LandmarkAdding plants to the design

Tool

Workspace: Tool set

Plant

Design Suite: Site Planning

Landmark: Softscape

Every plant object in the drawing is based on a plant style selected from the Resource Selector. Some plant parameters are locked by the style, but the settings for instance parameters can be changed in the Plant Preferences dialog box before placement. (See Concept: Plug-in object styles.) Selected plants can be edited from the Object Info palette after placement.

In addition to the appearance and parameters defined for plants, the Plant tool can place plants in several configurations, from single plants to arrays of plants. When setting parameters after placement, an array of plants is considered to be a single "plant" in the Object Info palette. Plants can also be created by drawing a polyline and then selecting the Create Objects from Shapes command (see Creating objects from shapes).

When a plant is placed over a site model, it's automatically sent to the site model surface.

See Concept: Plants overview for a discussion of the relationship between plant styles and the settings for an individual plant instance. 

Mode

Description

Standard Insertion

Inserts a plant according to the selected placement mode

Pick Up

Sets the default plant preferences to match those of a selected existing plant

Convert

Uses the current plant preferences to convert a polyline, polygon, rectangle, circle, or arc into a plant object

Plant Style

Opens the Resource Selector to select a plant style for placement; double-click a resource to activate it

Single Plant Placement

Places a single specified plant at each mouse click

Plant_single.png 

Poly-Vertex Placement

Places plants at each clicked polygon vertex

Plant_vertex.png 

Poly-Edge Spaced

Places plants along the drawn polygon at the Spacing distance specified in the style or preferences

Plant_edge.png 

Rectangular Array

Fills the drawn polygon with plants in a rectangular array at the Spacing distance specified in the style or preferences

Plant_rect.png 

Triangular Array

Fills the drawn polygon with plants in a triangular array at the Spacing distance specified in the style or preferences

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Hedge

Enables hedge creation for the Poly-Edge Spaced, Rectangular Array, and Triangular Array placement modes. When toggled on, creates rows of hedges along the drawn polyline; the number of hedge rows is set in the Preferences.

The Hedgerow tool creates a hedgerow composed of mixed plants (see Creating a hedgerow). 

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Preferences

Opens the Plant Preferences dialog box; see Plant settings

To place plants on the drawing:

Click the tool and modes.

Click Plant Style on the Tool bar to select a resource from the Resource Selector.

Unlike other objects that use plug-in object styles but allow insertion of completely custom instances, plant instances must be based on a style.

Click Preferences to open the Plant Preferences dialog box and specify the default values of instance parameters, if needed. 

The parameters can be edited later from the Object Info palette.

Place the plants using one of the following methods:

In Standard Insertion mode, depending on the placement method selected, either click in the drawing to place a single plant, click to set vertices, or draw a polygon. As the Plant tool is clicked in the drawing, a preview of the plant spread is displayed to help with plant placement.

 

In Convert mode, valid objects are highlighted as the cursor moves over them. Click on a valid object to place the plant. According to the placement settings, the plant follows the path of, or fills, the object.

 
 

Creating plant styles

Plant settings

 

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