all of the callouts will be updated.

 

Plant Symbol and label is automatically updated.