Placing Plants: Planting F/X for SketchUp Plugin
After you've added plants to a project using our Planting F/X for SketchUp Plugin, you can begin placing them in your plan. For more information on Land F/X projects and how they work with SketchUp and CAD, see our documentation on:
Placing Plants
To begin placing plants, open the Plant Manager:
LandFX toolbar, Plant Manager button
Land-FX menu, Plant Manager option
The Plant Manager will open.
If you haven’t done so already, add your desired plants to your Planting F/X project.
To begin placing a plant in your SketchUp model, you can either:
- Double-click the plant, or ...
- Single-click the plant to select it, then click the Place button
A preview of the plant’s associated SketchUp component will appear at your cursor location. Move your cursor to the desired location, then click once to place an instance of the plant. Repeat as desired.
Press the spacebar to stop placing the plant.
For a more organic appearance, Planting F/X automatically adds slight variation to the scale and rotation of each placed plant instance.
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Troubleshooting
SketchUp: Basic troubleshooting (adding, placing, importing plants)
Issue: Objects are appearing in the incorrect locations or backward in your SketchUp model
Issue: You are unable to select a 3D symbol in SketchUp
Issue: Our Planting F/X Plugin for SketchUp freezes or becomes unresponsive
Issue: Clicking one of the Land F/X tool buttons in SketchUp does nothing
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