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We record a new webinar video each week.
You can view our upcoming webinar schedule here, and sign up to watch them live.
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Land8 Guest Webinar
Scheduled for: Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM PDT
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PREVIOUS WEBINARS
Previously recorded webinars are available here, as well as in their respective
Videos section.
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Water Source Calculation
With the watering restrictions and constraints of todays world, it is important to get a full understanding of how much water will be required for a project, what the logical and efficient watering source should be, what watering windows are required and how long it will take to water a site, and how to maximize efficiency by fine tuning the mainline and source size and flows. This course will indicate how to do all of that at the very start of the design process and without laying out a single head or emitter.
This webijnar will specifically cover:
1. Rules of Thumb for understanding the general constraints for evaluation of the irrigation system including water meter, service line, remote control valves, mainline pipe, and backflow devices.
2. Water source determination at the earliest stages of irrigation design. How to quickly determine the flow requirements and a logical and efficient water source.
3. Watering window and hydro-zone requirements at the start of the design process. How long will it take to irrigate a site based on the hydro-zones, the type of equipment desired, and how the source and the size of the mainline can affect this outcome, all at the early stages of design.
Estimated Water Required Weekly Calculator.xls
Irrigation Design Rules of Thumb.pdf
Water Source.pptm
Filmed: February 17 2012
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Customizing Land F/X
This webinar will cover most aspects of customizing Land F/X, including:
- Layer color conversion process
- Layer names
- Fonts
- Plant callouts
- Tree/Shrub symbols
- Hatch patterns
- Irrigation symbols
- Dimension styles
- Details
- Backing up your changes!
Filmed: February 10 2012
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New Features Overview
This will cover some of the more recent New Features of Land F/X:
Uniformity
Railing/Walls/Fences
Adding Fonts
F/X Details
Change RefNote Division
Verify Plant Labels -- logic for Alphanumeric symbols
RefNotes and Site Builder Managers, Schedule button
Plant Copy Along Polyline
Filmed: February 3 2012
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F/X CAD
Many of you have noticed our new minimum requirements for Land F/X have been raised to AutoCAD 2008. We are already well underway in engineering support for features such as Annotation scales, and ToolTip help files. We realize times are tough, and the cost of a AutoCAD license is still quite substantial. In an effort to help our users upgrade to the latest cutting-edge technology, we have spent a considerable amount of our resources on developing a lower-cost alternative. We are very grateful to Autodesk for accepting us into their AutoCAD OEM program, which has allowed us to assemble a customized version of AutoCAD 2012, which we have branded as F/X CAD. This week's webinar will showcase what it can and can't do, and how it compares to a full AutoCAD license.
Filmed: January 27 2012
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Sheet Setup & Drawing Cleanup
This will cover sheet setup topics for preparing a drawing for use with Land F/X. It will cover file naming standards, xrefs, layout prepartion, UCS setup, and layer control. It will also go over drawing cleanup procedures.
CAD Layer Naming Guidelines
Sheet Numbering and CAD Drawing Naming Conventions
Filmed: January 13 2012
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Mfg Spotlight: VIT
Land F/X would like to introduce VIT/Strong Box as a Supporting Manufacturer. This webinar highlighted a great power point presentation of VIT Products / Strong Box backflow covers and enclosures. Information about their company, their product line, why and when you should specify an enclosure in a project, and the great details that are available through the Land F/X detail database - that include their QuickPad enclosure and great tree support staking details - were highlighted during the presentation.
Filmed: December 16 2011
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Australian Getting Started
Filmed: December 14 2011
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Guest Webinar
Dariush Bakhtar
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Filmed: December 9 2011
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Getting Started
Filmed: December 7 2011
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Mfg Spotlight: GPH
Land F/X would like to introduce GPH Irrigation as a Supporting Manufacturer. GPH has a great low volume drip irrigation product line, and many features that make them stand out above the rest. Watch the webinar to learn more about the GPH equipment, and how to specify them.
Filmed: December 2 2011
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Land F/X 8.0
This webinar will show some of these incredible enhancements and additions we have added to the software over the past eight years. This will include some nostalgic screenshots of previous Land F/X versions. Although the overview of newer features will emphasize the more recent additions, the more notable features added over the previous years will also be mentioned.
