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1 TM LAND ILLUSTRATOR Tutorial Manual 2011 POWERED BY

2 Copyright 2011 Software Republic, L.L.P. All rights reserved. This documentation and the associated software are the property of Software Republic, L.L.P. and are on loan to the user under the terms of the License Agreement. Unauthorized copying or use of this documentation, the software, or any associated materials is contrary to the property rights of Software Republic and in violation of state and federal law. This document describes the use of RainCAD, Land Illustrator or the Combo Pack. All references in the manual to RainCAD may also refer to Land Illustrator or the Combo Pack. Software Republic L.L.P. reserves the right to enhance, improve and revise its products without further notice. The information in this manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Software Republic, L.L.P. Software Republic, L.L.P. assumes no liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this document. RainCAD and Land Illustrator are trademarks of Software Republic, L.L.P. AcceliCAD is the property of Autodsys, Inc. IntelliCAD and the IntelliCAD logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries. Software Republic, L.L.P. Internet: or Sales sales@raincad.com Sales Number: (936) Support: Printed in the United States of America

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4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction... 1 Getting Started... 3 Assumptions... 3 System Requirements... 3 Selection Conventions... 3 Installation... 3 Starting the Software... 4 Help... 4 How To Access Help... 4 Reaching Us on the Internet... 4 Reaching Us by Fax... 4 Technical Support... 4 Things You Should Know... 5 Things You Should Do... 7 Suggested Steps to a Proper Irrigation Design... 9 Lesson One - Becoming Familiar with the Software The Design Screen The Tutorials The Menu System Underlined Letters The Toolbars The Command Line Dialog Boxes Lesson Two Preparing to Draw Zoom Commands Options/Info Drawing Units Layers Loading an Image File Purging Blocks The Line Styles Database Lesson Three The Basics Learning to Draw Shortcut Keys Icons Snap to Points Setting Points Polar Settings Polar Angles Drawing at Any Angle Draw Method One Draw Method Two Draw Method Three Drawing a Curve Parallel Moving Points Manipulating Symbols or Entities Selecting a Single Symbol or Entity Selecting With a Window Removing Symbols or Entities from the Selection Set Moving a Symbol or Entity... 28

5 iv RainCAD Copying a Symbol or Entity Rotating a Symbol or Entity Lesson Four Drawing the Plot Plan Drawing the House Adding Property Lines Garage, Driveway and More Rotating the Garage Adding the Patios Adding the Driveway Drawing the Walkway Adding the Flowerbed Lines Lesson Five Designing the Irrigation System Part I Water Meter and Boundary Lines Water Meter / Pump Station Boundary Line Sprinkler Placement Within a Boundary Sprinkler Placement Along a Polyline Manual Sprinkler Placement Zoning Sprinklers Calculating the Total Flow of the Sprinklers Assigning Sprinklers to a Zone Lesson Six Designing the Irrigation System Part II Sprinkler Arc Patterns Placing Control Valves Control Valve Zone Assignments Lateral Line Piping Manual Piping Pipe Hops Backflow Device and Mainline Pipe Drawing the Mainline Pipe Lesson Seven Pipe Sizing and Additional Symbols Irrigation Preferences Pipe Sizing Options Automatic Lateral Line Pipe Sizing Automatic Mainline Pipe Sizing Manual Pipe Sizing Controllers and Accessory Symbols Controller/Station Assignments Valve Notations Placing Sleeve Symbols Irrigation Installation Details Lesson Eight Landscape Design Searching for Plant Material Placing Plant Symbols Plant Placement Along a Polyline Plant Placement Within a Boundary Deleting or Replacing Plants Combining Plant Symbols Shadowing Plant Notations Fill Materials Miscellaneous Symbols Auto Symbol Layout Landscape Installation Details... 82

6 Table of Contents v Lesson Nine Calculations Hydraulic Calculations Distribution Material/Estimate Legends Lesson Ten Modifying the Databases The Sprinklers Database Adding a Sprinkler to the Database Performance Data Distribution Data Sprinkler Palette Assignments Tied Assemblies and Supplies The Plants Database Adding a Plant to the Database Plant Size Data Species Database Plant Palette Assignments Lesson Eleven Printing the Drawing Adjusting Layers Prior to Printing Selecting the Printer Setting the Page Orientation Determining the Output Scale Layouts Paper Space Setup Layout Viewports Adjusting the Printing Parameters - Scale Printing the Drawing Conclusion Appendix A Customizing Symbols Customizing Existing Symbols Creating New Symbols Index

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8 INTRODUCTION Welcome to RainCAD and Land Illustrator! RainCAD and Land Illustrator are powerful software tools created to fit your irrigation, landscape, accent lighting or drainage design needs. The software comes complete with predefined symbols, equipment and plant placement functions, pipe and accent lighting wire sizing capabilities, material takeoffs, and much more. RainCAD and Land Illustrator will allow you to create irrigation and/or landscape designs for both residential and commercial projects. With the software, you can quickly calculate a complete material takeoff, develop estimates and proposals, and generate complete symbol legends. Best of all, the software is easy to learn and use, offering on-line help screens for virtually every command. RainCAD and Land Illustrator are based on AcceliCAD from Autodsys, Inc. The software requires AcceliCAD 2011 to be installed on the computer system for the program to operate. All references in the manual to IntelliCAD apply to AcceliCAD. All references in the manual to RainCAD may also refer to Land Illustrator or the Combo Pack. Thank you for your purchase of RainCAD or Land Illustrator. We value your business and are proud you have chosen our software to assist you with your design needs.

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10 GETTING STARTED ASSUMPTIONS We assume that you are familiar with the Windows operating system and its commands and are knowledgeable in the use of your specific hardware (computer and peripheral devices). This manual describes the RainCAD or Land Illustrator program and its use. Refer to the IntelliCAD manual for information on the use of the CAD program. For information on Windows, other software programs or your computer hardware, refer to the User Manuals that came with the application or equipment when originally purchased. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS To run the software, you must be using Microsoft Windows XP or higher. You must install AcceliCAD. You must have the following hardware in order to run the software: 1) A minimum of 512 megabytes of RAM. 2) A minimum of 1 gigabyte of free space on the hard drive. 3) Graphics card and monitor capable of at least 1024 x 768 resolution in 16-bit color. SELECTION CONVENTIONS There are several ways to select an action in the software. When using a mouse or digitizer, you can enact a command by placing the mouse cursor directly on the command and pressing the left mouse button. In the manual, <click> or <clicking> will be used to designate pressing the left mouse button to select a command. In many menus, you can select a command in multiple ways. If the menu has a shaded bar, you can use the cursor keys to move the shaded bar to the desired command, then press <Enter> to make the selection. Many menus also have selection choices that have an underlined letter. To select a particular action, you may simply press the underlined letter on the keyboard. Another selection method is the use of Shortcut Keys. If a command has a Shortcut Key, it will appear to the right in the menu. If a Shortcut Key is shown, you may use the key rather than selecting the command in the menu. You can access the command menu bar at the top of the application in two ways. You can press the <Alt> key together with the underlined letter of the menu you want and the menu will drop down. The Toolbar will allow you to <click> on an icon to enact a command. Simply position the mouse cursor on the desired selection and <click> with the left mouse button. In addition, you can type a command name in the Command Line at the bottom of the application window and press <Enter> to begin the command. INSTALLATION If it is not already installed, install AcceliCAD before you install RainCAD or Land Illustrator. Please refer to the AcceliCAD documentation for instructions on installing the software. To install RainCAD or Land Illustrator to your systems hard drive: 1) If running Windows 7 or Vista, temporarily disable the User Account Control (UAC). Close any open applications and temporarily disable any anti-virus or disk security software applications. 2) Download the software from the Software Republic website. 3) Windows 7 or Vista Users: Right-click on the Setup.exe file and choose Run as administrator. Windows XP Users: Run the Setup.exe file saved to your hard drive. 4) Follow the instructions on the screen.

11 4 RainCAD STARTING THE SOFTWARE Once you have properly installed RainCAD or Land Illustrator, you are ready to start the program. When you start AcceliCAD, it will automatically start the RainCAD or Land Illustrator program as well. 1) Click on the Start button. 2) Locate AcceliCAD in the Start Menu Programs. 3) <Click> on the program icon or name. HELP HOW TO ACCESS HELP You can access help on any of the available commands by using the help system. To access help on a topic: 1) Press the <F1> key. 2) Select a topic from Contents, or use the Index to find information on the desired subject. REACHING US ON THE INTERNET You may reach us on the Internet at or REACHING US BY FAX We have a 24-hour fax service available for you to send questions or comments. Send any fax to (936) TECHNICAL SUPPORT If you require technical support for any Software Republic, L.L.P. program, first check the available help screens, then check the accompanying documentation. If necessary, make use of the Online Helpdesk command in the RainCAD or Land Illustrator menu Before contacting technical support, try to duplicate your problem (as long as you do not risk losing any of your work) and write down what happens step by step. If you receive an error message, please write down exactly what the message says. This will assure that the technical support person receiving your message has as much information as possible to assist you. Please include your RainCAD or Land Illustrator Product Key number, your return address and a telephone number where we may reach you. If you are experiencing difficulty with your printer, plotter, mouse, or digitizer, call the company supplying the driver for the device for assistance. Please do not contact support for questions regarding the operating system, specific hardware problems, or for problems with any other software applications. Rather, call the specific manufacturer for the product causing the difficulty. Support numbers for problems other than specific questions on a Software Republic product may usually be found in the documentation accompanying the software or hardware in question. YOU MUST HAVE A VALID PRODUCT KEY NUMBER AND HAVE REGISTERED YOUR SOFTWARE TO RECEIVE TECHNICAL SUPPORT.

12 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW You should know a few things before you begin the design process: 1) This manual is written for RainCAD and Land Illustrator. Any reference to landscape, lighting or drainage does not apply to RainCAD. Any reference to irrigation, lighting or drainage does not apply to Land Illustrator. The Combo Pack includes irrigation, landscape, lighting and drainage design features. All references in the manual to RainCAD may also refer to Land Illustrator or the Combo Pack. 2) RainCAD and Land Illustrator are based on IntelliCAD. The software requires the program to be installed on the computer system for the program to operate. 3) We recommend at least a 19-inch monitor with a screen resolution setting of no less than 1024 x 768. Refer to the help in Microsoft Windows for more information on changing the display resolution of your monitor. 4) You can receive help on any command in the program by accessing the Contents and Index from the Help menu or by pressing the <F1> key. 5) All of the commands used in drafting the property are found in IntelliCAD except for the Line Styles and Auto Symbol Layout commands found in the Symbols menu of RainCAD or Land Illustrator. 6) If the Drawing Units in IntelliCAD are set to Architectural or Engineering, in most cases the Drawing Units in the RainCAD or Land Illustrator Options/Info menu should be set to Inches. If the IntelliCAD Drawing Units are set to Decimal, the RainCAD Drawing Units should usually be set to Feet. For a quick reference, the current units of measurement will be displayed in the Title Bar of each RainCAD or Land Illustrator dialog box as (ft), (in), (mm), (cm), or (m). 7) All equipment and materials are placed on the drawing screen by selecting the appropriate submenu and command from the Symbols menu. 8) You may find additional miscellaneous symbols for title blocks, north arrows, vehicles, people and more in the Symbols menu as well. You may place these symbols on the drawing screen at any time during the design process. 9) RainCAD and Land Illustrator insert all symbols as IntelliCAD blocks. A block can be composed of multiple objects drawn on several layers with various colors, line types, and line weight properties. To change the characteristics of the symbol, you must first purge all references to the block from the design screen. To purge means to remove, clear or otherwise get rid of something. You cannot purge a block if the block is in use on the design screen. You must first delete any references to the block on the screen, meaning you must erase the symbols from the drawing. 10) When the US Units/Metric setting is configured to Millimeters, Centimeters or Meters in the Drafting Preferences dialog box, it is necessary to enter data with the period as the decimal indicator and not the comma. For example; 30,13 meters should be entered as ) When your drawing is printed or plotted to a 1 = 10 or 1 = 20 scale, the symbols are normally legible. If the drawing is output to a smaller scale, such as a 1 = 40 scale, the symbols may be too small to be visible. It is highly recommended that you consider the desired output scale of the drawing and adjust the Symbol Scale Factor before you begin a design. Once the symbols are placed on the drawing screen, they must be individually selected and scaled to increase their size. 12) RainCAD calculates the length and type of pipe on a drawing screen based on the layer on which the pipe is drawn. If you change the layer assignment of any pipe on the drawing, the pipe will not

13 6 RainCAD be included in the material takeoff or estimate/proposal. 13) For RainCAD to know that a piece of pipe is connected to a sprinkler, control valve, backflow device or point of connection, it must be connected properly to the symbol. To be more specific, the pipe must be drawn within 0.5 feet of the handle or insertion point of the symbol. 14) IntelliCAD will allow you to open more than one drawing screen at a time. When you finish a lesson in the tutorial and proceed to the next lesson, the current tutorial practice screen will automatically close. If you are ever prompted to save the drawing, DO NOT SAVE the drawing or it will not function as designed if you or anyone else ever needs to review the lesson.

14 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO You should take a few steps before you begin the design process. Some of the following items are optional, however, items such as creating or editing databases are necessary. The following is a list of suggested procedures: 1) You must set the Drawing Units in RainCAD or Land Illustrator to match the Drawing Units as set in IntelliCAD. If the Drawing Units in IntelliCAD are set to Architectural or Engineering, in most cases the Drawing Units in the RainCAD or Land Illustrator Options/Info menu should be set to Inches. If the IntelliCAD Drawing Units are set to Decimal, the RainCAD Drawing Units should usually be set to Feet. For a quick reference, the current units of measurement will be displayed in the Title Bar of each RainCAD or Land Illustrator dialog box as (ft), (in), (mm), (cm), or (m). 2) From the Databases menu in RainCAD, you can assign to each piece of sprinkler equipment a symbol, pressure at the nozzle, an arc pattern, the symbol color, a labor rate for installation and more. It is not necessary to complete all of the information in the databases if you do not plan to make use of the material takeoff or estimate and proposal function. The only items that are absolutely necessary for the system to function are symbol assignment, symbol color and pressure at the nozzle. If you assign the symbol color to By Layer, you can adjust the color of the symbols at any time by adjusting the layer color setting in IntelliCAD. For more on databases, refer to Sprinklers Database. 3) Land Illustrator or the Combo Pack will allow you to build a database of different plant selections. It is necessary for you to enter the plant selections you are going to design with into the database before placing plant material on the drawing screen. For more on the database, refer to the help on the Plants Database. 4) RainCAD or Land Illustrator will allow you to build databases of supplies that can be combined into tied assemblies. If you plan to make use of the tied assemblies for material takeoff or estimate/proposals, it will be necessary to create the supplies and combine them into tied assemblies. Refer to the Help in RainCAD or Land Illustrator for more information on supplies and tied assemblies. 5) For estimate and proposal purposes, you must complete the list price, discount rate and labor rate in all of the necessary database selections. 6) From the Options/Info menu, the Irrigation and Landscape submenus, choose Irrigation Preferences and Landscape Preferences. From these dialog boxes, you may preset information such as the line type scale setting for the mainline, the text size for pipe size labels, the name display type for plant material and more. It is beneficial to review these adjustments and establish default settings before you begin a design. 7) From the Databases menu, you can select Line Styles to adjust the preset values for the Building, Property, Driveway, Walkway and Bed-line line styles. You may also adjust the characteristics of the five preset line styles and unlimited number of custom line styles available in the software. 8) When your drawing is printed or plotted to a 1 = 10 or 1 = 20 scale, the symbols are normally legible. If you output the drawing to a smaller scale such as a 1 = 40 scale, the symbols may be too small to be visible. It is highly recommended that you consider the desired output scale of the drawing and adjust the Symbol Scale Factor before you begin a design. Once the symbols are placed on the drawing screen, they must be individually selected and scaled to increase their size.

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16 SUGGESTED STEPS TO A PROPER IRRIGATION DESIGN When designing an irrigation system in RainCAD, you may follow virtually any order you desire to complete the design. RainCAD does require that you perform some commands before completing others, however, in most instances you are free to follow your own design techniques. Below is a listing of the steps we recommend when performing an irrigation design. 1) Gather all site data for the project such as field dimensions, water meter locations and sizes, service line type and size, static pressure readings, notation of elevation changes, electrical power locations, types of plant material to be irrigated, etc. 2) Draft the property using the commands available to you in IntelliCAD. 3) Place the water meter and/or pump symbol(s) on the drawing screen. 4) Place the sprinkler symbols on the drawing screen. Remember that the objective of any irrigation system is to distribute the water as evenly as possible. We recommend a "head to head" spacing, meaning that sprinkler symbols are spaced so that the radius of throw or wetting pattern of the sprinkler reaches from one sprinkler to the next sprinkler. It is also important to separate areas based on their water requirements. For example, you should irrigate shrub areas separately from turf areas. You should separate full sun areas from shady areas. The top of a slope generally needs more water than the bottom of a slope. 5) Once all sprinklers are placed on the design, choose the Water Source / Zone Assignment command from Calcs menu, the Irrigation submenu to divide the system into the required number of zones. 6) Check the systems CU, DU and SC using the Distribution command. Make any design changes if necessary. 7) Place a control valve on the screen for each zone and use the Water Source / Zone Assignment command to assign each control valve to a zone. 8) Use the automatic or manual pipe placement commands to draw the lateral line pipe between the sprinkler symbols in each zone. 9) Place a backflow device on the drawing screen. 10) Draw the mainline pipe from each control valve to the point of connection. Be sure to stop at the backflow device if one exists on the drawing. 11) Size all pipe on the drawing screen with either the manual or automatic pipe sizing commands. 12) Perform system hydraulic calculations to determine proper system performance. Make any design changes if necessary. 13) Place the desired irrigation controller(s) on the drawing screen. 14) Place any accessory devices such as rain sensors or moisture sensors. 15) Draw control wire from the irrigation controller(s) to the control valves. 16) Place the control valve notations on the drawing screen indicating each valve sequence on the controller, the flow and size. 17) Prepare a material takeoff and/or estimate or proposal 18) Create the irrigation legend.

17 10 RainCAD 19) Place the legend on the drawing screen. It may be necessary to create a separate drawing for the details and legends to prevent cluttering the drawing. 20) Add any notations as needed to the drawing screen such as "This drawing is diagrammatic and piping is shown in hardscape areas for clarity only", or "Place quick coupler valves every 100' O.C." 21) Using the tools available in IntelliCAD, add any detail such as text or hatching patterns to give the drawing a more professional appearance. 22) Print or plot the completed drawing and detail or legend page(s).

18 LESSON ONE - BECOMING FAMILIAR WITH THE SOFTWARE The intended use of this lesson is to help the first time user to become familiar with the RainCAD or Land Illustrator software program. RainCAD or Land Illustrator is really the combination of two software programs. The first program, IntelliCAD, gives you full function CAD capabilities allowing you to draw lines, circles, and arcs as well as the ability to print and plot drawings. RainCAD or Land Illustrator is a separate program that runs in conjunction with IntelliCAD. This program allows you to create your irrigation, landscape, accent lighting, or drainage designs with predefined symbols, equipment and material databases and placement functions, pipe sizing capabilities, area/volume calculations and much more. In this lesson, you will learn about the menu system and Toolbars. After completing Lesson One, you should be familiar with the RainCAD / Land Illustrator: Tutorial Control Panel Menu System Command Line Toolbars Dialog Boxes Refer to the IntelliCAD documentation for information on the use of IntelliCAD. THE DESIGN SCREEN When you start the IntelliCAD program, it will automatically start RainCAD or Land Illustrator. The IntelliCAD Drawing Screen and with the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Menu and Toolbar Icons

19 12 RainCAD Using the commands available in the drop down menus or in the Toolbars, you can begin drawing on the screen just as you would on a sheet of paper. You can also open an existing drawing. IntelliCAD will allow you to open more than one drawing at a time. If you are unfamiliar with menus, dialog boxes and scroll bars, please review your Windows and IntelliCAD documentation before proceeding further with this manual. THE TUTORIALS To get up and running as fast as possible, we recommend that you complete the tutorial process. The tutorial is broken out into multiple lessons to teach you how to complete a design from start to finish. To begin the tutorial process: 1) <Click> on the RainCAD / Land Illustrator menu and <click> on Tutorials. The Tutorial Control Panel will appear on the screen. You can position the Control Panel any where on the screen by placing the mouse cursor at the top center of the panel, pressing and holding down the left mouse button, and dragging the panel to a new location. Release the left mouse button once the panel is in the desired location. RainCAD / Land Illustrator Tutorial Control Panel 2) To move from one lesson to another, <click> on the drop down menus and select a lesson and screen from the list. 3) <Click> on the Next or Previous buttons to move from one screen, section or step within a lesson. Some lessons contain multiple steps indicated by the current step number, a forward slash, and number of total steps in the lesson. For example, if a lesson has three steps and you are currently on step number one, the indicator will read 1/3. You can only progress through the steps in a lesson using the Next and Previous arrow buttons. 4) To replay a lesson, <click> on the Replay button in the top left corner of the Control Panel. 5) Sometimes the lesson windows may interfere with the design screen or other dialog boxes. To temporarily hide or reopen a lesson window, <click> on the Hide button in the bottom left corner of the Control Panel. 6) To exit and close the Control Panel, <click> on the Close button. 7) To turn off the audio for each lesson, <click> on the Audio button. THE RAINCAD / LAND ILLUSTRATOR MENU SYSTEM The RainCAD / Land Illustrator Menu system is located the IntelliCAD Title Bar at the top of the design screen. The Menu system includes the entire drop down menu selections, which contain all of the commands available in the program. Commands followed by an arrow ( ) indicate a secondary menu exists containing more command selections. UNDERLINED LETTERS You can access the Menu system by <clicking> on a selection with the mouse, or you may press the <Alt> key to access the Menu system and then press the underlined letter in the menu name. Once a menu is open, the command selections are available. You can select a command by <clicking> on the selection with the mouse, or you can press the underlined letter in the command name.

20 Lesson One - Becoming Familiar with the Software 13 THE RAINCAD / LAND ILLUSTRATOR TOOLBARS The Toolbars in RainCAD or Land Illustrator will allow you to quickly select commands without accessing the drop down menus or Shortcut Keys. You may create one or more toolbars. You can adjust the order in which the icons appear on the Toolbars. The Toolbars may be located at any position within the IntelliCAD program just as any other IntelliCAD toolbar. A Combo Pack Toolbar Stretched Horizontally To adjust the toolbar icon selections: 1) On the Options/Info menu, choose Options. 2) On the Options dialog box, <click> on the Toolbar tab. 3) <Click> on the Toolbar tab along the top of the dialog box. 4) Select a toolbar from the Toolbar Selection drop down menu. You can add, delete or rename toolbars by <clicking> on the associated buttons. 5) Choose a location for the selected toolbar from the Toolbar Position drop down menu. 6) Double <click> on a Menu Topic with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the topic name to view the available commands. 7) To assign a command to the toolbar, <click> on the command name in the Commands list and <click> on the right arrow button, or double <click> on the command name. 8) The commands are listed in the order in which they are selected. You may adjust the order by <clicking> on a command name in the Toolbar Buttons list and then <clicking> on the up or down arrow buttons to sort the order. 9) It may be best to separate the icons into small groups. <Click> on the Insert Separator button to place a separator on the toolbar. Move the separator to a new location using the up or down arrow buttons. 10) To remove a command from the toolbar, <click> on the command name in the Toolbar Buttons list and <click> on the left arrow button. 11) <Click> the Apply button to accept the changes and Close to exit the Options dialog box. COMMAND LINE The Command Line at the bottom of the IntelliCAD screen allows you to enact IntelliCAD, RainCAD or Land Illustrator commands and also displays options or information related to the selected command. You will refer to the Command Line often during the design process. Commands in RainCAD or Land Illustrator such as Boundary Line and Symbol Placement will use the Command Line to display additional information to assist you in completing the command.

21 14 RainCAD DIALOG BOXES A dialog box is a special window containing options that you choose or complete to communicate with the software. You can select options from tab selections, tree views, drop down menus, dials, radio buttons or check boxes in a dialog box. You can also enter data in text boxes and then implement that data by choosing command buttons such as Save, Place, OK or Close. You can expand or contract a tree view by <clicking> on the plus sign (+) or minus (-) sign to the left of the category name. Automatic Symbol Label Dialog Box In some dialog boxes, you can expand or collapse sections of the dialog box so that other areas are more visible. To collapse a section of the dialog box to make other areas more visible, <click> on the arrow. To view all of the information within a section, expand the section by <clicking> on the arrow.

