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Power Tips
Our weekly Power Tip videos showcase features or techniques that maximize efficiency and accuracy in the design process. Presented by our in-house landscape architects and irrigation designers, these brief but insightful educational tools are based directly on client requests. Can't access Vimeo or YouTube to watch these videos at work? Download directly from landfx.com.
Power Tip: Switch to Cloud Data
Recommended By: Forrestt WIlliamsJun 24, 2016
Our Cloud Data option is a great way to ensure that anywhere you have Internet access, you can access your Land F/X projects and use our tools. Whether you’re switching…...
Power Tip: Getting the Latest Land F/X Blocks
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerJun 16, 2016
It’s no secret that Land F/X has a great database of blocks to use in your design process. What you may not know is that we're constantly improving and…...
Power Tip: Saving Hatches
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerJun 06, 2016
Saving a hatch into the Land F/X database makes that hatch accessible directly from our software. More importantly, it gives you more control over the hatching process. You’ll be able…...
Power Tip: Show a Phased Planting Plan
Recommended By: Harold Hoyte with The City of Deerfield, and Robert Bias of Verlander Landscape Architecture LLCMay 26, 2016
In creating your construction drawings, you will inevitably need to divide your plan into different phases. Land F/X helps you accomplish this task in several different ways. In our next…...
Power Tip: Using our Customized AutoCAD Ribbons
Recommended By: Amanda BerryMay 10, 2016
This week we bring you a Power Tip showing how to install the F/X CAD ACAD ribbons into AutoCAD. Visit our F/X CAD 2016 ACAD Ribbon documentation section. Want…...
Power Tip: Exclude Shrubs
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerMay 06, 2016
When placing groundcover hatches, you don't just need to provide an accurate visual representation – you need to ensure precision in your plant counts. The process becomes even more challengingR...
Power Tip: Printing Your Entire Plant Palette
Recommended By: Paul HouchinApr 29, 2016
Your client may want to discuss the possible plant options for your design. Or you may just need a list of your project plants for your own reference. Our Plant…...
Land F/X featured on the TV Show 'World's Greatest'
Apr 25, 2016
Last year, the television show "World's Greatest" contacted us to express interest in filming a segment about us. The goal of the show to provide an in-depth look at products viewers know, as well as...
Power Tip: Site Color
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerApr 22, 2016
We've engineered an incredibly powerful addition to your palette of presentation tools: Site Color! Watch this short video covering some time-saving techniques you can use to achieve a high levelR...
Power Tip: Secret Keyboard Commands
Recommended By: Land F/XApr 15, 2016
While you may know your way around all the Land F/X tools on our ribbons and toolbars, you may not have discovered the additional secret tools available to you via…...
Power Tip: Sharing the Land F/X Folder
Recommended By: Alden WilsonApr 12, 2016
If you’re in an office with multiple Land F/X users, sharing a centralized company-wide Land F/X folder can be extremely beneficial. For example, whenever one of your colleagues customizes a…...
Power Tip: What's New with F/X CAD 2016
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerApr 08, 2016
F/X CAD 2016 came with many performance improvements, including smooth copying of linework, the ability to snap to the center of a polygon, polyline revision clouds, multi-line text additions forR...
Power Tip: Match Properties Window Selection
Recommended By: Andrew SpieringApr 01, 2016
Whether you need to switch out one head or valve in your drawing, or hundreds of plants at a time, our Match Properties tool – inspired by Andrew Spiering –…...
Power Tip: Replace Details
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerMar 24, 2016
If CAD details play a significant role in your drawings, make sure you're familiar with how to replace your details efficiently. For example, if your project specs change, you may…...
Power Tip: Show Context with New Viewport
Recommended By: Brad Sikes with SikesdesignMar 20, 2016
If you need to show an enlarged or more detailed view of an area within your plan, it's important to maintain that area's context in relation to the plan as…...
Power Tip: Superjoin
Recommended By: Aaron Smith, Insight IrrigationMar 02, 2016
Feature: Superjoin Tired of dealing with other CAD users' messy linework, or spending hours cleaning up drawings that originated in other programs like SketchUp or Revit? Watch this handy Power…...
Power Tip: SketchUp Performance Tips
Recommended By: Amanda BerryFeb 29, 2016
When you're trying to model a large plan with the Land F/X SketchUp Connection, the number of trees can sometimes bring your computer to a grinding halt. Free up the…...
