Advanced Irrigation Schedules
July 10, 2026
Presented by: Cole Chaltas
Length: 1:08:47
Land F/X provides a wide array of irrigation scheduling tools to help you organize irrigation data, analyze system performance, and produce clear and accurate documentation. Discover how to streamline your design process and improve project coordination by taking advantage of these tools and integrated workflows.
Webinar Contents:
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- Intro/TOC
- Schedules Overview
- Circuiting and Flow Totals
- Irrigation Schedule
- Valve Schedule
- Critical Analysis
- Mainline Profile
- Runtime Schedule
- Watering Schedule
- Demonstration
0: 00 – 5:52: Intro/TOC
Learning Resources (4:08)
Learn Irrigation Design and CAD Basics First
- Training resources/classes from manufacturers like Hunter, Rain Bird, and others
- Irrigation Association
Land F/X
- Online searchable documentation
- Webinars and Power Tips
- Check out the Land F/X Trainer
5:53 – 6:49: Schedules Overview
Land F/X provides a wide array of irrigation scheduling tools to help you organize irrigation data, analyze system performance, and produce clear and accurate documentation.
Review our documentation for in depth information on these tool: Irrigation Schedules & Reports
6:50 – 8:13: Circuiting and Flow Totals
A Zone (Circuiting) Schedule will show a list of Circuit Zones that you have created. It will show the zone numbers, type of emission device, and the flow for each zone.
Flow Total is an estimate of zones your system will require. It can help you determine the zones needed per equipment type, what controller(s) size you will need, and even if a system's POC is capable of handling your layout.
8:14 – 8:57: Irrigation Schedule
An Irrigation Schedule is a list of equipment used in a project.
It's utilized to help distinguish the equipment you are using in the plan, as well as their quantities, descriptions, and detail references if chosen.
Need to perform a cost estimate? Send your schedule to Excel!
8:58 – 9:48: Valve Schedule
The Valve Schedule provides a list of information on a zone-by-zone basis for your design.
This includes types of connected equipment, POC and controller, lengths of pipe, wire lengths, pipe sizing analysis, elevations, and precipitation rates.
9:49 – 10:30: Critical Analysis
The Critical Analysis is a report of sizing data that lists the POC, flow requirements and residuals, and pressure loss data for the critical station.
Use in conjunction with the Valve Schedule to review your system's demands and make sure your design's setup is optimal.
10:31 – 11:15: Mainline Profile
The Mainline Profile creates an elevation view (profile) of the mainline pipe in your design from a water source to a selected point, or selected equipment), on the mainline.
If you're using Spot Elevations, they will be identified by callouts on the profile automatically.
11:16 – 13:11: Runtime Schedule
The Runtime Schedule will provide an accurate representation of how a "smart" irrigation controller would run a system based on your source, the chosen zones, and mainline's capabilities.
It can also provide a Summary that will indicate how many hours (or minutes) it will take to run a specified program in a graph with accompanying flows.
13:12 – 14:36: Watering Schedule
Based on a design's layout, the system is able to calculate the actual precipitation rate. Using this information, the time required to apply an amount of water can be displayed in the Watering Schedule, which is listed on a per-week basis.
14:37 – end: Demonstration
Circuiting and Flow Totals (14:52)
Flow Totals (15:11)
Zone Schedule (17:41)
Irrigation Schedule (19:01)
Schedule Defaults (21:47)
Schematic Irrigation (22:51)
Limiting Irrigation Schedules by Work Area (24:19)
Assigning details to equipment and listing them in the Irrigation Schedule (25:19)
Schedule options (28:44)
Applying a schedule by Work Area or POC (32:19)
Drip areas (33:57)
Lateral and mainline pipe (35:19)
Slope Areas (35:40)
Pressure-reducing valves (37:28)
Description Width schedule option (38:52)
Placing a schedule in Paper Space using viewports (39:53)
Replacing equipment in the drawing (42:22)
Valve Schedule (44:38)
Table and Spreadsheet options (45:08)
Updated Valve Schedule dialog box (45:28)
Running a Valve Schedule by Work Area or POC (46:50)
Schedule options (47:04)
Wire length (49:45)
Troubleshooting potential valve issues using the Valve Schedule (50:23)
Critical Analysis (54:00)
Mainline Profile (57:00)
Runtime Schedule (58:46)
Watering Schedule (1:02:15)
Color option in the Valve Schedule (1:04:42)