22 LESSON TWO PREPARING TO DRAW While you became a little more familiar with the software in Lesson One, you did not cover setting the proper units of measurement in IntelliCAD and RainCAD / Land Illustrator and you did not cover the concept of layers. In this lesson you will also learn about loading image files, the Purge command, the Line Styles database, and how to zoom in our out during the design process. After completing Lesson Two, you should be familiar with the: Zoom Commands Drawing Units Layers Attach Raster Image Command IntelliCAD Purge Command Line Styles Database ZOOM COMMANDS In this exercise, you will first learn the use of various Zoom commands available in IntelliCAD. You will use these commands extensively throughout the design process. The Zoom commands are available from the View menu, or the View Toolbar icons. In addition, you can use the scroll button on the mouse to quickly zoom in or out on the drawing screen. To use the Zoom Window command: 1) Choose Window from the View menu, the Zoom submenu in IntelliCAD, or click on the icon found in the Toolbar. 2) Set a point on marked point A by <clicking> on the point with the mouse. Once a point is set, move the mouse cursor toward marked point B. Notice the window rubber banding from point A. 3) Set another point at B. The software will zoom in on everything within the window. The image that was too small to recognize, will now become more legible. 4) To return to the previous magnification, select Previous from the View menu, the Zoom submenu. The screen will return to its original magnification. Another way to activate Zoom commands is to type Z in the Command Line and press the <Enter> key. All of the available Zoom commands can now be activated by typing the first letter of the desired command. For example, to zoom in with a window you would type Z and press <Enter> then type W and press <Enter>. To zoom to the extents of the entire drawing, type Z and press <Enter> and then type E and press <Enter>. OPTIONS/INFO DRAWING UNITS Before you begin drafting the property or designing an irrigation or landscape project, it is important for you to set the units of measurement for the drawing. All equipment and plant material symbols are scaled based on this setting. This is very important. Prior to setting the units of measurement in RainCAD or Land Illustrator, check to see what the Units of measurement are set to in IntelliCAD. If the Drawing Units in IntelliCAD are set to Architectural or Engineering, in most cases the Drawing Units in RainCAD / Land Illustrator should be set to Inches. If the Drawing Units in IntelliCAD are set to Decimal, the Drawing Units in RainCAD / Land Illustrator should usually be set to Feet. To set the Drawing Units in IntelliCAD: 1) On the Settings menu, choose Drawing Settings. 2) On the Drawing Units tab, select Linear Units from the Change settings for drop down menu. 3) Under Unit Types, select the desired drawing units. 4) <Click> on the OK button to accept the settings To set the corresponding units of measurement in RainCAD / Land Illustrator :

23 16 RainCAD 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Options/Info menu, choose the desired Drawing Units. 2) Select the units of measurement to use in the design process by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. NOTE: If Inches or Feet are selected in RainCAD, the pressure will be shown in PSI for irrigation designs. If Millimeters, Centimeters or Meters are selected, pressure will be displayed in BARS. You can select the Flow Display Format in the Irrigation Preferences dialog box on the General tab. Flow can be displayed as Gallons per Minute (GPM), Liters per Second (l/sec), Liters per Minute (l/min), or Cubic Meters per Hour (m^3/h). LAYERS Think of a layer as an individual sheet of clear paper. Suppose you draw a house on one sheet of paper and the property line on another sheet. When you place the sheets on top of one another, you see the house with a property line around it. IntelliCAD allows you to draw on many different layers. You may turn each layer on or off to display specific portions of the design. Refer to the following illustration. While using the commands in RainCAD / Land Illustrator, layers are automatically created to hold equipment and landscape materials. You may never need to create a layer. However, there may be times when you may want to manually create a layer. For example, if you plan on loading an image to the design, you may want to place the image on its own layer so you can turn it on or off. To manually add a layer to the drawing in IntelliCAD: 1) On the Settings menu, choose Explore Layers.

24 Lesson Two Preparing to Draw 17 2) In the Explore Layers dialog box, <click> on the Edit menu. 3) <Click> on New and then Layer. A new layer will be added to the list. To rename the layer: 1) Select the layer by <clicking> on the name one time with the left mouse button. 2) In the Explore Layers dialog box, <click> on the Edit menu. 3) <Click> on Rename and type in a new name for the selected layer. For this lesson, type Image as the layer name. All new entities are drawn or placed on the current layer assignment in IntelliCAD. The current layer is indicated by a blue checkmark to the left of the layer name. To change the current layer assignment: 1) In the Explore Layers dialog box, double <click> on the layer name. A blue checkmark will appear to the left of the layer name indicating this to be the current drawing layer. Refer to the following illustration. Current IntelliCAD Layer Assignment 2) For this lesson, double <click> on the new Image layer to make it the current drawing layer. LOADING AN IMAGE FILE Now that you have created an Image layer and set it to the current layer load an existing image to the design screen. To place an image on the screen: 1) On the Image menu, choose Attach Raster Image.- 2) Locate the image on your computer using the Select Image File dialog box and choose Open to begin placing the image on the screen. For this lesson, select the SCAN.BMP file located in the \RCLI 2011 IntelliCAD\dwgs\ folder. 3) In the Attach Image dialog box, check Specify on screen under Insertion Point and Size and <click> on the OK button. 4) Set one point on the drawing screen for the location of the image by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. 5) Press the <Enter> key to place the image on the design screen or drag the mouse to scale the image and set a second point to complete the command. Once the image is on the screen, you may need to scale the image to the correct size. You must first determine the distance between two known points such as the width of a sidewalk or the length of a wall. Once you measure a distance, divide the actual known distance between the two points by the measured distance to determine the scale factor. Use the Zoom commands you learned previously in this lesson to zoom in on an area to make it more visible if necessary. To measure a distance between two points on the image:

25 18 RainCAD 1) On the Tools menu, choose Inquiry. 2) On the Inquiry menu, choose Distance. 3) Set two points on the screen a known distance apart. The measured distance will be displayed in the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. To scale the image: 1) Divide the actual known distance by the measured distance to determine a scale factor. For example, suppose the garage on the front of the house measured units. Dividing the actual known distance of 20 feet by the measured distance of gives you a scale factor of ) Select the image with the mouse. 3) On the Modify menu, choose Scale. 4) Set a base point any where on the screen from which the image will scale. 5) Enter the scale factor in the Command Line and press the <Enter> key to scale the image. After the image is assigned to its own layer and scaled, it is best to disable or lock the layer. This will prevent you from accidentally moving the image during the design process. To disable or lock the image layer: 1) On the Settings menu, choose Explore Layers. 2) Locate the Image layer in the list. 3) Under the Locked column, <click> on the word No to switch the setting to Yes or <click> on the Lock/Unlock icon in the toolbar. 4) <Click> on the X in the top right corner to close the Layer Explorer dialog box. PURGING BLOCKS Suppose you change a symbol assignment number or color assignment in the database for a piece of equipment or plant material, but when you place the item on the drawing screen, the symbol or color assignment does not change. The symbol assignment and color setting are correct in the database, but the symbol appears incorrectly when placed on the drawing screen. RainCAD / Land Illustrator inserts all symbols as IntelliCAD blocks. A block can be composed of multiple objects drawn on several different layers with various colors, line types, and line weight properties. For example, sprinkler symbols include the actual symbol on one layer, the arc pattern on a second layer, and the zone assignment number on a third layer. These objects are combined together as a block and inserted into the IntelliCAD drawing. To change the characteristics of the symbol, you must first purge all references to the block from the design screen. To purge means to remove, clear or otherwise get rid of something. You cannot purge a block if the block is in use on the design screen. You must first delete any references to the block on the screen, meaning you must erase the symbols from the drawing. To purge symbols from the drawing: 1) Select the unwanted symbols on the design screen. Refer to the help in IntelliCAD for more information on selecting entities or objects. 2) On the Edit menu, choose Delete. 3) Type Purge in the Command Line and press the <Enter> key. 4) At the Command Line prompt, type All and press <Enter> to purge the drawing of all unused blocks, layers and line styles. 5) Follow the prompts in the Command Line to purge the drawing. You may have to perform the command several times to purge all nested blocks. Refer to the Help in IntelliCAD for more information on the Purge command.

26 Lesson Two Preparing to Draw 19 THE LINE STYLES DATABASE RainCAD / Land Illustrator has preset line styles to represent buildings, property lines, driveways, and more. In addition, you may choose from an unlimited number of Custom Line Styles. The characteristics give each line style a different look so that the drawing is more aesthetically appealing and easier to read. You may create a custom line style for landscape design purposes to represent metal edging, landscape timbers, concrete mow curb, cedar fencing, and more. When you draw using these custom line styles, the total length of each line style can be calculated and included in the material list and estimate or proposal. To create or modify the characteristics of a line style: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Line Styles. 2) Place the mouse cursor in the tree on the left side of the dialog box and press the <right> mouse button. 3) <Click> on Add Line Style in the resulting pop-up menu. 4) <Click> on the New Line Style now available at the bottom of the list. 5) Press the <right> mouse button and <click> on Rename. Type Metal Edging as the new line style name and press the <Enter> key. 6) Assign the line style to a category from the Category drop down menu. The line style information will appear in the Legend under this category assignment. For this exercise, select General by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. 7) Enter the layer name for the line style in the Layer Name text box. The existing line styles begin with an L-LNST- and then a four character description. For this exercise, enter L-LNST-MEDG in the Layer Name text box. 8) Select the type of line style from the Line Type drop down menu. For this exercise, select a DASHED line by <clicking> on the selection with the mouse. Line types allow you to differentiate between lines drawn on the design screen. You may assign a line to a continuous, dashed, dash dot or one of many other styles. 9) Select the weight of line style from the Line Weight drop down menu. The line weight refers to the thickness of the line. NOTE: You may need to experiment with the different line types and widths to determine what settings you like the most. 10) Select a color for the line style. <Click> on the colored rectangle to the right of the Color label one time with the <left> mouse button to open the Color dialog box. Select a color and <click> on the OK button. 11) To include the line style in the material list and estimate or on the legend, <click> on Show in Material/Estimate / Legend until a checkmark appears in the box. 12) Enter a List Price, Discount Rate, and Labor Rate per linear distance of measurement if you want the Material/Estimate command to calculate the cost of the material. 13) Enter a Part Number in the available text box. 14) <Click> on the Save button to save the line style information. 15) <Click> on the Close button exit the dialog box.

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28 LESSON THREE - THE BASICS Lesson Three provides the basic information needed to begin using some of the tools available in IntelliCAD and RainCAD / Land Illustrator to draft a piece of property. In this lesson, you will learn how to draw lines in various styles and how to use important commands that can increase your speed in completing a drawing. You will learn about using snap commands to place points precisely within a drawing. Additionally, you will learn to select, move, copy and rotate symbols and you will become familiar with various Command Line entries. After completing Lesson Three, you should be familiar with the: Menus, Shortcut Keys and Icons ESNAP Command Line Style Command Line Command Selection Methods Copy, Move and Rotate Commands LEARNING TO DRAW FROM THE MENUS In this lesson you will learn to draw a line. Your screen has eight points labeled A through H. You will practice drawing a line through these points using the tools available in IntelliCAD. To draw a line in IntelliCAD: 1) Select Line from the Insert Menu in IntelliCAD. Note that instructions appear in the Command Line at the bottom of the IntelliCAD screen to guide you through the steps required to complete the command. 3) Move the mouse cursor as close as possible to the center of point A and <click> with the left mouse button to set a point. 4) Move the mouse cursor to the right toward point B. Notice that a rubber band line appears from the point you set at A to the mouse cursor. Stretch the line to point B and set another point by <clicking> with the mouse. 5) Move the mouse toward point C to continue rubber banding the line to the next point and set a point at C. 6) Set the remaining points at D, E, F, G, and H, and press <Enter> to end the line. SHORTCUT KEYS A Shortcut Key is a key or a combination of keys that enable you to execute a command directly from the keyboard. If a command has a Shortcut Key, it will be shown to the right in the menu. If a Shortcut Key is shown, you may use it while in the drawing screen rather than selecting the menu. Erase the lines from the screen by using the Shortcut Key <Del> for the Delete command. To erase the lines using the Delete Shortcut Key: 1) Select each line by <clicking> on the segments one at a time with the left mouse button. 2) Press <Del>, the shortcut key for Delete to erase the line segments. Notice how parts of the marked points A through F are erased with the lines. In reality, only the lines were erased, the points just appear to be partially gone because the lines overlapped them. To refresh the screen and show the points again, you need to use the Regen command. 3) Choose Regen from the View menu to regenerate the design. The points will return to their proper appearance. ICONS Icons exist for many of the commands found in the software to give quick access to the command without having to make use of the menu system. The icons are located in Toolbars that surround the drawing screen.

29 22 RainCAD If an icon contains a small black arrow in the bottom right corner, place the cursor over the icon and hold down the left mouse button to display the additional commands hidden beneath. In this lesson you will draw the line segments again using a different line style. Line style refers to line characteristics such as thickness, color and type. The software presets certain line styles to make it easy for you to create a drawing that will print or plot in presentation quality. The line you drew earlier was not one of preset line styles. Assume that you are going to draw the house for a residential property. The house is actually a building, so you will want to use the line style for drawing buildings. To select the Building line style: 1) <Click> on the Line Styles icon from a RainCAD or Land Illustrator Toolbar. A dialog box will appear displaying preset line styles from which you can choose. 2) <Click> on Building and then <click> on the Set to Current Layer button. Now redraw the line from point A through point H. 1) Instead of selecting the Line command from the Insert menu, select the Line icon from the Toolbar. 2) Set points as close to the center of points A through H as possible by <clicking> with the left mouse button. 3) Once you have set a point at each location, press the <Enter> key to end the line. SNAP TO POINTS You have probably noticed that it is sometimes difficult to set a point exactly where you want it. In order to set a point directly on point A, you need a steady hand and a good eye. Entity Snap commands help you set points precisely where you want them. You may find the Entity Snap commands in the Settings menu or by clicking with the right mouse button on the ESNAP icon near the bottom right corner of the screen. The Entity Snap settings are very useful when accuracy is important. The most commonly used entity snap settings will be Endpoint, Nearest, Center and Midpoint. For this lesson we will practice using the Point snap setting. 1) Right mouse <click> on the ESNAP icon near the bottom of the design screen. 2) In the resulting menu, <click> on Settings. 3) In the Drawing Settings dialog box, turn the snap mode on by making sure there is not a checkmark in the Entity snap off checkbox. 4) Under Entity Snap Modes, <click> on the Point checkbox until a checkmark appears in the box. 5) <Click> on the OK button to close the dialog box. Now draw the line through marked points A through H again using the Entity Snap Mode. 1) <Click> on the Line icon from the Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Move the mouse cursor close to point A. Notice that a highlight box will appear at point A indicating that is the nearest location. <Click> the left mouse button to set a point at A. 3) Notice that you are still in the Line command. Move the cursor to the right and a line will "rubber band" from point A. As the cursor gets close to marked point B, notice that the highlight box will appear at point B. <Click> the left mouse button to set a point at the B location. 4) Continue by moving the cursor close to the remaining points and <clicking> with the left mouse button at each highlight. When the final point is set at H, press <Enter> on the keyboard to end the line. SETTING POINTS The IntelliCAD commands allow you to place points at precise locations. To do this, you must input the coordinates for a point by using X and Y coordinates, angles, or measurements relative to another point on the screen.

30 Lesson Three The Basics 23 POLAR SETTINGS Before you begin drawing a piece of property, set up the Polar Tracking settings to assist in the drafting process. Polar tracking helps track the cursor along a temporary line defined by polar angles relative to a command's from or to points. Simply put, the command makes it easy to draw at precise angles on the design screen. In this lesson, open the Polar settings command and set the angle to 45 degrees. To open the command and adjust the settings: 1) <Click> on Drawing Settings from the Settings menu. 1) <Click> on the right arrow button to scroll through the tabs until the Polar tab is visible. 2) <Click> on the Polar tab. 3) Turn Polar Tracking On by <clicking> in the checkbox until checkmark appears. 4) Under Polar Angle Settings, <click> on the Increment Angle drop down menu and select 45 degrees as the angle setting. 5) Under Object Snap Tracking Settings, select Track using all Polar Angle Settings. 6) Under Polar Angle Measurement, select Absolute. POLAR ANGLES Before you begin drawing a building or house, let s learn the angles of the design screen. The drawing screen is made up of an X, Y and Z coordinate system. Since we are not drafting in three dimensions, we can ignore the Z coordinate. The X axis runs horizontally across the design screen. The Y axis runs vertically up and down the design screen. The angles in relation to the 0,0 point or the current point set on the design screen begin with an angle of 0 directly to the right with the angles increasing in a counter clockwise rotation. Angles entered in negative numbers progress with a clockwise rotation. Refer to the following illustration for clarification of the drawing screen angles. Y , X Angles Used for Direction DRAWING AT ANY ANGLE There are several ways to draw an entity such as a line with one point set on the drawing screen in relation to another point. In this lesson you will learn several different ways to draw a line at any angle and distance. You will begin by drafting the walls of a house using the Building line style.

31 24 RainCAD To begin, change to a Building line style: 1) <Click> on the Line Styles icon from a RainCAD or Land Illustrator Toolbar or select the command from the Symbols menu. A dialog box will appear displaying line styles from which you can choose. 2) <Click> on Building and then <click> on the Set to Current Layer button. 3) Close the dialog box by <clicking> on the X in the top right corner of the box. DRAW METHOD ONE The first method of drawing a line is to make use of the Command Line by answering questions or typing values. Let s begin practicing this method: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from the Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Set a point on the screen approximately one-third of the way across and one-third up from the bottom left corner of the screen. You do not have to worry about starting at the precise location. You can move the lines later by selecting them and using the Move command. 3) In the Command Line, the prompt will be asking for the Angle/Length/<End Point>. Type A for angle and press <Enter>. 4) The prompt will now ask for the Angle of line. Type 0 and press <Enter> to begin drawing horizontally to the right of the initial point. 5) The prompt will now ask for the Length of line. Type 11 and press <Enter> to draw a line 11 feet in length at a 0 angle. 6) Draw six more line segments using this same method. Make use of the angle and length settings in the table below to draw the six line segments. Angle Length 1) ) ) ) 0 5 5) ) ) Press the <Enter> key or the right mouse button to end the line segments. DRAW METHOD TWO A second method of drawing a line at any angle again involves typing in the Command Line. This method allows you to type in a distance and angle in one step. To draw a line from the current location to a point in relation to the current location, you must preface the command with an character. For example, to draw a line 19 feet in distance at an angle of 225 from the last point location on the design screen, you would and press <Enter>. If you remove character, the line will be drawn in relation to the X and Y coordinate of 0,0. To draw by typing the distance and angle at one time: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from the Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Snap onto the last line segment on the right side of the drawing screen using the ESNAP setting of Endpoint. 3) and press <Enter> to draw a line straight up from the corner location. 4) and press <Enter> to draw a line horizontally to the left of the last point set on the design screen. 5) Draw four more line segments using this same method. Make use of the distance and angle settings in the table below to draw the four line segments. Remember to preface the command with

32 Lesson Three The Basics 25 symbol and separate the distance and angle with the < sign. Distance Angle 1) ) ) ) ) Press the <Enter> key or the right mouse button to end the line segments. You can use this same method to set a point based on X and Y coordinates from the last point set. Instead of entering a distance and an angle, you would enter an X distance, followed by a comma, and then a Y distance. For example, suppose you wanted to draw a line from the last point going to the right 10 feet and up 5 feet. You would in the Command Line and press <Enter>. To go to the left on the X axis or down on the Y axis, you would enter a negative number. DRAW METHOD THREE The easiest method of drawing a line is to simply set a point on the design screen and drag the mouse in the direction you would like to draw. Type the distance you would like to move in relation to the first point and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. Let s begin practicing this method: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from the Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) With the Polar Tracking turned on and the angles set at 45 degree increments, and with the ESNAP setting of Endpoint, Snap onto the last line segment drawn. 3) Drag the mouse down and to the left at an angle of 225. The line should lock onto the axis. Type 2.25 and press the <Enter> key. You should now have drawn a line 2.25 feet in length at an angle of 225 from the last point set on the design screen. 4) Now drag the mouse straight to the left at a 180 angle, type 7.25 and press <Enter>. 5) Drag the mouse straight up at a 90 angle, type 4.7 and press <Enter>. 6) Drag the mouse to the left at a 180 angle, type 12.4 and press <Enter>. 7) Finally, drag the mouse straight down at a 270 angle, type 40 and press the <Enter> key or the right mouse button to end the line segments. You have now drawn a house using three different methods of drafting along with the Polar Tracking command and the ESNAP settings. DRAWING A CURVE The Spline command allows you to draw curved walkways, driveways, flowerbed lines and more. You will most likely use this command extensively in all of your designs. Before drawing the walkway, choose the Walkway line style from the Line Styles command in the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu or click on the icon in the Toolbar. In addition, adjust the ESNAP settings to enable the snap to a Point location. To draw a curve between two or more points: 1) <Click> on the Spline command from the Insert menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Set a point at point mark location number 1. 3) Set three additional points at marked points 2, 3 and 4 and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. 4) You can set two optional tangent points at the beginning and end of the spline to give it more shape. In this lesson, press the <Enter> key at the starting tangent and ending tangent prompts in the Command Line to complete the curve.

33 26 RainCAD PARALLEL COMMAND AND MOVING POINTS The walkway line running from the house down to the front property line has not been completed. Many properties have similar walks where two lines, whether curved or straight, are drawn parallel to each other. The two lines are identical, so there is no need to draw one and then draw another separate line to match the first exactly. IntelliCAD offers the Parallel command to make drawing identical lines quick and easy. PARALLEL COMMAND To complete the curved walkway: 1) <Click> on the Parallel command from the Modify menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Type in a distance of 4 and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. 3) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and select the existing walkway line by <clicking> on the curve with the mouse. 4) Move the mouse cursor toward marked point 1. Set a point near marked point 1 which is roughly 4 units from the first sidewalk line. The walkway line is now duplicated exactly 4 units from the existing curve. 5) Press the <Esc> key to end the command. MOVING POINT LOCATIONS Notice that the curve extends too far at the top and not far enough at the bottom. In this lesson you will learn how to move point locations to adjust the curve. Before altering the curved walkway line, adjust the ESNAP settings to enable the Nearest snap mode. To adjust the curve so that it does not extend past the patio and property line: 1) Select the curve to edit by <clicking> on the line with the mouse. Small boxes indicate the points or vertices of the line. 2) Move the cursor to the top box on the curve. <Click> on the point mark with the left mouse button. Move the cursor and notice how the line bends with the movement of the mouse. 3) Drag the cursor to the desired location on the front porch. <Click> the left mouse button when the cursor snaps directly onto the front porch. 4) To lengthen the walkway out to the property line, move the mouse cursor over the bottom box on the curved sidewalk line. <Click> the left mouse button and move the cursor. 5) Move the cursor to the desired location on the property line and <click> the left mouse button when the cursor snaps onto the property line. MANIPULATING SYMBOLS AND ENTITIES The following exercises give a brief explanation of how to select, move, copy, and rotate symbols or entities on the drawing screen using commands available in IntelliCAD. These techniques apply to any type of symbol whether it was originally placed with manual or automatic placement features. In addition, you may use these techniques on all entities including irrigation, landscape, lighting and drainage symbols. Refer to the IntelliCAD User Guide or Help files for more information on selecting, moving, copying or rotating entities on the drawing screen. SELECTING A SINGLE SYMBOL OR ENTITY To select a single symbol or entity on the drawing: 1) <Click> on the symbol or entity one time with the left mouse button. The symbol or entity will change to a dashed line style. When you select a symbol or entity, it is highlighted with small

34 Lesson Three The Basics 27 squares called grips which appear at strategic points on the entity. The locations of the grips depend on the type of entity selected. For example, grips appear at the endpoints and midpoint of a line, at the quadrant points and center point of a circle, and at the endpoints, midpoint, and center of an arc. Symbol and Entity Selection Grips 2) Practice selecting symbols or entities one at a time. 3) Press the <Esc> key to unselect all of the symbols or entities. SELECTING WITH A WINDOW To select multiple symbols or entities with a window 1) Drag a window from the left to the right around the entities by setting two points with the mouse. Any symbol or entity that is completely 100% inside the window will be selected. 2) Drag a window from the right to the left around several symbols or entities and anything that fits within the window or crosses its boundary will be selected. Left to Right Selection Right to Left Selection 3) Practice selecting symbols and entities by dragging a window. 4) Press the <Esc> key to unselect all of the symbols or entities. REMOVING SYMBOLS OR ENTITIES FROM THE SELECTION SET To remove symbols or entities from a selection set: 1) With two or more entities selected on the design screen, hold down the <Shift> key and <click> on the symbol or entity to remove with the left mouse button. 2) Practice adding and removing symbols to and from a selection set. 3) Press the <Esc> key to unselect all of the symbols or entities.

35 28 RainCAD MOVING A SYMBOL OR ENTITY The default method of moving one or more symbols or entities is to create a selection set and then specify a starting point or base point, and then an endpoint or displacement point to define the relocation of the entities. To move symbols or entities on the drawing: 1) Select the symbols or entities on the design screen. 2) Type Move in the Command Line and press <Enter>. 3) Set a base point by <clicking> the location on the drawing screen. 4) Drag the symbols or entities to the new location and <click> one time with the left mouse button. 5) Practice selecting symbols or entities and moving them around on the design screen. 6) Press the <Esc> key to unselect all of the symbols or entities. You can also move entities using grips. To move an entity using grips, select the entity to display its grips, and then <click> a grip and drag it. The grip you select depends on the type of entity you are moving. For example, to move a line entity, select the midpoint grip. To move a curved entity, such as an arc, circle, or ellipse, select the center point grip. Not all entities can be moved using grips. COPYING A SYMBOL OR ENTITY To copy symbols or entities on the drawing: 1) Select the symbols or entities to copy on the design screen. 2) Type Copy in the Command Line and press <Enter>. 3) Set a base point by <clicking> the location on the drawing screen. 4) Drag the copy to a new location and <click> one time with the left mouse button. ROTATING A SYMBOL OR ENTITY To rotate symbols or entities on the drawing: 1) Select the symbols or entities to rotate on the design screen. 2) Type Rotate in the Command Line and press <Enter>. 3) Set a base point for the rotation by <clicking> the location on the drawing screen. 4) Drag the mouse cursor around on the screen to rotate the symbol to the desired angle and <click> one time with the left mouse button, or type an angle in the Command Line and press the <Enter> key to end the command.

