Planting

What it does

A planting drawing is really two things: beds — areas of ground — and mixes — what grows in them, in what proportion and at what density. Planting keeps them separate and does the arithmetic between them.

Build a mix once, apply it to any number of beds, and the tool works out how many of each species each bed needs, places the plants, and keeps the numbers on the bed. Tags, schedules and legends all read from the same source, so the drawing and the schedule can't drift apart.

Highlights

• Build a mix from species with a % share and a density — or a flat count per bed.
• Type plants per m² or centre-to-centre spacing; each updates the other.
• Apply a mix to floors, toposolids or subdivisions, with its own colour and hatch.
• Recalculate without touching the model, then sync when you're happy.
• Hand back puts a bed onto the type it had before its mix.
• Plants follow their beds as you regrade — all session, with the bed watcher on.
• Tag beds with their species codes and counts, in a label format you set once.
• Generate a planting schedule and a planting legend that stay up to date.
• Place individual plants, or a run along a line for street trees and hedges.

Before you start

• Create your beds first — a floor, a toposolid or a toposolid subdivision is a bed.
• Planting ships with a plant library, and your office can point it at its own.
• The window floats and stays open while you work in Revit.

Quick start

1. On the Landscape panel, click Planting.
2. On the Mix tab, add a mix and the species that make it up.
3. Balance the shares to 100%, and set each species' density and pot size.
4. Select the beds and click Apply selected mix.
5. Use the Documentation tab to tag the beds and create the schedule and legend.

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