Landmark_SIG_043 Special Interest Group January (pm) 2014

In this session we looked at a large landscape area and how to deal with it. This means looking at layers and classes and how these should be used.

Topics Covered:

• Breaking up large landscape projects to make them more manageable by using classes and layers
• Classes
• 3 rules for classes: visibility, graphic control or reporting
• Layers
• layers are like containers (can contain several classes) = generally easier to divide large projects into layers and then use classes within them
• creating layers
• Plantings
• inserting plants in different layers
• custom spacing for plants
• Align / Distribute command (for leader lines)
• using Rotate View command to make many following tasks easier / correct, e.g. hardscape tool (flagstone texture)
• Smart Edge tool & T key
• Reshape Tool & Move Edges Parallel command
• Planting with Polygons (Rectangular Array Mode)
• Clip Tool (Exclusion Mode) to trim parts of existing plantings
• Add Surface command
• Worksheets
• Delete existing worksheets that are no longer needed
• Worksheets: create a Plant List-Basic using the Schedule command
• Amend settings of worksheet (plant list) to our requirements
• Duplicate worksheet (plant list) and adjust
• Viewports
• Add Reference Crop Object
• Create Guides
• Text Along Path command
• Curved and 3D text, various options
• Edit path (of text along path), reverse direction, text Above Path
• Poly Smoothing: Bezier Spline Smoothing

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