Power Tip: fxREF
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerFeb 18, 2016
The process of attaching an Xref to a drawing includes some complexities that can cause problems related to scaling and origin point. Our fxREF tool helps you navigate more easily through t...
Power Tip: Advanced Labeling Techniques
Recommended By: Christina Ahlers with Girvin AssociatesFeb 11, 2016
Spend less time labeling plants and Reference Notes by applying these efficiency hacks. You might be tempted to withhold how you were able to get the plan out in half…...
Power Tip: Planting Schedule Variations
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerFeb 03, 2016
We make it easy to run a plant schedule for your design. Still, you might not be aware of all the capabilities of our Plant Schedule tool. In this Power…...
Power Tip: Use QSELECT for Complicated Land F/X Scale Changes
Recommended By: Allan Darwent with Talma Mill Studios Ltd.Jan 28, 2016
Have you used QSELECT in your Land F/X workflow yet? Make sure you add this handy AutoCAD tool to your kit, with the help of this Power Tip. We'll handle…...
Power Tip: Technical Support
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerJan 19, 2016
If you run into issues while using a Land F/X product, you can submit a support ticket directly from AutoCAD (or F/X CAD). Before we can diagnose the issue, we'll…...
Power Tip: Set a Viewport Scale with Land F/X
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerJan 14, 2016
Have you ever wanted a foolproof method for setting the Viewport Scale? Just use our Plot Scale tool! Watch how easy it is to assign a viewport with any scale…...
Power Tip: Verify Mainline
Recommended By: Eric Stanley with GSBSDec 21, 2015
Before you size the mainline pipe in your irrigation design, we recommend checking for errors in your layout. Our newly updated Verify Mainline tool takes care of this crucial step in mere&...
Power Tip: Import Plant
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerNov 02, 2015
If you've already saved and edited plants for a project, or spent time carefully setting up a plant template, you'll want to be able to use these plants in other…...
Power Tip: Intro To Nuke
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerOct 22, 2015
Drawing cleanup is absolutely integral to designing with AutoCAD – yet too many CAD users know little or nothing about it. The unfortunate result? Complications that lead to lost work…...
Power Tip: Plant Color Render
Recommended By: David FarmerOct 19, 2015
Check out all that our Plant Color Render tool has to offer! With Shrub Area coloring now available, and many more marker-style symbols to choose from, you can turn your…...
Power Tip: Colored Blocks
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerSep 30, 2015
As you may know, Land F/X offers quite an extensive selection of blocks, including our Plan and Elevation Graphics. We've recently updated these block libraries with a new feature that…...
Power Tip: Including Flow For Existing Planting
Recommended By: Danah with Madrone LandscapeSep 28, 2015
Have you ever wondered how to account for additional flow requirements for existing plants when doing an irrigation/planting retrofit? Take a look at this handy Power Tip on using irrigation…...
Power Tip: Assign a Custom SketchUp Component to a Plant
Recommended By: Casey with GC, Inc.Sep 17, 2015
Want to make your SketchUp models as realistic as possible? If so, you'll need to assign your own highly realistic tree components to the plants you specify. This Power Tip…...
Power Tip: Dynamic Block Support
Recommended By: Aaron Emerson with Mills Design GroupSep 05, 2015
Land F/X now supports dynamic blocks! With the help of Aaron Emerson of Mills Design Group, we were able to come up with a great new way to place blocks…...
Power Tip: RefNote Object In Drawing
Recommended By: BMLAAug 27, 2015
Like many Land F/X users, you might like to use our Plan Graphics to place generic objects – such as benches, birdbaths, rocks, or play equipment – early in your…...
Power Tip: Convert Imperial Details to Metric
Recommended By: Michael Magnan with O2 Planning + Design IncAug 25, 2015
It’s common to find yourself in a situation where you need to convert a detail from Imperial to metric units in order to have it scale properly in a metric…...
Power Tip: How to Create a Dimscale Block
Recommended By: Tim Wood with B+C StudioAug 18, 2015
What do you do when a symbol is too big for small scales, but too small for larger scales? You make a Dimscale block! We'll show you to save a…...
Power Tip: Customizing Drip Hatches
Recommended By: Jinna Cooper with Prevost Stamper.Aug 10, 2015
As you place your area for dripline or area for drip emitter, you'll notice that we've already taken the time to set up and provide you with several hatches to…...