Filmed: October 28 2011
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Creative Sensor
CST is a manufacturer of Flow Sensors. This webinar will preview their product line and then show you how to use Land F/X to add their equipment and use them in five different ways that flow sensors can be used.
Filmed: October 21 2011
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Camelot Concrete
Filmed: October 7 2011
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WDI Training Recap
WDI (Walt Disney Imagineering) has been using Land F/X to design the new Shanghai Disneyland! We won't be able to show any actual WDI drawings, but we will be able to go over similar document standards and procedures, particularly pertaining to details and reference note callouts. WDI has been instrumental in the additions and improvements we've made to our software throughout the years. We will be sure to go over any WDI wishlist items addressed during this training that pertain to their hardscape needs and detail plans.
Filmed: September 23 2011
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Advanced Planting
You may not be using all of the advanced planting tools that Land F/X has to offer. See the advantages of the Site Development function, the transition to Conceptual Planting, the efficient use of templates for a plant palette, some newer tools for costs and data fields, labeling in Paper Space, Work Areas to define a Plant Schedule and to create a unique viewport, and the usage of Plant Outlines.
Filmed: September 16 2011
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SPJ Lighting Webinar
This webinar is our Manufacturer Spotlight on our first lighting manufacturer - SPJ Lighting. We will be introducing SPJ Lighting's products along with the new Land F/X lighting functionality in a webinar next Friday. Dave will demonstrate how to utlize SPJ Lighting products in your Land F/X plans.
Filmed: August 12 2011
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Greenroof Garden Guest
WYAC
Filmed: July 29 2011
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Planting Plan Variations
This webinar will cover the basics of Planting, but will highlight advanced utilization and customization. Topics will include multi-sheet planting plans, concept plans, photo callouts, utilizing SketchUp, adding custom blocks, customizing the plant callouts, schedule variations, and cost estimates.
Filmed: July 1 2011
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AutoCAD OEM
Our OEM version of AutoCAD, which is a scaled-down, customized version of AutoCAD, pre-configured for Land F/X. We will begin selling this version of AutoCAD in July for $1,995 (not including the cost of a Land F/X license). This webinar will show off its basic features, and similarity to AutoCAD 2012, which it is based on. Though all AutoCAD 3D commands will be missing, as well as the ability to load LISP files, full AutoCAD functionality will remain, making it practically identical to AutoCAD LT. This webinar is expected to have a lot of attendee feedback, asking us questions on how certain features will look or operate.
Filmed: June 24 2011
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Details Training
If you aren't using Land F/X to organize and call out your details, you are losing out on a huge timesaver and headache reliever. Get started using the Land F/X Detail system with this instructional webinar. Topics covered will include saving your details into the Land F/X detail library, determining an organization system that works for your office, making minor revisions to an existing detail, saving a detail as a variation, project-specific details, and calling out details in plans.
This webinar qualifies for Continuing Education credit.
Filmed: June 17 2011
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Schematic Tools
Land F/X offers many levels of working with designs in the early stages of development. Start with the basic Concept Graphics to diagrammatically describe your design intent, and how to associate photos to the concepts. Next go to Site Development where you can express to the client your design intent, attach photos, and even get a construction cost breakdown. The Landscape Concept Plan allows you to quickly express your planting concepts, and you can assign photos to the concepts and visualize the design in 3-D. Lastly, learn how to express your irrigation design in a schematic level and determine complete flow and pressure requirements, without laying out a single head.
This webinar qualifies for Continuing Education credit.
Filmed: June 3 2011
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Mia Lehrer Guest Webinar
Mia Lehrer + Associates is a full service, international landscape architecture practice located in Los Angeles, California. Under the leadership of Mia Lehrer, FASLA, the firm has been responsible for the design and development of a diverse range of public and private projects. The firm applies a comprehensive and intensely creative approach to all projects, which vary in scale from large urban projects engaging community members and public agency stakeholders, to intimate gardens where collaboration and coordination of architecture and site are the primary objective.
This presentation will highlight some projects in Los Angeles that have benefitted by using LandFX software. We will show you three different clients with 3 different experiences of project management and how that relates to Construction Drawing production.
Filmed: May 27 2011
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Drip Irrigation-Antelco
The Drip irrigation webinar will be reviewing the process that Irrigation F/X uses to create complete drip irrigation plans. Review the Irrigation F/X classifications on drip irrigation systems, how to add them to your project, and place them into the drawing. All piping, pipe sizing, and error checking will also be reviewed. This webinar will highlight using the Antelco irrigation product line, and some interesting ways Antelco deals with dripline systems.
