VectorWorks Landmark: Features

Create dynamic 2D and 3D designs, glide through your projects with a tightly streamlined interface, and access extensive features and resource libraries. VectorWorks Landmark offers the features you want in a comprehensive, intuitive software that will multi-task just like you do.

• Work at any scale and on any size project.

• A suite of precision 2D drafting tools allows you to draw anything quickly and easily.

• Explore forms and bring drawings to life with free-form 3D modeling features.

• Free plant symbol library. Plant graphics are completely customisable and can be shown with a click of the mouse in colour presentation mode or in schematic mode for construction documents.

• Exclusive 2D sketch rendering technology allows you to switch between "squeal" and hard lines.

• Time saving Place Plant tool makes it easy to place plants at specific spacing intervals and in groupings. Spacing intervals and groupings can be easily edited after the fact, and overlapping plans can be shown as masses.
Automatic plant tags can be displayed for plants and groupings and update as the design changes.

• A built-in plant database gives you instant access to a vast source of plant information. Easily import data from existing databases, access plant data from web sources, or type in your own.

• Automatically generate "linked" plant lists from your planting plans--a change to one updates the other.

• Property Line tool make it easy to define the boundaries of a property. You can annotate the property line as either Azimuth or Bearing and the annotations auto-update if the bounder is reshaped.

• Hardscapes tool that makes it easy to create patterned areas and walkways. It automatically tags hardscapes and reports area and perimeter information for easy take-offs.

• Vast free library of site objects including furniture, lighting, game fields, and entourage such as people, cars and more.

• Free library of plant images from xFrogT. You'll find photorealistic and artistic images of plants in top, elevation and 3D views, in two seasonal views and two growth stages.

• Access a palette of structural shapes and other tools that make drawing details a snap.

• Access to CAD details from leading product manufactures via www.CADdetails.com.

• Handy Massing Model tool make it simple to drop in houses and buildings.

• Suite of architectural building tools to document existing building or build new structures. You'll find tools for drawing walls, doors, windows, roofs, stairs, ramps (complete with handrails) and other architectural elements quickly and easily.

• Layout parking spaces in 2D and 3D--even number the spaces.

• Easily create roads in 2D and 3D complete with gutters and guardrails.

• Digital Terrain Modeling:

• Creation of contour maps and 3D terrain models from survey information or field notes;
• Site analysis including cut/fill, flow, slope, zone of visualization, section cuts;
• Site modeling tool for easy creation of pads, fences, low-speed roads/paths, and walls,

• Easily create roads in 2D and 3D complete with gutters and guardrails.

• Irrigation design tools including pipes, heads and drip emitters.

• Unlimited colour choices and pre-defined colour palettes.

• Free libraries of hatches, stipples, gradients, and image fills.

• 180 Hatch patterns from UnilockT.

• Easily embellish your design's digital photographs, plant images and even PDF files.

• Flexible page layout tools make it easy to create presentation boards.

• Import/Export options:

• DXF/DWG
• Image Files, including jpg, tif, psd, png, bmp and more
• EPSF
• PDF
• QuickTime and QuickTime VR
• .SHP and geo-referenced image files
• .SKP (Sketchup 6)
• .KLM (Google Earth)
• .STL (Stereo Lithography)

• Red-line and revision management feature built-in.

• Workgroup referencing technology that allows you to break up large projects and allow teams of designers to collaborate on the same project.

• Built-in scripting.

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