Along the way, we'll also give you some more advanced tips for developing a great presentation. Using Presentation Graphics: Get some "from-the-basics" looks at some of our presentation graphics tools, such as Plant Color Render, Site Color, and SketchUp Connection. For further information and instructions, see our Add Color to RefNote Hatches documentation. Color Render now colorizes these areas in the same way it colorizes a groundcover or Shrub Area hatch, retaining the hatch pattern and associated data. We've engineered Color Render to work with Reference Notes (RefNote) hatches that you've placed using our Area/Volume RefNote tool. For more information, see our Colorizing Site & Hardscape Blocks documentation.Īdding Color to Reference Note (RefNote) Hatches Our Site Color tool also allows you to add your own color fills to our blocks, as well as your own. Want to colorize your site blocks as well? We've begun adding color fills to many of our default blocks in the Plan Graphics and Elevation Graphics libraries. If so, follow our steps to get the latest plant color symbols. Having issues with your colorized plan? You might be working with outdated color symbols. Instead, use one of our recommended third-party PDF printers. Important: Do not use the built-in AutoCAD DWG-to-PDF utility to plot a colorized plan to PDF. Time to plot? See our Plotting Your Colorized Drawing page. With the plant(s) still selected, type Prop in the Command line and press Enter to open the Properties panel. Type S in the Command line to add the selected plant(s) to a Selection.Ĥ. Using our Highlight Plant tool, select any plants you want to exclude from color (that is, just show as a normal plant symbol). Create a layer named something like COLOR-EXCLUDE.ģ. Note that this process will not work with plants that are on frozen layers.Ģ. You can turn off the color for selected symbols by completing the following steps. Want to outline your colorized plants for more definition? Our Plant Outlines tool also works with color plant symbols!Īt times, you might find yourself wanting to keep your plant symbols colorized in one portion of your drawing but only show the plan symbols in another. Want to know why we made this choice? Or do you prefer to assign a different hatch pattern for a color groundcover or Shrub Area symbol? See our explanation and solution. Note that groundcovers and Shrub Areas now use the 2D hatch pattern already assigned to the plant, and you no longer need to pick a texture when selecting a color. Not seeing the step to select a texture or hatch pattern? We always intended it as a separate color rendering process for presentations. As such, we never intended for a color plan to be routinely opened and worked on. For example, the plant color layers will start with the characters LP-COLR.Ĭolor will always be more intensive for AutoCAD, as we will continue to push the bounds on the quality of product to be produced. Need help figuring out which layers to freeze or turn off? Color layers will always contain the letters COLR. If you've already sent your colorized drawing to another professional, such as an engineer, who is having trouble with slow performance, you can advise him or her to either freeze or turn off the color layers. We also recommend taking one of these measures prior to sending the drawing to others who will be working on it but don't need to see the color symbols. Important: Color Render and Drawing PerformanceĬolor plant symbols can definitely have an impact on drawing size and performance – particularly if the color chosen for groundcovers or Shrub Areas includes a gradient.ĭealing with this issue can be as easy as freezing the color layers, or simply switching to the normal plant symbols by turning Color Render off when a drawing is performing slowly. Ready to find out how? Request a 30-day trial. Our Planting F/X plugin streamlines the landscape design process in AutoCAD by automating the most tedious tasks and running automatic calculations.
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