Landmark_SIG_039 Special Interest Group November 2013

In this session we looked at the Landscape Area tool. The Landscape Area tool is extremely useful when you are trying to plant large areas, if you try and create a budget plan, or if you trying to create a landscape concept plan. The tool has several options we looked at these options in this section.

Topics covered:

• what is the Landscape Area
• using shapes to create Landscape Areas
• drawing shapes using Add Surface
• creating a Landscape Area using Create Objects from Shapes…
• Landscape Area Settings dialog box
• creating a class for the Landscape Area tag
• setting the options on the Landscape Area Tag
• setting the Landscape Area options to 2D only
• adjusting the Landscape Area tag position
• Landscape Area Border style settings
• using Add Surface with the Landscape Area
• using the Reshape tool with the Landscape Area
•  using the Clip tool with the Landscape Area
• assigning graphics to the Landscape Area
• using the Attribute Mapping tool to edit attribute settings
• changing the  Landscape Area settings to add 3D Plants
• changing the  Landscape Area settings to use 3D Ploy to add a texture
• using 2 Landscape Areas, one to count the trees and one to count the mulch area
• creating a report of the trees and much area
• using a report from the library that counts plants, hardscape and landscape
• creating a worksheet that lists all the plants in the file
• adding another report to the worksheet that lists all the hardscape areas
• adding another report to the worksheet that lists all the landscape areas
• selecting items from the worksheet
• using worksheets to select objects
• adding a part to the worksheet to find objects by class
• creating a formula to calculate the volume of objects
• looking at an old manual that shows how to set up a worksheet that finds plants, shows the month they need pruning, the month they need fertilizer and finding the plant on the site.

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