DB Landscape

I've got a Landmark 10 drawing that my client would like to print in quantity to hand out. With a similar drawing created in VW9 I exported it as a Jpeg and it was usable. I've made several attempts as a Jpeg and a Tiff with no success. Here's the problem: The drawing is set to print on my plotter as an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. It prints fine. When I convert it to a Jpeg or Tiff it prints 4 x 5 or 6 x 8 but not 8 1/2 x 11. I've tried resizing, I've selected the image in Jpeg prior to converting, etc. Nothing seems to work exporting this drawing from Landmark10, even though the older drawing in VW 9 exports correctly. ???

Dear Katie; I've been unable to change their sizes or anything else once they are created. I've selected them individually and in groups with no success.

Katie; Thanks! I had no idea that units applied to dimensions. What is the 'OIP' and 'changing in the leader or trailer'? I've tried changing the text with no success. Also, in the road data, I can't seem to change the text size. (Haven't read ahead in the manual yet.) On sharp curves the text overlaps. I'll try manipulating it. Is it possible to set the text size before creating the curve data?

Katie; Thanks. Now to determine how to modify the road segments. Sharp curves must be wider than straightaways.

Robert; It worked perfectly. Thanks much.

Robert; I'm not certain what an 'arc smoothed vertex' is. Here's what I've tried: Make a polyline with corner vertex (straight line) to start, change to curved lines, change back to straight lines to finish. Result: error invalid selection. 2. Create a polyline with all straight lines segments, edit to add curves and eliminate all the corners. Result: error, invalid selection. 3. Create a polyline with all straight line segments. Result: works, but I cannot edit or modify the resulting roadway to turn it into curves. Result: frustration and shouting! I'm missing something in the instructions (which I've reviewed thoroughly a multitude of times. There seems to be a step missing in the manual. I get another window beforet the road is created that has fields to select road width, length, etc. So, it makes me wonder if there are other problems with the manual.

I have several requests for Landmark: Text on site plans is challenging to read, even on large monitors. On large site plans it becomes difficult to know what spec's have been included. Currently I print test plots and mark them up. It would be wonderful to have a tool to expand text to a reasonable size to read on the screen when the cursor is moved over the text box. This would eliminate a great deal of zooming in and out and a lot of test plots. I find that I have sometimes included spec's in several different locations because, when the entire site plan is on screen, I can't read them since the text is small. Re: Dimensions: I have very little call for inches, let alone fractions of inches in dimensioning. On sites of 1/4 acre or more inches are useless and even, on larger projects increments of less than 10'. It is possible on other CAD programs to edit dimensioning text and to set defaults for dimensioning formats. Plant Placement: My 'dream' plant placement tool would work this way: I create or import a spreadsheet file with botanical names in the first column, and whatever other information I wish to include as long as there is a symbol attached to the plant name in the database, or a simple GUI interface to create a symbol in one column. This would mean that it is only necessary to add or create a symbol for plants in the drawing, rather than for every plant in the database. This would allow the utilization of excellent databases in existence. When I want to place plants on the drawing I open the spreadsheet, select the symbol, place the symbol, and the database updates the number of plants I've placed in that drawing. Then, an order list, plant count, cost, or whatever can be generated. For some projects of mine the plant list is small, for others it can run into the hundreds. There are plants available in local nurseries that may never be sold again. I know, I attempt to get local propagators to grow excellent plants. It's an uphill struggle. Including all the information on the 'once in a decade' plants in the database is unnecessary. The name, source, size, and price are sufficient, if even all of them are necessary. Currently there is Xeriscape information in the database which is general. A Xeriscape plant in San Francisco may not be drought tolerant in Sacramento, let alone Palm Desert. Plants that are hardy in USDA zone 6 in the eastern U.S. may perish in Zone 8 Vancouver due to dramatic differences in summer warmth and hardening off. Therefore, the ability to draw on databases for specific locales is essential, not optional. Creating a plant database for the entire US is of limited utility. You might as well try to create a database for all of Asia. Roberto Burle Marx started his practice at a time when roses and lilacs were imported from European nurseries. Local conditions and seasonal availability mean that swift and efficient modification of plant lists is more successful than creating a single, do all, database, at least in my practice.

A clarification on this post: I get the error message when I try to place station points on any polyline containing curves.

I'm attempting to create a road in Landmark 9. According to the user's guide 4-5 I create a polyline. It shows an error message 'invalid selection' for everything but polylines composed of straight line segments. Any curves at all show this error message. I'm working on a Xeon based PC workstation with lots of RDRam. I'm trying to create these in 2D for a start and getting nowhere at creating a road.

Is Landmark compatible with, or function with, Wacom Tablets? If so, how does a tablet interface with a new, or an existing drawing?