(Utterly Obvious) Trick to line up your mowing lines across Areas

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There were a few requests to line up the mowing lines across Areas automatically or have a common “0” mowing angle reference among all Areas. I’ve been a bit out of the loop (like, A LOT out of the loop), but I’ve not seen this implemented yet.

With my firm grasp of the obvious, I thought of a manual way to line stuff up.

All my Areas have similar settings (overlap, etc). I’m using Parallel with a rotating mowing angle for the most part and would like to line up my mowing lines. Here’s an OBVIOUS “why didn’t I think of it sooner” manual way to line up the mowing lines across Areas:

  1. Create a big Work Plan with all the Areas you want to line up.
  2. Preview the Work Plan, which will take several seconds. It’s going to show you ALL your mowing lines for ALL Areas in the big Work Plan. Nice.

Now comes the tedious part…

  1. Choose one Area to use as the “standard,” or use, for example, a “straight up and down” mowing line pattern as your “standard.” Note the Areas where the mowing line angles need to be adjusted to match that “standard” and about how much you’d need to adjust them.
  2. Edit the Areas individually to adjust the Route Angle. Preview each edited Area on the Edit Area page to see if you’ve moved the lines the right way.
  3. When you think you’ve got it for the individual Areas, go back and Preview the big Work Plan.
  4. Review the mowing lines in the big Work Plan once more, go back and adjust Areas again 'til it’s done.

Results should be something like this (ignore that one Area that’s way off – that’s the Grass From Outer Space that I need to mow frequently):

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My effort here is not perfect, but it’s close enough. The place is up for sale, and I can’t see it from here, so “close enough” works. :wink:

Keeping in synch: If you’re rotating your Route Angles, mowing all your Areas in a row to completion will keep the Route Angles in synch. Use a different Route Rotation Degree settings if you mow some Areas more often than others to keep them in synch. But, yeah, these can fall out of synch, so review your big Work Plan periodically and make adjustments.

Hopefully this is more helpful than redundant for y’all. :grin:

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This was supposed to be a feature to line them all up, but I don’t think it ever made it out of the back log. Nice tricks to help line it up. Thanks for sharing.

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Yeah, AFAIK the “line them all up” is on the backlog.

Some other stuff I noticed for the “line them all up” feature to work best:

  • As the lines are based on Area boundaries, they’ll need to line up the lines themselves. The mowing lines in Area B may need to shift over a couple of inches to line up with Area A’s lines. They may need to require that Overlap be the same among Areas, which is reasonable.
  • The direction of the mowing needs to be the same between Areas as well to have long stripes all going the same way.
  • Possibly add some intelligence regarding mowing Area borders. Where Areas meet, don’t create border lines. This would be akin to “merge Areas for mowing,” which I think is another enhancement request that’s out there.

This stuff is complicated. It’s just a lawn mower, darn it! LOL!

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Hi there, thanks for sharing this workaround with the community. It could be really helpful for other users who have the same need. We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and tips.