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Grow Your Know! #167
Mar 07, 2023

• POWER TIP: Scale Reference

• WEBINAR: Understanding Irrigation Calculations

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Grow Your Know! # 167
February 28, 2023 
WEBINAR: Understanding Irrigation Calculations
WEBINAR: Understanding Irrigation Calculations
DATE: March 3, 2023
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Jake Lott

If you've done any irrigation design without the help of software, you're familiar with the staggering amount of effort and calculations required for sizing and otherwise configuring your system. Even when you're using tools developed specifically to help with these calculations, it's important to understand the calculations themselves – what to look for, how to read equipment performance charts, and how to make changes when something fails. Join us for a deep dive into exactly what our software is doing when sizing your irrigation design. We'll cover where losses occur in different types of equipment, which schedules are available to help you analyze your system, and how to make the proper adjustments for a successful final product.
 
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POWER TIP: Scale Reference
POWER TIP: Scale Reference
Recommended By: Land F/X

The Scale Reference command provides a handy way to scale objects and images based on a known distance. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to figure out the exact steps needed for properly scaled results when using this feature. That's why we automated the complexity out of the process, as we've done with so many other native CAD commands, by introducing a dialog box and simplifying the prompts. We'll show you how just how easily you can now scale based on objects in your drawing without the worry of whether you've run through the proper steps.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started With RefNotes
RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Previously recorded on February 3, 2023
Presented by Paul Houchin

Our Reference Notes (RefNotes) tool provides a quick way to spec and place site furniture, play structures, hardscaping materials, retaining walls, and pretty much any other item you need in your landscape plan. Even better, you can easily assign data to these RefNote objects for automated calculations, as well as keep track of them in callouts and schedules. We'll go over the basics of our powerful RefNote system and give you the scoop on how to use it to its fullest.
 
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Grow Your Know! #166
Mar 07, 2023

• POWER TIP: Behind the Software: Site Amenities Color Picker

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Grow Your Know! # 166
February 21, 2023 
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Behind the Software: Site Amenities Color Picker
POWER TIP: Behind the Software: Site Amenities Color Picker
Recommended By: Land F/X

Thanks to our content team’s many hours of hard work, our Site Amenities Color Picker allows you to preview color and material options for specific products in our manufacturer database. Land F/X content specialist Alex Zahn is here to walk you through how this powerful tool works and what it can do to simplify your design process.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Previously recorded on February 3, 2023
Presented by Paul Houchin

Our Reference Notes (RefNotes) tool provides a quick way to spec and place site furniture, play structures, hardscaping materials, retaining walls, and pretty much any other item you need in your landscape plan. Even better, you can easily assign data to these RefNote objects for automated calculations, as well as keep track of them in callouts and schedules. We'll go over the basics of our powerful RefNote system and give you the scoop on how to use it to its fullest.
 
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Grow Your Know! #165
Mar 07, 2023

• POWER TIP: Switch To Cloud Data

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Grow Your Know! # 165
February 14, 2023 
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Switch To Cloud Data
POWER TIP: Switch to Cloud Data
Recommended By: Land F/X

Cloud Data gives you instant access to your Land F/X projects and tools in any location with an Internet connection. That's why we highly recommend choosing our Cloud Data option not only to prevent issues like local office server crashes, but to enable you to work when inspiration strikes outside the office. We'll go over the steps required to switch over from Local Data and be up and running with Cloud Data in no time.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Previously recorded on February 3, 2023
Presented by Paul Houchin

Our Reference Notes (RefNotes) tool provides a quick way to spec and place site furniture, play structures, hardscaping materials, retaining walls, and pretty much any other item you need in your landscape plan. Even better, you can easily assign data to these RefNote objects for automated calculations, as well as keep track of them in callouts and schedules. We'll go over the basics of our powerful RefNote system and give you the scoop on how to use it to its fullest.
 
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Grow Your Know! #164
Mar 07, 2023

• POWER TIP: Site Amenities Color Picker

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Grow Your Know! # 164
February 7, 2023 
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Site Amenities Color Picker
POWER TIP: Site Amenities Color Picker
Recommended By: Land F/X

The days of painstakingly referencing color options are over. When adding a manufacturer's site amenity to your Land F/X project, you can now choose instantly from all available material and color combinations. Simply select your colors, check the preview image, and spec the amenity. Your color choices will show in your schedule and even be applied to your 3D amenities after exporting to SketchUp, where your amenities will be pre-set for rendering with the Twilight Render SketchUp extension. It's yet another way Land F/X removes the busywork from your design process.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
RECORDED WEBINAR: Getting Started with RefNotes
Previously recorded on February 3, 2023
Presented by Paul Houchin

Our Reference Notes (RefNotes) tool provides a quick way to spec and place site furniture, play structures, hardscaping materials, retaining walls, and pretty much any other item you need in your landscape plan. Even better, you can easily assign data to these RefNote objects for automated calculations, as well as keep track of them in callouts and schedules. We'll go over the basics of our powerful RefNote system and give you the scoop on how to use it to its fullest.
 