36 LESSON FOUR - DRAWING THE PLOT PLAN The practice screens in this lesson will take you through the process of drawing a residential property with the mouse. You will use tools available in IntelliCAD and RainCAD / Land Illustrator to complete the property. After completing Lesson Four, you should be able to: Draw buildings, garages and patios Draw property lines Rotate buildings Draw walkways, driveways and flower bed lines Before getting started, it may help to understand the recommended order for drawing any property. When obtaining site measurements in the field, it is typical to measure the house first. Once the house measurements are known, you can measure out from known points on the house to set points for the property lines. With points set for the property lines, you can draw a border around the house to represent the property or lot. From here, you can add the walkways, driveway, garage, and flower bed lines. You can follow any order you are comfortable with in drawing the property although the order given above is usually the easiest. DRAWING THE HOUSE You may wonder how you will know where to start the drawing on the screen. There is no magic answer other than to estimate the approximate location. Later, if you need to move something, you can select it with the mouse and move it to a more exact location. This practice screen shows a partially completed house with one marked point. Your job is to complete the house using the commands and procedures you learned in the previous lessons. You will refer to Field Measurements Diagram I (see page 30) many times as you work through the next part of the lesson, so you may want to make a copy for easy viewing. To complete the house: 1) <Click> on the Line Styles icon from a RainCAD or Land Illustrator Toolbar or select the command from the Symbols menu. A dialog box will appear displaying line styles from which you can choose. 2) <Click> on Building and then <click> on the Set to Current Layer button. 3) Close the dialog box by <clicking> on the X in the top right corner of the box. 4) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 5) With the Polar Tracking turned on and the angles set at 45 degree increments, and with the ESNAP setting of Endpoint, snap onto the line segment at marked point 1 and <click> one time with the left mouse button. 6) Drag the mouse to the left at an angle of 180. Type 16 and press the <Enter> key. 7) Use this method to draw the remaining walls back to the original starting point on the house. Refer to the measurements given in Field Measurements Diagram I for assistance. TIP: When drawing your own properties, you can estimate the angle for structures such as the bay window in this exercise. The angles for this exercise are 135 and 225 respectively. When drawing a building, each wall of the building is a separate line or entity. If you need to move or rotate the building, you will need to select each line. Check your drawing against Field Measurements Diagram I. Make sure the building you drew matches the one shown. If they are identical, congratulations, you are ready for the next screen. If you were unable to complete the house on your own, stop now and review Lesson Three. Keep in mind that what you have done so far is no different from drawing a property on the drafting board.

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38 Lesson Four Drawing the Plot Plan POINT RELATIVE POINT RELATIVE (-22.50, ) (7.00, ) FIELD MEASUREMENTS DIAGRAM I NOT TO SCALE

39 32 RainCAD ADDING PROPERTY LINES Now that you have drawn the house, draw temporary lines from the house out to each property line. The temporary lines will assist in drawing the property around the house. When placing the property around a house or building, in most instances you need at least two temporary lines from each side of the house out to the property line. If the property has a cul-de-sac lot, you will need at least three temporary lines or more. You will need a line from the house out to the corner of the property on each side of the lot. In addition, you will need at least one other line straight out from the house to the property line. This particular example will demonstrate both instances. Your screen has the first temporary lines drawn for you. We drew temporary lines 7 feet out and 40 feet down from the front right corner of the house. In this lesson, you will continue to draw the additional lines required to complete the property line. After you draw the property line, you will simply erase the temporary lines. Refer to Field Measurements Diagram I to see the measurements required to draw the remaining temporary lines. Before drawing the temporary lines, use the IntelliCAD Explore Layers dialog box to change to layer 0, or create a Temporary Lines layer and set it as the current drawing layer. To draw the remaining temporary lines from the building to the property lines: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) With the Polar Tracking turned on and the angles set at 45 degree increments, and with the ESNAP setting of Endpoint, snap onto the back right corner of the house. 3) Drag the mouse cursor to the right at a 0 angle. 4) Type 10.5 and press <Enter> to draw a temporary line out to the property line. 5) Press the <Esc> key to end the command. Draw the remaining lines using the same steps. You also need to draw an additional line from the front of the house to the property line to help draw the cul-de-sac. You should now have multiple temporary lines including the one to the front curved property line. Now you will need to draw a straight line between the end points of the lines on each side of the yard excluding the front curved area. You will draw a curved line for the front property line. Before drawing the property lines, choose the Property line style from the Line Styles command in RainCAD / Land Illustrator. Make sure the ESNAP setting of Endpoint is enabled. To begin drawing the property lines: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Drag the mouse cursor close to the endpoint of the line at the bottom right corner of the screen. 3) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 4) Drag the mouse cursor up to the line coming off of the back right corner of the house and extending out feet to the property line. 5) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 6) Press <Enter> to end the line drawn between the two temporary line endpoints. 7) Draw a line between the two temporary lines across the back of the property and then along the left side of the property following the same steps as above. Your screen should look like the following illustration.

40 Lesson Four Drawing the Plot Plan 33 Temporary Lines and Partial Property Lines To draw a curve across the front of the yard: 1) <Click> on the Spline command from the Insert menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Drag the mouse cursor close to the temporary line near the bottom left corner of the property. 3) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 4) Drag the mouse to the line off the front of the house. 5) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 6) Now drag the mouse to the temporary line near the bottom right corner of the property. 7) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 8) You can set two optional tangent points at the beginning and end of the spline to give it more shape. In this lesson, press the <Enter> key at the starting tangent and ending tangent prompts in the Command Line to complete the curve. Now you need to join the lines together to form three sides of the property. You will do this using the Chamfer command. You can connect two nonparallel entities by extending or trimming them and then joining them with a line to create a beveled edge. When creating a chamfer, you can specify how far to trim the entities back from their intersection (distance-distance method), or you can specify the length of the chamfer and the angle it forms along the first entity (distance-angle method). Setting the Distance to a value of zero will force the lines to connect together in straight segments. To connect the property lines at the corners of the plot plan: 1) On the Modify menu, choose Chamfer. 2) In the Command Line at the bottom of the screen, if dist1 and dist2 are not set to zero, type S and press <Enter> to modify the settings. Make sure that Distance - Distance is the selected method and that the First Distance and Second Distance are set to 0 under Chamfer Distances and Angles and <click> on the OK button. Refer to the following illustration.

41 34 RainCAD 3) Set a point on the property line on the right side of the house. Set a second point on the property line across the back of the yard. The two lines should connect at their intersection. 4) Follow the same instructions to connect the property line across the back of the yard with the property line down the left side of the house. The property lines around the house should look like the ones in Field Measurements Diagram I. Now that the property lines are complete, you need to erase the temporary lines. To erase the temporary lines: 1) If you drew the temporary lines on a layer by themselves, use the IntelliCAD Explore Layers dialog box to delete the layer. 2) If the temporary lines are on a layer with other entities, select each temporary line segment and press the <Delete> key on the keyboard to erase the lines. GARAGE, DRIVEWAY AND MORE Now it is time to draw the garage. The garage is a building, so choose the Building line style from the Line Styles command. Make sure the ESNAP setting of Endpoint is enabled. We drew temporary lines to locate one corner of the garage for you. Refer to Field Measurements Diagram I to see the measurements of 5 and 10 feet that we used to establish the starting point. The garage is a simple rectangle so you will make use of a new command to draw it more quickly. To draw the rectangular garage: 1) On the Insert menu, choose Rectangle or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Drag the mouse to the temporary line off the back of the house. 3) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button

42 Lesson Four Drawing the Plot Plan 35 4) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and enter the location for the opposite corner of the garage. Use Drawing Method Two learned in the previous lesson. Instead of entering a distance and angle in the Command Line, enter the X and Y coordinates or the width and depth of the garage. Remember that the X coordinate will be moving to the left, therefore, the number will have a negative value. 5) in the Command Line and press the <Enter> key. ROTATING THE GARAGE The garage is now drawn, but you will need to rotate it slightly to position it correctly on the design. In many cases, estimating the angle will be accurate enough. However, if you want to set the garage at a more precise angle, make use of the following method. The measurement for the lower left hand corner of the garage relative to the back left corner of the property (as shown in the Field Measurements Diagram I) is and You can use the measurement to assist in calculating the angle of rotation for the garage. You may want to use the Zoom Window command to get a better view of the backyard area before rotating the garage. To determine the rotation angle: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Drag the mouse cursor to the back left corner of the property line. 3) Snap onto the corner and <click> with the left mouse button. 4) Draw a temporary line down from the corner feet and a second temporary line to the right at feet. 5) On the Tools menu, choose Inquiry and then Distance. Snap on to the lower right corner of the garage and <click> with the left mouse button. Move the mouse cursor over to the endpoint of the temporary line you just drew, and <click> to snap onto the endpoint. 6) The Command Line will display the distance between the two points and an angle of 169. This represents the angle from the bottom right corner of the garage rotating counter clockwise to the endpoint of the temporary line. If you subtract this angle from , you will calculate the correct angle for the garage rotation. Since you are rotating the garage in a clockwise direction, the angle will actually be a negative number. Refer to the following illustration to better understand this concept. Determining the Rotation Angle

43 36 RainCAD FIELD MEASUREMENTS DIAGRAM II NOT TO SCALE

44 Lesson Four Drawing the Plot Plan 37 Now that you know the correct rotation angle, you can properly position the garage on the screen. Before you rotate the garage, delete the temporary lines from the screen. To rotate the garage: 1) On the Modify menu, choose Rotate or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) <Click> on the garage one time with the left mouse button to select the entity to rotate and press the <Enter> key. 3) You will want to rotate the garage from the lower right corner. Drag the mouse cursor near the bottom right corner of the garage and <click> when the cursor snaps to the corner location. 4) Type in the previously determined angle of -11 degrees in the Command Line and press the <Enter> key. The garage should rotate negative eleven degrees to the correct position on the design. ADDING THE PATIOS With the garage completed, it is time to add the driveway, patios and sidewalk. You will refer to the measurements in the Field Measurements Diagram II (see page 33) many times as you complete this lesson, so you may want to make a copy to place on your desk for easy viewing. Before drawing the patio lines, choose the Walkway line style from the Line Styles command in RainCAD / Land Illustrator. Make sure the ESNAP settings of Endpoint and Perpendicular are enabled. To draw the back patio: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Make sure the Ortho mode is turned on by double <clicking> on ORTHO in the Status Bar at the bottom right side of the screen. The Ortho mode restricts the cursor to straight horizontal or vertical movements. 3) Snap onto the lower right corner of the garage and <click> one time with the left mouse button. Move the mouse cursor to the right all the way to the wall of the house. 4) When the cursor snaps onto the wall of the house, <click> with the left mouse button and press <Enter> to end the line. To draw the front patio: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Snap onto the left front corner of the house near the patio and <click> one time with the left mouse button. 3) Using the Draw Method Three you learned in Lesson Three, drag the mouse directly to the right at a 0 angle, type 5 and press the <Enter> key. 4) Drag the mouse up toward the house near the right front corner of the patio and <click> one time with the left mouse button when the cursor snaps onto the house. 5) Press <Enter> to complete the patio. ADDING THE DRIVEWAY The driveway is a little more involved, but will still be easy to draw. The driveway begins to curve into the house 18 feet down and 4 feet out from the back left corner of the house. Refer to the measurements as shown in Field Measurements Diagram II. The driveway meets the house just 10 feet down from the back left corner. The driveway itself is 13 feet wide. With these measurements, you have the data you need to begin drawing the driveway. Before drawing the driveway lines, draw a few temporary lines to assist in the process. Remember to draw the temporary lines on an unused layer to make them easy to select and delete. Make sure the ESNAP setting of Endpoint is enabled. To draw the temporary lines: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu.

45 38 RainCAD 2) Snap onto the back left corner of the house. Draw a line 17 feet in length to the left at a 180 angle and press the <Enter> key or the right mouse button to end the line. 3) Start the Line command again and snap onto the back left corner of the house. Draw a line 10 feet in length straight down at a 270 angle and press the <Enter> key or the right mouse button to end the line. 4) Start the Line command again and snap onto the back left corner of the house one more time. Draw a line 18 feet in length straight down at a 270 angle. 5) Drag the cursor to the left at a 180 angle, type 4 and press the <Enter> key. 6) Press the <Enter> key or the right mouse button to end the line. You have now drawn the temporary lines needed to draft the driveway. Now choose the Driveway line style from the Line Styles command in RainCAD / Land Illustrator. To begin drawing the right side of the driveway: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Drag the mouse cursor to the left endpoint of the 4 foot line extending out from the house. 3) Snap onto the endpoint of the line and <click> one time with the left mouse button. 4) Double <click> on ENSAP in the Status Bar to turn the object snapping off. 5) Drag the mouse cursor straight down and <click> on the property line. Press <Enter> to end the driveway line. 6) Double <click> on ENSAP in the Status Bar to turn the object snapping on again and double <click> on ORTHO to turn the Ortho Mode off. Use the Spline command to draw a curved line from the end of the line you just drew to the end of the line drawn 10 feet down from the corner of the house. You will have to set a point in between the two endpoints as you draw the spline in order to create the curve. For this exercise, estimating the correct placement for the point in between the two endpoints should be accurate enough. To complete the right side of the driveway: 1) <Click> on the Spline command from the Insert menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Drag the mouse cursor close to the endpoint of the driveway line coming up from the property line. 3) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 4) Estimate the location of the second point forming the curve and <click> one time with the left mouse button. 5) Drag the mouse to the endpoint of the 10 foot temporary line coming down from the back corner of the house. 6) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 7) You can set two optional tangent points at the beginning and end of the spline to give it more shape. In this lesson, press the <Enter> key at the starting tangent and ending tangent prompts in the Command Line to complete the curve. To begin drawing the left side of the driveway: 1) <Click> on the Parallel command from the Modify menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Type in a distance of 13 and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. 3) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and select the existing driveway line running straight down to the property line. 4) Move the mouse cursor to the left of the existing driveway line and set a point by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. The driveway line is now duplicated exactly 13 feet from the existing line. 5) Press the <Esc> key to end the command. 6) Notice that the driveway line does not extend all the way to the property line. Make use of the Extend command to correct this situation. <Click> on the Extend command from the Modify menu or <click> on the icon from a Toolbar. 7) <Click> one time on the property line and press the <Enter> key. 8) <Click> on the driveway line and press the <Enter> key to extend the driveway line down to the property line. 9) Press the <Esc> key to end the command.

46 Lesson Four Drawing the Plot Plan 39 Now that the driveway extends to the property line, you must complete the line up to the garage. To complete the left side of the driveway: 1) <Click> on the Spline command from the Insert menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Drag the mouse cursor close to the endpoint of the left driveway line coming up from the property line. 3) Snap onto the endpoint and <click> with the left mouse button. 4) Move the mouse cursor up and set a point on the endpoint of the temporary line coming 17 feet off the back corner of the house. 5) Double <click> on ENSAP in the Status Bar to turn the object snapping mode off. 6) Drag the cursor to a location approximately 1 foot from the left front corner of the garage and <click> one time with the left mouse button. 7) You can set two optional tangent points at the beginning and end of the spline to give it more shape. In this lesson, press the <Enter> key at the starting tangent and ending tangent prompts in the Command Line to complete the curve. 8) Delete the temporary lines as you have done before to complete the driveway. DRAWING THE WALKWAY The house and property are almost complete. Now you need to add the sidewalk and the planting areas in the front yard. You will estimate the placement of points between the house and the property line, and use the Spline command to draw the sidewalk. While you could have taken more field measurements for the exact placement of the walk, you can estimate the point locations and draw the walk accurately enough. Start by drawing a temporary line horizontally along the front property line feet from the right side of the driveway. The endpoint of the line will not end up directly on the property line because of the curve. However, it will provide you with a good guideline for drawing the walkway. Before drawing the sidewalk lines, choose the Walkway line style from the Line Styles command in RainCAD / Land Illustrator. Make sure the ESNAP mode is turned on and the setting of Nearest is enabled. To draw the left side of the walkway: 1) <Click> on the Spline command from the Insert menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) Set the first point of the curve on the front patio close to the left corner of the entry to the house by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. 3) Set a point approximately 1/3 of the way down to the property line and a little to the right to form the first curve in the walk. 4) Set another point another third of the way down and to the left of the last point. 5) Move the mouse cursor downward and, using the endpoint of the temporary line you drew earlier as a guide, set the final point on the property line. 6) You can set two optional tangent points at the beginning and end of the spline to give it more shape. In this lesson, press the <Enter> key at the starting tangent and ending tangent prompts in the Command Line to complete the curve. Now draw the right side of the walkway using the same method you learned in Lesson Three. Because you have already learned this method, we will not provide the same detail here. If you need help, refer back to Lesson Three. Make use of the Zoom commands to get a better view of what you are doing if necessary 1) Use the Parallel command to draw an identical line 4 feet to the right of the existing sidewalk line. 2) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen to select the existing curve and to set another point to the right for the parallel walkway line. 3) Move the endpoints where the line extends above the patio and not far enough to reach the property line. 4) Use the ESNAP command of Nearest to jump onto the patio and property line. 5) Erase the temporary line as you have done before.

47 40 RainCAD ADDING THE FLOWERBED LINES You now need to draw the planted area in front of the house. Like the walkway, you need not spend too much time on field measurements. Rather, take the measurements needed to allow you to reasonably approximate the drawing. While accuracy is important, you can approximate the bed-line within reasonable tolerances from the measurements taken. Draw a few temporary lines to use in establishing the curve for the flowerbed. Remember to draw the temporary lines on an unused layer to make them easy to select and delete. Enable the ESNAP settings of Endpoint and Midpoint. To draw the temporary lines: 1) <Click> on the Line icon from a Toolbar or select the command from the Insert menu. 2) Snap to the front left corner of the house and draw a line 6 feet down at an angle of ) Draw the remaining temporary lines with the distances as indicated in Field Measurements Diagram II. The fifth point is 10 feet out from the house. When you reach this location, the ESNAP setting of Midpoint will snap onto the building line midway between the sidewalk and the front right corner of the house. Before drawing the flowerbed lines, choose the Bedlines line style from the Line Styles command in RainCAD / Land Illustrator. To draw the flowerbed lines: 1) <Click> on the Spline command from the Insert menu, or <click> on the icon in a Toolbar. 2) On the left side of the sidewalk, draw from right to left snapping onto to the appropriate temporary line endpoints as you go. You will have to set additional points in between the temporary lines as you work to the left in order to create the scalloped look. 3) End the spline when you get to the right side of the driveway. 4) You can set two optional tangent points at the beginning and end of the spline to give it more shape. In this lesson, press the <Enter> key at the starting tangent and ending tangent prompts in the Command Line to complete the curve. 5) Start a new spline working from the right side of the walkway line toward the right side of the house. 6) Set additional points to create the scalloped look and press <Enter> when you reach the endpoint of the last temporary line. 7) Press the <Enter> key at the starting tangent and ending tangent prompts in the Command Line to complete the curve. When completed, your drawing should look very similar to the Field Measurements Diagram II.

48 LESSON FIVE - DESIGNING THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM PART I This lesson will cover irrigation commands available in RainCAD or the Combo Pack. If you purchased Land Illustrator as a stand-alone program for landscape design, review the Boundary Line section and then proceed to Lesson Eight. After completing Lesson Five, you should be familiar with: Boundary lines; how to create them and what they do Placing sprinklers within the drawing screen Adding a water meter or pump station to the drawing screen Grouping sprinklers into zones RainCAD allows you to approach system design in any manner in which you are accustomed. However, there are a few instances where you must follow a preset order. The design approach the tutorial will comply with is as follows: 1) Placing the water meter or pump station 2) Creating the boundary lines 3) Placing the sprinklers 4) Grouping sprinklers into zones 5) Adding the control valve symbols 6) Assigning the control valves to zones 7) Piping the sprinklers 8) Adding the backflow device 9) Drawing the mainline pipe 10) Sizing the pipe 11) Adding other miscellaneous symbols WATER METER AND BOUNDARY LINES You may want to make use of the Zoom commands within IntelliCAD in the next few steps. This will allow you to get a better view of the front yard while placing the water meter, and the backyard while creating the boundary line. WATER METER / PUMP STATION RainCAD refers to each water meter and pump station as a water source. You may have as many water sources on the design as required. When assigning sprinklers or valves to a zone number, you will also need to select the water source that supplies the zone. NOTE: RainCAD stores all of the water source information in the symbol. You must place a symbol on the design prior to setting the symbol assignment, water source type, pressure settings, and more. If you assign information to the water source and DO NOT save the drawing, you will loose the water source information. If you erase the symbol from the drawing you will loose the water source information. In this exercise, you will place a water meter on the drawing screen. 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Water Sources. 3) On the Water Source dialog box, <click> on the Add button. A water meter symbol will appear on your mouse cursor. Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the water source symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. 4) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. For this exercise, set the second point directly to the right of the first point. NOTE: Do not be concerned if this is not the symbol you want to use to represent the water source. You can adjust the symbol assignment later in the command.

49 42 RainCAD 5) In the Description text box, enter Residential Meter. You could also adjust the symbol assignment, the symbol color, or assign the water source to a pump station. For this exercise, leave these adjustments set to the default values. 6) In the Meter Information area, select the water meter size from the drop down menu. For this exercise, select a 3/4 inch meter. 7) Enter the static pressure available at the water meter. Type in a pressure of 62 pounds per square inch. 8) Enter a difference in elevation from the source to the water meter location of feet. Enter a drop in elevation as a negative number and a rise in elevation as a positive number. 9) Select a pipe category for the supply line from the drop down menu. For this exercise, select Schedule 40 PVC. 10) Select the pipe size of 1 from the drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection with the mouse. 11) Enter the service line length of feet. NOTE: The program will display the maximum recommended flow of water through the water meter and the available working pressure at the water meter near the bottom of the dialog box. You may change the recommended flow through the water source. To adjust the flow, <click> on the Override Recommended Flow box until a checkmark appears in the box. Enter a new flow in the maximum recommended flow text box. For this exercise, leave the flow as calculated. 12) <Click> on the Save button to save the water meter information. 13) <Click> on the Close button to close the Water Sources dialog box. NOTE: You can place the water meter information on the design screen by <clicking> on the Insert Info button. Follow the Command Line and set an insertion point for the top left corner of the text. You can edit the text using the IntelliCAD Multiline Text Editor. BOUNDARY LINE A boundary line is a limit or border for automatic sprinkler layout, automatic plant layout, and partial material takeoff calculations. You may place restrictions on a boundary line to prevent sprinklers or spray from sprinklers from entering an area. NOTE: You may have as many boundary lines on the drawing screen as necessary. Boundary lines may overlap other boundary lines or objects on the drawing screen. We do not recommend that you create one boundary line to irrigate an entire project. For example, use separate boundary lines to irrigate the back, front, or sides of a house or building. Now that a water meter exists on the design, it is time to create a boundary line to use when placing sprinklers. Make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom command to get a better view of the backyard. To create a boundary line: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Boundary Line. 2) For the purpose of the tutorial, do not place any restrictions on the boundary line. Choose OK to close the dialog box and begin drawing the boundary line. 3) Follow the Command Line and set points for the boundary line. Set the points beginning at location number 1 around to location number 9. You may want to make use of the IntelliCAD ESNAP commands for assistance.

50 Lesson Five - Designing the Irrigation System Part I 43 Setting Points for Drawing the Boundary 4) After setting point number 9, type C in the Command Line and press <Enter> to end the line. RainCAD will automatically close the boundary line by connecting the first point with the last point. NOTE: Do not attempt to close the boundary line on your own. Set your last point short of the beginning point, type C in the Command Line and press <Enter> to allow RainCAD to automatically close the boundary line. SPRINKLER PLACEMENT WITHIN A BOUNDARY You can place sprinkler symbols on the drawing screen either manually or with one of several different automatic placement features. Using the automatic features, you can place symbols along an existing or temporary polyline, or within a boundary line. In this exercise, you will place the sprinklers automatically using the boundary line you just created. To begin placing sprinkler symbols within the boundary line: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) On the Sprinkler Placement dialog box, <click> on the Within a Boundary tab. 4) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. For this lesson, <click> on Rain Bird in the list of manufacturers. 5) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler palettes. Select Turf Sprays from the list of Category Names.

