The Planting tools in Artisan provide a comprehensive solution for creating, managing, and documenting planting designs. Fully compliant with the National Planting Specification (NPS), the planting workflow enables landscape professionals to efficiently place and maintain planting information throughout the design process.
Artisan supports a wide range of planting applications, including single specimen plants, linear planting such as hedges and avenues, and area planting for beds, shrub masses, and woodland schemes. Planting can be defined as individual species or varieties, or as complex planting mixes containing multiple components, specifications, and percentage distributions. Existing planting areas can also be modified or over-planted as design requirements evolve.
Planting content is managed through Artisan palettes, which are created and maintained using the cloud-based Palette Builder. Users can create custom plants and planting mixes, download palettes for use in projects, place planting labels, generate schedules and reports, and edit planting specifications throughout the lifecycle of the design.
The tools covered in this section help ensure that planting information remains accurate, coordinated, and fully documented. Planting schedules are dynamically updated to reflect changes made within the drawing, allowing designers to maintain consistent and reliable project documentation with minimal manual effort.
Purpose
Place planting labels into model as single specimens, linear planting (hedges, avenues) and areas (planting beds, woodlands). Planting can be placed as either single species/varieties or as a mix defined by a number of components, associated specifications and percentages. Areas can also be over-planted if planting has already been applied.
Usage
Palettes - Open Palette Builder to create and manage palettes
Planting Labels - Place planting in the Revit© model as individual specimens, linear items (hedges, avenues), areas (beds, woodlands).
Planting Reports (Schedules ) - Load pre-defined planting schedules into current model.
Edit Planting - Planting sunbsistutions and change specification information, planting centres values and location information
Plant Browser - Centralised tool to view and manage planting componentsin Revit model
Web Libraries - Create and maintain library objects and mixes to place into Artisan models.
Open Palette Builder - Connect to CS Palette Builder to create and manage palettes
Download Palettes - Connect to CS Palette Builder to download palettes to local machine
Notes
Planting palettes are created via the Cloud based Palette Builder, including planting Mixes and Custom Plants.
Labels are placed by selecting from downloaded palettes for single, linear and area planting, as single species and mixes.
Schedules dynamically reflect all changes to planting placed in AutoCAD© .