WATCH RECORDED WEBINAR


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Grow Your Know! #163
Mar 02, 2023

• POWER TIP: Shining Light on Shadow Copies

• WEBINAR: Getting Started With RefNotes

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Intro to the Planting F/X for Revit Plugin
Grow Your Know! # 163
January 31, 2023 
WEBINAR: Getting Started With RefNotes
WEBINAR: Getting Started With Refnotes
DATE: February 3, 2023
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Paul Houchin

Our Reference Notes (RefNotes) tool provides a quick way to spec and place site furniture, play structures, hardscaping materials, retaining walls, and pretty much any other item you need in your landscape plan. Even better, you can easily assign data to these RefNote objects for automated calculations, as well as keep track of them in callouts and schedules. We'll go over the basics of our powerful RefNote system and give you the scoop on how to use it to its fullest.
 
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POWER TIP: Shining Light on Shadow Copies
POWER TIP: Shining Light on Shadow Copies
Recommended By: Land F/X

Have you ever accidentally saved some unwanted changes when closing a file? Or maybe someone else made edits to your file that aren't quite what you were looking for? What if you could just overwrite the changes automatically by reverting to an earlier version? Shadow Copies enable you to do just that. This handy feature is built into your Windows operating system, so you already have access to the tools you need. We'll show you how Shadow Copies work and why they're so valuable.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Intro to the Planting F/X for Revit Plugin
RECORDED WEBINAR: Intro to the Planting F/X for Revit Plugin
Previously recorded on January 27, 2023
Presented by Amanda Marin

We're excited to introduce the latest addition to our lineup, the Revit Planting F/X plugin. As always, our goal with this plugin is to bring the planting design learning curve as low as possible. To that end, we've strived to make Revit not just familiar to Planting F/X veterans, but easier to learn for Planting F/X novices. Initial user feedback indicate we're hitting the mark! We'll 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.
 
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Grow Your Know! #162
Feb 28, 2023

• POWER TIP: Revit Color Render

• WEBINAR: Intro to the Planting F/X for Revit Plugin

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Irrigation Sheet Setup and Plotting
Grow Your Know! # 162
January 24, 2023
WEBINAR: Intro to the Planting F/X for Revit Plugin
WEBINAR: Intro to the Planting F/X for Revit Plugin
DATE: January 27, 2023
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Amanda Marin

We're excited to introduce the latest addition to our lineup, the Revit Planting F/X plugin. As always, our goal with this plugin is to bring the planting design learning curve as low as possible. To that end, we've strived to make Revit not just familiar to Planting F/X veterans, but easier to learn for Planting F/X novices. Initial user feedback indicate we're hitting the mark! We'll 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.
 
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POWER TIP: Revit Color Render
POWER TIP: Revit Color Render
Recommended By: Babak Rastkar with OJB

Our Planting F/X plugin makes it easy to apply quick color to your plan view in Revit. Find out how easily you can set colors to different groundcover plants and then apply that color in the current view with the help of our Color Render tool. We'll also show you how Color Render works with transparent solid fill colors in our default plant families on the medium detail level.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Irrigation Sheet Setup and Plotting
RECORDED WEBINAR: Irrigation Sheet Setup and Plotting
Previously recorded on January 13, 2023
Presented by Jake Lott

What better way to start the new year than with a refresher on the best methods for putting an irrigation plan together? We'll go over our recommended workflows for setting up your project and Preference Set and ensuring your viewports and layouts scale and plot correctly. You'll also learn some best practices for working with aerial images and PDFs.
 
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Grow Your Know! #161
Feb 28, 2023

• POWER TIP: Site Color Render

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Irrigation Sheet Setup and Plotting
Grow Your Know! # 161
January 17, 2023
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Site Color Render
POWER TIP: Site Color Render
In our last color render video, Planting Color Render, we showed how to add color to planting symbols and areas. But what about everything else on the site? This time we dive into colorizing RefNote Color Areas, Site Blocks, and the Site Color Tool.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Irrigation Sheet Setup and Plotting
RECORDED WEBINAR: Irrigation Sheet Setup and Plotting
Previously recorded on January 13, 2023
Presented by Jake Lott

What better way to start the new year than with a refresher on the best methods for putting an irrigation plan together? We'll go over our recommended workflows for setting up your project and Preference Set and ensuring your viewports and layouts scale and plot correctly. You'll also learn some best practices for working with aerial images and PDFs.
 