51 44 RainCAD 6) <Click> on a Palette Name one time with the left mouse button to view a list of the sprinklers assigned to the palette. For this lesson, <click> on 15 s. NOTE: A palette is the assortment of sprinklers RainCAD will use to fill the boundary line. You must have a sprinkler with a 180 and a 360 arc pattern assigned to each palette. Palettes are created in the Sprinklers Database on the Palette Assignment tab in RainCAD. 7) Leave the Sprinkler Body Assignment set to Use From Database. Select Square spacing from the Desired Sprinkler Layout drop down menu. Select % of Diameter from the Desired Sprinkler Spacing drop down menu and enter 50 in the % of Diameter text box. Enter 10 in the % of Overspray Allowed box and 0.50 in the Sprinkler Offset Along Boundary Line box. Leave the Automatic Radius Reduction checkbox disabled. Refer to the RainCAD help screens for more information on these options. 8) <Click> on the OK button and follow Command Line at the bottom of the screen. 9) <Click> one time on the boundary line with the left mouse button to select the object. NOTE: When selecting a boundary line, pick an area where one boundary line is not drawn directly on top of another. This will prevent you from selecting the wrong boundary line. 10) If the Automatically Calculate Full Circle Row Angle checkbox is disabled, continue to follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set two points on the screen for the row angle of all full circle sprinklers filling the center of the boundary area. 11) The sprinkler symbols will automatically be placed within the boundary line area. Depending on the shape of the area, the number of points in the boundary line, and the nozzles available in the chosen palette, you may need to adjust the layout once the automatic placement is complete. We achieved the following sprinkler layout in a very short period by deleting and moving a few sprinkler symbols.

52 Lesson Five - Designing the Irrigation System Part I 45 Completed Sprinkler Layout in the Backyard Make use of the commands in IntelliCAD to select, move, copy and rotate symbols on the drawing screen. These commands apply to any type of symbol whether it was originally placed with manual or with automatic placement features. SPRINKLER PLACEMENT ALONG A POLYLINE In addition to placing sprinklers automatically within a boundary line, you can evenly space sprinkler symbols along an existing or temporary polyline. In this exercise, you will place the sprinklers automatically along an existing polyline on the left side of the driveway. You may offset the sprinkler symbols to one side of the line or another to add clarity to the irrigation design. Before placing the sprinklers, use the Zoom commands available in IntelliCAD to position the drawing so you can see the entire driveway. To begin placing sprinkler symbols along a polyline: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) On the Sprinkler Placement dialog box, <click> on the Along a Polyline tab. 4) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. For this lesson, <click> on Rain Bird in the list of manufacturers. 5) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler nozzles. Select Turf Sprays from the list of Category Names. 6) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on the desired sprinkler nozzle. Select a 10H from the list of available sprinkler nozzles. 7) To place the selected sprinkler nozzle automatically along an existing polyline on the drawing screen, <click> on the Along an Existing Polyline radio button. Enter 0.50 in the Sprinkler Polyline Offset text box and click on the OK button. NOTE: If the Sprinkler Polyline Offset is set to zero (0), the sprinklers will appear directly on top of the polyline. 8) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and select the polyline to use in sprinkler placement. <Click> one time on the left driveway line running from the street to the garage. 9) Continue to follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. Set a point on the side of the line on which the symbols will be placed. <Click> one time to the left of the line so that the sprinklers will face away from the driveway. 10) The actual length of the polyline as well as the calculated spacing of the symbols will be displayed in the resulting dialog box. Leave the desired spacing for the sprinkler symbols set to 10 feet in the Desired Spacing text box. NOTE: To space the sprinkler symbols evenly along the polyline, select Even Spacing from the Spacing Type drop down menu. To space the symbols at the exact spacing entered in the Desired Spacing text box, select Exact Spacing in the drop down menu. 11) <Click> on the OK button to place the sprinklers automatically along the polyline. MANUAL SPRINKLER PLACEMENT Manually placing sprinklers is a simple process. Simply select a sprinkler nozzle, set a point for its location, and then set another point in the direction the nozzle will face.

53 46 RainCAD It may be necessary to zoom in on the area in which you will be working. Before you begin placing sprinklers manually, zoom in on the bottom left corner of the property so you can see the driveway and property lines. To begin manually placing sprinkler symbols: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) On the Sprinkler Placement dialog box, <click> on the Manual Placement tab. 4) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. For this lesson, <click> on Rain Bird in the list of manufacturers. 5) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler nozzles. Select Turf Sprays from the list of Category Names. 6) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on the desired sprinkler nozzle. Start by selecting a 10Q nozzle from the list. 7) <Click> on the OK button to begin placing the sprinkler on the design screen. 8) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the sprinkler symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. 9) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. Refer to the following illustration. Set Location Point and Direction for Manual Sprinkler Placement 10) Press the <Esc> key on the keyboard to return to the Sprinkler Placement dialog box. NOTE: To continue placing sprinklers of the same nozzle type, repeat steps 7 and 8 above prior to pressing the <Esc> key in step 9 to return to the Sprinkler Placement dialog box. You can place as many sprinklers as necessary before returning to the dialog box. Scroll up to the garage area and place additional sprinklers in the dry area between the garage and the property line. Close the Sprinkler Placement dialog box when you have completed the process. ZONING SPRINKLERS Now it's time to practice grouping the sprinklers into zones. The software will help you determine how many zones are required based on the recommended flow of water through the meter and the combined flow of the sprinklers. Notice that we replaced a 15 foot quarter circle nozzle placed within the boundary line with a 15 foot half circle nozzle. We also placed an additional 15 foot half circle facing away from the garage and a 12 foot quarter where the driveway meets the garage.

54 Lesson Five - Designing the Irrigation System Part I 47 CALCULATING THE TOTAL FLOW OF THE SPRINKLERS Now we can determine the minimum recommended number of required zones based on the flow of water through the meter and the total flow of all sprinklers currently on the design. To calculate the minimum recommended number of zones and the total flow of the sprinklers: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Total Flow. A dialog box will appear displaying the total flow of all sprinklers on the design screen. In addition, the command will separate the flow for each sprinkler category on the design. If there is only one water source on the design, the command will calculate the estimated number of zones and recommend an average flow per zone. In this lesson, to divide the zones evenly the command recommends at least four zones with an average flow of GPM for the turf sprinklers in the backyard and along the driveway. 3) <Click> on the Close button to exit the dialog box. This tool is meant to be used as a guideline for zoning. You do not have to set all zones to the recommended flow. Keep in mind that you should consider other factors such as the different hydrozones within the project as well when grouping sprinklers into zones. ASSIGNING SPRINKLERS TO A ZONE Assigning sprinklers to a zone number is a two-step process. In the first step, you select a group of sprinklers and calculate the flow from the selection. Once you reach a total flow you are comfortable with, you proceed to the second step and assign the sprinklers to a zone number. NOTE: RainCAD stores zone assignment information on the drawing screen. If you assign sprinklers to a zone number and DO NOT save the drawing, you will loose the zone assignment information. To select a group of sprinklers and calculate their flow: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Water Source/Zone Assignment. 3) On the Water Source/Zone Assignment dialog box, <click> on the Assignment tab. 4) Each design may have more than one water source. Before you may assign sprinklers or control valves to a zone number, you must first select the water source supplying the zone. In the Water Source Assignment location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the available water sources. In this lesson, you will only have one water source in the list. <Click> on the water source name one time with the mouse. 5) Select the row across the back of the property line with five half circle and two quarter circle sprinklers. Refer to the help in IntelliCAD for assistance in selecting entities on the design screen. 6) <Click> on the Get Flow From Selection button to determine the flow of the selected sprinklers. You should have seven sprinklers selected with a flow of GPM. This is below the recommended flow, so add a few more sprinklers to the zone. 7) <Click> on the half circle sprinkler against the property line on the left side of the backyard and the full circle sprinkler just to its right. NOTE: It may be easier to select sprinklers by <clicking> on the arc pattern versus selecting the sprinkler symbol itself. 8) <Click> on the Get Flow From Selection button again to determine the flow of the selected sprinklers. You should now have nine sprinklers selected with a flow of GPM. The flow of the selected sprinklers is slightly higher than the recommended flow of each zone, but less than the capability of the water source. We will proceed to assign these sprinklers to zone number one. You can add or remove sprinklers to or from a zone at any time.

55 48 RainCAD To assign the sprinklers to a zone number: 1) In the Zone Number Assignment text box, type in the number <1> for the zone assignment, or <click> on the left or right arrow buttons to decrease or increase the zone assignment number. There is no limit to the number of zones you may have per water source. 2) In the Assignment Type location, <click> on Add Selection to Zone and then <click> on the Apply button. A 1-1 will appear next to the sprinkler symbols 3) indicating that they are assigned to water source number one and zone number one. NOTE: To remove sprinklers or control valves from a zone assignment, select the symbols, <click> on Remove Selection from Zone in the Assignment Type location, and then <click> on the Apply button. 4) <Click> on the IntelliCAD screen to make it the current application. 5) Press the <Esc> key one time to unselect the sprinkler symbols on the design screen. 6) Following the steps above, select the next row of four full circle sprinklers and one half circle sprinkler and assign them to zone number two. 7) Select the remaining ten sprinklers in the backyard area including the 15 foot half circle directly behind the garage and assign them to zone number three. Be sure to press the <Esc> to unselect the sprinklers just assigned to zone number two before you begin selecting sprinklers for zone three. NOTE: When the flow exceeds the recommended flow through the water source, the associated labels turn red as an indicator in the Water Source/Zone Assignment dialog box. This is strictly an indicator; the program will not stop the designer from assigning more flow to a zone than the recommendation. 8) Select the remaining twelve sprinklers to the left of the garage and driveway and assign them to zone number four. 9) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. Assume there are additional sprinklers on the drawing that you need to assign to a zone number. Before you can add a sprinkler to an existing zone number, you will need to check the flow of the zone. To check the flow of the existing zone number: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Water Source/Zone Assignment. 3) In the Water Source Assignment location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the available water sources. In this lesson, you will only have one water source in the list. <Click> on the water source name one time with the mouse. 4) In the Zone Number Assignment text box, type in the number <2> and press the <Enter> key, or <click> on the left or right arrow buttons to access zone number 2. The Current Zone Flow will appear in the dialog box. If you select more sprinklers and <click> on the Get Flow From Selection button, the flow of the selected sprinklers will be added to the current zone flow and displayed in the box. 5) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. There may be times when you need to reorder or reassign sprinkler zone numbers. On the Reassignment tab in the Water Source/Zone Assignment dialog box, you can select one or more zones and increment or decrement their zone assignment numbers. This tool becomes useful when you need to add a zone or remove a zone, but would like to keep the zone numbers in sequential order on the design. Refer to the RainCAD Help screens for more information on the use of this command.

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57 LESSON SIX - DESIGNING THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM PART II This lesson is specific to RainCAD or the Combo Pack. If you purchased Land Illustrator as a standalone program for landscape design, skip this lesson and proceed to Lesson Eight. Having completed the first few lessons, you should have a better understanding of how to place sprinkler symbols and assign them to zones. Now you will learn how to add control valves, assign control valves to a zone number, pipe the lateral zones, draw the mainline pipe and more. After completing Lesson Six, you should be able to: Place irrigation control valve symbols Assign control valves to a zone Draw lateral line pipe Create pipe hops Place backflow prevention devices Draw mainline pipe SPRINKLER ARC PATTERNS You should make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom command in the remainder of this lesson. The command will allow you to get a better view of the backyard while placing the control valves and piping the lateral zones. In addition to the Zoom command, turn off the sprinkler arc or coverage patterns while placing the control valves and lateral line pipe. To turn the sprinkler arc patterns off: 1) On the Settings menu, choose Explore Layers. 2) Scroll down until you see the layer named L-SPRI-TSPR-COVG. 3) <Click> one time on the On/Off property to turn the sprinkler arc or coverage pattern layer for turf spray nozzles off. 4) Close the Layer Explorer. For additional information on layers, refer to the IntelliCAD help screens or User Guide. PLACING CONTROL VALVES RainCAD will automatically pipe the sprinklers assigned to a lateral zone. For the software to pipe the lateral zones, you must place the irrigation control valves on the drawing screen and assign them to a zone number. You may place control valves anywhere on the drawing screen. If necessary, make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom command before placing the control valve symbols. To place irrigation control valve symbols: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Control Valves. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available control valves. For this lesson, <click> on Hunter in the list of manufacturers. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a PGV-101G and <click> on the OK button to place the symbol on the drawing screen. 5) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. For this exercise, <click> on the point mark to the left of the 1 indicator in the backyard. NOTE: When creating your designs, you may place control valve symbols anywhere on the drawing screen. You may place the control valves to center feed or end feed a zone, or in a manifold configuration.

58 Lesson Six - Designing the Irrigation System Part II 51 6) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. 7) Repeat steps 5 and 6 above to continue placing control valves on the point marks next to indicators 2, 3, and 4. 8) Once the control valves are placed, press the <Esc> key on the keyboard to return to the dialog box. 9) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. CONTROL VALVE ZONE ASSIGNMENTS When drawing lateral line pipe with the Automatic Piping command, the software will pipe the sprinklers for each zone back to the control valve. To do so, it is necessary to assign each control valve to a water source and zone number. To assign a control valve to a zone number: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Water Source/Zone Assignment. 3) Each design may have more than one water source. Before you may assign a control valve to a zone number, you must first select the water source supplying the zone. In the Water Source Assignment location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the available water sources. In this lesson, you will only have one water source in the list. <Click> on the water source name one time with the mouse. 4) In the Zone Number Assignment text box, type in the number <1> for the zone assignment, or <click> on the left or right arrow buttons to decrease or increase the zone assignment number. 5) In the Assignment Type location, <click> on Valve / Valve-in-Head Assignment and then <click> on the Apply button. NOTE: To remove a control valve from a zone assignment, select the valve symbol(s) on the design screen. <Click> on Remove Selection from Zone in the Assignment Type location and then <click> on the Apply button. 6) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and select a valve symbol. <Click> one time on the control valve near the back property line to be assigned to zone number one. A 1-1 should appear next to the symbol indicating it is assigned to water source number one and zone number one. 7) Following the steps above, select the next control valve and assign it to zone number two. 8) Select the remaining control valves and assign them to zone numbers three and four. 9) Once you have assigned the control valve symbols to their appropriate zone numbers, press the <Esc> key to return to the Water Source / Zone Assignment dialog box. 10) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. LATERAL LINE PIPING There are multiple commands available to assist in drawing the pipe for an irrigation system. In this lesson, we will cover both automatic and manual pipe placement commands. In addition, we will cover the techniques required to draw a pipe hop. We will begin with the Automatic Piping command. For this command to function properly, you must assign the sprinkler symbols and control valves to a zone number. For more information on zone assignments, refer to Assigning Sprinklers to a Zone and Control Valve Zone Assignments previously covered in this manual. The sprinklers and control valves on the screen represent those placed on the drawing in previous exercises. You know which sprinklers to pipe together based on their water source and zone assignment numbers. Before placing the pipe, use the IntelliCAD Layer Properties Manager to turn off the sprinkler arc patterns. Now it's time to begin drawing lateral line pipe. To use the Automatic Piping command: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation.

59 52 RainCAD 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Pipe Placement. 3) On the Pipe Placement dialog box, <click> on the Automatic Piping tab. 4) Select each sprinkler zone to pipe in the Check Zones for Automatic Lateral Line Piping box. <Click> on each selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. Select zones 1, 2 and 3 since the sprinklers in each zone basically form horizontal rows. NOTE: You do not have to pipe all zones at one time. You can pipe each zone individually and adjust the settings as required to achieve the desired piping results. To pipe all lateral line zones at one time, <click> on All Zones until a checkmark appears in the box. 5) Set the Minimum Length of Lateral Line Branches and Lateral Line Row Variance to their default settings of 3 and 12. NOTE: The Minimum Length of Lateral Branches allows you to reduce short pieces of pipe that tee off a main lateral branch to a sprinkler. The automatic piping feature attempts to group sprinklers in rows or columns. The Lateral Line Row Variance allows you to dictate the distance between a sprinkler row or column. Adjusting these two variables can greatly affect the outcome of the pipe layout. Refer to the RainCAD Help screens for more information on these commands. 6) <Click> on the OK button to continue with the automatic piping process. 7) Follow the Command Line and set two points on the screen for the row angle. Set the two points horizontally on the screen by <clicking> one time on the left side of the screen, moving the mouse directly to the right a short distance and <clicking> one more time. The program will pipe the sprinklers automatically based on their water source and zone assignments. In addition, the program will pipe the sprinklers together in rows running horizontally on the design screen. Your screen should now look similar to the following illustration. Automatic Lateral Line Piping

60 Lesson Six - Designing the Irrigation System Part II 53 If you are not satisfied with the layout, you may choose the Automatic Piping command again and try a different method with adjusted settings. The lateral line pipe for the selected zones will be removed and new pipe will be placed based on the adjusted settings. In this example, zone number three needs a little work. Zone numbers one and two are acceptable as they are. Let s continue the piping process and redo zone number three. You need to eliminate the small branch forming a tee with the top lateral line and running down to the 270- degree nozzle at the corner of the garage. You will also need to eliminate the pipe running through the building by separating the sprinklers into three rows instead of two. First, you need to know the length of the lateral line braches. Use a command in IntelliCAD such as the Distance command to gather this information. In this exercise, we have determined that one lateral branch is just over 3 feet in length while the other is just under 5 feet in length. With this information, you are ready to redraw the pipe in zone number three. To redo the lateral line piping on zone number three: 1) The Pipe Placement dialog box should still be open to the Automatic Piping tab. If it is not, restart the command. 2) Select zone number three in the Check Zones for Automatic Lateral Line Piping box. <Click> on the zone number with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. Remove any checkmarks from the other zones. 3) Since you need to eliminate the 3 foot lateral branch off the top horizontal row, enter a value of <4> in the Minimum Length of Lateral Line Branches. This will prevent the program from drawing any branches that are less than four feet in length. 4) The sprinklers along the bottom are together in one row with lateral branches of five feet. Enter a value of <4> in the Lateral Line Row Variance to separate the sprinklers into two rows instead of one. 5) <Click> on the OK button. 6) Follow the command line and set two points horizontally on the screen for the row angle. <Click> one time on the left side of the screen, move the mouse directly to the right a short distance and <click> one more time. 7) The program will prompt you indicating that pipe already exists on the zone. <Click> on the Yes button to delete the existing pipe and continue with the piping process. You should now have an acceptable piping design for all of the zones in the backyard. Now it is time to pipe zone four running down the left side of the driveway. In this zone, the sprinklers are laid out vertically along the driveway so you will set one point directly above the other when setting the row angle. To pipe zone number four: 1) The Pipe Placement dialog box should still be open to the Automatic Piping tab. If it is not, restart the command. 2) Select zone number four in the Check Zones for Automatic Lateral Line Piping box. <Click> on the zone number with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. Remove any checkmarks from the other zones. 3) Enter the default value of <3> in the Minimum Length of Lateral Line Branches. 4) Enter the default value of <12> in the Lateral Line Row Variance to combine all of the sprinklers into one vertical row. 5) <Click> on the OK button. 6) Follow the command line and set two points vertically on the screen for the row angle. <Click> one time on the screen, move the mouse directly above a short distance and <click> one more time. 7) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. Your piping layout should resemble the following illustration.

61 54 RainCAD Automatic Lateral Line Piping with Redesign of Zone Number Three MANUAL PIPING You may draw lateral line and mainline pipe on the design using the Manual Piping command. You can draw pipe in a selected size and category, or pipe to size at a later point in time. When drawing pipe manually on the design screen, it is not necessary to end the pipe at each sprinkler, control valve or backflow device symbol. You may draw one continuous piece of pipe, however, you will need to set a point by <clicking> with the left mouse button at each sprinkler, control valve, backflow device or water source location. RainCAD will automatically break the pipe at each point set. The pipe must start or stop within 0.50 feet from the insertion point of each irrigation symbol for the Automatic Pipe Sizing or Hydraulics commands to function. To be more specific, when you select a symbol on the drawing screen a small box appears indicating the base point or insertion point for the symbol. The pipe must start or stop within 0.50 feet of this location. In this exercise, you will practice drawing lateral line pipe between sprinkler symbols all the way back to the control valve. To manually draw lateral line pipe: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Pipe Placement. 3) On the Pipe Placement dialog box, <click> on the Manual Piping tab. 4) Choose Lateral Line from the Pipe Type drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. 5) If you plan to draw pipe of a known category and size, select a category in the Pipe Category drop down menu. For this exercise, leave the selection on the default setting of Select pipe category later. 6) If you had chosen a category of pipe in the previous step, you would select the desired pipe size from the Pipe Size drop down menu. For this exercise, leave the selection on the default setting of Select pipe size later. 7) Select Draw Manual from the Draw Type drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button.

62 Lesson Six - Designing the Irrigation System Part II 55 NOTE: You can convert existing polylines made up of both line and arc segments into pipe by selecting the Convert From Polyline/Arc Selection. The Convert From Polyline/Arc Layer will allow you to convert all polylines or arcs on the current layer to pipe segments. The polylines will be converted to pipe and moved to a RainCAD pipe layer. 8) Enable the Auto Snap Pipe to Symbols feature by <clicking> with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. 9) Enter a value of <2.00> in the Pipe Snap Distance text box. NOTE: To assist in connecting the pipe to the irrigation symbols, you can make use of the Auto Snap Pipe to Symbols feature. With this feature enabled, the software will automatically connect the pipe to the closest irrigation symbol based on the setting in the Pipe Snap Distance text box. If the Pipe Snap Distance is set to a value of 2.00, a point may be set within one (2) units of the insertion point of an irrigation symbol and the program will automatically snap the pipe to the symbol. If the Pipe Snap Distance is set to 3.00, a point may be set within three (3) units from the insertion point of an irrigation symbol. Depending on the size and complexity of the drawing and the speed of the computer system, this feature may slow down the manual piping process. 10) To draw the lateral line pipe, <click> on the OK button and follow the Command Line. 11) Begin drawing the pipe at the top left sprinkler and set a point within 2 feet of the insertion point of each sprinkler symbol location along the top row. NOTE: If the Auto Snap Pipe to Symbols feature is disabled, you will need to set a point at each sprinkler symbol within 0.5 feet of the insertion point. 12) Once you reach the final sprinkler on the top row, press the <Enter> key on the keyboard or press the <right> mouse button to end the piece of pipe. The pipe will be broken at each symbol location to allow for accurate sizing of the pipe in another command. NOTE: If a category and size of pipe are selected, you will have an option to place a pipe size label while drawing the lateral line pipe. After setting two points to draw a piece of pipe, in the command line enter a <Y> to label the pipe or an <N> to refrain from placing a pipe size label. To continue placing the lateral line pipe: 1) You should still be in the pipe placement command. If not, restart the command and <click> on the OK button. 2) Set a point at each sprinkler location along the bottom row of sprinkler symbols. 3) Press the <Enter> key or press the <right> mouse button to end the piece of pipe at the last sprinkler. Now it is time to connect the two lateral lines together and then connect them to the control valve. To connect the two lateral lines together: 1) You should still be in the pipe placement command. If not, restart the command and <click> on the OK button. 2) Set a point midway between the second and third sprinkler locations on the top row of lateral line pipe. 3) Drag the cursor down and set another point midway between the second and third sprinkler locations on the bottom row of lateral line pipe. 4) Press the <Enter> key or press the <right> mouse button to end the pipe.

63 56 RainCAD To connect the control valve to the lateral line: 1) You should still be in the pipe placement command. If not, restart the command and <click> on the OK button. 2) Set a point in the center of the control valve symbol at its insertion point. 3) Drag the cursor directly to the left and set a point on the vertical piece of pipe. Press <Enter> or press the <right> mouse button to end the pipe. 4) Press the <Esc> key to return to the Pipe Placement dialog box. 5) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. Now that the pipe is drawn, you will need to break the pipe at any intersection formed by a tee or cross fitting. This will allow for accurate pipe sizing and hydraulic calculations. To break the pipe at all intersections: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Pipe Placement. 3) On the Pipe Placement dialog box, <click> on the Modify Pipe tab. 4) To break the lateral line at all intersections, <click> on All Zones or <click> on each individual Zone Number with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. A zone that has not been selected will not be modified. For this exercise, <click> on zone number 1-1. NOTE: To break the mainline pipe at each intersection, <click> on Mainline with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. 5) <Click> on the OK button to break the pipe at each intersection. The horizontal pieces of lateral line pipe will be broken at their intersection with the vertical piece of pipe. This will allow for accurate sizing of the pipe. 6) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. PIPE HOPS When you draw one pipe overlapping another, unless they are drawn in two different colors, it is not possible to tell that the two pieces of pipe do not actually connect to one another. To make sure that the final plan is easy to read, the software allows you to "hop" overlapping pipe so they do not appear to be connected. To draw a pipe hop: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Pipe Hop. 3) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and select the piece of pipe that will make the hop by <clicking> on the line with the left mouse button. In this exercise, select the vertical line running from control valve number 1 to the top row of sprinklers. Press the <Enter> key or press the <right> mouse button to continue the command. 4) Next, set a point for the center of the pipe hop. Set a point at the intersection of the vertical line and the horizontal line connecting the bottom row of sprinklers. 5) Set a final point for the starting direction of the pipe hop. NOTE: The order in which you set the center and the starting point determines the side on which the hop occurs. If you set the starting point below the center point, the hop will be on the right side. If you set the starting point above the center point, the hop will be drawn on the left side. 6) In the command line, enter the radius for the pipe hop and press the <Enter> key or press the <right> mouse button to end the command. The pipe hop radius should be always be set to a value of 0.75 feet or greater. For this exercise, enter a value of <1.5> feet.

