This is Not a Land F/X Plant Error / Missing LAFX Parameters on Placed Plants (Using Our Planting F/X Plugin for Revit®)

Issue

You tried to edit or label a plant that you know was placed with our Planting F/X Plugin for Revit, but you're seeing a This is not a Land F/X plant error message.

You selected a plant that you know was placed with Land F/X but in its Properties panel, the LAFX parameters (such as LAFX Object Type) are completely missing, partially missing, or there but completely or partially blank when the Edit Plant window shows data in those parameter fields.

 

Plants newly placed directly from the Plant Manager may also return the This is not a Land F/X plant error when labeling.

Cause

For a family, floor, or toposolid to be recognized as a Planting F/X plant, it needs the LAFX Object Type parameter populated and filled out as PLANT. For the Edit Plant tool to work properly, it also needs the LAFX Plant Code parameter populated and filled out correctly.

If either of these parameters has been deleted from a Revit file or somehow edited to be blank – which can result from deleting the parameter and then Land F/X re-creating the parameter later when the project is assigned from the project list tool again – Planting F/X won't be able to recognize the plant.

If a newly placed plant can't be labeled, this is definitely because LAFX parameters are missing.

Solution

1. Verify that all Planting F/X shared parameters are back in the file. Open the Planting F/X for Revit Projects tool:

Planting F/X ribbon, Projects button

2. Select the current project number from the list, then click Open. This step should re-create any missing parameters. However, it won't fill them in again.

 

Newly placed plants will now be able to be labeled, but existing plants still won't be able to because their parameters are there but still blank.

3. To fill in the plant data again, select the species from the Plant Manager, click the Mimic button, then click each instance of this plant in the plan.

4. Find out who deleted or edited these parameters in your file. Feel free to reach out to us if that user has a complaint about the parameters so that we can continue to evaluate our parameter setup, or so we can take the opportunity to explain why the landscape parameters need to be this way.

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