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Grow Your Know! #160
Feb 28, 2023

• POWER TIP: Planting Color Render

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
Grow Your Know! # 160
January 10, 2023
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Planting Color Render
POWER TIP: Planting Color Render
Do you need to create a presentation of your planting plan but don’t have the time to re-illustrate your plan in Photoshop or with markers by hand? Land F/X gives you the ability to create a color planting plan in just a few easy steps. Check out this week's Power Tip to learn all about Color Render for plants.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
Previously recorded on November 18, 2022
Presented by Billy Goodnick

Billy Goodnick, a landscape architect in Santa Barbara, CA, who specializes in small-scale residential projects, as he shares his logical, holistic design approach. Billy will review some fundamental visual garden design principles and showcase some simple yet highly effective plant selection methods that play a crucial role in the creation of useful, sustainable outdoor living spaces. Whether you're a seasoned designer and would like a refresher, or you're just starting new, you're sure to benefit from this presentation!
 
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Grow Your Know! #159
Jan 02, 2023

• POWER TIP: A Quick Dive Into Pool Studio

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• CANCELLED WEBINAR: Using Lidar Point Clouds in SketchUp

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
Grow Your Know! # 159
December 20, 2022
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: A Quick Dive Into Pool Studio
Power Tip: A Quick Dive Into Pool Studio
The complexities inherent in pool design can make it easy to feel thrown into the deep end. Luckily, Pool Studio by Structure Studios is a platform that can take you from treading water to swimming confidently through the design process. Pool Studio includes a suite of features sure to help you make a splash with your next project. Join us as we take a quick dive into this powerful tool.

Note: This video is not a paid placement, but rather a review of an unaffiliated product that might apply to our users.
 
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CANCELLED WEBINAR: Using Lidar Point Clouds in SketchUp
The Using Lidar Point Clouds in SketchUp webinar, that was scheduled for Friday, December 16, has been cancelled. Please check future newsletters for announcements of upcoming video presentations, including a possible new date for this webinar. Thank you for your understanding, and have a great holiday season!

The Land F/X team
RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
Previously recorded on November 18, 2022
Presented by Billy Goodnick

Billy Goodnick, a landscape architect in Santa Barbara, CA, who specializes in small-scale residential projects, as he shares his logical, holistic design approach. Billy will review some fundamental visual garden design principles and showcase some simple yet highly effective plant selection methods that play a crucial role in the creation of useful, sustainable outdoor living spaces. Whether you're a seasoned designer and would like a refresher, or you're just starting new, you're sure to benefit from this presentation!
 
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Grow Your Know! #158
Jan 02, 2023

• POWER TIP: New Features: Planting

• WEBINAR: Using Lidar Point Clouds in SketchUp

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
Grow Your Know! # 158
December 13, 2022
WEBINAR: Using Lidar Point Clouds in SketchUp
WEBINAR: Using Lidar Point Clouds in SketchUp
DATE: December 16, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Amanda Marin

Point cloud scanning is an increasingly accessible technology, available right in the palm of your hand via LIDAR-enabled mobile phones and tablets. Using an iPad, we'll test out a few popular iOS apps: 3D Scanner (available for free), and LidarCad and SiteScape (both available for purchase). We'll compare learning curves, ease of use, and final result for the purpose of importing an existing terrain model into SketchUp.
 
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POWER TIP: New Features: Planting
POWER TIP: New Features: Planting
We've introduced quite a few new planting tools for both AutoCAD and Revit this year with our Planting F/X toolset, and we can't wait to show them off to you! Tune in and catch up on Mimic and Clone (formerly known as Match Properties and Match Plant, respectively), updated Color Render options, a new master plant database window, plant label improvements, elevation plant graphics, and plant group layer suffixes.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like a Pro
RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like a Pro
Previously recorded on November 18, 2022
Presented by Billy Goodnick 

Join Billy Goodnick, a landscape architect in Santa Barbara, CA, who specializes in small-scale residential projects, as he shares his logical, holistic design approach. Billy will review some fundamental visual garden design principles and showcase some simple yet highly effective plant selection methods that play a crucial role in the creation of useful, sustainable outdoor living spaces. Whether you're a seasoned designer and would like a refresher, or you're just starting new, you're sure to benefit from this presentation!
 