64 Lesson Six - Designing the Irrigation System Part II 57 You should now be comfortable with drawing a pipe hop command. When drawing a pipe hop, the hop will take on the characteristics of the line making the hop. If the pipe is sized, the hop will be sized as well. If the pipe is a mainline, the hop will be a dashed line. BACKFLOW DEVICE AND MAINLINE PIPE You have already placed irrigation control valves and piped the lateral zones in the backyard. Now you need to place a backflow prevention device and draw the irrigation mainline pipe. You can see the water meter that you placed in the front yard in an earlier lesson. Now you need to determine what type of backflow prevention device is required for the project and where the device should be located on the design. Once these decisions are made, you can select the device, place it on the screen and draw the mainline pipe from the water meter to the backflow device. From there, you can draw the mainline to each of the control valve locations. For this exercise, assume you want to use a Pressure Vacuum Breaker and you want to place the device on the right side of the house in the flowerbed just a few feet to the right of the corner of the house. Before placing the backflow device, make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom command if necessary to get a better view of the front yard and flowerbed area. To place a backflow device: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Backflow Devices. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available backflow devices. For this lesson, <click> on Watts in the list of manufacturers. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on an 800M2-QT 1 ¼ and <click> on the OK button to place the symbol on the drawing screen. 5) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. For this exercise, the set a point in the flowerbed just a few feet to the right of the corner of the house. 6) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. 7) Press the <Esc> key one time to end the command. 8) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. DRAWING THE MAINLINE PIPE Now that a backflow device is on the design, it is time to draw the irrigation mainline pipe from the water source to each control valve in the system. To draw the mainline pipe: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Pipe Placement. 3) On the Pipe Placement dialog box, <click> on the Manual Piping tab. 4) Choose Mainline from the Pipe Type drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. 5) For the purpose of the tutorial, do not select a pipe category or size from the drop down menus. NOTE: When creating your designs, if you know what size the pipe should be, you can select the category and pipe size from the drop down menus. As you draw the pipe on the screen, it is automatically sized according to your selections. If you do not know the size, wait and make use of the Automatic Pipe Sizing command in RainCAD.

65 58 RainCAD 6) Select Draw Manual from the Draw Type drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. NOTE: You can convert existing polylines made up of both line and arc segments into pipe by selecting the Convert From Polyline/Arc Selection. The Convert From Polyline/Arc Layer will allow you to convert all polylines or arcs on the current layer to pipe segments. The polylines will be converted to pipe and moved to a RainCAD pipe layer. 7) <Click> on the OK button and follow the Command Line. 8) Move the mouse cursor to the water meter and <click> one time to begin drawing a line from the center of the symbol. 9) Move the cursor up toward the backflow device to draw the mainline pipe from the water meter to the backflow device and <click> one time on the backflow symbol. NOTE: If a category and size of pipe are selected, you will have an option to place a pipe size label while drawing the mainline pipe. After setting two points to draw a piece of pipe, in the command line enter a <Y> to label the pipe or an <N> to refrain from placing a pipe size label. 10) Continue to set points as required drawing the mainline pipe from the backflow device to the backyard and out to each control valve. Remember to consider the actual path you will follow when installing the pipe while trying to keep straight lines as they result in a much more professional drawing. NOTE: If you are zoomed in on the drawing, make use of the IntelliCAD Pan command to move about the screen while drawing the mainline pipe. 11) Once you reach the final control valve, press the <Enter> key to end the pipe. 12) Press the <Esc> key to return to the Pipe Placement dialog box. 13) Break the mainline pipe at each intersection using the Modify Pipe command as described earlier in this lesson. <Click> on Mainline on the Modify Pipe tab and click on the <OK> button. 14) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. Draw pipe hops as necessary to indicate that the mainline pipe is not connected to the lateral piping using the Pipe Hop command as described earlier in this lesson. The mainline pipe is now complete and your drawing should look similar to the following illustration.

66 Lesson Six - Designing the Irrigation System Part II 59 Completed Mainline Piping

67 LESSON SEVEN - PIPE SIZING AND ADDITIONAL SYMBOLS This lesson is specific to RainCAD or the Combo Pack. If you purchased Land Illustrator as a standalone program for landscape design, skip this lesson and proceed to Lesson Eight. After completing Lesson Seven, you should know how to: Set preferences in the Irrigation Preferences dialog box Size pipe using the Automatic Pipe Sizing command Size pipe manually Place symbols for controllers, rain sensors and other accessories To complete the system design phase you need to size the pipe correctly. In this lesson, you are going to practice the Automatic and Manual Pipe Sizing commands. IRRIGATION PREFERENCES Before you begin the pipe sizing process, it may be beneficial to make some setting adjustments in the Irrigation Preferences dialog box. The Irrigation Preferences dialog box allows you to set certain properties to avoid the repetitive entry of information. Additional settings are available in the Automatic Pipe Sizing dialog box. Some of the properties associated with pipe are as follows: Line Type Scale Setting for Mainline Pipe Size Label Offset Pipe Size Label Leader Type Pipe Size Label Leader Colors Automatic Color Code Selections for Mainline and Zones Text Size for Pipe Size Labels Default Color for Pipe Size Labels To set the irrigation preference settings for pipe sizing: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Options/Info menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Preferences. 3) On the Irrigation Preferences dialog box, <click> on the Pipe tab or Text Style tab 4) Make adjustments to the settings as necessary. NOTE: If the Automatically Color Code Pipe check box is enabled in the Automatic Pipe Sizing command, the color of the mainline pipe and the color of the lateral line zones will be based on the settings under the Auto Pipe Color settings. If the Automatically Color Code Pipe check box is disabled, the pipe will be colored based on the settings in the Pipe Database. 5) Once all settings are made, <click> on the Close button to exit the dialog box and save the settings. For more information on preference settings, refer to the Help screens in RainCAD under Irrigation Preferences, Pipe Preferences or Text Styles. PIPE SIZING OPTIONS Prior to sizing lateral line or mainline pipe, it may be necessary to adjust the available option settings. Any adjustments to the settings will be saved until further adjustments are required. To adjust the pipe sizing option settings: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Automatic Pipe Sizing. 3) On the Automatic Pipe Sizing dialog box, <click> on the Options tab.

68 Lesson Seven - Pipe Sizing and Additional Symbols 61 4) Select the category of pipe to use in the sizing process from the Pipe Category drop down menu. For the pipe sizing exercises, select the category for Class 200 PVC. 5) Select each pipe size to use during the sizing process in the Check Sizes Used for Sizing box. <Click> on each pipe size selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. A pipe size that is not selected will not be used during the pipe sizing process. For example, in the following illustration we disabled 1/2" and 1 1/4" pipe. When sizing the pipe, these two sizes will not be used during the process. For the pipe sizing exercises, select all of the available pipe sizes. 6) Set the Maximum Allowable Velocity in the Lateral Line and the Maximum Allowable Velocity in the Mainline to five (5) feet per second. 7) Set the Percent Allowable Pressure Variance to 10% by entering <10.00> in the text box. NOTE: In all piping situations, there will be a pressure difference between the first and last sprinkler in a zone. You should control the difference in pressure to maintain system performance at the nozzle. Increased pressure may also increase the precipitation rate causing one portion of the zone to receive more water than another portion. The default setting is 10%. Industry standards recommend that you not set the number to a value greater than 32%. 8) To label all of the pipe on the drawing, choose All Pipe from the Label Locations drop down menu. To only place a label at transitions from one size of pipe to another, choose Size Transitions. For this exercise, choose Size Transitions from the Label Locations drop down menu. 9) Enable the Automatically Color Code Pipe checkbox by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box to color code each zone of lateral line pipe based on the settings in the Irrigation Preferences dialog box. If this feature is disabled, the pipe will be colored based on the Symbol Color settings for each piece of pipe in the Pipe Database. Once the settings are complete, you may proceed with the automatic lateral line or mainline pipe sizing process. AUTOMATIC LATERAL LINE PIPE SIZING The software allows you to size pipe either manually or automatically. Automatic sizing is as simple as selecting the water source and zone numbers and having all the pipe size itself. You must select the category of pipe to use, all pipe sizes available for use, the maximum allowed velocity through the pipe, and the allowable lateral zone pressure variance. With this information, the software will calculate the correct pipe size based on the Hazen-Williams formula. When sizing lateral line pipe, RainCAD will place pipe size labels on each piece of pipe on the design or at the transition from one size of pipe to another based on the Label Locations setting on the Options tab.

69 62 RainCAD You should make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom and Pan commands in the remainder of this lesson. The commands will allow you to get a better view of the yard while sizing the pipe. To size each lateral zone in the backyard: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Automatic Pipe Sizing. 3) On the Automatic Pipe Sizing dialog box, <click> on the Lateral Line Pipe tab. 4) Select each zone number in the Check Zones for Auto Pipe Sizing box. <Click> on each selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. If you do not select a zone number, the program will not size the pipe for that zone. NOTE: To size the pipe for all of the zones at one time, <click> on the All Zones box with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. In this exercise, size the pipe for zones 1, 2, 3, and 4 at the same time. Refer to the following illustration. 5) <Click> on the OK button to size the pipe. The speed of the computer, the number of zones, and the complexity of the piping layout determine the amount of time required to size the pipe. 6) Once the pipe is sized, <click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. If the program fails to size a piece of pipe, the Unsized Lateral Pipe viewer will appear displaying the pipe that is not sized with a bold red line. The pipe is most likely not connected to a symbol or another piece of pipe, or the pipe is not broken properly at an intersection with another piece of pipe. Erase the pipe and redraw the pipe using the Manual Piping command. If necessary, make use of the Modify Pipe command to break pipe at each intersection. Once the pipe is redrawn, select the Automatic Pipe Sizing command again and resize the pipe. Depending on the angle of a piece of pipe, you may need to adjust the position of the pipe size labels. Simply select a label and drag it to a new location if necessary. You may need to adjust the Pipe Size Label Offset in the Irrigation Preferences dialog box to adjust the location of future pipe size labels placed on the drawing screen. AUTOMATIC MAINLINE PIPE SIZING The next step is to size the mainline pipe from the control valves through the backflow device and on to the water source. The command will automatically detect any mainline loop piping network and size the pipe based on the Hardy Cross method of balancing flows and pressure loss. The command will allow for single

70 Lesson Seven - Pipe Sizing and Additional Symbols 63 valve operation or multiple control valves operating at one time. In addition, the command will allow for a single water source or multiple water sources connected to a single mainline piping network. To automatically calculate the mainline pipe sizes: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 1) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Automatic Pipe Sizing. 2) On the Automatic Pipe Sizing dialog box, <click> on the Mainline Pipe tab. 3) In this exercise, you will size the pipe with each valve running independently. Disable the Multiple Valve Operation feature by <clicking> on selection with the left mouse button until the checkmark no longer appears in the box. 4) <Click> on the OK button to begin sizing the pipe. NOTE: RainCAD will size mainline pipe in a loop network. There is no limit to the number of loops that may exist within the network. The loops may be totally independent of one another. The program will also size mainline with more than one water source connected to the piping network. Depending on the speed of the computer, the number of control valves, and the complexity of the piping layout, it will take a short period to size the pipe from the control valves back to each water source. If more than one control valve will operate simultaneously, you will need to create Run Sets and assign each control valve to one or more Run Sets. To add, delete, or assign a control valve to a run set: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Automatic Pipe Sizing. 3) On the Automatic Pipe Sizing dialog box, <click> on the Mainline Pipe tab. 4) Enable the Multiple Valve Operation check box by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. 5) To create a new Run Set, <click> on the Add Set button. You may create as many different Run Sets as required. 6) To place control valves into a Run Set, <click> on the desired Run Set in the selection box on the right side of the dialog box. <Click> on a control valve in the list on the left side of the dialog box and <click> on the right arrow button, or double <click> on the control valve number. The control valve number will be placed to the right of the Run Set number. 7) To remove a control valve from the selected Run Set, <click> on the control valve in the list on the left side of the dialog box and <click> on the left arrow button. The control valve number will be removed from the right of the Run Set number. 8) To delete a Run Set from the list, select the desired Run Set in the list on the right side of the dialog box and <click> on the Delete Set button. 9) To calculate the flow of a Run Set, <click> on the Get Set Flow button. 10) Once all possible Run Sets have been created, <click> on the OK button to begin the pipe sizing process. The Run Set configuration along with the adjustment of the velocity in the mainline can greatly affect the sizing of pipe within the system. If the sizes are not satisfactory, you may adjust the settings and resize the system until you are satisfied with the results. Once the pipe is sized, the Mainline Pipe Details viewer will appear. The Mainline Pipe Details viewer will allow you to select a piece of pipe on the screen and view more detailed information such as the size, length, flow, velocity, and pressure loss. To view the hydraulic information on a specific piece of pipe:

71 64 RainCAD 1) In the Run Set location near the top of the dialog box, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the available run sets. Select a run set from the resulting menu by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button. Refer to the following illustration. Mainline Pipe Details Viewer MANUAL PIPE SIZING If you have accidentally chosen the wrong category and/or size of pipe, there is a command to assist you in correcting the error. If you need to remove pipe from the drawing screen, simply choose Clear from the Edit menu in IntelliCAD and erase the pipe. If you have accidentally sized pipe with the wrong category or size and need to change the pipe to a different size and category, you can make use of the RainCAD Properties command. You can change the properties of more than one piece of pipe at a time. We mistakenly sized the lateral line pipe as Class 315 PVC. In fact, for the 3/4" and 1" piping, Class 200 PVC pipe was the desired choice. You do not need to erase the pipe and redraw it; you just need to change it to the correct size and category. To change pipe to a different size and category: 1) Select each piece of 3/4" pipe by <clicking> on the pipe one time with the mouse. 2) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Options/Info, choose Properties. 3) <Click> on the Pipe Category drop down menu and <click> on a category of pipe from the list. For this exercise, <click> on Class 200 PVC in the list of category names. 4) <Click> on the Pipe Size drop down menu and <click> on the desired size in the list. For this exercise, <click> on Class 200 PVC 3/4.

72 Lesson Seven - Pipe Sizing and Additional Symbols 65 5) <Click> on the Apply button to change the pipe on the drawing screen to the new category assignment. 6) Follow the steps above to change the Class 315 PVC 1 pipe to Class 200 PVC 1 pipe. All of the three-quarter and one inch Class 315 PVC pipe should now be Class 200 PVC. CONTROLLERS AND ACCESSORY SYMBOLS If the irrigation design is complete, you should now know how many zones or control valves exist in the system. You can now add other symbols such as the irrigation controller and rain sensor. If this were a commercial project, you may want to add isolation valves, quick coupler valves or a weather station. RainCAD will count all of the additional equipment in the material takeoff or estimate/proposal. To add an irrigation controller: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Controllers. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available controllers. For this exercise, <click> on Toro in the list of manufacturers. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a GK212 8 Stations and <click> on the OK button to place the symbol on the drawing screen. 5) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. For this exercise, place the symbol inside of the garage between the point mark location and the right wall. 6) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. 7) Once the controller is placed, press the <Esc> key on the keyboard to return to the dialog box. 8) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. Now place an accessory symbol on the design screen. 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Accessories. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available control valves. For this exercise, <click> on Hunter in the list of manufacturers. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a MINI-CLIK and <click> on the OK button to place the symbol on the drawing screen. 5) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. For this exercise, place the symbol to the right of the controller symbol on the outside of the garage and <click> one time with the left mouse button. 6) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. 7) Once the accessory is placed, press the <Esc> key on the keyboard to return to the dialog box. 8) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. CONTROLLER/STATION ASSIGNMENTS Controller symbols on an irrigation design are normally given an identification such as A, B, AA, etcetera. Control valves are then assigned to each station on the controller and given an identification such as A1, B3, or AA10. To assign the selected controller symbol on the drawing screen to an identification: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, chose Controller/Station Assignments. 3) On the Controller/Station Assignments dialog box, <click> on the Controller Assignment tab.

73 66 RainCAD 4) The list of controllers found on the drawing screen are displayed on the left side of the dialog box. Each controller in the list is marked with a triangle symbol. Double <click> on a Controller Description with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the controller to view the available stations. NOTE: If more than one controller is found on the drawing screen, the controllers will be listed in the order in which they are found. You may adjust the order by <clicking> on a controller description and <clicking> on the up or down arrow buttons just below the listing. 5) To assign an identifier to a controller, <click> on the controller description, press the <right> mouse button and <click> on Set Controller Identifier. In the identifier dialog box, enter an identifier for the controller such as A, B, or C and press the Enter key.. Identification strings should not be any longer than three characters in length. For this lesson, enter the letter A in the box and press the <Enter> key. The controller description will now read as GK212 8 Stations (A). Now that the controller has been assigned an identification, you can now assign zones to specific stations on the controller. To assign zones to stations on a controller: 1) Double <click> on the controller description in the Station/Zone Assignment list with the left mouse button, or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the controller identifier to view the list of stations. 2) Single <click> one time on Station 1 under the controller description on the left side of the dialog box. 3) On the right side of the dialog box in the list of Water Source and Zone numbers, double <click> on 1-1. A green valve symbol and a 1-1 will now appear under Station 1 in the list to indicate that this zone is assigned to the station. 4) Single <click> one time on Station 2 under the controller description on the left side of the dialog box, and double <click> on 1-2 on the right side of the dialog box to assign zone 2 to station 2 on the controller. 5) Continue in this manner to assign zone 3 to station 3 and zone 4 to station 4 on the controller. VALVE NOTATIONS The Valve Notation command allows you to place specific valve and zone information on the drawing screen. There are multiple valve notations from which to choose. Each notation includes the controller identifier and station assignment number, the size of the control valve, and the flow of water through the valve. To place a valve notation symbol on the drawing screen: 6) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 7) On the Irrigation submenu, chose Valve Notations. 8) Select a Water Source and Zone Number from the WS/Zone box by clicking on the selection one time with the left mouse button. For this exercise, select ) Enter a value for the size of the notation in the Notation Size box. Enter a value of <8> for this exercise. 10) Select a valve Notation Type by <clicking> on the drop down arrow to locate the symbol in the Symbol Browser dialog box. <Click> on the desired symbol to accept the assignment. 11) <Click> on the Place/Update Notation button to place the symbol on the drawing screen. 12) Follow the Command Line again and set a point on the screen for the center of the valve notation symbol. NOTE: If you change the controller and station assignment, the size of the control valve, or the flow of the zone, <click> on the WS/Zone selection and click on the Place/Update Notation button to update the information in the existing valve notation symbol.

74 Lesson Seven - Pipe Sizing and Additional Symbols 67 To move the valve notation symbol, select the symbol and make use of the IntelliCAD Move command. You may edit any of the text by selecting the text and using the IntelliCAD Properties command. PLACING SLEEVE SYMBOLS A sleeve is a piece of pipe placed under a hardscape area such as a driveway, walkway, or parking lot. The sleeve is used to run lateral line, mainline, or control wire under the hardscape area. Even though you have not actually completed an entire irrigation design, place a sleeving symbol under the front sidewalk. Make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom command to get a good view of the front yard and sidewalk. To place a sleeve symbol on the drawing: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sleeving. 3) Double <click> on a Pipe Category with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available pipe selections. For this exercise, select Schedule 40 PVC. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a piece of pipe. Select Schedule 40 2 and <click> on the OK button. 5) <Click> on the Hatch Pattern button (...) to open the Hatch Pattern Palette dialog box. Select the desired hatch pattern in the dialog box and then <click> on the OK button to accept the pattern assignment. 6) Next, enter the Hatch Angle setting and the Hatch Scale in the appropriate text boxes. 7) In the Width text box, enter the desired width for the sleeving symbol. 8) <Click> on the Alignment drop down menu and select either Right, Center, or Left for the alignment of the sleeving symbol. For this exercise, select a Center alignment. 9) <Click> on the OK button to place the sleeve symbol on the drawing screen. 10) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. Set a starting point for the sleeve symbol. For this exercise, set the starting point halfway down the sidewalk, to the left and outside. 11) Set a second point for the end of the sleeve symbol directly to the right on the opposite side outside of the sidewalk. 12) To continue placing sleeve symbols, <click> on the OK button and repeat the process. 13) <Click> on the Close button to close the Sleeving Placement dialog box. IRRIGATION INSTALLATION DETAILS Installation details make the design easier for the installer to understand by indicating the precise method of installation. With small designs, which include most residential drawings, you may be able to place the installation details right on the drawing page. If this is a large commercial project, simply create a new drawing. The new drawing may consist of a title block, a legend, and installation details. To place an irrigation installation detail on the drawing: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Installation Details. 2) On the Installation Details submenu, choose Irrigation. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available category or installation details. For this lesson, <click> on Rain Bird in the list of manufacturers. 4) Double <click> on a Category with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available installation details. For this lesson, <click> on Sprays in the list of categories. NOTE: The list of categories and file names are read straight from the directory and file structure as created in Windows Explorer. This allows the use of sub-folders to create sub-

75 68 RainCAD 5) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on 1804 on a Swing Joint and <click> on the OK button. 5) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the detail location. For this exercise, set a point on the right side of the house outside of the property line. 6) Follow the Command Line and set a second point for the rotation angle of the detail. Set the second point directly to the right of the original point. 7) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. NOTE: The equipment manufacturers created most of the irrigation installation details in RainCAD. RainCAD does not have installation details for each piece of equipment in the program. You may create your own details or modify any of the existing detail drawings to meet your specifications. To move or scale the detail symbol, make use of the IntelliCAD Move and Scale commands.

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77 LESSON EIGHT - LANDSCAPE DESIGN Most of this lesson covers landscape design issues that are specific to Land Illustrator or the Combo Pack. If you purchased RainCAD as a stand-alone program for irrigation design, refer to the sections covering Miscellaneous Symbol Placement and Automatic Symbol Layout and then proceed to Lesson Nine. After completing Lesson Eight, you should be familiar with: Searching the plant database Placing plants on the drawing screen Placing symbol designators Performing area/volume calculations Placing miscellaneous symbols Automatic Symbol Layout SEARCHING FOR PLANT MATERIAL There may be times when you need a little help in finding the right plant for a particular setting. The Plant Search function will assist you in finding plant material within the database. You select or enter the criteria for the species data and the software will search the database for any matching plant material. A list of all matches will be displayed in the dialog box. To search the plant database: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Plant Material. 3) On the Plant Placement dialog box, <click> on the Plant Search tab. 4) Select the desired species data from the drop down menus or enter the necessary criteria in a text box. NOTE: It is not necessary to make a selection or enter a value for each field. For example, assume you are looking for plant with a three-inch flower with a pink blossom. Simply <click> on the Flower Color drop down menu and select Pink by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. Enter a <3> in the Flower Size text box. Refer to Lesson Eight for more information on entering the species data in the Plants Database. 5) Once the desired selection criteria is chosen, <click> on the Search button. The program will display the plant material meeting the criteria in the tree on the left side of the dialog box. 6) Double <click> on a category with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the list of matching plant selections. If a plant category does not have a + sign to the left of the category name, there are no plants in this category that meet the selected criteria. To clear the search criteria, <click> on the Reset Fields button to reset all of the search criteria fields back to their beginning values. PLACING PLANT SYMBOLS You can place plant symbols on the drawing screen either manually or with one of several different automatic placement features. Using the automatic features, you can place symbols along an existing or temporary polyline, or within a boundary line. NOTE: You assign symbols to each plant in the Plants Database. Land Illustrator comes with hundreds of individual plant symbols or symbol combinations. In addition you can assign IntelliCAD hatching patterns. You may edit any of the individual symbols or create your own symbols for assignment to the plant material.

78 Lesson Eight - Landscape Design 71 To begin placing plant symbols: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Plant Material. 3) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available plant selections. For this exercise, <click> on Trees to view a list of the tree selections. 4) Scroll down to Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia Indica) and <click> one time with the left mouse button on the selection. NOTE: You can press the first letter in the plant name to quickly jump to the plants with names beginning with that letter. You can also use the up and down arrow keys or the Page Up and Page Down keys on your keyboard to scroll through the selections. 5) On the Plant Data tab, select the Plant Size from the drop down menu. Plant sizes are set in the Plants Database. Each plant may have its own set of sizes. For this exercise, select 5 gallon. 6) Adjust the Symbol Settings as necessary. Refer to the Plants Database for more information on the available settings. Each plant size can have different settings such as the symbol assignment, symbol color, or the radius for the plant canopy. The settings for each plant are set in the Plants Database. For this exercise, leave the settings set to the default values including a radius of three. 7) Select Manual from the Layout Mode drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. 8) <Click> on the OK button to place the symbol on the drawing screen. 9) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the plant symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. Set a point on the front left side of the house between the sidewalk and the driveway where the wall extends out about two feet. 10) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. Refer to the illustration on the following page to see the location for the plant placement. 11) Once the plant symbol is positioned correctly, press the <Esc> key one time to return to the Plant Placement dialog box. Now place a few small shrubs in the flowerbed and then place ground cover along the front edge similar to the illustration on the following page. 1) In the Plant Placement dialog box, select Shrubs Under 4 Feet from the category listings on the left side of the dialog box. 2) Select Azalea (Azalea Indica) from the list by <clicking> on the selection one time with the mouse. 3) On the Plant Data tab, select the Plant Size from the drop down menu. For this exercise, select 1 gallon. 4) Leave the plant canopy radius to the database setting of two. 5) Leave the Layout Mode set to Manual and <click> on the OK button to begin placing plant symbols on the drawing screen. 6) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the plant symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. 7) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. 8) Continue setting points for additional symbols. Refer to the illustration on the following page for plant locations. 9) Once the plant symbols are placed, press the <Esc> key one time to return to the Plant Placement dialog box. In most instances, ground cover and annual flowers are assigned to hatch patterns versus individual plant symbols. To place ground cover along the front portion of the flower bed: 1) If the Plant Placement dialog box is not open, restart the command from the RainCAD Symbols menu, the Landscape submenu.

