View and layout your garden in a virtual representation of your FarmBot’s bed on this page.

Farm Designer
Click a section in the image to learn more about it!

Add Plants

Add plants for your FarmBot to grow by pressing the + button.

add.png

Search for a crop in the panel that appears.

crop_search.png

For example, “golden beet.”

golden_beet.png

Find the crop that you’d like in your garden and click it to bring up the crop information.

golden_beet_crop_page.png

Drag the crop image into the map to place the crop in your garden.

beet_drag.png

You now have a plant!

new_beet.png

Tip

When adding many of the same plant, press the ADD TO MAP button in the crop info panel. This will open a click-to-add mode where any click on the map adds another plant. Press DONE to exit.

beet_add.png

Move a plant

To move a plant, start by clicking a plant to edit it.

Then click and drag the plant to a new location in the map.

Visual drag helpers will appear to help guide plant placement:

  • The current coordinate location will appear as X, Y.
  • Cross-hairs will appear to help with grid alignment.
  • Short light red dashes will appear around other plants in the map aligned with the current plant.
  • The current plant’s spread will appear, along with other plants’ spreads if the plants are close by.

move_beet.png

If the current plant’s spread overlaps another plant’s spread, the other plant’s spread will turn colors indicating the degree of overlap. Green indicates a nearby plant spread, yellow is slightly overlapping, and red is severely overlapping.

red_overlap.png

Remove a plant

If you’d like to delete a plant, click on it to bring up the plant information and press the EDIT button.

edit_beet.png

Press the DELETE button to remove the plant.

delete_beet.png

You can also press the DELETE MULTIPLE button to bring up the plant selection interface to delete multiple plants at once.

select_beets.png

Map

You can view all of your plants in the map, a virtual representation of the FarmBot bed. You can drag plants around to rearrange them by clicking on the plant and pressing EDIT in the plants panel.

garden_map.png

You can open the map display options menu by pressing the white arrow icon in the upper right.

menu.png

Menu options include:

  • Zoom (+/-)
  • Plant toggle (enable/disable display of plant icons)
  • Point toggle (enable/disable display of points (weeds, etc)
  • Spread toggle (enable/disable display of plant spread indicators)
  • FarmBot toggle (enable/disable display of tools and the virtual FarmBot)
  • Origin selector (click on one of the four quadrants to adjust the map to your viewing angle)
  • Move mode (open “move to coordinate” mode)

overview_with_menu.png

FarmBot Layer

In addition to showing the current location of FarmBot, the FarmBot layer shows:

  • FarmBot UTM and gantry postion
  • Tools (hover to display tool names)
  • Current status of some peripherals (vacuum pump, water, lights)

lights_on.png

Lights are on!

Move to coordinate mode

Press MOVE MODE in the map menu to enter “move to coordinate” mode:

move_to.png

Click any spot within the map grid to mark it with an X, and press MOVE TO THIS COORDINATE to send the movement command.

What’s next?