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The Landscape workspace
Planting plans, grading, paving, walls, steps, irrigation and landscape sheets on the same site, the same surfaces and the same file as the civil work.
Written for CivilCraft 0.7.1. The same help is inside the app: press F1.
The Landscape workspace puts landscape design tools on the CivilCraft site you already have: the same survey points, the same existing ground, the same proposed surface and the same project file.
Open it
Choose Surface › More › Landscape workspace. The toolbar then shows a Workspace choice and a Landscape group, and the Surface, Design and GIS groups step aside to make room. Choose Civil under Workspace to go back. CivilCraft remembers the workspace you used last on this computer.
The left panel gains three sections at the top:
- Plants: the plant list, to search and to choose what you place. See The plant list.
- Grading checks: slope analysis, flow arrows and ponding. See Grading.
- Irrigation: the heads and pipes you place next, the water supply's settings. See Irrigation.
What is in the Landscape group
| Tool | What it does | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Plant, Bed, Hedge | Single plants, planting beds filled at the plants' spacing, hedges along a line | Planting |
| Grade | Platforms, berms, swales, grading areas with spot elevations and contours, slope and flow checks | Grading |
| Hardscape | Paving, paths, walls, kerbs, ramps and steps that follow the ground | Hardscape |
| Irrigation | Heads, pipes, valves, drip lines, the supply, coverage and a hydraulic check | Irrigation |
| More | The plant schedule, freeform objects, landscape sheets, IFC export, plant size and labels | Landscape sheets, Freeform objects |
Everything you add is one undo step, is saved in the project file, and draws on the plan on layers named L-PLNT-…, L-GRAD-…, L-HARD-… and L-IRRG-…, so the DXF, DWG and PDF exports carry it too.
One surface for everything
Platforms, berms, swales, grading areas, paving and paths are graded into the proposed surface, the same one corridors and pads use. The existing ground never changes. Plants sit on whichever ground is under them, so they move when the grading changes. Earthwork counts the landscape grading with everything else.