Creating a Site: Adding Planting Components

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Creating a Site: Adding Planting Components

Training File - open Imperial\RAC_CS_06_Planting_i.rvt

In this exercise, you add planting components to the site surface. You also create a schedule to determine landscape counts.

Add planting families to the site

1. In the Project Browser, under Floor Plans, double-click Site.
2. Click Massing & Site tabModel Site panelSite Component.
3. Click to place a tree to the left of the parking lot, as shown.

In this step, you place the default tree that is selected. To place a different variety of tree (planting), choose a different type in the Type Selector on the Element panel.

4. Click to place 3 trees in the courtyard for the building, as shown.

5. On the Element panel, in the Type Selector, select Honey Locust - 25'.

6. Click to place the tree in the island to the left of the building.

Load a planting family

7. Click Site Component tabModel panelLoad Family.
8. In the left pane of the Load Family dialog, click Training Files, and open Imperial\Families\RPC Shrub.rfa.
9. Click to place 3 shrubs along the interior of the left roadway.
10. Optional: Populate the project with a variety of plantings. (Exact variety and placement is not important.)

Create a landscape schedule After the layout is complete, you create a landscape schedule to count and sort the planting selections.

11. Click View tabCreate panelSchedules drop-downSchedule/Quantities.
12. In the New Schedule dialog:
    • For Category, select Planting.
    • For Name, type Landscape Schedule.
    • Click OK.
13. On the Schedule Properties dialog, specify options:
    • On the Fields tab, select Type and click Add.
    • Select Count, and click Add.
    • On the Sorting/Grouping tab, clear Itemize every instance. (Each planting type will be totaled in the schedule.)
    • For Sort by, select Type. You use the Sort by field to have the planting selections sorted alphabetically by name.
    • On the Formatting tab, for Heading, type Plant Name.
    • Click OK.
14. In the schedule, double-click the column borders to expand the columns to fit the text.

    The content of the schedule will vary depending on the type of plantings you placed.

    
    

    15. In the Project Browser, under 3D Views, double-click {3D} to view the site layout with the plantings.

    16. Zoom to fit the site plan in the view.

    17. On the navigation bar, click (Full Navigation Wheel), and use the Orbit tool to spin the toposurface to view it at various angles. Notice how the trees vertically attach to the toposurface.

    Note: Plants are displayed as simple geometry until rendered.

    18. If the tops of the trees appear to be cut off, do the following to adjust the section box:

    • On the View Control Bar, click (Reveal Hidden Elements).
    • Select the section box, and use the control to drag the top of the section box up until the trees are displayed correctly.
    • On the View Control Bar, click (Close Reveal Hidden Elements), it looks like a light bulb farthest right on the menu near the bottom scroll bar.
    
    
    19. Close the file without saving it.