- [Instructor] We're staying in our OfficeLayout_3.dwg file.
And you can see where I've left it zoomed in
on the decking and the circle that is going
to form our concrete hard standing.
What you'll also notice is there's a little bit
of planting going on, but it's a bit sparse right now.
That's because we're going to use the array commands
to space out some planting
to make this rear garden area of the office
look rather splendid with lots of plants and shrubs,
lots of greenery.
So it's nice and relaxing when you're sitting outside
on the decking, perhaps having an office meeting
in the sunshine, in the fine weather.
So we're going to start
with this tiny little shrub down here on the left.
We're going to go to the modify panel,
which is on the home tab on the ribbon,
click on the fly out here for a arrays
and we want a rectangular array.
Come into the drawing area
and we can select the object that we want to array
which is this one here.
And as soon as I press Enter,
you'll see that we've got a little array already
of the shrubs.
Now what we want is a group of shrubs
that kind of go upwards on the drawing
and hide the circular area and the decking area.
We kind of want planting to kind of shield that area
forming a natural wall.
So in our array creation tab up on the ribbon now,
we're going to work out how many columns and rows we need
to space this out neatly.
So at the moment, we've got three rows.
I would say we need to possibly travel that.
So let's go with 10, that's three times three,
tripling it plus one.
So if I had in 10 rows now
and press Enter on the ribbon there,
that's much better at shielding it really nicely,
but I don't think we're we need that many columns
so let's go with maybe two columns.
And you can see we've got a nice little row of shrubs now
shielding the garden area using our rectangular array.
Now you'll notice that it is an associative array there
like so, so when I close the array like that,
if I can I'm over here and hover on it
you can see it highlights as a rectangular array.
It's actually on the wrong layer as well.
You'll notice it's on the walls layer there.
So what I'll do is I'll just select that and what we'll do,
we'll go to the home tab on the ribbon
and just put that on the plants layer,
just to make sure that we're working
with the right layer like so.
And you can see now where the is selected
it's telling us it's on the plants layer.
Let's jump back to the array tab for a moment.
Now we've got two sets of columns there
as you can see one and two,
and that's looking nice and neat,
but maybe it's a little bit thin.
Let's go back to say three columns there like so.
That gives us a nice barrier
and when those rubs grow up and become more mature,
you've got a nice sort of garden area going on there.
So I can now just close that array
and we know it's associative
so I can click on it at any time.
It's now on the right layer.
And we've also got the right number of columns.
So that looks nice and neat and tidy.
Down here, we've got a larger shrub
and we want this to go around this little sort
of concrete, hard standing area.
So again, modify panel on the home tab on the ribbon
and we're going to click on the array flyout
and go for a polar array this time.
And then we're going to select the shrub like so,
press Enter to confirm and we want a center point.
That's going to be the center snap
of our circle there like so.
And you can see it's placed six shrubs automatically
a bit like it did with the rectangular array.
Now I would say we need a few more there.
So we're just going to go up to the ribbon,
number of items there is six,
let's go with nine, nine should work quite well.
Yeah, that's perfect.
We've got a nice little gap now,
also between the shrubs so people can get
in and out onto the concrete hard standing,
we might have some chairs and tables
in there as well for example.
Again, it's associative you'll notice.
So when I close the array and click on the tick there,
I can hover over the array, click on it
and it automatically opens up on the ribbon again
to allow me to edit my polar array.
I'll hit escape there just to deselect now.
Last but not least, we've got another smaller shrub here
and I want this to follow this nice curve line.
So it shields the decking
from prying eyes from this side, from the road.
So what we're going to do there is
we're going to go back to the array flyout
and select a path array.
And the object we want to array obviously is the shrub.
So I'll click on it and press Enter,
we then select our path curve.
Now I'm going to pick a point up here on the curve.
Don't pick a point down here
because it'll try and do it from here instead,
you want to pick a point near the object
that you are arraying.
So if I click there, there we go.
We've got our nice little shrubs there.
They're almost perfectly spaced actually as well.
So you'll notice up here on the ribbon,
we've got items 17, but I can't change the number of items.
What I can change is the spacing.
So I'm going to change that to 500 and press Enter
and you can see that just adds a few more shrubs
along that particular path curve.
I'm really happy with that.
That is associative again.
So when I click on close array and I select the array
I can go back and edit it at any time
in the ribbon using the contextual array tab on the ribbon.
So if I hit escape a couple of times now,
that will deselect that particular array
but now we've got some nice planting
at the back of the building.
So we've got that nice garden relaxation area
for the office.