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We are a Golf Course Architecture firm and I bought VW Landmark about 4 years ago and I am really happy with the software. I want to stick with it but we are getting more and more complicated sites which means we have to complicated cut and fill plans as well as Grading plans. The DTM site modelling part of the program is dire. The only useful part of it for a GCA is the pad which is good for tees and lakes. I do not want to leave the program. Do any of you know an Earthworks program that can be used together or side by side of Vectorworks? I would prefer one that works on a MAC but would be willing to use a separate PC to just do my calculations. I spoke with AGTEK.com but they are looking at $14,500 for the program. I might just have to go down that route but I hope not as that is a lot of investment. Hope you can advise. Brian Phillips Vectorworks 12.5 Landmark MacBook Pro Intel Duo Mac OS X

Katie, I just created a brand new document and it also printed in grey directly from the viewing area so I tried to print in a viewport and just the same happened. Brian.

Sorry, VW 11.5 on XP to a Designjet 500 42" plotter. Cheers.

Rob, I don't know much about the Space Planning side but I do use the terrain modelling in Landmark and it is very, very limited and in my opinion should not even be advertised in any brochure by Nemetschek. You cannot adjust the terrain with just contour adjustments and the cut and fill calculations are unstable. You can create terrain models in Architect the same as Landmark. Brian Phillips.

For some reason I am now getting a gray background on all of my prints. I must have done something, somewhere but I have no idea where... Do any of you guys have any idea what setting I could have adjusted? Cheers, Brian Phillips

Katie, How un-compatible is VW12 with the Intel Macs? Is there a list of tools etc that we should not use? Best regards, Brian Phillips Niblick Golf Design Norway

We have designed a golf course on an island. I have traced the island from a dxf file so that I now have a closed polyline. It is filled with a colour and looks great on the screen but as soon as I print to the plotter or send it to Distiller the fill breaks up so that the fill only works acroos half the island. I have tried to simplify the shape of the island but to avail. Anyone have any ideas what I could be doing? Cheers, Brian Phillips Golf Course Architect

I would rather have Jonathan helping on here with tips here and there with advertising than have no Jonathan at all. Keep up the good work. Brian

I also did the same last year. I bought a used license which was mac, confirmed with the VW people that I could upgrade to windows person and now have VW11 Landmark after using AutoCAD for about two years. Soooo happy with the change!! Brian Phillips Golf Course Architect www.niblickgolfdesign.com XP

The best way I know of printing the colour palette is as it says in the handbook: Tool>Utilities>Create Color Chart If desired select the Show color palette index numbers Scale up all the boxes to the size you want. I scaled mine up to a A0 sheet and hang it up on the wall next to me. jan15, I know you can mix colours (I do it in the gradient palette) but how do you transfer this to a palette file and where is the colour palette and how do you import this file to a working file? Cheers, Brian Phillips Golf Course Architect Niblick Golf Design Norway XP VW 11 Landmark

Robert or anybody else, I am working on a project with 0.5 m contours lines (about 50) and create a model no problem from it. I then use the pad tool to adjust the contours to creat a proposed model and that works brilliantly. I get a huge problem when I ask the program to work out the cut and fill. The figures are up in the million cubic figures when really they should be down in the thousands. Is there anything that I could be doing wrong. I sent the files to my support company in Britain and he is struggling to make sense of it as well. I have also tried just scanning the drawing then recreating the contours just over one area to 'pad' and only used 2m contours and still the figure up in the millions. The size I am talking about for the small calculation is a soccer pitch which is 60m x 100m with a 5 metre fence put around it. The pad is working great but the cut and fill is a nightmare. Any ideas? Cheers, Brian Phillips M.Sc. Golf Course Architect www.niblickgolfdesign.com XP VW11 Landmark

Robert, I have just realised what I have been doing wrong...sorry. The drawings are there when I open the resource browser. I had just been looking at what was open in layers. Sorry about that and thanks again. Will let you know how I get on adjusting the ones I am interested in.

Robert, Sorry but I have only the two drawings that I mentioned. Should I install the the CD again? Is there any risk in doing that with my work already on my harddrive? Shall I send you a copy of the file that I have or could you send me another file by email? The file that I have is only 412 k in size does that sound right? Cheers, Brian.

Robert, Thanks for that. There are only two titleblocks in the file. Arc A and Arc B which I suppose correspond to the vertical style and the horizontal style. There is a problem with the way you have suggested. The scaling for these titleblocks are for the amercian paper sizes are they not? If I changed the shape of Arc A and Arc B and then used them in my drawings for the normal European paper sizes is the scaling in the script not going to be wrong? Cheers, Brian. ps..I hope you can solve this as I really like the Issue manager.

Katie, I use Windows XP on a Toshiba Laptop, 2.66 GHZ Pentium 4, 512 RAM. VW11 Landmark. No problems...and very happy changing from AutoCAD to VW11. Love the product apart from the image import and print problem I have that I still have not got around to emailing you yet. Cheers, Brian

mgdecombe, I have inserted my titleblock from the Landmark palette. I don't know if that helps. I am really keen on using the Issue Manager part of the program and like yourself am new to VW. I have been converted from AutoCAD to VW no problem. Robert or anyone else, Is there anyway I can create my own titleblock that works in Issue Manager as the only good one in the Landmark palette are American based paper sheets like C/D/E/F etc. Are there any good A3 - A0 title blocks in the CD provided or is there anywhere I can download them. The existing title blocks do not have Issue Manager information on them. Cheers, Brian Phillips Golf Course Architect PC HP Designjet 500 VW11 - Landmark

Katie, I use a PC and was wondering why I get a blank grey image when I use the import eps tool. When I use import image it does not import perfectly. Thanks Brian

I agree with old guy. My partner is based in Aberdeen Scotland, while I am based in Oslo Norway. I send all my plot files to his printer in Scotland as plt. files. We are such good clients with the printers that we are now allowed to just upload our files via the ftp server instead of by e-mail. Yes, plt files are large especially if like us you have aerials embedded in the file but in these days of broadband that is not a problem. Here in Norway, Statoil petrol stations and most well known hotels have wireless, so if I really want to send something fast I sit outside the petrol station hook up with my password and send the files off while I have a coffee or make some phonecalls. I plot out the files just as old guy recommended, I downloaded the printer driver that the printer uses off the internet and then just plot to file. I also own my own plotter which is a godsend to check all plots before I send off anything. I own a HP Designjet 500 plotter and the cost in my opinion is worth it. Brian Phillips M.Sc Golf Course Architect www.niblickgolfdesign.com

Jan15, Now I am embarassed!! How simple is that.. Thank You. Brian

I have just changed from AutoCAD to VW11 Landmark and have to say I am very impressed! I have one question that someone might be able to answer. I plot a lot of drawings to file. I see that you can do this in VW11. However, the file comes out as a .dat file and I have to change the extension to a .plt file for it to work. I send my drawings to printing companies around the world depending on what project I am working on. Is this a bug in the system that creates a .dat file instead of a .plt file? Also, when it creates the file it places it in a file where I do not really want it. In AutoCAD I could tell the program where I wanted the file to be stored...is this possible? That was two questions...sorry.. Brian Phillips Golf Course Architect