Set Up Your Planting F/X Library Folder for Revit®
Updated on: March 13, 2026
Quick video
Any components and materials that appear in your Revit models will be stored in a library folder. Our Revit plugin requires you to designate a location for this folder. You can set a folder on your hard drive, or on your firm’s network, as your library folder. You may need to create a new folder for this purpose.
You are required to set this library location when installing the Planting F/X Revit plugin. To change or set the location of your Revit library, follow the Set Your Revit Library Folder steps in this article.
Are you a new user in an office that already uses Planting F/X? You might already have a library location to connect to. Ask your BIM or Land F/X Manager for this location. You might need to map a letter drive. If you are the manager, continue with the steps below.
Set Your Revit Library Folder
1. If your office has an existing Planting F/X Revit Library folder on a shared server, locate it. If not, create one.
We recommend creating a Revit folder within your office’s Land F/X Server location, such as:
- (Mapped Letter Drive):/LandFX/Revit – where (Mapped Letter Drive) is the drive you've mapped for your office's shared LandFX folder
- C:/LandFX/Revit (for Single-User installations)
2. Open the General Preferences from the Preferences flyout menu in the Planting F/X Revit Plugin ribbon.
3. In the General Preferences screen, click Browse.
4. Browse to your desired library location.
Select your desired location and click OK.
We strongly recommend locating your library folder within your LandFX folder (example: LandFX\Revit).
Important: As of version 2.0.44 of our plugin for Revit, a folder for your year version of Revit will be created automatically when you install. If you had a library set before and suddenly don't after this update, that’s why. In this case, simply select the parent folder above your previously created year folders.
We recommend creating a library folder path within your office’s Land F/X Server location, such as:
- (Mapped Letter Drive):/LandFX/Revit (where (Mapped Letter Drive) is the drive you've mapped for your office's shared LandFX folder.)
- C:/LandFX/Revit (for Single-User installations)
Here's an example of a correctly set-up Revit library folder path.
5. Close the Planting F/X Preferences.
You've successfully set your Revit Library location.
Related Webinars
- Planting F/X Revit Tools: Take a refreshed look at how the tools in this plugin work! We'll cover the latest changes such as type parameters, current roadmap, and the basics of how Planting F/X streamlines the process of starting and finishing a planting plan. (1 hr 1 min)
- Getting Started with Planting F/X for Revit: Start your journey with Revit and our Planting F/X plugin. We also present our roadmap for future development and show off some new features such as automatic rootball placement and some recent additions to our collections of families and label styles. (1 hr 22 min)
- Intro to Planting F/X for Revit Plugin: As always, our goal with this plugin is to bring the planting design learning curve as low as possible. We cover installation, Planting F/X projects, the Plant Manager, plant placement as families or floors, group labels, Verify Labels, instant schedules, and rendering options with our default family library. (1 hr 12 min)
- Revit for Planting Design: We focus on more tools and show how to tackle more complex workflows in Revit with Planting F/X. We go over customizing the defaults, implementing some labeling strategies, editing floor types, and working with multiple views. We also showcase some new tools and review our most recent development progress. (1 hr 3 min)
- Importing Plans into Revit: If you're being asked to bring your design into Revit and you're a landscape architect or irrigation designer, this webinar is for you. We'll cover first steps, basic orientation of Revit, the pros and cons of certain strategies, importing the DWG linework either 2D or Civil 3D and making toposurfaces and floors, and first-step methods for importing your landscape and irrigation plans. (1 hr 5 min)
Troubleshooting
Issue: You tried to validate your Support ID, and the validation dialog box popped up blank
Issue: LandFX: Your license is invalid and this product has not been activated properly on this system
Issue: Can the Planting F/X for Revit Library be on Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)?
Revit® is a restricted trademark of Autodesk®.
Contact
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