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I do love the tool palettes. Took some time to set them up with my reference files, but it’s great.
I like your system. Never thought of routinely scaling up the symbols. I just have various sizes smshrub1, shrub1, lgshrub3, vlgshrub, etc. Just tweak a little when I need to.

I have a few symbols I always like to use for the same plant, the blocks…[Read more]

We keep the plant block named, at least in short to make plant counts easier using the ‘bcount’ command.

I have all my symbols 1′ in diameter so that all I have to do is scale them by the diameter that I want just after insertion from the tool palette or when I use the insertion command. My blocks are all renamed p1, p2, p3,… from when I used to use the insert command before the tool palette came to being so I did not have to type in long names. I…[Read more]

The double typing problem seemed to go away as soon as I queried it. I still can’t see the legend on my design, however. Another contestant said she could read it fine. I won’t worry about it so long as I know it is legible. IE was no different.

I knew you’d say that, Andrew.
I do the same thing you do with color to determine lineweights. But I don’t work with my symbols/blocks as carefully as you do.
I’ve created (revised) them with colors already set to determine lineweight. I will sometimes explode them if I change the size enough–and reset the color if I want.

I have plant (for…[Read more]

Lynn,
When you repeat a symbol in a different size it is a good idea to change its lineweight as well. All of my plant symbols (and most blocks in general) that I use were drafted on the zero layer both because they will take on the color of the layer that they are inserted on and so that the color can be changed by using the properties box or…[Read more]

Did you know you can import data directly into an AC table from excel? I haven’t done it much, but it does the same thing that you mention.
That way one could get the symbols in.

Ok, wow, compared to some of these other suggestions, I must be behind the times. I simply import an excel file into Autocad. I “paste special” the schedule as a link, so if I make any changes in the excel file, the plant schedule in my autocad drawing is automatically updated. I don’t typically include symbols in my plant schedule, so that may be…[Read more]

Here’s mine: http://www.lindenlandscapedesign.com/its-so-much-more-than-grass/
It’s focused mostly on horticultural topics, some design concepts and plants. It’s a reference that I hope my clients use.

I’ll check out all the new ones on here.
Lynn

That font is just Simplex with a 20 degree slant that you can do either in the text edit box if you are using mtext, or in the properties box with or without using mtext.

Well thanks for checking out the site! Yeah its strange sometimes where the inspiration comes from. I read an article on him in Rolling Stone and immediately went and wrote that post!

Tables are super easy to set up in AutoCad now. It’s simple to add and delete columns and rows. You might want to transfer to that so you can more easily edit your table. I like how you put the common and bot names in the same box. I think I’ll do that, it also gives more space for the symbols. I use a font that won’t print in italics, so I have…[Read more]

So you can choose an area of the model and count only the blocks there? Didn’t know that, just thought it did the entire model. I’ll try it.
One day maybe I’ll be able to try LandFX, but not right now.

I too keep a very long list of a plant schedule that i can just manipulate on a per project basis. It took awhile to setup, but it has made life a lot easier

I keep a plant schedule that I edit for each project in the tool pallette to drag and drop. Keeping the plant symbols the same size as they appear in the drawing is much appreciated by those trying to follow it. Years ago I used Landcadd and hated the fact that the automated plant schedule made all of the symbols the same size whiich really…[Read more]

I have experienced doing this in two ways, either inputting in excel and inserting into a drawing or doing the plant schedule completely in autocad. The trick either way is to keep each plant as its own block. That way, doing a count is very easy by doing a block count (bcount command in AC), selecting the area and it will count each block. This…[Read more]