Trees, people and context around the products
The landscape architect or specifier planning a site places a human silhouette for scale and a tree for reference next to the products. A person standing beside a bench shows how high the backrest is. A tree at the edge of the site shows how much of the space it takes and how tall it stands next to a shelter. Props are those extra 3D objects: your customer picks them from a panel in the planner, places them in the plan, moves them around and adds as many as the layout needs.
Props are drawn at 1:1 scale. A silhouette that is six feet (183 cm) tall is six feet tall in the plan, and the height is printed on its card, so a specifier can push the four-foot (122 cm) wheelchair silhouette under a table and see whether the chair fits. The Landscape Forms Site Planner ships with five: four human silhouettes in different heights, one of them a person in a wheelchair, and a tree. In that planner they are called elements.
Props are saved with the plan, so they are there again when a customer reopens a shared link. Plan view draws them from above together with the products. They are placed inside the outline your customer set up in Draw Your Room, or along its edge.
Every prop is a 3D file and a thumbnail. The human silhouettes and the tree exist as files today. A prop specific to your products starts with a 3D file (GLB) from you. The file is used at its real size, the height goes on the card, and we add the thumbnail and the blocking rule and put it in your planner. When the file still has to be made, we agree on who models it and when.
Blocking or passing, set per prop
Figures for scale and decorative objects are a familiar part of room planners. What is set per prop here is what happens when a product meets it. Products in the planner keep their distance from each other: place a second bench on top of the first, and the planner moves it aside. A prop set to block follows the same rule, so a bench stops at a standing silhouette. A prop set to pass lets products through: the tree in the Site Planner is set that way, so a bench placed under it sits beneath the crown. The wheelchair silhouette is set the same way, so it can be pushed under a table to check whether the table height accommodates the chair.
The setting is made per prop when we add it to your planner, and it can be changed afterwards. A prop set to pass can be placed exactly where the customer wants it, overlapping products included.
The human reference model in a product configurator is a single scaled person switched on next to one product, to show its size. Props are objects in a plan, several at a time, each with its own height on the card and its own rule for what happens when a product meets it. The reference model belongs to the product configurator; a room planner project uses props.
Props are live in the Landscape Forms Site Planner, where the silhouettes and the tree are placed next to benches, tables and shelters for public spaces.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about props: what they are, which ones exist, and what happens when a product meets one. Missing something? Reach out and we will add it.