Adding a Sprinkler Line

Realtime Landscaping Architect includes several tools for designing irrigation systems. You can lay out as many sprinkler lines as desired and add sprinkler heads. When you create a project material list, the length of your sprinkler lines and number of heads will be included so you can accurately estimate the cost of your sprinkler system.

To add a sprinkler line:

1.   Click Add Sprinkler Line.

2.   Click to add each point.

3.   When finished, right-click to add the last point.

In the following landscape design, the blue line is a sprinkler line, and the circles represent the water coverage. The black dots at the center of the circles are the sprinkler heads. You can design your sprinkler systems in plan or perspective view. See Adding a Sprinkler Head for a plan view of the following design.

Designing with Irrigation Symbols

In addition to sprinkler lines and sprinkler heads, you can also design irrigation systems using a wide variety of irrigation symbols in the plan view. See Adding a Symbol for details.

Tips:

•      Sprinkler lines can be straight or curved.

•      Sprinkler lines do not appear during a realtime walkthrough. However, sprinkler heads do appear and can optionally spray water.

•      We recommend that you place all of the objects associated your sprinkler system into a separate layer. Then you can turn it off when you're done working on it. See Using Layers for details. You can also use the View > Show/Hide command to selectively show and hide the sprinkler system objects.

See also:

Sprinkler Line Properties
Setting Object Properties
Selecting Objects
Editing Objects
Adding a Sprinkler Head
Showing & Hiding Objects
Realtime Walkthrough