Planting F/X Revit Plugin Update History

Hotfix: Issue where select component dialog would become stuck loading.

Fix: Some users experienced an error during downloading remote components

New: Schedules now have symbols as a column added.

New: Plant Info dialog now allows setting a plant photo.

Fix: Overhaul to select component dialog.

Fix: On rare occasion all dialogs would be blank, WebView2 runtime related issue.

Fix: Switched code library usage to prioritize revit packages libraries over plugin libraries, Bim360 issue.

Fix: Preview image would be blacked out for ground covers

Fix: Photocallout image would be null

Fix: On rare occasion, plant manager ground covers would cause fatal crash

Fix: Open plant manager (from existing revit session) would open settings dialog (preferences)

Tweak: Added additional element type sanity checks for GetCustomFloorType

New: Fill with plants dialog

• Plant manager now has a button allowing to launch fill with plants command.

New: Remove data tool.

New: Prompt to create a default 3D view if missing.

New: Custom Toposolid types

• A change was made to the structure of the floor and toposolid types that groundcovers use. This will cause previously placed groundcovers to not color render anymore. To fix, edit a species and simply click OK. This will re-place those species and update the floor or toposolid type to the new standard.

Fix: Some users experienced an error when importing plants from another project.

Fix: Ground cover placement on toposolids would overwrite existing ground covers

Fix: Fill with plants would not work with a shaped edited toposolid.

Fix: Color Render would throw an error when run from a view with no graphic override permission.

Fix: Highlight plant would throw an error when selecting a non lafx plant.

Fix: Custom family library folders with a space character would not work.

Support for the 2024 version of Revit

• Toposolid support for placing groundcovers, including toposolid subdivisions. (Note: import or create a toposolid type in an upgraded file first to avoid a display issue with the auto-created default toposolid type - Planting F/X toposolid types coming soon).
• Groundcover schedules changed to multi-category schedule type in order to include both floors and toposolids.
• Planting F/X Dark mode Ribbon and Plant Manager available in 2024.

Fix: Parsing hatch data would throw an error for some users.

Fix: Certain users experienced a ground cover place exception.

Fix: Unable to enter text into spacing dialog during copy along

Fix: Index out of bounds exception

Fix: Plant groups would on occasion disappear from the plant manager.

Fix: Color render only affects the active project, not all open projects

New: Redesigned submit error dialog

Tweak: Copy along performance improved.

Tweak: Adjacent plants performance improved.

Hotfix: License releasing

Fix: Certain hatch patterns would come in the wrong size

Fix: Plant size fields would be skipped

Fix: Highlight would say "not landfx plant"

Fix: Groundcover sizes were not editable

Hotfix: Error related to GetAllLAFXElements

Fix: Generate planting schedule would raise a mismatched field ids exception

Fix: Select component would on occasion throw 403 forbidden

New: Adjacent Plants tool

Hotfix: Error related to postrequest

Fix: Fill with plants would not host the plants to the floor

Fix: Error related to language localization when parsing pattern files

Fix: On occassion, mimic from the plant manager would throw an error

Tweak: First library download, text was adjusted to help guide new user setup

Hotfix: Academic Licensing support

Hotfix: Disabled Adjacent Plants tool, added in v1.0.21, not quite ready.

New: Copy along, supports selecting multiple lines

Fix: Issue where some users reported missing plants when exporting

Tweak: Hatch pattern import scale

Tweak: Import progress bar disabled for now.

New: Plant groups reordering

New: Progress bar for importing plants

Fix: On occassion a new project with no plants would raise an error

Fix: Plant Info window display issues with unicode characters

Fix: Issue where some users could not place groundcovers

Fix: Group label now supports redefining tagged plants

Fix: Plants when imported would come in at the wrong elevation

Tweak: Groundcover metric decimal rounding

Tweak: Decreased time on assigned project progress bar

Beta testers will need to clear old families from their library in order to download new improved family files as replacements

New: Preferences

New: Color Render

New: Community Forum, Tech Support, and Remote Assistance ribbon buttons added

New: Plant Manager import plants from another project

Fix: Plant Manager would show only one plant from a custom group

Fix: Plant Mimic now works on ground covers

Fix: Issue where when selecting component, used components would not be disabled from selection.