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Grow Your Know! #157
Dec 14, 2022

• POWER TIP: ASLA Expo 2022 Recap

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
Grow Your Know! # 157
November 22, 2022
POWER TIP: ASLA Expo 2022 Recap
POWER TIP: ASLA Expo 2022 Recap
The Land F/X team had sadly missed the annual ASLA Expo for two straight years, but we came back better than ever for the 2022 incarnation. We relished the opportunity to throw our renowned, extravagant after-party again, and this year it went down at the San Francisco Mint. Guests were greeted by casino games, food, drinks, music, a magician, and even empty bank vaults from the days of yore. Tune in to relive the memories, or see what you missed. Either way, the night was soooooo money!
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NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like a Pro
RECORDED WEBINAR: Design Like a Pro
Previously recorded on October 18, 2022
Presented by Billy Goodnick

Join Billy Goodnick, a landscape architect in Santa Barbara, CA, who specializes in small-scale residential projects, as he shares his logical, holistic design approach. Billy will review some fundamental visual garden design principles and showcase some simple yet highly effective plant selection methods that play a crucial role in the creation of useful, sustainable outdoor living spaces. Whether you're a seasoned designer and would like a refresher, or you're just starting new, you're sure to benefit from this presentation!
 
WATCH RECORDED WEBINAR


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Grow Your Know! #156
Dec 14, 2022

• NO POWER TIP THIS WEEK

• GUEST WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro

• RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Grow Your Know! # 156
November 15, 2022
GUEST WEBINAR: Design Like A Pro
GUEST WEBINAR: Design Like a Pro
DATE: November 18, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Billy Goodnick

Join Billy Goodnick, a landscape architect in Santa Barbara, CA, who specializes in small-scale residential projects, as he shares his logical, holistic design approach. Billy will review some fundamental visual garden design principles and showcase some simple yet highly effective plant selection methods that play a crucial role in the creation of useful, sustainable outdoor living spaces. Whether you're a seasoned designer and would like a refresher, or you're just starting new, you're sure to benefit from this presentation!
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NO POWER TIP THIS WEEK
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Previously recorded on October 14, 2022
Presented by Carlos F. Perez, Planning + Design, LLC

A thoughtfully planned, designed, and managed parks and recreation system can provide profound and wide-reaching benefits not only to the local community but to the greater public realm. Join Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC, for an inspiring presentation detailing these public open spaces’ potential to help improve everything from transportation to stormwater and utility systems. Drawing on a few of his firm’s projects as examples, Carlos will outline a deliberate, reasoned, and highly effective approach to sustainable park design that will offer valuable insight to creators of all outdoor spaces.
 
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Grow Your Know! #155
Dec 14, 2022

• POWER TIP: Our Favorite PC Productivity Software Tools

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Grow Your Know! # 155
November 8, 2022
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP:  Our Favorite PC Productivity Software Tools
POWER TIP:  Our Favorite PC Productivity Software Tools
As you may know, we're all Mac users here at Land F/X – but we're no strangers to the PC world. Not only do we run CAD in a Windows environment on those Macs with the help of an app called Parallels, but we use a whole slew of other PC-based apps, plugins, and other tools. Join us for a peek through the Windows.
 
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ASLA 2022 Expo
ASLA 2022 Party
Come see us at the ASLA 2022 Expo at booth 237. Be sure to pick up your ticket to our annual ASLA Party on Saturday, November 12, 2022.

San Francisco Mint
88 5th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
6 – 11 p.m.
MORE INFO
RSVP FOR PARTY
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Previously recorded on October 14, 2022
Presented by Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC

A thoughtfully planned, designed, and managed parks and recreation system can provide profound and wide-reaching benefits not only to the local community but to the greater public realm. Join Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC, for an inspiring presentation detailing these public open spaces’ potential to help improve everything from transportation to stormwater and utility systems. Drawing on a few of his firm’s projects as examples, Carlos will outline a deliberate, reasoned, and highly effective approach to sustainable park design that will offer valuable insight to creators of all outdoor spaces.
 
WATCH RECORDED WEBINAR


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Grow Your Know! #154
Dec 14, 2022

• NO POWER TIP THIS WEEK

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Grow Your Know! # 154
November 1, 2022
ASLA Party Information
ALSA PARTY TICKET
Our annual ASLA Party is happening Saturday, November 12, 2022
from 6 – 11 p.m.

San Francisco Mint
88 5th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Make sure to stop by the Land F/X booth 237 at the ASLA Expo to get your bill for entry into the party.
 
