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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

Plant Tools

Select Terrain> Plant to add plants Select Terrain> Plant> Show
to your landscaping plan. Plants can Hardiness Zones to access regional
also be placed in a plan directly from the climate zone maps. See “Hardiness Zones”
library. See “Placing Library Objects” on on page 1255.
page 939.
Garden Beds
Plant objects are actually images, which
provide realism while avoiding high 3D Garden Beds are special Terrain
surface count. Once created, plant images Features with material and height
can be selected and edited much like other attributes typical of planting beds. In
image objects. See “Editing Images” on page addition, you can choose to distribute copies
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Select Terrain> Plant> Plant “Garden Bed Tools” on page 1210.
Chooser to open the Plant Chooser
dialog and find plants based on their Plants Library Catalogs
characteristics and requirements. See “Plant In the Library Browser, browse to
Chooser Dialog” on page 1253. Chief Architect Core Catalogs> Plants
Select Terrain> Plant> Create Plant to access a selection of plant images and
Image to create a plant image. Once a symbols. Select the library object you want,
plant image is created, it can be added to the then click in any view to place it in the plan.
library for future use. See “Creating Images” See “The Library” on page 921.
on page 1140. A selection of Bonus Catalogs of plants is
Select Terrain> Plant> Grow All also available for download. See “Chief
Plants to open the Grow Plants Architect Bonus Catalogs” on page 928.
dialog. In addition, you can add single plants and
blocked groups of plants to the library. See
“Adding Library Content” on page 932 and
“Architectural Blocks” on page 969.

Plant Schedules

The Plant Schedule tool allows you
Click and drag the slider bar and select a to create customizable plant schedules
growth period from zero to twenty years. and plant labels that display schedule
This only works for plants that have a mature numbers. See “The Schedule Tools” on page
height and mature age specified in the Plant 668.
Image Specification dialog. See “Plant
Information Panel” on page 1257.

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