Conceptual Shrub Areas
By Super User on Wednesday, 26 July 2017
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When anyone in our office places a conceptual shrub hatch, it comes in on LP-PATT-SHAR-NPLT. We would like it to come in on a layer that is not a non-plot layer.

Is this a bug? Or is this something we can change in our preference set? I am hesitant to change LP-PATT-SHAR-NPLT to be a plotting layer because I'm not sure what else will be automatically placed on that layer, and it won't be intuitive for future users in our office to have a layer with -NPLT to be a plotting layer. If I make this a plotting layer and edit the name to not have -NPLT, will that break LandFX?

Thanks!
Katherine,

Those changes will not break anything. In fact it is so common, it is available as a checkbox on the Planting preferences tab.
But all that checkbox will do is to make those two edits for you. From editing the layer directly, you can also choose a more appropriate color.

--J
Jeremiah Farmer
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6 years ago
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A check box?! Amazing! So easy! Thank you.
Super User
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6 years ago
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I'm encountering the same issue & desire! Could you clarify where in the planting preferences box this check box is?
Thank you!
Kelly Farrell
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2 years ago
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Kelly, the answer to this has actually changed since this post in 2017. The checkbox was removed.

You need to go to General Preferences, find the LP-PATT-SHAR* and LP-PATT-GRND* layers in the layer list, edit it, and change the plot checkbox and Layer name appropriately say -NPLT or not.

SHAR is for shrub areas, and GRND is for groundcovers.
LP-GRND-EDGE-NOPLT is for groundcover boundaries (the polyline - PATT is for the hatch), and LP-SHAR-BRDR is for shrub areas.

-Amanda
Amanda Marin
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2 years ago
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