RSVP
MORE INFO
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
NO POWER TIP THIS WEEK
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Previously recorded on October 14, 2022
Presented by Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC

A thoughtfully planned, designed, and managed parks and recreation system can provide profound and wide-reaching benefits not only to the local community but to the greater public realm. Join Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC, for an inspiring presentation detailing these public open spaces’ potential to help improve everything from transportation to stormwater and utility systems. Drawing on a few of his firm’s projects as examples, Carlos will outline a deliberate, reasoned, and highly effective approach to sustainable park design that will offer valuable insight to creators of all outdoor spaces.
 
WATCH RECORDED WEBINAR


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Grow Your Know! #153
Dec 14, 2022

• POWER TIP: Plant Groups

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Grow Your Know! # 153
October 25, 2022
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Plant Groups
POWER TIP: Plant Groups
When you need more precise language in your schedule, or help sorting your plants in your Plant Manager, you can turn to plant groups. We'll show you how to customize plant groups in your Preference Set, assign plants to those groups, and even sort plants onto specific layers by group for better organization in your plan.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Previously recorded on October 14, 2022
Presented by Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC

A thoughtfully planned, designed, and managed parks and recreation system can provide profound and wide-reaching benefits not only to the local community but to the greater public realm. Join Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC, for an inspiring presentation detailing these public open spaces’ potential to help improve everything from transportation to stormwater and utility systems. Drawing on a few of his firm’s projects as examples, Carlos will outline a deliberate, reasoned, and highly effective approach to sustainable park design that will offer valuable insight to creators of all outdoor spaces.
 
WATCH RECORDED WEBINAR


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Grow Your Know! #152
Dec 14, 2022

• POWER TIP: Slide Shooting Techniques

• WEBINAR: Hardware Recommendations for 2022

• RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Grow Your Know! # 152
October 18, 2022
WEBINAR: Hardware Recommendations for 2022
WEBINAR: Hareware Recommendations for 2022
DATE: October 21, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Mike Bennett

As you may well be aware, myriad inventory and supply shortages have caused the computer market to vary wildly over the past few years. Now amidst launch season, we’re seeing all sorts of new products are being announced and prepped to hit shelves. We’ll take a deeper dive into what this all means for you, including how you should plan your next upgrade and which pitfalls you can avoid and potentially save some coin.
 
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POWER TIP: Slide Shooting Techniques
POWER TIP: Slide Shooting Techniques
Have you saved a plant symbol, site block, hatch, or detail into your library and noticed that the preview image is not displaying well? Fortunately, you can recreate a better preview slide using the techniques demonstrated in this week’s Power Tip video.

See our documentation pages to learn more about the tools featured in this video!

The Batchman Tool
Saving Blocks
 
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Landscaping in Cafes: 10 Projects That Integrate Greenery Into Architecture
Landscaping in Cafes: 10 Projects That Integrate Greenery Into Architecture
Image © Spaceshift Studios
Whether it is for a break, relaxation or even free wifi, coffee shops tend to host a series of situations that involve more than just enjoying a cup of coffee. A quiet and pleasant place, which in addition to everything else offers a good hot drink, is a great attraction for those looking for a coffee shop to spend a few hours.

In this sense, a landscape project that integrates greenery into these environments can significantly increase the comfort of customers, by easing temperatures and offering a barrier against atmospheric, noise and visual pollution. In addition, after the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, open spaces, with natural ventilation and gardens became priorities for many projects, including coffee shops.
 
View all the cafe projects on ArchDaily.com using the link below.
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RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
RECORDED WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
Previously recorded on October 14, 2022
Presented by Carlos F. Perez, Planning + Design, LLC

A thoughtfully planned, designed, and managed parks and recreation system can provide profound and wide-reaching benefits not only to the local community but to the greater public realm. Join Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC, for an inspiring presentation detailing these public open spaces’ potential to help improve everything from transportation to stormwater and utility systems. Drawing on a few of his firm’s projects as examples, Carlos will outline a deliberate, reasoned, and highly effective approach to sustainable park design that will offer valuable insight to creators of all outdoor spaces.
 
WATCH RECORDED WEBINAR


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Grow Your Know! #151
Dec 14, 2022

• POWER TIP: How To Share Land F/X Project Data Between Offices

• WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
Grow Your Know! # 151
October 11, 2022
WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
WEBINAR: A New Approach to Parks and Recreation Planning
DATE: October 14, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Carlos F. Perez, Planning + Design, LLC

A thoughtfully planned, designed, and managed parks and recreation system can provide profound and wide-reaching benefits not only to the local community but to the greater public realm. Join Carlos F. Perez of Perez Planning + Design, LLC, for an inspiring presentation detailing these public open spaces’ potential to help improve everything from transportation to stormwater and utility systems. Drawing on a few of his firm’s projects as examples, Carlos will outline a deliberate, reasoned, and highly effective approach to sustainable park design that will offer valuable insight to creators of all outdoor spaces.
 
