The Create Planting tools enable users to place and define planting within a drawing using Artisan's intelligent planting system. Whether designing individual specimen planting, linear planting such as hedges and avenues, or larger planting areas and beds, the command provides a structured workflow for creating planting layouts that remain fully coordinated with project schedules and documentation.
Planting can be created using either individual plant species or predefined planting mixes sourced from downloaded palettes. This allows designers to rapidly apply planting designs while maintaining consistency with office standards and project specifications. Once placed, planting information becomes part of the project's managed planting data, enabling accurate reporting, scheduling, and ongoing design development.
The Create Planting workflow supports a wide range of planting applications, from simple ornamental planting schemes to complex mixed planting compositions. Associated specifications, plant spacing, quantities, and location information are captured as part of the planting definition, helping to ensure that design intent is clearly documented throughout the project lifecycle.
This section explains how to place planting within a drawing, select plants and mixes from palettes, and configure the options available when creating single, linear, and area planting schemes. The resulting planting information integrates directly with Artisan's editing, reporting, and schedule generation tools, providing a complete planting design and documentation solution.
Command
The Label ribbon panel gives access to the commands that place and edit labels and controls label placement options and styles.
Planting Labels commands are available from the Labels panel.
Users are able to attach planting labels to single, linear, area planting geometry and to modify existing label information using the Artisan Edit and Substitute tools. The Plant Browser tool provides a centralised tool to view and manage Artisan Objects in the current CAD model.
Purpose
To place planting labels in the CAD model for individual specimens, linear items (hedges, avenues), areas (beds, woodlands). Plants can be placed either as single species/varieties or mixes and with overlay or underlay planting .
Planting labels to be placed are selected from downloaded Palettes and users can Open Palette Builder or Download Palettes from the Palette panel.
Usage
Download Palettes - Connect to CS Palette Builder to download palettes to local machine
Select Palette - Select from list of downloaded palettes
Labels - Area Planting - Place single species/varieties or mixes of planting into a floor, closed region or split topo.
Labels -Linear Planting - Place single species/varieties or mixes of planting as a hedge or avenue.
Labels -Single Planting - Place single species/varieties onto topography.
Edit Planting and Substitute Planting
Import - Import labels and associated entities from another file
Reports - Create and edit schedules
Planting can be placed in either Imperial or Metric units and users are able to switch dynamically between either system. [see Units ].