79 72 RainCAD 2) In the Plant Placement dialog box, select Ground Cover-Vines from the category listings on the left side of the dialog box. 3) Select Creeping Lily Turf (Liriope Spicata) from the list by <clicking> on the selection one time with the mouse. 4) On the Plant data tab, select the Plant Size from the drop down menu. For this exercise, select Each for the plant size. 5) The Symbol Type should be set to Hatch. 6) For this exercise, leave the default setting of ANSI31 as the desired pattern for the plant material. 7) Leave the default Hatch Angle of 0, the Hatch Scale of 2.5, and the Hatch Color setting of blue. 8) <Click> on the OK button to begin outlining the area to fill with a hatch pattern. 9) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. Set multiple points to outline the front of the flowerbed area with a polyline and press <Enter> to end the command. 10) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. Your design should now look similar to the following illustration. Planting in Front Flower Bed PLANT PLACEMENT ALONG A POLYLINE RainCAD / Land Illustrator will allow you to place plant symbols along an existing or temporary polyline. These commands work well when placing plant symbols along a fence or property line. For the next exercise, you will place one row of shrubs between the house and the driveway. To place a row of plant symbols: 1) If the Plant Placement dialog box is not open, restart the command again from the RainCAD Symbols menu, the Landscape submenu. 2) In the Plant Placement dialog box, select Shrubs Under 4 Feet from the category listings on the left side of the dialog box.

80 Lesson Eight - Landscape Design 73 3) Select Chinese Holly (Ilex Cornuta) from the list by <clicking> on the selection with the mouse. 4) On the Plant Data tab, select the Plant Size from the drop down menu. For this exercise, select 1 gallon. 5) Leave the database settings as they are including the plant canopy radius of setting of ) Select Auto Along a Temporary Polyline from the Layout Mode drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. 7) Enter a value of <0> for the Stagger % or Stagger Distance in the respective text boxes. Entering a value in one text box will automatically adjust the value in the other text box. NOTE: The Stagger feature allows you to "stagger" the symbols so that they do not appear in exact locations giving the design a more random appearance. The stagger may be set as a percentage of the plants radius setting or as a distance of measurement. The symbols will be randomly placed above, below, to the left, and to the right along a line to stagger the plant symbols. 8) Enter the desired spacing between plant symbols. For this exercise, enter a value of <3> in the Spacing text box. 9) Enter the offset in the Polyline Offset text box. For this exercise, enter a value of <0> in the offset text box. NOTE: The offset will allow you to place the symbols at a known distance to one side of the line or another. This feature may be used to offset plant symbols placed along an existing property line, fence or walkway. If the offset is set to zero (0), the symbols will appear directly on top of the polyline. 10) Select a rotation angle for the plant material from the Plant Rotation drop down menu. For this exercise, select Random Rotation. NOTE: If No Rotation is selected, the plants will all appear at the same angle. If Rotate Along Line is selected, the symbols will rotate with the curve of the polyline. If Random Rotation is selected, the symbols will be randomly rotated along the polyline. 11) In the Outline Combine Mode location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the available options. Select an option from the resulting menu by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button. For this exercise, select No Combine and Keep Symbol Intact. NOTE: When placing plant symbols on a design, there may be times when plant symbols overlap each other. Many designers like the symbols to be trimmed at their intersections. The Outline Combine Mode feature will allow you to trim plant symbols at their intersection locations creating one continuous plant symbol and keep or delete interior marker symbols. Each individual plant will still be counted in the Material/Estimate report and the Quantity Label. 12) <Click> on the OK button and follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. Set two or more points for the temporary polyline and then press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. For this exercise, set one point on the left side between the house and the driveway just above the existing Azalea. Set a second point straight above the first where the driveway line turns to join the house. Once the points are set, press the <Enter> key to end the polyline. 13) Follow the Command Line and set a point on the side of the line on which the symbols will be placed. In this instance, it does not matter which side of the line you <click> because the offset is set to zero and the plant symbols will appear on top of the line. 14) A dialog box will appear allowing you to adjust the spacing for the symbols along the line if necessary. Leave the spacing set to a value of 3. To space the plant symbols evenly along the polyline, select Even Spacing from the Spacing Type drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button.

81 74 RainCAD NOTE: The actual length of the line as well as the calculated spacing of the symbols will be displayed in the dialog box. To space the plant symbols evenly along the polyline, select Even Spacing from the Spacing Type drop down menu. To space the plant symbols at the exact spacing entered in the Desired Spacing text box, select Exact Spacing from the drop down menu. 15) <Click> on the OK button to automatically place the plant symbols along the polyline. 16) <Click> on the Close button to close the Plant Placement dialog box. Your drawing should now look similar to the following illustration. Completed Planting PLANT PLACEMENT WITHIN A BOUNDARY You can place plant symbols on the drawing screen within a boundary line. This command will allow the placement in either a square, triangular, or a random pattern. Prior to placing plant symbols within a boundary line, you must first create the boundary area. A boundary line is a limit or border for automatic plant layout. NOTE: You may have as many boundary lines on the drawing screen as necessary. Boundary lines may overlap other boundary lines or objects on the drawing screen. Before drawing the boundary line, make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom command to get a better view of the backyard.

82 Lesson Eight - Landscape Design 75 To create a boundary line: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Boundary Line. 2) Ignore the irrigation restrictions on the boundary line and <click> on OK to begin the process. 3) Follow the Command Line and set points for the boundary line. Set the points to outline the bed area in the backyard. You may want to make use of the IntelliCAD ESNAP commands for assistance. NOTE: You do not have to worry about closing the boundary line. RainCAD / Land Illustrator will automatically close the boundary line by connecting the first point with the last point. Refer to Lesson Five or the Help file for additional information on Boundary Lines. 4) After setting all of the necessary points, press <Enter> to end the line. Once a boundary line exists on the design screen, you can automatically place plant symbols within the area. For this exercise, simply fill the back flower bed area with a single plant selection. To begin placing plant symbols within a boundary line: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Plant Material. 3) In the Plant Placement dialog box, select Shrubs Over 4 Feet from the category listings on the left side of the dialog box. 4) Select India Hawthorne, Pink Lady (Rhaphiolepis indica) from the list by <clicking> on the selection one time with the mouse. 5) On the Plant Data tab, select the Plant Size from the drop down menu. For this exercise, select 10 gallon. 6) Leave the database settings as they are including the plant canopy radius of setting of 3. 7) Select Auto Within a Boundary Line from the Layout Mode drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. 8) Leave the plant canopy radius to the database setting of 3. 9) For this exercise, select Triangular spacing from the Plant Layout drop down menu. 10) Enter a value of <0> for the Stagger % or Stagger Distance and Leave the Plant Offset set to 0. 11) Enter the desired distance between the plant materials in the Spacing text box. Enter a value of <6> feet for this exercise. 12) Select a Plant Rotation angle from the drop down menu. When placing plants within a boundary line, the rotation angle of along a line has the same affect as no rotation. 13) Enter a value of <0> in the Boundary Offset text box. 14) In the Outline Combine Mode location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of options. Select an option from the resulting menu by <clicking> on the desired selection with the left mouse button. 15) <Click> on the OK button and follow Command Line at the bottom of the screen. 16) <Click> one time on the boundary line with the left mouse button to select the object. NOTE: When selecting a boundary line, pick an area where one boundary line is not drawn directly on top of another. This will prevent you from selecting the wrong boundary line. 17) The plant symbols will automatically be placed within the boundary line area. Delete the plant symbols from the drawing and try the command again using Square spacing for the layout. Using Random placement for the layout will create a grove of plant material. When Random is selected, you are required to enter a number of plants to appear in the boundary area in the Quantity box rather than a desired spacing between plant materials.

83 76 RainCAD DELETING OR REPLACING PLANTS Occasionally you may need to delete or replace plant material on a design. The Plant Properties command will allow you to select one or more plant symbols on the drawing screen and either replace the selected plants with another plant selection, replace all like plants, or delete all like plants from the design. For the purpose of the tutorial, replace the Chinese Holly along the side of the house with Japanese Boxwood. Make use of the IntelliCAD Zoom command to view the entire drawing. To delete or replace plant material on a design: 1) Select one of the Chinese Holy plant symbols by <clicking> on the symbol one time with the mouse. 2) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Options/Info menu, choose Properties. 3) The Plant Properties dialog box will open with Chinese Holly as the selected plant material. 4) Leave the plant Category set to Shrubs Under 4 Feet. 5) <Click> on the Plant name drop down menu and scroll down to select Japanese Boxwood (Buxus microphylla japonica) from the list by <clicking> on the selection one time with the mouse. 6) In the Apply Function location, select Replace all plants of this type in the drop down menu and then <click> on the Apply button 7) All Chinese Holly plant symbols on the design will be replaced with Japanese Boxwood. COMBINING PLANT SYMBOLS When placing plant symbols on a design, there may be times when plant symbols overlap each other. Many designers like the symbols to be trimmed at their intersections. The Combine Plants command will trim plant symbols at their intersection locations creating one continuous plant symbol. Each individual plant will still be counted in the Material/Estimate report and the Quantity Label. To combine two or more plant symbols: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Combine Plants. 3) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. Enter a <Y> to keep the interior of the symbols intact or <N> to delete the interior of the symbols and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. For this exercise, enter a <Y> to keep the interior of the symbols. 4) Select two or more plant symbols to combine on the drawing screen and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. For this exercise, select the three larger Crape Myrtle symbols and press the <Enter> key. NOTE: The selected symbols must be completely closed with the outside entity being a region for the Combine Plant command to function properly. Plants of different types or different sizes cannot be combined even if they overlap one another. 5) Now combine the remaining eleven Azalea symbols. Choose Combine Plants again from the menus and this time enter an <N> in the Command Line to remove the small marker in the interior of the symbols. 6) Select the ten smaller Azalea symbols and press the <Enter> key to join the symbols at their intersection locations. NOTE: If you select plant symbols with different fill types, the combined plant symbols will take on the fill type of the first plant symbol selected. The fill type for the combined plant symbols will apply to all symbols and not remain as separate patterns for each individual symbol. The fill pattern is determined by the first plant selected during the command. Your screen should look like the following illustration.

84 Lesson Eight - Landscape Design 77 Combined Plant Symbols SHADOWING The Shadowing command will allow you to place shadows on the selected symbols or plant material. You may select the desired position for the shadows to appear in relation to the symbols, as well as the specified offset or distance the shadows will appear from the symbols. You may place shadows on more than one symbol at a time. The symbols must be completely closed with the outside entity being a region for the Shadowing command to function properly. To place shadows on the selected plant material: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Shadowing. 3) Enter the distance the shadows will appear in relationship to the symbols in the Shadow Offset text box. For this exercise, enter an offset of <1>. 4) In the Shadow Angle text box, enter a value of <315> or make use of the position dial to set the angle. To use the position dial, place the mouse cursor over the dial. Press and hold down the <left> mouse button. Drag the mouse around the center point to the desired location and release the left mouse button. The selected angle will appear in the Shadow Angle text box as you move the mouse cursor. 5) To select a hatch pattern to fill the shadow area, <click> on the Hatch Pattern button and select ANSI31 from the resulting dialog box. <Click> on the OK button to return to the Object Shadowing dialog box. 6) Enter a Hatch Angle value of <0> and a Hatch Scale value of <2>. 7) Select a color for the shadows by <clicking> on the Hatch Color button, selecting a color in the resulting dialog box and <clicking> on the OK button. For this exercise, select a medium shade of grey.

85 78 RainCAD 8) <Click> on the OK button and select the two groups of combined plant symbols on the drawing screen. 9) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. Your screen should look like the following illustration. Plant Shadows PLANT NOTATIONS In most landscape designs, plant symbols are noted on the drawing screen as well as in the symbol legend. There are two plant notation commands in RainCAD. One places a label for a single plant while the other places a label for a group of plants. To place a plant symbol label for a single plant: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Manual Symbol Label. 2) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and select a symbol on the design. For this exercise, select one of the Azalea symbols along the front left side of the house and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. 3) The Manual Symbol Label dialog box will appear indicating the plant name and size. You may edit the information in the Text box before placing the label on the design screen. 4) If necessary, <click> in the Text Size box and enter a value for the text size. 5) <Click> on the Leader Type drop down menu and select a leader type for the symbol designator. Adjust the arrowhead size in the Arrow Size text box if Leader with arrowhead is selected in the Leader Type drop down menu. 6) <Click> on the OK button to begin placing the label on the screen. 7) Follow the Command Line and set two points for the symbol designator. Set the first point on the screen near the center of the plant symbol.

86 Lesson Eight - Landscape Design 79 8) Drag the mouse up at approximately a 45 angle and set another point with the mouse. 9) Drag the mouse to the side at a 0 or 180 angle and set another point with the mouse. 10) Press the <Enter> key to end the command. The plant name and size will appear at the end of the designator. 11) <Click> on the Close button to exit the dialog box. To place a label for multiple plant symbols: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Quantity Label. 3) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and select a plant symbol. For this exercise, select one of the Japanese Boxwood or Chinese Holly plant symbols on the left side of the house and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. 4) Continue following the Command Line and outline the plants to include in the quantity label by drawing a polyline around the symbols. Set points with the left mouse button to outline the plant symbols on the left side of the house. 5) Once the area containing the plant material is outlined, press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. 6) The Quantity Label dialog box will appear indicating the quantity of plants, the plant name, and the size. You may edit the information in the Text box before placing the label on the design screen. 7) If necessary, <click> in the Text Size box and enter a value for the text size. 8) <Click> on the Leader Type drop down menu and select a leader type for the symbol designator. Adjust the arrowhead size in the Arrow Size text box if Leader with arrowhead is selected in the Leader Type drop down menu. 9) <Click> on the OK button to begin placing the label on the screen. 10) Follow the Command Line and set two points for the symbol designator. Set the first point on the screen near the center of the plant symbol. 11) Drag the mouse up at approximately a 45 angle and set another point with the mouse. 12) Drag the mouse to the side at a 0 or 180 angle and set another point with the mouse. The quantity, name, and size will appear at the end of the designator. To edit the text in a symbol label once it is on the design screen, you will need to make use of the IntelliCAD Properties command. Refer to the IntelliCAD help screens for more information on this command. FILL MATERIALS When creating a landscape design, you must be able to calculate area and volume. Before calculating volume, it is necessary to create a database of fill materials. To add a fill material to the database: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Fill Material. 3) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the name to view the available fill materials. In addition, you can press the <right> mouse button to add, delete, or rename the fill material categories. For this exercise, open the Mulch category. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a fill material selection. Notice that the characteristics change based on the chosen material. In addition, you can press the <right> mouse button to add, delete, or rename the fill materials. For this exercise, add a new fill material to the list. A new item will be placed in the list with the title of New Fill Material. NOTE: The fill material selections are sorted based on the order in which they are entered. 5) <Click> on New Fill Material in the tree on the left side of the dialog box with the left mouse button. 6) Press the right mouse button and <click> on Rename. 7) Enter Bark Mulch as the new name in the box, and then press the <Enter> key.

87 80 RainCAD 8) You may assign a hatch pattern or gradient fill to represent the fill material on the design screen. In addition, you can adjust color settings and more. If No Visible Fill is selected, no pattern will be used to represent the fill material 9) Enter a list price, discount rate, labor rate, and part number in the appropriate boxes as necessary. 10) For the software to correctly price the fill material, select the basis for pricing and installation from the drop down menu. For this exercise, select Cubic Feet. 11) Once the information is entered into the database, <click> on the Save button to save the changes. 12) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. The software will allow you to calculate area/volume information and store the data for different locations within each drawing. To calculate area/volume information: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Area/Volume Calcs. 3) To add a new area to the list, place the mouse cursor in the tree on the left side of the dialog box. Press the right mouse button and <click> on Manual Draw or Create from a Boundary Line. For this exercise, <click> on Manual Draw. 4) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set three or more points to outline the area. Once the area is outlined, press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. A new item will be placed in the list with the title of New Fill Area. For this exercise, outline the flower bed on the front of the house to the right of the sidewalk. NOTE: If Create from a Boundary Line is selected, follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. Select a single existing boundary line on the design screen and press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. 5) <Click> on New Fill Area in the tree on the left side of the dialog box with the left mouse button. 6) Press the right mouse button and <click> on Rename. 7) Enter a description for the area such as Right Front Flowerbed and then press the <Enter> key. 8) Enter a value of <4> inches in the Depth of the fill material text box. 9) Select Bark Mulch from the Fill Material drop down menu. 10) <Click> on the Save button to save the calculations. NOTE: You can place the area/volume calculations on the design screen by <clicking> on the Insert Info button. Follow the Command Line and set an insertion point for the top left corner of the text. You can edit the text using the IntelliCAD Multiline Text Editor. 11) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. When calculating a Material/Estimate, you may choose to list fill materials by each individual area or as a total sum per type of fill material. MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS The Miscellaneous symbols command allows you to create a list of symbols and place the miscellaneous symbols such as vehicles, stepping stones, and more on the drawing screen. Use these symbols to dress up a drawing and make it more meaningful or attractive to the end customer or prospect. Each symbol is an individual drawing file that must be stored in the \symbols\miscellaneous sub-directory on your computer. Refer to the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Help screens for information on adding symbols to the command. To place a miscellaneous symbol on the design screen: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Miscellaneous. 2) Double <click> on a Category with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available symbols. For this exercise, select the Furniture category.

88 Lesson Eight - Landscape Design 81 NOTE: The list of categories and file names are read straight from the directory and file structure as created in Windows Explorer. This allows the use of sub-folders to create sub- 3) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a symbol. For this exercise, select Wooden Lawn Chairs. 4) <Click> on the OK button to place the symbol on the drawing screen. 5) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the location of the symbol by <clicking> one time with the left mouse button. Set a point in the backyard just outside of where the flowerbed curves inward. 6) Follow the Command Line again and set a second point to rotate the symbol at the desired angle. Set the second point at approximately a 45 angle up and to the left of the original point. 7) Press the <Close> to exit the dialog box. AUTO SYMBOL LAYOUT The Auto Symbol Layout command will allow you to automatically duplicate existing symbols at an even distance along an existing or temporary polyline. When using this command to duplicate symbols, you may select one or more symbols at a time. This command is helpful in duplicating stepping stones or other Miscellaneous Symbols. Create a stone pathway from the back patio to the wooden chairs in the backyard. Make use of the Miscellaneous Symbols command and place One Piece of Flagstone from the Stepping Stones category on the design screen anywhere in the backyard area. To place symbols automatically along a polyline: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Auto Symbol Layout. 2) To place the stepping stone symbol automatically along a temporary polyline on the drawing screen, <click> on the Along a Temporary Polyline radio button. 3) Enter the offset in the Symbol Offset text box. For this exercise, enter a value of <0> in the offset text box. NOTE: The offset will allow you to place the symbols at a known distance to one side of the line or another. This feature may be used to offset symbols placed along an existing property line, fence or walkway. If the offset is set to zero (0), the symbols will appear directly on top of the polyline. 4) In the Symbol Rotation location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the rotation options. Select the Random rotation option from the resulting menu by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button. NOTE: The No rotation option will leave all copies of the symbol at the same rotation angle along the polyline. The Rotate along line option will rotate the copies of the symbol at the same angle as the polyline. The Random rotation option will randomly rotate the copies of the symbol along the polyline. 5) <Click> on the OK button and follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen. Select the One Piece of Flagstone symbol just placed with the Miscellaneous Symbols command and press <Enter>. 6) Set a point for the symbol handle. The handle is the rotation point for the symbol. <Click> one time on the center of the flagstone symbol with the left mouse button. 7) Continue to follow the Command Line and set two or more points for the temporary line and then press the <Enter> key on the keyboard. For this exercise, set multiple points to create a serpentine line from the back patio to the lawn chairs in the backyard. Once the points are set, press the <Enter> key to end the polyline. 8) Follow the Command Line and set a point on the side of the line on which the symbols will be placed. In this instance, the offset is set to zero so the stepping stone symbols will appear on top of the line.

89 82 RainCAD 9) A dialog box will appear allowing you to set the spacing for the symbols along the line. Enter the desired spacing for the symbols along the polyline in the Desired Spacing text box. For this exercise, enter a spacing of <3>. 10) To space the stepping stone symbols evenly along the polyline, select Even Spacing from the Spacing Type drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. NOTE: The actual length of the line as well as the calculated spacing of the symbols will be displayed in the dialog box. To space the symbols evenly along the polyline, select Even Spacing from the Spacing Type drop down menu. To space the plant symbols at the exact spacing entered in the Desired Spacing text box, select Exact Spacing from the drop down menu. 11) <Click> on the OK button to place the symbols automatically along the polyline 12) <Click> on the Close button to close the Auto Symbol Layout dialog box. If the original stepping stone symbol is not used in the pathway, select the symbol and erase it from the design screen. Your drawing should now look similar to the following illustration. Completed Auto Symbol Layout LANDSCAPE INSTALLATION DETAILS Installation details make the design easier for the installer to understand by indicating the precise method of installation. With small designs, which include most residential drawings, you may be able to place the installation details right on the drawing page. If this is a large commercial project, simply create a new drawing. The new drawing may consist of a title block, a legend, and installation details.

90 Lesson Eight - Landscape Design 83 To place a landscape installation detail on the drawing: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Installation Details. 2) On the Installation Details submenu, choose Landscape. 3) Double <click> on a Category with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available installation details. For this lesson, <click> on Trees in the list of category names. NOTE: The list of categories and file names are read straight from the directory and file structure as created in Windows Explorer. This allows the use of sub-folders to create sub- 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on Tree Guying and <click> on the OK button to place the installation detail on the drawing screen. 5) Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a point for the detail location. For this exercise, set a point on the right side of the house outside of the property line. 6) Follow the Command Line and set a second point for the rotation angle of the detail. Set the second point directly to the right of the original point. 7) <Click> on the Close button to close the dialog box. To move or scale the detail symbol, make use of the IntelliCAD Move and Scale commands.

91 LESSON NINE - CALCULATIONS This lesson covers Hydraulic calculations and Distribution Analysis that are specific to RainCAD and the Combo Pack. If you purchased Land Illustrator as a stand-alone program for landscape design, refer to the section covering the Material Takeoff and Estimating, as well as the section on Creating a Legend. After completing Lesson Nine, you should be able to: Calculate the irrigation system hydraulics Create a sprinkler distribution analysis Calculate zone precipitation rates and place the information on the design screen Calculate a complete bill of materials or estimate Create a symbol legend or key and place it on the design screen HYDRAULIC CALCULATIONS The Hydraulics command allows you to perform pressure loss calculations on any of the completed sprinkler zones within the irrigation design. The calculations include pressure loss through each component of the system, as well as the pressure loss through the service line, and the gain or loss due to elevation change. Typically, it is only necessary to calculate total pressure loss data on the largest zone and for the zone furthest from the point of connection or water source; however, you may perform hydraulic calculations on each zone on the design screen. Before you begin calculations, you must size all lateral line pipe within the zone. You must draw mainline pipe from the control valve back to the point of connection and size the pipe. A control valve must exist for the zone, and if applicable, you must place backflow device and master valve. You can calculate the hydraulics on each individual control valve. To run multiple valves at the same time, it is necessary for you to group the valves into individual Run Sets. Each Run Set is a group of control valves that will operate simultaneously. You may create as many different Run Sets as required. To add, delete, or assign a control valve to a run set, refer to the section on Automatic Mainline Pipe Sizing previously covered in this manual. To account for a change in elevation, make use of the IntelliCAD Properties command. Select one or more sprinkler, control valve, or water source symbols on the design screen. Once all necessary symbols are selected, enact the IntelliCAD Properties command and enter the elevation assignment in the Position Z box. To perform hydraulic calculations on a sprinkler zone: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Hydraulics. 3) In this exercise, you will calculate the hydraulics of a single control valve. Disable the Multiple Valve Operation feature by <clicking> on selection with the left mouse button until the checkmark no longer appears in the box. 4) Select a control valve from the list on the left side of the dialog box. For this exercise, <click> on valve number 1-3 one time with the left mouse button. 5) To calculate the hydraulic information such as the pressure loss through the lateral line and mainline, the backflow device, water meter, and service line, <click> on the OK button. NOTE: RainCAD will size mainline pipe in a loop network. There is no limit to the number of loops that may exist within the network. The loops may be totally independent of one another. Depending on the speed of the computer, the number of control valves, and the complexity of the piping layout, it will take a short period to calculate the system hydraulics for the selected control valve or Run Set.