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POWER TIP: How To Share Land F/X Project Data Between Offices
POWER TIP: How To Share Land F/X Project Data Between Offices
When you need to share a drawing with someone in another office, you'll also need to include the plant list, equipment inventory, and other Land F/X project data associated with that drawing. Tune in to learn some quick and simple options for how to back up and transmit that data. We'll also go over what users in the other office need to do to access your Land F/X data. Once you have this process down, sharing your Land F/X data will be second nature.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
Previously recorded on September 16, 2022
Presented by Paul Houchin

Looking to use the Land F/X tools for creating and organizing details in CAD, but not sure where to start? You’re in the right place. Take a full tour of our detail system, where you’ll learn how to navigate our detail library, find the details you need, and use them in your drawing set. We’ll also show you how easy it is to draft your own details and save them into your system.
 
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Grow Your Know! #150
Dec 14, 2022

• POWER TIP: Our Favorite Mac Productivity Software Tools

• WEBINAR: Using LIDAR Point Clouds in SketchUp

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
Grow Your Know! # 150
September 27, 2022
WEBINAR: Using LIDAR Point Clouds in SketchUp
WEBINAR: Using LIDAR Point Clouds in SketchUp
DATE: September 30, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Amanda Marin

Point cloud scanning is an increasingly accessible technology, available right in the palm of your hand via LIDAR-enabled mobile phones and tablets. Using an iPad, we'll test out a few popular iOS apps: 3D Scanner (available for free), and LidarCad and SiteScape (both available for purchase). We'll compare learning curves, ease of use, and final result for the purpose of importing an existing terrain model into SketchUp.
 
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POWER TIP: Our Favorite Mac Productivity Software Tools
POWER TIP: Our Favorite Mac Productivity Software Tools
It may come as no surprise that the daily workflow at Land F/X headquarters includes much more than just working with CAD, but you might not have guessed that we all use Macs. Join us as we take a quick look at some of our favorite Mac-based productivity tools, including a wide variety of software, browser plugins, websites, and even iPhone apps.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
Previously recorded on September 16, 2022
Presented by Paul Houchin

Looking to use the Land F/X tools for creating and organizing details in CAD, but not sure where to start? You’re in the right place. Take a full tour of our detail system, where you’ll learn how to navigate our detail library, find the details you need, and use them in your drawing set. We’ll also show you how easy it is to draft your own details and save them into your system.
 
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Grow Your Know! #149
Sep 22, 2022

• POWER TIP: Project Permissions

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
Grow Your Know! # 149
September 20, 2022
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Project Permissions
POWER TIP: Project Permissions
Do you need to set up permissions for your Land F/X projects or remove a former employee from the user list shown in your project permissions? We've built an excellent interface for you into the Land F/X Portal. Tune in to learn how to adjust the settings on a per-user basis, create user groups to manage the permissions much more easily, and even apply permissions to multiple projects at once.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
RECORDED WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
Previously recorded on September 16, 2022
Presented by Paul Houchin

Looking to use the Land F/X tools for creating and organizing details in CAD, but not sure where to start? You’re in the right place. Take a full tour of our detail system, where you’ll learn how to navigate our detail library, find the details you need, and use them in your drawing set. We’ll also show you how easy it is to draft your own details and save them into your system.
 
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NOTICE: Get up to date. Download and run our latest F/X Workstation installer.
It’s always a good idea to make sure you have the most recent version of our F/X Workstation installer, but some recent improvements to the software have made it especially important. The current version includes all our latest ribbon changes, but even more importantly, it includes a new Chromium-based Web browser control to enable our Web-based dialog boxes for functions such as Color Render, choosing plants from our database, and selecting manufacturers.
 
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Grow Your Know! #148
Sep 22, 2022

• POWER TIP: Coordinate UCS between CAD, SketchUp, Rhino and Revit

• WEBINAR: Details for Beginners

• RECORDED WEBINAR: LandscapeHub and Land F/X
Grow Your Know! # 148
September 13, 2022
WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
WEBINAR: Details for Beginners
DATE: September 16, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Paul Houchin

Looking to use the Land F/X tools for creating and organizing details in CAD, but not sure where to start? You’re in the right place. Take a full tour of our detail system, where you’ll learn how to navigate our detail library, find the details you need, and use them in your drawing set. We’ll also show you how easy it is to draft your own details and save them into your system.
 
