Planting
Overview
Plants represented with individual blocks. Raindrop manages the symbols and organization for you. There are also tools for labeling plants, generating plant quantities and schedules, and swapping plants.
Adding New Plants
Click the Add Plant button on the plants tab, or go to the planting tab in the settings dialog. Here you can add plants to your project, modify plant properties, and add new plants to the database.
The left pane is all the plants in the database. As you add plants, they will be saved here for future projects. Selecting a plant in the left pane and clicking Add To Project will prompt you for a symbol, then copy the plant to the middle pane which contains all the plants in your current drawing. The right most pane contains editable properties can be included for informational purposes.
Plants Palette
The plants palette can be found on the main tool palette. It shows the current plants in the drawing and provides for plant related commands.
Categories
Note that plants are broken down into categories. This helps keep them organized. Each category will be on it's own layer. And the categories can be collapsed in the planting tool, allowing you to focus on inserting a few types of plants as your design progresses.
Inserting plants into your drawing
Plants can be inserted either by selecting a plant or simply clicking on the plant symbol. Plants will be placed in the drawing where you click. You can also copy plants using the copy command.
Labeling Plants
The Label Plants button will allow you to label selected plants with an MLeader. Style of the leader can be edited via the AID_PlantLabel Multileader style. If the extension line on the labels is distracting freeze the prefix-LabelExtension layer.
Plant Quantities.
The plant quantities button can be used to export a quantity table for the selected plants to either Excel or text files.
Plant Schedule
The plant schedule button will prompt for a group of plants, and place a table or legend into the drawing for the selected plants.
Swap
This button will swap plants selected in the drawing with the selected plant on the tool palette.