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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: Customizing Drip Symbols
Recommended By: Mia LeherFeb 22, 2017
It's no secret that you have a lot of options for showing drip equipment on your plan. To give you even more flexibility, we've organized our drip symbols into families…...
Power Tip: Create a Custom Color Plant Symbol
Recommended By: Laurent PamelaFeb 18, 2017
Your installation includes a wide selection of colored plant symbols, which you can use in the quick rendering of your planting plan. Some of our users have expressed the desire…...
Power Tip: Spot Elevations and Slope Callouts
Recommended By: Don Irving with Donald Irving Pty LtdFeb 10, 2017
If you draft grading plans, you'll love our grading tools. This Power Tip goes through improvements we've made to our Spot Elevation and Slope Callout features. These powerful tools allow…...
Power Tip: Creating General Notes Using RefNotes
Recommended By: Jake LottJan 10, 2017
Every plan will include a general notes section, as well as separate notes for disciplines such as planting, irrigation, and grading. Our Reference Note (RefNote) system provides an easy method…...
Power Tip: Changing Line Colors
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerJan 06, 2017
Land F/X makes it convenient to customize the line colors in a single or multiple drawings. Not only can you change the line colors in a drawing, but you can…...
Power Tip: Quickly Move Plants to Unique Layers
Recommended By: Rachel Katzman with Belt Collins HawaiiNov 11, 2016
Feature: Land F/X places all tree and shrub symbols on default layers. In this Power Tip, we’ll go through how to grab all your placed plants and put them on layers…...
Power Tip: Customizing Irrigation Equipment Symbols
Recommended By: David FarmerNov 09, 2016
Each irrigation symbol in our vast library is already predefined in the system and assigned to each manufacturer, so you don't have to worry about setting things up. In…...
Power Tip: Create an Amenity RefNote with an Assigned SketchUp Component
Recommended By: Stephanie Kennedy with WDIOct 27, 2016
Were you aware that our manufacturer blocks are automatically associated with SketchUp components for when you export and import your design to 3D? Did you know you can also assign…...
Power Tip: What’s New with F/X CAD 2017
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerOct 21, 2016
Feature: What's New in F/X CAD 2017 You have many reasons to upgrade to F/X CAD 2017. This Power Tip goes through a few useful features, including PDFIMPORT, CENTERMARK, CENTERLINE,…...
Power Tip: Manual Cleaning Steps
Recommended By: Amanda BerryOct 10, 2016
Drawing cleanup is an essential part of working with AutoCAD drawings across multiple users and platforms. Without this process, drawings can become corrupt, potentially costing you many hours of wor...
Power Tip: Detail Enlargements
Recommended By: WDISep 14, 2016
When building details, you'll often find yourself needing to provide a close-up view of a detail component that shows a more intricate and detailed view of that component. One of…...
Power Tip: Enhancing Plants in a SketchUp Scene
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerSep 09, 2016
Want to use a SketchUp model to show off your design in 3D? This Power Tip demonstrates how to quickly set up high-quality "scenes" that will provide visually striking…...
Power Tip: Create a Change Order Schedule Using Refnotes
Recommended By: Jimmy Mcaninch with AECOMAug 24, 2016
Do you have a large, dynamic project under construction, where you'd like to improve how you keep track of change orders? We're here to help. In this Power Tip, we'll…...
Power Tip: Cleanup Zoom Extents
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerAug 19, 2016
Aside from drawing cleanup, perhaps the most important step to take with a drawing you receive from a colleague, consultant, or client – or any drawing, for that matter –…...
Power Tip: Cloud Details
Recommended By: Jeremiah FarmerAug 16, 2016
Land F/X provides an extensive library of details that are all based in the cloud and instantly downloadable. You can use the details as they are, edit them or even…...
Power Tip: X Marks the Angle – The Xhair Tool
Recommended By: Dave FarmerJul 28, 2016
Need to match a specific angle in your drawing when drawing a line or placing a line of plants, a row of irrigation heads, or any other group of…...
Power Tip: Create a Discipline Block with Attributes
100% 1 Votes Recommended By: Luis Terrazas with Greenway Studio
Jul 14, 2016
Our Discipline Graphics blocks provide some helpful attribute-driven symbols, but what if you want to make your own block with customized attributes? Follow the steps in this Power Tip to…...
Power Tip: Paint Mode
Recommended By: Jeff Morosky with Walt Disney ImagineeringJul 08, 2016
At our very first meeting with Walt Disney Imagineering, the talented Jeff Morosky asked whether there was a way to “paint” a swath of plant symbols into a planting area.…...
Power Tip: Create a Larger Gap between Shrubs and Groundcovers
Recommended By: Land F/XJun 29, 2016
Exclude Shrubs is a key tool for keeping your quantities exact, and our Plant Outlines tool keeps your plan looking sharp. In this Power Tip, we’ll show advanced uses of…...
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: 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…...