Fix: Placing ground covers now applies plant bed floor type and hatch

Tweak: 3D Connection import speed improved

Tweak: Copy Along specify dialog now shows units (Feet/Meter)

Fix: 2023 issue causing occasional runtime error

Fix: 2019-2021 issue occasional incorrect count after running verify labels

Fix: Error occured during placing multiple ground covers

Fix: Incorrect count when clicking planting tag rather than element

Fix: An issue would occur where user would be prompted that a 3D view is required.

Tweak: Improved the performance of code related to updating connecting lines between lafx family instances.

New: Placing ground covers command will now allow more than one

New: Plant Manager now shows plant groups

Fix: Plant Manager not sorting plants alphabetically by botanical name

Fix: Match Plant/Properties renamed to Clone/Mimic Plant

Fix (2023): Photo callout and labels behavior was incorrect

Fix: Symbols in remarks cause script error

Fix: Assigning plant symbols in import window from 3D connection doesn't grey out already selected symbols.

Fix: Library parsing code optimized

New: Group label & Highlight now support clicking a planting tag

Fix: Photo callout would not open in certain circumstances

Fix: Import remove existing plants prompt would open twice

Fix: Plant Info rare occasion, 2d/3d image would not be shown

HotFix: 'K' and '1' key shortcuts now only are toggled when inside the copy along command.

New: Copy Along Tool

New: Planting Preferences (read only for now)

Fix: Various bug fixes

Fix: Import/Export disappearing plants

Fix: Incorrect Plant Schedule counts

Hotfix: Bug fixes

Minor tweaks and preperation for 2.4.0

Revit 2022 support added

Hotfix: Component library loading logic changed

Minor tweaks and bug fixes

New update dialog

New settings dialog to remove version (now in update dialog)

New help button in ribbon and in plant manager

Ribbon icons grouped into panels and tools re-organized

Ribbon Tooltip Images and F1 help when hovering on a Planting F/X tool

Split Button - split with Recent (Static Text) for ribbon dropdowns

Update: Remote library downloading! Select component window now looks at rfa files in S3 like other Land F/X blocks, and downloads to local location when used. Browse button removed, and window will now show custom .rfa files (as long as they have a corresponding 3D and 2D .jpg preview file). This library will automatically update itself as we add more symbols to grow it, no more manual downloads needed.

Fix: Error a 3D view is required to use Planting F/X when there ARE 3D views - now recognizes 3D views not named {3D}.

Fix: Error Download file (S3).

Update: Automatically open settings dialog if not set up.

Update: Settings - Allow typing library path along with browsing.

Update: Plant tags updated to 2-line to allow groundcover area quantities to fit.

Fix: Groundcover tags showing square area now have a unit indicator in the tag (ft2 or m2).

Fix: Groundcovers blocked from remote symbol selection for now. Will be added in the future when groundcover symbols are made.

Update: New Ribbon icons, standardized with ACAD.

Fix: From Beta tester error report: Photocallout error.

Update: Match Properties no longer allowed to work between symbols and floors. Only allows symbol to symbol or floor to floor.

Update: Ribbon tools use Split dropdowns with recent, static text to allow faster use of the same tool repeatedly.

Fix: Groundcover quantity fixes.

Update: Plant Info: Remarks now uses spellcheck.

Update: Plant Info: Shows spacing for groundcovers.

Update: Adding tree/shrub in metric, default symbol width reflects metric units.

Fix: With Preview symbols on, clicking on groundcovers in the manager and then back to shrubs or trees, preview now comes back for shrubs and trees.

Fix: Error PM_FetchPlantData - An error occurred fetching data from the cloud.