Filmed: May 13 2011
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Rainwater Harvesting
Learn the ins and outs of rainwater harvesting. How to layout a system, calculations for how big the tank and pump should be, how to divide the flows of the rainwater and potable water, pipe sizing and pipe layout for the overflow drainage field, and LEED documentation and calculations. A full set of details will also be offered in conjunction with this webinar.
This webinar qualifies for Continuing Education credit.
Filmed: May 6 2011
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Grading and Site Tools
This webinar will show you some new tools we've added to our Site Builder toolbar. This will include our new grading functions, along with Lighting/Electrical, Plan Graphics and how to use the Save Block function, Concept Graphics with our new photo connections, and our time saving dimension function...all useful tools to help you build your site plans.
This webinar qualifies for Continuing Education credit.
Filmed: April 8 2011
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RefNotes
Reference Notes are a very important part of construction documentation.
In working with hundreds of firms over the years, from one-person design-build firms up to Disney Imagineering, we have found that these notations can cover a broad range of uses. In addition to just a quick way to handle notes 1 to 99, sometimes that note is pointing to an item that has a quantity, a series of custom details, and even a photo and a 3D model. This webinar will cover the basic usage of the RefNote system, while also show its more advanced features and how they apply to hardscape and site amenities.
This webinar qualifies for Continuing Education credit.
Filmed: March 25 2011
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SketchUp
David Fox will be presenting a technique he has developed as apart of his practice for high-end residential design. He will demonstrate how to start a design of a trellis in AutoCAD, export it into SketchUp where it can be extruded and modeled in 3D, and then return it to AutoCAD for the creation of constructional details. The webinar will include several handy tips for working with SketchUp, and utilizing the Land F/X Detail system for complex objects.
This webinar qualifies for Continuing Education credit.
Filmed: February 25 2011
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Revit
This webinar will review some basic aspects of how Revit works, and what the new Land F/X toolbar ribbons are in Revit. We will also go over how to transfer and coordinate a Revit view with AutoCAD, and how to do work in AutoCAD and export it over to Revit. Watch how to setup and render site views within Revit of work you did in AutoCAD. You can edit or do new planting design in Revit and export that over to AutoCAD for finish work there. There is also a question and answer period on BIM, Revit, and related CAD terms that have been indicated as the "future" direction of CAD.
This webinar qualifies for Continuing Education credit.
Filmed: February 4 2011
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Irrigation Power Tips
Dave will be presenting Irrigation Tips to become a Power User. Schematic Irrigation is the way to establish your requirements of a system before you layout one head. What do you do with those requirements to estimate your source requirements? Keyboard commands that make you faster. Error checking is a must, and will save you time.
Filmed: January 14 2011
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Planting Power Tips
Dave will be presenting Planting Tips to become a Power User. Make the most of the Landscape Concept module and quick 3-D visualization. Examples of efficient ways to use Templates for quick plant palette selection. 3-D in the design process. Plant Photo callouts may now be a necessity. Data Fields in the Plant Schedule Report
Filmed: January 7 2011
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New Planting Features
Dave will be presenting the basics of Planting, also showing new/little-known planting tools such as removing internal islands of groundcover areas, Plant Outlines, Plant Photo Callout, View/Edit Plant allows selecting plant label, Highlight Plant Esc support, Plant Data fields.
Filmed: November 5 2010
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SketchUp & Site Amenities
Site Amenities works in conjunction with Reference Notes. Here you can add amenities such as Site Furnishings into a project, and view the manufacturer options for benches, tables, chairs, shade structures, etc. You can visit the manufacturer’s web site pertaining to a specific site item, and you can add to your project both the specific AutoCAD drawing of that actual object, but also, in the background, you would add the SketchUp 3-D model of that site item. You can then place the AutoCAD drawings of the objects into your drawing, refer notations to them, and have the notations show up in a Reference Note Schedule, keeping track of the quantity of the objects and the cost, if desired. You can then use the Land F/X “Sketchup Connection” to go to your SketchUp site base and bring in the 3-D models of you site amenities at the same location and orientation as you had in your CAD drawing.
Filmed: October 29 2010
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