Quick Start

 

The Quick Start is a basic highlight of the Land F/X functions, and is intended for demo users, or as a quick review for first time users.

 

Overview

 

Land F/X Icon and Pulldown Menus

§	Review the Land F/X menu layouts and toolbars.

 

 

Planting

 

Place Plants into a Drawing

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\2.01 Place Plants and place plants into the drawing.

 

Label the Plan

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\2.02 Labeling Plants and label some of the plants.

 

Verify the Labels

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\2.03 Verify Plant Labels and verify that all of the plants are correctly labeled.

 

Redefining Plants

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\2.03 Verify Plant Labels and redefine a plant type, the symbol or symbol size, or any aspect of a plant.

 

Plant Schedule

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\2.04 Plant Details and insert a variety of plant schedule types.

 

 

Irrigation

 

Place Heads into the Drawing

§	Watch the video on placing heads.

§	Review the Place Head function.

§	Watch the video on placing spray heads.

§	Watch the video on placing rotors.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.01 Place Heads and place Spray Heads and Rotor Heads into the drawing.

 

Zoning

§	Watch the video on Zoning.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.02 Heads and use the Flow Total and Circuit functions to create the valve zones.

 

Placing Valves and Equipment

§	Watch the video on placing equipment and valves.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.03 Zones and place valves and equipment.

 

Lateral Line Piping

§	Watch the video on piping.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.05 Pipe and pipe the heads in a zone to the corresponding valve. Turn on the LI-HEAD-ZONE layer when you need to see what heads are in a specific zone.

§	Watch the video on Highlight Station.

§	After piping the heads of a zone to the valve, use the Highlight Station function to check if all of the heads on that zone were piped.

 

Verify Lateral Piping

§	Watch the video on Verify Piping.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.06 Verify Piping and use the Verify Piping function to highlight any heads that are not piped.

 

Size the Lateral Lines

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.07 Size Laterals and size the lateral lines.

 

Label the Pipes

§	Watch the video.

§	After sizing the lateral pipes, use the pipe callout functions to create, move, and delete pipe labels.

 

Label the Valves

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.09 Verify Mainline and label the valves.

 

Size the Mainline

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.11 Size Mainline and size the mainline.

§	After sizing the mainline, use the Pipe Label function to Label the Mainline.

 

Irrigation Schedule

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.11 Size Mainline and insert a variety of irrigation schedules.

 

 

Landscape Concept Plan

 

Place Concept Plants

§	Watch the video on placing concept plants.

§	Watch the video on placing vegetation lines and stipple.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\4.01 Place Concept Plants and place Concept Plants.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\4.02 Concept Plants for an example Concept Plants placed into a plan.

 

Schedules and Shadows

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\4.02 Concept Plants and place a Concept Plant Schedule into the drawing.

§	Turn on the plant shadows.

 

 

Details

 

Detail Modules

§	Watch the video.

§	Insert a Detail Template to prepare a detail to be saved into the system.

 

Save Details

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\5.01 Save Details. Save Details as both Standard and Component details.

 

Insert a Detail Callout

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\5.02 Insert Callout. Some details have been added to the project.

§	Watch the video on inserting detail callouts.

§	Insert some Detail Callouts into the drawing, referencing details that have already been added to the project.

§	Watch the video on inserting detail placeholders.

§	Insert some Detail Placeholders as suggested.

 

Update Callouts

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\5.04 Details.

§	Zoom in on the Site Plan and select Update Detail Callouts details. The detail callouts will be updated.

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Go to Model Space. If you have placed the rest of the details as indicated in the previous section, Insert Details into a Drawing, go to each detail placeholder and associate a detail with it. When a detail has been associated with the placeholder, the symbol will change to a detail callout with a detail number.

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Erase some of the details on this sheet, L101, and some of the details on the sheet from the previous section, sheet L102. Replace the erased details in different locations and from one sheet to the other. When you select Update Details, the callouts will reflect the revised locations, even if they were on a different sheet.

 

Edit and Update Details

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\5.04 Details.

§	Select Edit Detail and click on any of the placed details. Edit the detail in some fashion where you will see the difference and save it with the AutoCAD Save command.

§	Watch the video.

§	Now on the drawing you first opened, select Update Details, all of the details will be re-loaded into the drawing. Notice the detail(s) you edited will be the newer version.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\5.06 Detail Update. On this sheet are details that were purposely saved in an unfinished state for an interim project submittal, to be edited later for a complete submittal.

§	Select Edit Detail and click on one of the details. The detail is loaded (notice that it is now finished). Go back to the detail sheet and select Update Details.