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POWER TIP: Coordinate UCS between CAD, SketchUp, Rhino and Revit
POWER TIP: Coordinate UCS between CAD, SketchUp, Rhino and Revit
Before you jump between 2D and 3D, it's crucial to verify that your drawing and model are using the same origin and axis. We'll show you how can easily set up a User Coordinate System (UCS) to control exactly how you view your drawing in CAD. You'll also pick up some tips on how to ensure you're using the ideal origin location in SketchUp, Rhino, or Revit.
 
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RECORDED WEBINAR: LandscapeHub and Land F/X
RECORDED WEBINAR: LandscapeHub and Land F/X
Previously recorded on August 26, 2022
Presented by Amanda Marin

Follow along as we showcase our first integrated plant schedule export software, LandscapeHub. We'll go over some of its cost estimating and species availability features, which are tied directly to local nurseries, and show you how to use these tools to inform your plant species choices and design decisions. 
 
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NOTICE: Get up to date. Download and run our latest F/X Workstation installer.
It’s always a good idea to make sure you have the most recent version of our F/X Workstation installer, but some recent improvements to the software have made it especially important. The current version includes all our latest ribbon changes, but even more importantly, it includes a new Chromium-based Web browser control to enable our Web-based dialog boxes for functions such as Color Render, choosing plants from our database, and selecting manufacturers.
 
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Notice: Land F/X Moving To Subscription Licensing
Sep 22, 2022

• Notice: Land F/X Moving To Subscription Licensing

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Land F/X Moving to Subscription Licensing


 
As of January 1, 2023, Land F/X will move to a subscription model for both pricing and licensing. The cost of a new license will drop to match the updated cost of renewing that license. That means when you purchase a new license, you can count on paying that same price for your yearly renewal.
 
Under this new pricing uniformity – $575 per year (about $48 per month) for Planting F/X and $875 per year (about $73 per month) for Irrigation F/X, billed annually – budgeting for software will be vastly simplified. In addition, the substantially lower price of a new purchase will make it much easier to add new licenses. For instance, let’s say you plan to have an intern for the summer: Providing a license for that intern will cost just a few hundred dollars. You’ll have the license for the rest of the year, and you can choose whether or not to renew it when the time comes.
 
Here at Land F/X, we do our best to keep our clients’ costs as consistent as possible. However, the inherent expenses of maintaining a growing and ever-improving software company require us to revise our pricing from time to time.

Since our last pricing increase in 2018, for instance, we’ve:
  • Hired a horticulturist to expand and maintain our plant data
  • Added content providers to upgrade and standardize our blocks, hatches, and details
  • Increased our technical support staffing to minimize your wait time and help you get back to work even more quickly when you run into issues
  • Hired an additional programmer to assist with Revit and other projects
Increasing our renewal costs by what amounts to a couple hundred dollars per year per license will allow us to continue offering the top-notch software and support you’ve come to know over the years. And just as before, you can always choose to switch to Local Data before your license expires to keep it functioning if you opt not to renew.
 
We know it’s never fun to hear about a pricing increase, but we hope the lower cost of a new license, combined with the benefits that come with our expanded staffing, will more than make up for this necessary adjustment. Also note that if your license is set to expire in 2023, you’ll still pay the current price if you choose to renew before the end of 2022. 

In case you have concerns about our new subscription model, my line is open as always.
 
Jeremiah Farmer
CEO, Land F/X


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Grow Your Know! #147
Sep 22, 2022

• POWER TIP: Converting Details for Land F/X

• WEBINAR: LandscapeHub And Land F/X

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Implementing your Office CAD Standards
Grow Your Know! # 147
August 23, 2022
WEBINAR: LandscapeHub And Land F/X
WEBINAR: LandscapeHub and Land F/X
DATE: August 26, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Amanda Marin

Follow along as we showcase our first integrated plant schedule export software, LandscapeHub. We'll go over some of its cost estimating and species availability features, which are tied directly to local nurseries, and show you how to use these tools to inform your plant species choices and design decisions.
 
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POWER TIP: Converting Details for Land F/X
POWER TIP: Converting Details for Land F/X
Are you looking to convert your details to be used in Land F/X? Check out this week’s Power Tip video for a quick rundown on what you need to do for this. For a more in-depth look at saving details into the Land F/X library, take a look at the Saving your Detail Library to Land F/X webinar.

Click here for the checklist mentioned in the Power Tip video.
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Implementing your Office CAD Standards
RECORDED WEBINAR: Implementing your Office CAD Standards
Previously recorded on August 12, 2022
Presented by Jaymz Wooden

A well-thought-out set of CAD standards will lend a defined and recognizable look to your drawings, but the benefits extend far beyond the superficial. Good standards improve your work as a whole by promoting efficiency in the drafting process, giving projects a consistent style across your team, and making mistakes or anomalies easier to find and address. We'll show you how easily you can adapt your own office standards to Land F/X – and how effectively the software will then apply them to your projects.
 