92 Lesson Nine Calculations 85 Once the system hydraulic calculations are complete, the Hydraulics Details dialog box will appear. The Hydraulics Details dialog box will allow you to select a piece of equipment on the screen and view more detailed information such as the size, length of pipe, flow, velocity, and pressure loss. To place the hydraulic information on the design screen: 1) On the Viewer tab, <click> on the Insert Summary On Drawing button to place a summary of the hydraulic calculations on the design screen. 2) Follow the Command Line and set an insertion point for the top left corner of the text. To export the hydraulic information to an HTML file: 1) <Click> on the Detailed Report tab to view extensive information on all of the components within the selected network. 2) <Click> on the Export Data to File button to save the information in an HTML format. DISTRIBUTION The Distribution command will create a densogram of the selected sprinkler zones displaying the coverage. You can drag the mouse around the entire display to see calculated application rate at any point in the sprinkler layout. The command will allow you to calculate the distribution of a single zone, multiple zones, or the entire project. The command reads the sprinkler layout from the design with no restrictions on sprinkler placement. The Distribution command will also calculate the Distribution Uniformity (DU), the Christiansen's Uniformity Coefficient (CU), and the Scheduling Coefficient (SC). The command will calculate the area of each zone and the precipitation rate. You can place all of the information on the design screen in a table format. To calculate the distribution: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Distribution. 3) Select each water source or zone number to calculate by <clicking> on the checkbox to the left of each Water Source / Zone ID number. <Click> on each selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. A zone that has not been selected will not be calculated. For this exercise, select all of the zones. NOTE: You can select all of the zones at one time by pressing the <right> mouse button and <clicking> on Check All Zones in the resulting pop-up menu. If there are multiple water sources on a design and you would like to select just the zones assigned to one of the water sources, place the mouse cursor on a zone assigned to the desired water source and press the <right> mouse button. <Click> on Check All Zones for Water Source: X to select all of the zones assigned to that particular water source. 4) Enter a Watering Time Factor in the WTF% box next to each zone number. For this exercise, leave each of the zones at 100 percent. NOTE: The Watering Time Factor Percentage is used to adjust the application rate for any of the selected zones. This factor is best used with sprinkler zones that do not make use of matched precipitation rate nozzles. For example, suppose all zones are based on the same nozzle having the same flow of 3.0 GPM. Zone 1 is made up of all 360 arc patterns. Zone 2 is all 180 patterns, while zone 3 is all 90 arc patterns. Zones 2 and 3 will appear to be over watered if you do not adjust the WTF. You can set zone 2 to 50 percent and zone 3 to 25 percent to match the application rate of the zones. 5) Enable or disable the Blue Scale setting by <clicking> on the checkbox. NOTE: If Blue Scale is disabled, the driest application areas appear in red with the wettest areas appear in blue. If Blue Scale is enabled, the driest areas will appear in white with the wettest areas appearing in the darkest shade of blue.

93 86 RainCAD 6) You may set the background color on the densogram to either white or black. <Click> on the Background Color drop down menu and <click> on the color selection one time with the left mouse button. 7) For the purpose of calculating the Distribution Uniformity (DU), in the DU From Lowest drop down menu, select either the lowest quarter (1/4) or lowest half (1/2). For this exercise, select 1/4. 8) For the purpose of calculating the Scheduling Coefficient (SC), in the SC Area %, enter a value between 1 and 10 in the text box or make use of the left and right arrow buttons. For this exercise, enter a value of <5>. 9) To determine the calculations from all of the selected sprinkler zones, in the Area Calculated From drop down menu, <click> on Checked Zones. NOTE: To calculate from a more specific area, choose Temporary Polyline or Existing Polyline. If Temporary Polyline is selected, follow the Command Line and set three or more points to outline the area. If Existing Polyline is selected, follow the Command Line and select a polyline on the drawing screen. 10) <Click> on the Calculate Distribution button to create a densogram of the selected sprinkler zones. The CU, DU, and SC will be displayed in the dialog box. 11) Drag your cursor over the densogram to display a reading of the application rate at any location throughout the selected zone(s). NOTE: The command reads the Distribution Data for each sprinkler from the Distribution Data tab in the Sprinklers Database. If data does not exist for the sprinkler, the distribution pattern of each sprinkler is assumed to be even over the entire radius of throw. In instances where actual distribution data does not exist for each nozzle, the distribution will not be totally accurate, but will serve as a good guideline for potential wet and dry areas within the design. 12) <Click> on the Save button to save the image as a JPEG (*.jpg), Windows Bitmap (*.bmp), PNG (*.png), or TIFF (*.tiff) file. You may then open or import the image in another program such as Microsoft Paint or Word for output to a printing device. 13) <Click> on the Insert Data On Drawing button to place the calculations on the drawing screen in a table format. Adjust the Text Style information as necessary and <click> on the OK button. Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set an insertion point on the screen. The insertion point will be the top left corner of the distribution table. 14) <Click> on the Close button to exit the dialog box. MATERIAL/ESTIMATE The Material/Estimate command will allow you to calculate a complete bill of materials or create an estimate/proposal of installation costs for the current design. You may choose to calculate the material on the entire drawing, or in a selected area outlined with a Boundary Line. Pricing information and labor for installation may be entered in each of the databases available for equipment and materials. You may select each field to appear in the report and adjust the order in which they appear. Once the calculations are complete, you may view the information on the screen, send it to the printer, or export the information to one of many different file formats. File formats include Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Word for Windows, Adobe Acrobat, HTML, XML, ASCII Text and more. On the Report Style tab on the Material/Estimate Configuration dialog box you can adjust the paper orientation and size, the report font style, insert a company logo, and adjust header and text colors. Before you create a report, you may change the labels that appear on the report from the Options command in the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Options/Info menu. This feature is especially useful if the report is to be output to a foreign language.

94 Lesson Nine Calculations 87 You may include your company information such as the name, address, and phone numbers at the top of a report. To include this information, you must enter your company information in the Company Information database from the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu. Prior to calculating a report, it may be necessary to enter additional information to determine overhead expenses, profit, and more. The Project Information command will allow you to assign specific information to a design such as the customer's name and address, percent of profit, percent of overhead for labor and materials, miscellaneous fees/permits, and more. You may include the customer's name and address at the top of the material takeoff or estimate/proposal based on the Options setting on the Report Configuration tab. To enter specific project information: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu, choose Material/Estimate. 2) On the Material/Estimate Configuration dialog box, <click> on the Project Information tab. 3) Enter the necessary information in the appropriate text boxes as required. Enter percentages as whole numbers and not decimals. For example, a twenty percent profit margin would be entered as 20 and not Since you have not entered pricing information in the databases at this time, it is not necessary to enter any values in this dialog box to complete this exercise. Once any necessary project information is entered, you can continue calculating the material\estimate report. To calculate a material/estimate report: 1) If the Material/Estimate Configuration dialog box is not open, restart the Material\Estimate command again from the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu. 2) On the Material/Estimate Configuration dialog box, <click> on the Report Configuration tab. 3) To create a material/estimate for one or more groupings, select each group in the Create box. <Click> on each selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. Unselected groups will not be included in the report. For this exercise, <click> on Irrigation and Landscape to create a report for both irrigation equipment and landscape materials. 4) In the Options box, <click> on Company Information until a checkmark appears in the box to place your company s name and address at the top of the report. For this exercise, leave Tax Direct Labor unchecked. NOTE: Company Information such as the name and address is entered in the Company Information database from the Databases menu in RainCAD. Site and project information are both entered on the Project Information tab. 5) To calculate the wholesale cost of an item, in the Options box <click> on the Apply Discount Rate checkbox with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. The program will calculate the wholesale cost based on the List Price and Discount Rate set for each item in the databases. If a checkmark does not appear in the box, the program will not apply the discount rate to the list price of each item. For this exercise, leave Apply Discount Rate unchecked. 6) For landscape calculations, you can list fill materials by area or as one total sum per each type of material. To list fill material items by each individual area, <click> on the Fill Material by Area checkbox with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. To display fill materials as a total sum per each type, <click> on the checkbox until the checkmark is removed. For this exercise, leave List Fill Materials by Area unchecked. 7) You may calculate the material list for the entire drawing or from a selected area of the drawing outlined by a Boundary Line. In the Report Type location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the available selections. Select an option from the resulting menu by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button. This selection does not apply to fill materials. The fill material for the entire drawing will be displayed no matter what selection is chosen. For this lesson, leave the Report Type set to Calculate from Entire Drawing. 8) In the Fittings Calculation location, <click> on the down arrow to view a list of the available selections. Select a method of calculating irrigation fittings from the resulting menu by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button. If Calculate as a Percent of Pipe is chosen, enter a percent of pipe cost in the % of Pipe text box. For example, enter a percent of pipe cost of 15

95 88 RainCAD percent as and not The percentage is based on a percent of the List Price for the pipe. For this exercise, set the fitting type to Calculate from Drawing. 9) The fields available to appear in the Material/Estimate Report are shown in the Report Field Configuration listing. The fields are displayed in the order in which they will appear on the report. You may adjust the order by <clicking> on a field name and <clicking> on the up or down arrow buttons. To remove a field from the report, <click> on the checkbox to the left of the field name until the checkmark no longer appears in the box. NOTE: <Clicking> on the Material Takeoff Report button will only display the Quantity and Description for each item no matter what fields are selected in the Report Field Configuration. The selected fields will only be displayed when <clicking> on the View Estimate/Proposal b 10) <Click> on the Calculate Report button to create the report, or <click> on the Recalculate Report if adjustments have been made to the design. 11) <Click> on the View Material Estimate button to preview the quantity and description of all items in the report, or <click> on the View Estimate/Proposal button to the view the pricing information. Once you calculate a material takeoff or estimate/proposal, you may adjust the settings and click on one of the View buttons to preview the report. You will not need to calculate the report again unless you make changes to the design itself. The material list is saved in a Microsoft Access database file. The file has the same name as the drawing except for an mdb extension. From within the Material/Estimate Preview command, you may send a report to the printer or export the information to one of many different file formats. File formats include Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Word for Windows, Adobe Acrobat, HTML, XML, ASCII Text, and more. In addition, you may zoom in or out, change from one page within the report to another, and search for items in the report. To view the estimate/proposal report: 1) If the Material/Estimate Configuration dialog box is not open, restart the Material\Estimate command again from the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Calcs menu. 2) On the Material/Estimate Configuration dialog box, <click> on the Report Configuration tab. 3) After calculating the report, <click> on the View Estimate/Proposal button to preview the report. 4) <Click> on the X in the top right corner of the dialog box to close the viewer. 5) <Click> on the Close button to close the Material/Estimate Configuration dialog box. The following options are available in the Preview dialog box. Icon Command Description Export Exports the report to one of many different file formats. Print Refresh Toggle Tree Group Go to the First Page Go to the Previous Page Go to the Next Page Go to the Last Page Go to Page Sends the report to the printer for output. Refreshes the report. Displays a tree on the left side of the dialog box with all of the available groups from within the report. Move to the beginning of the report. Move to the previous page within the report. Move to the next page within the report. Move to the last page in the report. Allows the user to enter a page number to switch to.

96 Lesson Nine Calculations 89 Search Text Zoom Search all of the text within a report. Change the view of the report by zooming in or out LEGENDS The Legend command will create a legend of all equipment and materials that appear on the design. The legend may include irrigation, landscape, lighting, and drainage equipment depending on the version of the software you are running. To create a legend and place it on the design screen: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Symbols menu, choose Create Legend. 2) Select each category to include in the legend in the Create box. <Click> on each selection with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. For this exercise, select Irrigation and Landscape. 3) In the Legend Text Style location, select the font or text style for the legend by <clicking> on the drop down menu and <clicking> on the desired selection one time with the left mouse button. Set the desired text size in the Text Size box. Select a Default Color for Legend by <clicking> on the colored rectangle one time with the left mouse button to open the Color dialog box. Select a color and <click> on the OK button. For this exercise, set the text style to Arial, the text size to <1.5>, and leave the color set to ByLayer. 4) Leave the desired column factor set to 1 in the Column Factor text box. A number less than one will bring the columns closer together while a number greater than one will spread the columns further apart. 5) To place a grid around the legend, click on Show Grid with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. 6) If you include landscape materials in the legend, you may adjust the Plant Symbol Size radius setting. Select Relative to drawing from the drop down menu to set the symbols relative to the symbol sizes on the design screen. Select Custom to enter a value for the radius of all plant symbols placed on the legend in the Custom text box. For this exercise, select Relative from the drop down menu. 7) To include the Plant Abbreviation for landscape materials in the legend, <click> on the Show Plant Abbreviations check box with the left mouse button until a checkmark appears in the box. If the checkbox is disabled, the plant abbreviations will not appear in the legend. NOTE: When creating a symbol Legend, you can have the plant material name appear as the Common Name, Botanical Name, or the Common Name and Botanical Name based on the Name Display Type setting in the Landscape Preferences dialog box. 8) <Click> on the Calculate button to evaluate the design and determine all of the items required to appear in the legend. 9) <Click> on the Place button to insert the legend onto the drawing. Follow the Command Line at the bottom of the screen and set a starting point for the legend. The starting point will be the top left position of the legend. 10) Once the legend appears on the screen, <click> on the Close button to exit the dialog box.

97 LESSON TEN - MODIFYING THE DATABASES This lesson will instruct you on modifying the existing databases of equipment or landscape materials. All of the databases are similar in the way they function. Some databases have options that do not exist in other databases. However, once you become familiar with one database, you should be able to work in any of the database selections. When you place equipment or plant material on a drawing, the information in the database is used to identify each piece of equipment or plant material and price it correctly. Database characteristics that are common to virtually all of the database selections are list price, discount rate, labor rate, equipment code, part number, and supplier code. Most databases also include the description, symbol assignment, symbol color, and tied assembly. If you purchased Land Illustrator as a stand-alone program for landscape design, proceed to the sections covering Tied Assemblies and Supplies, and the Plants Database later in this lesson. THE SPRINKLERS DATABASE The Sprinklers Database will allow you to edit a database of sprinkler nozzle selections based on the chosen manufacturer and the selected category. The sprinklers are shown in eight different categories - Turf Sprays, Shrub Sprays, Shrub Risers, Turf Rotors, Shrub Rotors, Bubblers, Low-Volume, and Golf. To edit the sprinkler databases: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. 4) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler nozzles. 5) Choose a sprinkler nozzle from the list by <clicking> on the selection with the mouse. Notice that the characteristics change based on the chosen sprinkler nozzle. Once you select the desired nozzle, you may modify any of the characteristics as necessary. Characteristics specific to the Sprinklers Database include the arc pattern assignment, the sprinkler body assignment, the performance characteristics, and the default pressure setting. ADDING A SPRINKLER TO THE DATABASE When adding equipment to a database, it is important that you enter the equipment in the order you would like it displayed in the dialog box. For example, it would be best to group all fifteen-foot spray nozzles together and all twelve-foot spray nozzles together. This will make it easier to find the correct equipment for placement on the drawing screen. NOTE: You cannot change the order of the equipment once you enter it into the database. To add a sprinkler to the sprinklers database: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. 4) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler nozzles. 5) Press the right mouse button and <click> on Add Sprinkler to add a new sprinkler to the list. The new sprinkler will appear at the bottom of the list. 6) <Click> on New Sprinkler in the list and press the right mouse button.

98 Lesson Ten Modifying the Databases 91 7) <Click> on Rename and enter a description for the sprinkler. 8) Edit each characteristic as necessary and click on the <Save> button to save the information. PERFORMANCE DATA To make use of a sprinkler in the design process, it is necessary to enter the performance characteristics of the nozzle. With each operating pressure, you must enter the flow of water through the nozzle and the radius of the throw. To edit the performance characteristics of the selected sprinkler: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. 4) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler nozzles. 5) Choose a sprinkler nozzle from the list by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button. 6) In the Performance area on the Equipment Data tab, <click> into a data box one time with the left mouse button to modify the performance information. You can add data to the table by <clicking> on the Add button to right of the Performance label. You can delete the selected Default Pressure data by selecting a pressure setting from the drop down menu and <clicking> on the Delete button. 7) In the Performance data location, enter the operating pressure, flow, and radius of throw in the available text boxes. If the nozzle is assigned to a side strip, end strip, center strip, or square arc pattern, you must enter the width of the throw as well. NOTE: When entering performance data, a record with a lower pressure than the previous record can be added to the end of the table. When the sprinkler is reloaded, the performance records will automatically be resorted by the pressure setting in ascending order. 8) After entering the different pressure, flow, and radius settings for the nozzle, you must also assign a Default Pressure setting in the Performance data location. <Click> on the drop down menu to the right of the Default Pressure label and <click> one time on the desired selection. This is the performance information that will be associated with the nozzle when it is placed on the design screen and when pipe sizing and system hydraulic calculations are performed. 9) Once all entries are made, <click> on the Save button to save the additions or changes to the Performance data. DISTRIBUTION DATA If distribution information is available for the nozzle, you may enter precipitation rate information at known intervals to create a distribution chart. If no data is entered for the sprinkler, the software assumes a perfect distribution pattern. This information is used when creating a densogram of potential wet and dry areas in the design with the Distribution command. To edit the distribution data of the selected sprinkler: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) <Click> on the Distribution Data tab. 4) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. 5) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler nozzles. 6) Choose a sprinkler nozzle from the list by <clicking> on the selection with the left mouse button. 7) To enter information in the Distribution Data table, you must first select a pressure setting. <Click> on the drop down menu to the right of the Pressure label and <click> one time on the desired

99 92 RainCAD selection. You may then enter precipitation rate information at known intervals in the Distribution data table. 8) In the Distribution data table, <click> into a data box one time with the left mouse button to modify the distribution information. You can add or delete data to or from the table by <clicking> on the Add or Delete buttons to right of the default Pressure label. 9) Enter the spacing between two sprinklers in the Spacing text box, or <click> on the up or down arrow buttons. You may adjust the spacing of the sprinklers by a maximum of 25% of the radius of throw. The distribution chart will display the distribution of the original sprinkler, the distribution of a like sprinkler throwing toward the original, and the distribution of the combination of both sprinklers together. Pressure Setting, Distribution Data and Chart

100 Lesson Ten Modifying the Databases 93 SPRINKLER PALETTE ASSIGNMENTS Each manufacturer has possibly hundreds of different sprinkler nozzle selections. When placing sprinklers automatically within a boundary line, you will only need to make use of a few nozzle selections. Just as an artist has millions of colors to choose from when he begins a painting, he only makes use of a few colors that he places on his palette. A sprinkler palette is similar to an artists color palette. A Sprinkler Palette is a group of sprinklers to use in a particular situation. For example, you may create a palette of nozzles consisting of only 15 foot sprays. In addition, you may have another palette consisting of 8 foot or 10 foot nozzles. You may create separate palettes for turf sprays, shrub sprays, turf rotors and shrub rotors. You may create as many sprinkler palettes as required for each manufacturer and each sprinkler category. In addition, you may assign each sprinkler to one or more sprinkler palettes. To assign a sprinkler to a sprinkler palette: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Irrigation. 2) On the Irrigation submenu, choose Sprinklers. 3) On the Sprinklers dialog box, <click> on the Palette Assignments tab. 4) Double <click> on a Manufacturer with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the manufacturers name to view the available sprinkler nozzle categories. 5) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the category name to view the available sprinkler palettes associated with the selected category on the right side of the dialog box. 6) <Click> on the Add button to the right of the Palettes label to add a new sprinkler palette. <Click> on the palette name two times with the left mouse button to rename the palette. <Click> on the Delete button to remove the palette from the list. 7) Double <click> on a sprinkler palette name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the palette name. All of the sprinklers currently assigned to the selected sprinkler palette are shown below the palette name. All of the sprinklers available for assignment are shown under the sprinkler category name on the left side of the dialog box. 8) To assign a sprinkler nozzle to the selected palette, <click> on the nozzle in the Sprinklers list and <click> on the right arrow button, or double <click> on the sprinkler nozzle. The nozzle will be placed under the Sprinkler Palette Assignments. 9) To remove a nozzle from a palette, <click> on the nozzle in the Sprinkler Palette Assignments list and <click> on the left arrow button, or double <click> on the sprinkler nozzle. 10) <Click> on the Close button to exit the command and save the changes. NOTE: All sprinkler palettes must include at least one nozzle with an arc assignment of 180º. If a palette does not have a 180º nozzle assignment, you will not be able to make use of that palette in the automatic sprinkler placement within a boundary line. Sprinkler palettes cannot include specialty nozzles such as side strips or end strips. The remaining irrigation databases all function very similar to the Sprinklers Database. For additional help on databases, refer to the Help screens in RainCAD / Land Illustrator. TIED ASSEMBLIES AND SUPPLIES A Tied Assembly is the combination of supplies that are associated with the installation of a single piece of equipment or plant material. Tied assemblies can be built for sprinkler bodies, controllers, backflow devices, control valves, trees, shrubs, and more.

101 94 RainCAD Below is an example of a tied assembly created for a one-inch control valve. Tied Assembly Quantity Supplies 1" Control Valve 2 Waterproof Wire Connectors 1 10" Round Valve Box 1 Cubic Foot of Pea Gravel Each assembly may be assigned to one or more pieces of equipment or plant material in the database selections. All of the product in an assembly is counted in the Material/Estimate command. Before you can build an assembly, you must create the list of supplies to use in the creation. To create or modify the information in the Supplies Database: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Irrigation, Landscape, Lighting, or Drainage. 2) On the Irrigation, Landscape, Lighting, or Drainage submenu, choose Tied Assemblies/Supplies. 3) On the Tied Assemblies/Supplies dialog box, <click> on the Supplies tab. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a supply selection, or press the <right> mouse button to add, delete, or rename the a supply. 5) Modify any of the available characteristics as necessary. 6) <Click> on the Save button to save the changes. Once a list of supplies is available, you may combine the supplies into a tied assembly. To create or modify the Tied Assemblies Database: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Irrigation, Landscape, Lighting, or Drainage. 2) On the Irrigation, Landscape, Lighting, or Drainage submenu, choose Tied Assemblies/Supplies. 3) On the Tied Assemblies/Supplies dialog box, <click> on the Tied Assemblies tab. 4) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on an assembly in the Tied Assemblies section on the left side of the dialog box, or press the <right> mouse button to add, delete, or rename a tied assembly. 5) All of the supplies currently assigned to the selected tied assembly are shown under Assigned Supplies. The amount of each supply is shown under the Quantity label to the right of the supply listing. All of the supplies available for assignment are listed under Supplies on the right of the dialog box. 6) To assign a supply to the selected tied assembly, <click> on the supply in the Supplies list and <click> on the left arrow button, or double <click> on the supply name. The supply will be placed under the Assigned Supplies with a quantity of one. To increase the quantity of the supply, simply <click> on the left arrow again or double <click> on the supply name. You will notice that the quantity will increase by one. 7) To remove a supply from a tied assembly, <click> on the supply in the Assigned Supplies list and <click> on the right arrow button, or double <click> on the supply name. If the quantity of the supply is greater than one, the quantity will be reduced by one. Continuing to <click> the right arrow or double <clicking> on the supply name will reduce the quantity until the supply is removed from the tied assembly. 8) <Click> on the Save button to save the changes. THE PLANTS DATABASE The software will allow you to have an unlimited number of plants in the database. The plants are divided into categories to make it easier to locate the plant of your choice. You can add, delete, or rename the plant categories in the Plants Database. Each plant may have an unlimited number of sizes. In addition to plant selections, you may also create a database of fill materials for area and volume calculations as well as supplies and tied assemblies to cover all materials involved in plant installation.

102 Lesson Ten Modifying the Databases 95 The Plants Database will allow you to create new or edit the existing plant material selections based on the chosen category and size. The six default categories of plant material are Tress, Palms, Shrubs Under 4 Feet, Shrubs Over 4 Feet, Ground Cover-Vines, and Annuals-Perennials. ADDING A PLANT TO THE DATABASE When adding plant material to the database, you may enter the information in any order. The plant selections are sorted alphabetically based on the common or botanical name as set in the Landscape Preferences dialog box. To add a plant to the database: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Plants. 3) On the Plant Database dialog box, <click> on the General Plant Data tab. 4) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the name to view the available plant selections. In addition, you can press the <right> mouse button to add, delete, or rename the plant category names. 5) Press the <right> mouse button and <click> on Add Plant to place a new plant selection in the list. The New Plant listing will appear at the bottom of the list of plant names. 6) Scroll down to the New Plant selection at the bottom of the list of plant names. 7) <Click> on New Plant in the list and press the <right> mouse button. 8) <Click> on Rename and enter a description for the Common Name. 9) <Click> in the Botanical Name text box and enter a description. 10) You may assign an image to the selected plant material. In the Plant Image area, enter the complete path to the image file in the Image Path text box, or <click> on the Open icon to locate the image file on your computer. 11) Modify the general notes in the General Description text box as necessary. The general notes for the plant may be unlimited in length. 12) <Click> on the Save button to save the changes. PLANT SIZE DATA The Plant Size Data feature will allow you to enter or edit information on the plant material such as the available sizes, the symbol assignment, and the symbol color. When plants are placed on a design and counted in a material takeoff, it is this information that is used to identify them and price them correctly. To enter or edit the plant size data: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Plants. 3) On the Plant Database dialog box, <click> on the Plant Size Data tab. 4) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the name to view the available plant selections. In addition, you can press the <right> mouse button to add, delete, or rename the plant category names. 5) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a plant selection. Notice that the characteristics change based on the chosen plant. In addition, you can press the <right> mouse button to add, delete, or rename the plants. The plant selections are sorted alphabetically based on the common or botanical name as set in the Landscape Preferences dialog box. Once you select a plant, you may modify any of the characteristics as necessary. Plant characteristics include the symbol assignment, the symbol color, the radius of the plant s canopy, the list price, a discount received from the supplier, the labor rate for installation, and more.

