Planting F/X Revit Tools
May 2, 2025
Presented by: Amanda Marin
Webinar Contents:
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- Intro/TOC
- Quick TLDR: What Does Planting F/X Do in Revit?
- Recent Improvements
- Future Roadmap
- Demo Planting Design
- Questions
0:00 – 5:01: Intro/TOC
5:02 – 12:32: Quick TLDR: What Does Planting F/X Do in Revit?
- Benefits of using Planting F/X in Revit (5:02)
- Beautiful plan view symbols.
- Extensive 3D tree and shrub billboard families.
- The most plant data in any planting design software.
- Plant placing tools with rootballs.
- Automated type shared parameters, instant schedules, less work for you.
- Easy group plant tags.
- Maintain and enforce office standards.
- Amazing tech support included.
- Still Revit – just less complicated.
12:33 – 15:33: Recent Improvements
- Type parameters.
- Update options.
- Import/Export from project base or internal origin.
- Revit 2025 support.
15:34 – 22:35: Future Roadmap
2025 year roadmap:
- 2026 Revit support – Imminent: See it today!
- Toposolid subdivision type parameter support.
- Integrating toposolid improvements.
- Concept Plants and plant mixes.
- Sneak peek today!
- All 15 default plant tags as Revit families.
- Easier update procedure.
- Upgrade Shared Parameter for group label quantities to new parameter (not comments)
- Also look at making groundcover count quantities more dynamic.
- Shared Parameter office merging.
- First a documentation manual workaround.
- Then a tool.
- Mix & Match 2D and 3D symbols.
- Progress has been made!
- Site Amenities and Hardscape Manager
- Already porting generic library.
2026 year roadmap:
- Plant Portfolio.
- Detail Manager and Builder tools.
- For architects, as well as landscape architects and engineers.
- Autodesk content catalog support for LAFX library.
- Need more feedback, early stages of research. If you use this, let us know.
- Language strings.
- Default Plant Schedule settings.
- More Plant Preference settings from ACAD plugin.
- Plant Data in Revit parameters.
2027+ year roadmap:
- Plant Photos in Schedules
- Link Enscape Render to plant info.
- More Twinmotion, D5, and Lumion support.
22:36 – end: Demo Planting Design
Exporting a plan from CAD to Revit (23:42)
Importing the exported plan into Revit (25:35)
Starting a new Land F/X project in Revit (32:52)
Adding plants to a project (33:28)
Our plant database, and adding your own plants to it (34:02)
Plant photos (37:20)
Filtering by plant data to search for a plant (38:30)
Editing plants (39:45)
Importing plants from another project (42:20)
Copying plants using the Copy Along tools (43:02)
Question: Are the plants hosted on the surfaces automatically? (44:00)
Answer: Yes. The families are hosted to the toposolid surface, so if you change the topography of the toposolid after placing the plant, those changes will follow it.
Rootball Visibility tool (47:51)
Labeling plants (49:08)
Verify Labels tool (50:50)
Question: Does Revit recognize a User Coordinate System (UCS) set in CAD? (52:28)
Answer: Yes it does!
Customizable user fields (53:12)
Concept Plant Manager (55:03)
Groundcover spacing in Revit (58:08)
Plant Schedule (58:33)
Questions
Question: If you have set up your CAD and Revit files with different base points and it is too complicated to make them match at this point in the project time line, are we able to change our UCS and 0,0,0 in the CAD to temporarily match the Revit base point? or is it based of the world 0,0,0 location?
Answer: The process will always use the current UCS, giving you exactly that flexibility to simply set the UCS in CAD to match the Revit origin.
Question: When generating a plant schedule in Revit, will the plant symbols be visible as they are in CAD schedules?
Answer: They have to be JPG images, instead of the actual symbols, but otherwise do appear fine.
Question: Has there been an update to exporting Revit into Lumion so that the plant nodes can be assigned to plants?
Answer: No.
Question: We currently use for our perennials and groundcovers. The question has come up as to how they are calculated , diagonal spacing or rectangular spacing? Is there a way to adjust that method?
(Live answered at 58:08)
Question: Are you working on scaled symbols in the schedule? Currently they are all the same size
Answer: The only way of putting symbols in the schedule is for them to be JPG images. So currently you would need to edit the size of the images if desired.
Contact
- Land F/X
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