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It took me a good month to begin to feel comfortable with the change. The program works totally different than autocad / Landcadd. I am glad to have switched, even though Landmark has a long way to come, especially in irrigation design.

By the way, I stayed PC based. [Cool]

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I am a landscape architect seriously considering changing cad formats from Autocad (obviously PC based)to a Mac based system. Nemetschek has sent me a trial version of VW 10.5 to evaluate, but I am having considerable trouble with the conversion. This board gives me hope that other landscape architect and land planners are sucessfully using non-autocad based software.

Has anyone on this board made the same transistion and/or experienced the same difficulties I am from Autocad to Vectorworks. I need to be very comfortable with a new cad software before I can make a decision on siwtching to a Mac.

Thanks for any imput or comments.

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The key to the conversion is to forget what you know about layers from Autocad. Layers become classes in Vectorworks, and VW layers give you a whole new way to control drawings. The changes in the interface become more natural over time. I made the switch about a year ago, with increasing success. I still use Autocad when needed, but gravitate more toward VW. I have used CAD based overlay programs (Landcadd) and find VW to be far superior. Just be prepared for a long learning curve.

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Just post here with all your questions. We should be able to help you speed up your learning curve. If you can - get the Landmark tutorial CD. It is helpful. I wish VW would put on a Landscape training specific class somewhere such as Salt Lake. Hummm training, skiing, cheap air fare. Might be able to afford the expensive class

[big Grin]

Hint hint

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quote:

Originally posted by tvetter:

Just post here with all your questions. We should be able to help you speed up your learning curve. If you can - get the Landmark tutorial CD. It is helpful. I wish VW would put on a Landscape training specific class somewhere such as Salt Lake. Hummm training, skiing, cheap air fare. Might be able to afford the expensive class

[big Grin]

I would appreciate it if you would have a go at this for me tvetter:
[smile]


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Viper x

It works for me, only not as smooth as it used to in previous versions. To get it to change the symbols already in the dwg. I redesign the symbol per Katie's instructions on your other link. I have found to make the existing symbols change or refresh, I need to click "show plant settings on and off". I am not sure why this works, but it is probably a bug. I am a notorious symbol redesigner because many of my detailed residences will have 50 - 60 different plants.

Let me know if this works for you.

Thom [smile]

[ 11-19-2003, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: tvetter ]

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