103 96 RainCAD To modify the plant characteristics: 1) Select a plant size from the Plant Size drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. If necessary, <click> on the Add button to add a new plant size to the list. In the resulting dialog box, enter a new plant size name such as 1 gallon or 24 inch box and <click> on the OK button. set NOTE: Each characteristic on the Plant Size Data tab is specific to the size of the selected plant where species data and general information is generic to all sizes. For example, the radius of the plant canopy, the list price, and the labor rate for installation are all plant characteristics. These factors may change based on the size of the plant. If a plant is a 1 gallon versus a 15 gallon, the radius may be smaller and the labor rate for installation may be less. The color of the plant, the mature height and the exposure are all species data. This data will remain the same no matter what size the plant is at installation. To assign the same symbol settings to each of the plant sizes, <click> on the Apply To All Plant Sizes check box to the right of the Symbol Settings label until a checkmark appears in the box. 2) Before a plant may be placed on a design, you must assign a symbol or hatch pattern to represent the plant material. In addition, you can select color settings and more. You may assign separate symbol settings for each different size associated with the plant material, or you can have the same symbol settings for each different size. NOTE: If a checkmark appears in the Show All Symbols box, you will see all of the available plant symbols. If the check box is disabled, you will only see the symbols marked as exteriors with an ext prefix. Mixing exterior symbols with Marker/Interiors allows for a large number of symbol combinations. 3) Once a plant size is selected, choose the type of symbol you will use to represent the plant material on the design screen from the Symbol Type drop down menu. Choose Symbol if you plan to assign an individual symbol number to represent the plant material. Choose Hatch if you plan to assign an IntelliCAD hatching pattern to represent the plant material. NOTE: Hatching patterns best represent small plant material planted in large quantities such as ground cover or annual color. 4) If Symbol is chosen as the Symbol Type, enter the symbol assignment in the Symbol text box, or <click> on the drop down arrow to locate the symbol in the Symbol Browser dialog box. <Click> on the desired symbol to accept the assignment. 5) Enter the marker type number in the Marker/Interior box, or <click> on the drop down arrow to locate the marker in the Browser dialog box. <Click> on the desired marker to accept the assignment. If you do not want to add a marker to the selected symbol, choose the marker labeled None. 6) If Symbol is chosen as the Symbol Type, select a symbol color assignment. <Click> on the colored rectangle to the right of the Symbol Color label one time with the <left> mouse button. In the Color dialog box, select a color and <click> on the OK button. 7) If Symbol is chosen as the Symbol Type, enter the radius of the plant canopy in the Radius text box. NOTE: To place a plant on the drawing screen, the radius of the plant s canopy must be set to a value greater than zero. You may assign each plant size a different radius setting. It is important that you enter a value for each plant size you plan to include on the design. 8) Adding a Sketch Factor to a symbol may give it a more hand drawn appearance. The sketch factor randomly adds lines to the symbol at slightly different angles. To use the symbol as originally drawn without a sketch factor, select None from the drop down menu. To add a sketch factor to a

104 Lesson Ten Modifying the Databases 97 symbol, <click> on Low, Medium or High from the drop down menu. NOTE: Adding a sketch factor to a plant symbol can effect the ability to trim symbols at their intersections with the Combine Plants command. Refer to the following illustrations for an example of different Sketch Factors. Sketch Factor set to None Sketch Factor set to Low Sketch Factor set to Medium Sketch Factor set to High 9) The Fill Type selection applies to both Symbol and Hatch settings found in the Symbol Type drop down menu. If Symbol is selected as the Symbol Type, you can choose None to place the symbol without a fill pattern. You can also choose Hatch and fill the symbol with a pattern. Refer to the following illustrations for an example of fill types used with individual symbol assignments. Symbol with Fill Type set to None Symbol with Fill Type set to Hatch 10) If Hatch is selected as the Symbol Type or Fill Type, select a hatching pattern to represent the plant material. <Click> on the Hatch Pattern button (...) to open the Hatch Pattern Palette dialog box and select a fill pattern for the plant symbol. <Click> on a hatch pattern and <click> on the OK button. 11) Enter the angle for the hatch pattern in the Fill Angle text box. 12) Enter the Scale for the hatch pattern in the Fill Scale text box. 13) Set the Hatch Color by <clicking> on the colored rectangle next to Hatch Color with the left mouse button to open the Color dialog box. Select a color and <click> on the OK button. 14) Modify the remaining characteristics as necessary. 15) <Click> on the Save button to save the changes. SPECIES DATA The species data for a plant includes the climate zone(s), the mature height and width, the color of the foliage, the water requirement, the flower color, the fragrance and more. This data is generic to the plant no matter what size of the plant is selected. It is not necessary to complete this information unless you plan to make use of the Plant Search feature in the Plant Placement dialog box. For more information on the Plant Search feature, refer to Lesson Six in this manual. To enter or edit the species data: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Databases menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Plants.

105 98 RainCAD 3) On the Plant Database dialog box, <click> on the Species Data tab. 4) Double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the name to view the available plant selections. 5) <Click> one time with the left mouse button on a plant selection. 6) In each of the available fields, select the desired criteria by <clicking> on a box until a checkmark appears, <clicking> on the selection and entering a value in the text box, or <clicking> on a drop down menu and <clicking> on the desired selection. NOTE: The climate zone, flower color, fall color, foliage color, plant type, soil preference, and flowering season will allow more than one selection. <Click> on each selection until a checkmark appears in the box. PLANT PALETTE ASSIGNMENTS A plant palette is a combination of plant material that would be grouped together in a particular landscape design situation. An artist has millions of colors to choose from when he begins a painting, but he only makes use of a few colors that he places on his palette. A plant palette is similar to an artists color palette. With thousands of plants to choose from the in the database, it may be beneficial to combine the plant material into smaller more manageable groups. For example, you may create a palette of plant material to be used in commercial designs. You may also create separate palettes for residential, tropical, desert settings and more. There is no limit to the number of plant palettes you may create. Plant palettes are optional and may be ignored by the user. To create a plant palette: 1) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator menu, choose Landscape. 2) On the Landscape submenu, choose Plants. 3) On the Plant Database dialog box, <click> on the Palette Assignment tab. 4) Place the mouse cursor in the Plant Palettes area and press the <right> mouse button. <Click> on Add Palette in the resulting menu. A New Plant Palette will be added to the list. 5) To rename the palette, select New Plant Palette and press the <right> mouse button. <Click> on Rename in the resulting menu and enter a new name for the palette description. 6) To assign a plant to the palette, double <click> on a Category Name with the left mouse button or single <click> on the + sign to the left of the name to view the available plant selections. 7) <Click> on a plant in the list on the left side of the dialog box and <click> on the right arrow button, or double <click> on the plant selection. The plant will be placed in the Palette Assignment list. 8) To remove a plant from a palette, <click> on the plant name in the Palette Assignment list and <click> on the left arrow button, or double <click> on the plant selection. The plant will be removed from the palette list. 9) You do not have to <click> on the Save button to save the changes. The changes are automatically saved as you update the palette assignments. The remaining landscape databases all function very similar to the Plants Database. For additional help on databases, refer to the Help screens in RainCAD / Land Illustrator.

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107 LESSON ELEVEN - PRINTING THE DRAWING Now that you have completed your design, it is time to print or plot the drawing. IntelliCAD will produce high quality drawings on ordinary bubble jet, ink jet or laser printers as well as plotters. You may output the drawing to any device in which a valid Windows printer driver exists. A printer driver is a file that includes codes for controlling the printer or plotter. Each printer or plotter has its own driver. The driver is created by the manufacturer of your printer or plotter and must be installed on your computer before you can access the device. For instructions on installing your printer or plotter and connecting it to your computer, refer to your printer or plotter documentation. There are multiple methods of preparing a design for output to the printer. This tutorial lesson will take you through one method of printing the design. After completing Lesson Eleven, you should be familiar with: Adjusting layers Selecting the printer driver Paper Space Setup Layouts and Viewports Setting the printer options Setting the output scale Previewing a drawing Refer to the IntelliCAD User Guide or Help file for more information on printing a design, layouts and viewports. ADJUSTING LAYERS PRIOR TO PRINTING Layers are like individual sheets of paper that overlay one another to create a complete drawing. IntelliCAD has an unlimited number of layers available for use when designing your project. RainCAD / Land Illustrator assigns symbols to specific layers during the design process. Before printing or plotting your design, you may want to turn off certain layers such as the sprinkler arc patterns. Make use of the IntelliCAD Explore Layers command to turn the layers on and off. To turn the sprinkler arc patterns off: 1) On the Settings menu, choose Explore Layers. 2) Scroll down until you see the layer named L-SPRI-TSPR-COVG. 3) <Click> one time on the On/Off property to turn the sprinkler arc or coverage pattern layer for turf spray nozzles off. 4) Close the Layer Explorer. For additional information on layers, refer to the IntelliCAD help screens or User Guide. NOTE: You can turn on or off as many layers as you desire before closing the dialog box. You do not have to turn layers on or off one at a time. SELECTING THE PRINTER Before sending the drawing to the printer or plotter, you must select the correct device driver and adjust the settings properly. You must set the paper size, the paper orientation and the page margins before printing or plotting. To select the correct printer or plotter:

108 Lesson Eleven Printing the Drawing 101 1) On the File menu, choose Print Setup. 2) The Print Setup dialog box will appear allowing you to set the paper size, orientation and margins. 3) <Click> on the Properties or Printers button and adjust your printer selections as necessary. NOTE: The settings will be different for each printer or plotter chosen. For example, laser printers have available options that are different from ink jet printers. If you are printing with a color printer, you may need to adjust the Dithering or Intensity settings to make colors such as gray appear on the paper. SETTING THE PAGE ORIENTATION The orientation refers to the position of the drawing on the piece of paper. You can choose between portrait (vertical) and landscape (horizontal) page orientations. If the orientation is set to Portrait, the width of the drawing will be in the same direction as the width of the paper. If the orientation is set to Landscape, the drawing will be rotated 90º, or printed sideways on the paper. NOTE: The setting for orientation can affect the number of sheets of paper it takes to print or plot the drawing. To set the page orientation: 1) The Print Setup dialog box should still be open. If it is not, restart the command. 2) For the purpose of the tutorial, select an 8½ x 11 sheet of paper and set the orientation to Portrait. <Click> on the Portrait radio button one time with the left mouse button. 3) <Click> on the OK button to close the dialog box. DETERMINING THE OUTPUT SCALE Before you can print the design, you must determine the output scale. The output scale is the number of inches printed on the paper in relation to the number of feet on the drawing. For example, a standard output scale is 1 inch equals 10 feet. Other common scales are 1 = 8, 1 = 20, 1 = 30 or 1 = 40. For this lesson, we have already determined that we are going to print on an 8½ by 11 sheet of paper. We know that we cannot print to the edge of the paper, so we need to account for the margins. For this exercise, assume that we have a ½ margin on all four sides of the paper. If we deduct for the margins, the printable area on the paper is now equal to 7½ by 10. To determine how large the drawing can be to fit within the printable area of the paper, simply multiply the printable area of the paper by the number of feet in the output scale to calculate the maximum drawing dimensions. Refer to the following table. Printable Area Feet in Output Scale Max Drawing Dimensions 8 60 by by 100 7½ by by by by 400 To determine the drawing dimensions of the design: 1) On the Tools menu, choose Inquiry and then Distance. 2) Set a point on each side of the residential design. For this exercise, set a point a location A and location B. The distance between the two points will be shown in the Command Line. 3) Set a point above and below the residential design. Set a point at location C and location D.

109 102 RainCAD From the distance measurements, you have determined that the maximum dimensions of the drawing are 130 by 161. With this information it is easy to see that the drawing will not fit on the paper at a scale of 1 = 10. However, the drawing will fit at a scale of 1 = 20. LAYOUTS When you create a drawing, you do most of your work on the Model tab. Each drawing that you create can contain numerous layouts that simulate the paper on which you will print the drawing. Each of these layouts is created on a Layout tab. You can create one or more layouts for printing your drawing. The layout allows you to organize different views to control which portion of your drawing prints and at what scale. Before you print, you can also include additional entities and layout settings that control how your drawing prints. Additional entities only appear on the Layout tab, not on the Model tab with your original drawing. For example, a layout can contain a title block or notes that print with your design, but do not clutter the screen when you work with your design on the Model tab. You can rename layouts, delete layouts, and view a list of all layouts available in a drawing. You can also change the order in which the Layout tabs appear. The Model tab is always stationary and cannot be renamed. To create a new Layout tab: 1) Right <click> on a Layout tab. 2) Select New from the resulting menu. To rename a Layout tab: 1) Right <click> on the Layout tab to rename. For this exercise, right <click> on Layout1. 2) Select Rename from the resulting menu. 3) Type a new name for the layout. For this exercise, enter Drawing for the new layout name. 4) <Click> on the OK button to confirm the name change. 5) Follow steps 1 through 4 and rename Layout2 to Details. NOTE: The name can be up to 255 characters in length and can contain letters, numbers, the dollar sign ($), a hyphen (-), an underscore ( _ ), or any combination. To delete a Layout tab: 1) Right <click> on the Layout tab to delete. 2) Select Delete from the resulting menu. 3) <Click> on the OK button to confirm the deletion. To reorder the Layout tabs: 1) Right <click> on the Layout tab you want to move. 2) Select Move from the resulting menu. 3) <Click> on Move Right and then choose a new location, or <click> on Move Left and choose a new location. PAPER SPACE SETUP The first time you switch to a Layout tab, your drawing seems to disappear. This is normal. You must create at least one layout viewport to display your Model space drawing on the Layout tab. Before you create a viewport, it is helpful to create an imaginary piece of paper to make it easier to correctly position the viewport window.

110 Lesson Eleven Printing the Drawing 103 To create an imaginary piece of paper: 1) <Click> on the Drawing layout tab. 2) On the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Options/Info menu, choose Paper Space Setup. 3) Enter 8.5 for the Width and 11 for the Height of the paper. If the design is to be printed in Landscape mode, you would enter 11 for the width and 8.5 for the height. 4) Enable the Print Page Border checkbox by <clicking> on the box until a checkmark appears. This will print a border within the limits of the imaginary piece of paper. 5) For this exercise, enter 0.50 for the right, left, top, and bottom Border Margins. 6) Enter 20 in the Output Scale text box. 7) To place a title block on the paper, select the location of the title block from the Title Block Alignment drop down menu by <clicking> on the selection one time with the left mouse button. For this lesson, select Bottom from the drop down menu. NOTE: The title block will be drawn within the border margins whether a border is actually drawn on the paper or not. To flip the title block vertically or horizontally in its location, <click> on the Flip Title Block checkbox until a checkmark appears in the box. The path for the title block drawing is displayed in the dialog box. You may open the drawing and make any changes to it as necessary. Once the title block is on the layout, you can use the Explode command from the Modify menu in IntelliCAD to break the title block into individual pieces for editing 8) <Click> on the Apply to Current Layout button to place the temporary sheet of paper, page border, and title block on the Layout tab. 9) <Click> on the Close button to exit the dialog box. You may turn off the temporary piece of paper, the page border, or the title block in the Explore Layers command from the Settings menu in IntelliCAD. The temporary paper is placed on the PS-PAPR-BORD layer, the border is on the PS-PAGE-BORD layer, and the title block is on the PS-TITL-BLOK layer. LAYOUT VIEWPORTS When you create a layout viewport, the layout viewport border is created on the current layer. You can make layout viewport borders invisible by creating a new layer before you create layout viewports and then turning off that layer after you create the layout viewports. To select a layout viewport s borders, you must turn that layer back on before you can rearrange or modify the layout viewport. On a Layout tab, you must create at least one layout viewport to see your model drawing. However, you can create multiple layout viewports that display unique views of your drawing located in model space. Each layout viewport functions as a window into your model space drawing. You can separately control the size, scale, contents, and arrangement of the layout viewports. Each layout viewport is created as a separate entity that you can move, copy, or delete. To create a layout viewport: 1) <Click> on the Drawing layout tab. 2) On the View menu, choose Layout Viewports. 3) Follow the Command Line and set two points for the first corner and opposite corner of the viewport window. For this exercise, set the two points inside of the temporary piece of paper. 4) Select the new viewport window and press the right mouse button. 5) In the resulting pop-up menu, <click> on Properties. 6) Under the Viewport area, enter <1> for the Scale factor. 7) <Click> on the OK button to accept the change. NOTE: The layout viewport does not have to fit inside of the temporary piece of paper in every instance. The viewport window may exceed the boundaries of the temporary piece of paper in some circumstances.

111 104 RainCAD It may be necessary to adjust the drawing inside of the viewport window or to adjust the viewport window itself to display just the design and not the detail drawings. You can Pan the drawing inside of the viewport window using the Pan command. To pan the drawing inside of the viewport window: 1) Make sure you are on the Drawing layout tab and in Model Space mode. 2) The Status Bar should read M:Drawing for the Model Space setting. If not, place the mouse cursor on top of the P:Drawing label, press the right mouse button and <click> on Model Space in the resulting pop-up menu, or double <click> inside of the viewport window. 3) Press and hold down the scroll button on the mouse to move the drawing inside of the viewport window, or select Pan from the View menu and select a movement option in the Command Line. Pan the drawing until just the drawing and valve notations appear in the viewport window and not installation detail drawings. Be sure you do not adjust the scale setting of 1 by rolling the scroll button on the mouse. You can adjust the size of the window or move the window by manipulating the selection handles. To adjust the size of the viewport window: 1) Make sure you are on the Drawing layout tab and in Paper Space mode. 2) The Status Bar should read P:Drawing for the Paper Space setting. If not, place the mouse cursor on top of the M:Drawing label, press the right mouse button and <click> on Paper Space in the resulting pop-up menu, or double <click> outside of the viewport window. 3) Select the viewport window by <clicking> on the window with the left mouse button. Small selection handles will appear in each corner, on all four sides, and in the center of the window. 4) Place the mouse cursor over one of the small boxes on the outside edge of the window. 5) Press and hold down the left mouse button. 6) Drag the handle to a new location to resize the viewport window. Drag the selection handles until just the drawing and valve notations appear in the viewport window and not installation detail drawings. To move the viewport window: 1) Place the mouse cursor over the small box in the center of the viewport window. 2) Press and hold down the left mouse button. 3) Drag the window to a new location and release the mouse button. For this exercise, drag the center of the window near the center of the page border area.

112 Lesson Eleven Printing the Drawing 105 ADJUSTING THE PRINTING PARAMETERS - SCALE Now that you have selected the correct device, turned off any unnecessary layers, set up a temporary piece of paper and at least one viewport, it is time to make the final adjustments and print the drawing. You still need to set the output scale for the drawing and decide if you want to center the drawing on the page. To set the print area: 1) Make sure you are on the Drawing layout tab and in Paper Space mode. 2) The Status Bar should read P:Drawing for the Paper Space setting. If not, place the mouse cursor on top of the M:Drawing label, press the right mouse button and <click> on Paper Space in the resulting pop-up menu, or double <click> outside of the viewport window. 3) On the File menu, choose Print. 4) In the Print dialog box on the Scale/View tab under Print Area, <click> on the Window radio button. 5) <Click> on the Select Print Area button and set two points at opposite corners of the temporary piece of paper. To set the output scale: 1) In the Print dialog box on the Scale/View tab under Print Scale, <click> on the drop down menu and select 1:20. This will print the drawing at the 1 = 20 scale as determined previously in this lesson. To center the drawing on the page: 1) In the Print dialog box on the Advanced tab under Print Offset, <click> on the Center on page label until a checkmark appears in the box. PRINTING THE DRAWING Once the settings are determined, it is time to send the drawing to the printer or plotter. Make sure the printer or plotter is turned on and is ready to accept the design. For the purpose of the tutorial, you will print the layout on the Drawing tab. To print or plot the drawing: 1) If the Print dialog box is not open, on the File menu, choose Print. 2) <Click> on the Print Preview button. The design should appear as it will print on the paper. 3) <Click> on the Print button to send the design to the printer for output.

113 CONCLUSION We have created this tutorial to help you learn the proper use of the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Design Software as quickly as possible. Now that you have completed the lessons, there is still a great deal more you can learn by using the software and reviewing the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Help screens. Because of its power, you will continue learning from the program with each use. You will no doubt realize an increase in speed with each new design. Like any software product on the market, the more you use the program, the more proficient you will become. With the lessons now behind you, you should be prepared to conquer almost any design project with little difficulty. Should you encounter any problems, look through the RainCAD / Land Illustrator Help screens first to find the answers. If your problem is not covered or you need additional assistance, visit the Support section of our Internet web site at

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115 APPENDIX "A" - CUSTOMIZING SYMBOLS RainCAD / Land Illustrator allows an unlimited number of symbols to represent equipment or landscape material. There are symbols to represent sprinklers, water meters, pumps, backflow devices, control valves, controllers, quick couplers, plants, and more. Even more symbols are included to represent vehicles, people, furniture, stepping stones, rocks and boulders, and more. You may customize any of these symbols to your specifications, or you may create your own symbols. All of the symbol files are located in one of several subdirectories. The subdirectories are located within the SYMBOLS subdirectory. For example, sprinkler symbols in RainCAD might be located in the following directory - C:\PROGRAM FILES\SOFTWARE REPUBLIC\RCLI 2011 INTELLICAD\SYMBOLS\SPRINKLERS. Below is a list of the subdirectories that are associated with each software program. Combo Pack and RainCAD : Subdirectory Name backflow controllers couplers iaccessory idetails isolation meters sprinklers valves Combo Pack and Land Illustrator : Subdirectory Name laccessory ladetails plants plant markers Combo Pack: Subdirectory Name daccessory ddetails dequipment liaccessory lidetails lighting transformers Combo Pack, RainCAD and Land Illustrator : Subdirectory Name miscellaneous Category of Symbols Backflow prevention device symbols such as pressure vacuum breakers, double checks and reduced pressure assemblies. Irrigation controller symbols. Quick coupler valve symbols. Irrigation accessory symbols such as rain sensors and weather stations. Irrigation equipment installation drawings or details. Isolation valve symbols such as gate valves or ball valves. Water meter and pump station symbols. Sprinkler nozzle symbols. Irrigation control valve symbols. Category of Symbols Landscape accessory symbols. Plant material and equipment installation drawings or details. Plant material symbols. Marker/Interior plant symbols. Category of Symbols Drainage equipment accessory symbols. Drainage equipment installation drawings or details. Drainage equipment symbols. Accent lighting accessory symbols. Accent lighting installation drawings or details. Accent lighting fixture symbols. Accent lighting transformer symbols. Category of Symbols Miscellaneous symbols such as vehicles, people, rocks, boulders, furniture and more.

116 Appendix A Symbols 109 CUSTOMIZING EXISTING SYMBOLS You may have an unlimited number of symbols to represent equipment or plant material on the design screen. The software includes many symbols, all of which are customizable to your specifications. To customize any of the existing irrigation, landscape, lighting, or drainage symbols: 1) On the File menu in IntelliCAD, choose Open. 2) <Click> on the file name in the Open dialog box and <click> on the Open button to retrieve the drawing to the design screen. Refer to the IntelliCAD Reference Manual for more information on the Open Command. The IntelliCAD Select File Command 3) Make any desired changes to the drawing file using any of the commands available in IntelliCAD. Draw all of the symbol objects or entities on Layer 0. If objects are drawn on any layer other than zero (0), the symbols will not appear on the correct layer when placed on the drawing screen. 4) If you are making changes to a symbol, be sure to not to change the scale of the existing symbol. Equipment symbols have a diameter of one foot. Plant symbols are set to a radius of 10 feet, a diameter of 20 feet. RainCAD uses this setting to scale the symbols based on the Symbol Scale Factor in the Irrigation Preferences dialog box, or the plant canopy radius set in the Plants Database. Refer to the help in IntelliCAD for more information on the Scale command. 5) If this is a plant symbol and you would like to use the Shadowing command or fill the symbol with a Hatch or Gradient Fill Type, it is necessary to add a boundary that is completely closed surrounding the perimeter of the symbol. The boundary could be a circle with the center of the symbol as the mid point. You must then select the boundary and convert it to a Region in IntelliCAD. RainCAD will set the region to invisible when the symbol is placed on the design screen. 6) Select all of the entities and set the color to By Block using the IntelliCAD Color Control drop down menu or the Properties command. This allows RainCAD to change the color of the symbol to the color setting in the database when a symbol is placed on the design screen. If symbols are drawn in specific colors and not set to By Block, they will appear on the drawing in the colors in which they were drawn. 7) Once you have completed the symbol and scaled the drawing, set the center of the symbol at the X and Y coordinates of 0,0. Set sprinkler symbols so that the desired insertion point of the symbol is located on the 0,0 coordinate. Select all of the symbol and enact the IntelliCAD Move command.