GENERAL FEATURES (Click on thumbnail to see video)

General Aspects of Design F/X WEBINAR (45 min)

This webinar reviews the basics of Design F/X as they relate to creating a project, adding and placing plants, labeling plants, plant schedules, landscape concept plans, 3-D visualization, and diagrammatic and land use graphics.
Filmed: May 29 2009

Design F/X and the Lifecycle of a Project WEBINAR (35 min)

The 4 things that are typically needed for each project. 1) Site Development for initial concept with cost estimations. 2) Create an illustrative Concept plan complete with plants. 3) Export the plan to SketchUp to help visualize your concept. 4) When the concept is complete, move to working drawings.
Filmed: June 12 2009

Getting Started with Design F/X WEBINAR (47 min)

Getting started begins with installing Design F/X. Once installed, Design F/X can be configured to your office standards in preferences. Customize your drawings further by adding to our libraries. Also see how to start a new project and set a scale.
Filmed: February 27 2010

Preferences WEBINAR (35 min)

Preferences determine the look and feel you want for your drawings. You should review Design F/X Preferences early on in using Design F/X. This webinar covers all aspects of what makes up the preferences, and the different options for setting your preferences.
Filmed: February 5 2010

Little Known Features of Design F/X WEBINAR (1 hr)

Familiarize yourself with some of the lesser known functions of Design F/X. There are many hidden gems that can save you hours of time.
Filmed: February 6 2009

Design F/X Customization WEBINAR (1 hr 11 min)

See how various aspects of Design F/X can be customized to reflect how your office works. This includes the line colors and plotting, configuring fonts styles used in Design F/X, adding your plant symbols to the Design F/X symbol libraries, customizing the plant callouts, and configuring the plant symbols line weights.
Filmed: May 20 2009

CAD Basics WEBINAR (50 min)

What are the CAD basics in setting up a project. How do you clean up a drawing from someone else. Xrefing the cleaned up drawing for your master file. The proper ways to manipulate the viewing and scaling of the site plan. Little known tips and tricks in in drawing setup, printing, and CAD habits.
Filmed: November 20 2009

Scaling and UCS WEBINAR (46 min)

Learn how Design F/X can deal with various drawing scaling issues that may arise in AutoCAD. One way of controlling scaling is with the use of
Design F/X "Work Areas", and in discussing this it is a natural to show how this tool also helps with automating the UCS (User Coordinate System) definition.
Filmed: May 19 2009

CAD Standards and Design F/X WEBINAR (1 hr 7 min)

CAD standards are an essential part of a well-run firm. Important standards are: personnel organization and structure, directory structure, plotting standards, file and layer naming conventions, standard text and blocks, details, drawing preparation, page setup, and submittal requirements.
Filmed: June 19 2009

Change Design F/X Line Colors to Match Your Office Standard WEBINAR (44 min)

Design F/X has over 2,800 symbols drawn with layers that have specified line colors and weight. This webinar looks at the process to change the colors that Design F/X uses to match those that your office is using. Also see tricks on changing the colors of a drawing from the colors your office uses to match a client requirement, or a change in office standards.
Filmed: January 01 2010

Menus and Toolbars (1 min 40 sec)

A quick introduction to the menus and tools of Design F/X.