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NOTICE: Get up to date. Download and run our latest F/X Workstation installer.
It’s always a good idea to make sure you have the most recent version of our F/X Workstation installer, but some recent improvements to the software have made it especially important. The current version includes all our latest ribbon changes, but even more importantly, it includes a new Chromium-based Web browser control to enable our Web-based dialog boxes for functions such as Color Render, choosing plants from our database, and selecting manufacturers.
 
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Grow Your Know! #146
Sep 22, 2022

• POWER TIP: Handy AutoCAD Layer Tools

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Implementing your Office CAD Standards
Grow Your Know! # 146
August 16, 2022
NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK
POWER TIP: Handy AutoCAD Layer Tools
POWER TIP: Handy AutoCAD Layer Tools
The ability to manipulate your layer settings is among the most useful features available within AutoCAD. You might be familiar with some of the native layer tools such as LAYDEL, LAYFRZ, and LAYISO, but those commands are just the tip of the iceberg. We'll show off some possibly lesser-known but equally valuable layer tools to add to your arsenal.
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Implementing your Office CAD Standards
RECORDED WEBINAR: Implementing your Office CAD Standards
Previously recorded on August 12, 2022
Presented by Jaymz Wooden

A well-thought-out set of CAD standards will lend a defined and recognizable look to your drawings, but the benefits extend far beyond the superficial. Good standards improve your work as a whole by promoting efficiency in the drafting process, giving projects a consistent style across your team, and making mistakes or anomalies easier to find and address. We'll show you how easily you can adapt your own office standards to Land F/X – and how effectively the software will then apply them to your projects.
 
WATCH RECORDED WEBINAR
NOTICE: Get up to date. Download and run our latest F/X Workstation installer.
It’s always a good idea to make sure you have the most recent version of our F/X Workstation installer, but some recent improvements to the software have made it especially important. The current version includes all our latest ribbon changes, but even more importantly, it includes a new Chromium-based Web browser control to enable our Web-based dialog boxes for functions such as Color Render, choosing plants from our database, and selecting manufacturers.
 
UPDATE WORKSTATION


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Grow Your Know! #145
Sep 22, 2022

• NO POWER TIP THIS WEEK

• WEBINAR: Implementing Your Office CAD Standards

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Importing Plans into Revit
Grow Your Know! # 145
August 9, 2022
NO POWER TIP THIS WEEK
WEBINAR: Implementing Your Office CAD Standards
WEBINAR: Implementing Your Office CAD Standards
DATE: August 12, 2022
TIME: 10 a.m. Pacific Time
PRESENTER: Jaymz Wooden

A well-thought-out set of CAD standards will lend a defined and recognizable look to your drawings, but the benefits extend far beyond the superficial. Good standards improve your work as a whole by promoting efficiency in the drafting process, giving projects a consistent style across your team, and making mistakes or anomalies easier to find and address. We'll show you how easily you can adapt your own office standards to Land F/X – and how effectively the software will then apply them to your projects.
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RECORDED WEBINAR: Importing Plans Into Revit
RECORDING WEBINAR: Importing Plans Into Revit
Previously recorded on July 29, 2022
Presented by Amanda Marin

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. This is going to cover first steps for a designer who typically works in AutoCAD or F/X CAD and just installed Revit in order to coordinate their drawings with their architect. We'll cover some basic orientation of Revit, and the pros and cons of certain strategies including a simple import of a PDF of your sheet into their drawing package, to importing the DWG linework either 2D or Civil 3D and making toposurfaces and floors. Finally we'll explore first step methods to then import your planting or irrigation plan. This webinar will be critical for understanding your options to satisfy your contract with the software solutions available today.

 
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NOTICE: Get up to date. Download and run our latest F/X Workstation installer.
It’s always a good idea to make sure you have the most recent version of our F/X Workstation installer, but some recent improvements to the software have made it especially important. The current version includes all our latest ribbon changes, but even more importantly, it includes a new Chromium-based Web browser control to enable our Web-based dialog boxes for functions such as Color Render, choosing plants from our database, and selecting manufacturers.
 
UPDATE WORKSTATION


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Grow Your Know! #144
Sep 22, 2022

• POWER TIP: How to Create a Dimscale Block

• NO WEBINAR THIS WEEK

• RECORDED WEBINAR: Importing Plans into Revit
Grow Your Know! # 144