Vectorworks Landmark

Vectorworks 2010 Landmark is the ultimate 2D/3D CAD solution developed by Nemetschek, which has been developing software in the field of built environment design for over 20 years. More than 450,000 designers, architects, landscape architects, landscape planners, and engineers all over the world use Vectorworks.

“We’re finding that more and more students are coming in with VectorWorks training— it’s being recognized and respected as a less expensive but far superior design tool than AutoCAD.” -PWP Landscape Architecture on using Vectorworks Landmark

Landmark covers all stages of your work:

- sketching
- designing
- planning
- 3D modeling
- rendering (stills and animation)
- presenting your work
- drawing planting plans

The 2010 upgrade presents many improvements and new features. I will highlight some of them:

- grade calculator is integrated in Landmark to make work with slopes faster. You can calculate if a slope is appropriate for a path or a road in no-time

- Parking tool - drawing small or large, simple or complex, parking has never been easier to design. Just define the basic parking unit, then draw an area, line or curve and Landmark will automatically distribute parking spots

- 3D snapping

- The object library includes many pre-sets, such as 2D plants, plant symbols, pavements, 3D objects, vehicles, human figures– everything you need for quick results

- With Renderworks your 3D models can be rendered as photo realistic or as more artistic images. You can easily produce animation as fly-by or walk-through.

- Huge Plant Database expanded to nearly 5000 specimens. Each one is accompanied with various useful info, such as Latin names, colors of plants throughout the seasons, height, spread, growth, flower, usage, soil, and many more.

You can export the data to Excel with one click, which is useful for making plant lists of your projects. The plant database is connected to the Internet, so you can constantly update the images of plants from Google images, Monrovia database and others, within the software in the very same window.

- Excellent file exchange. You can open and save .dwg and many other CAD 2D and 3D formats

- With Landmark, you can easily open Google Sketch-up models, change it as you wish and later export it to Google Earth

- Numerous tutorials included in the package and available online + user-friendly interface is, what makes Landmark easy to learn and understand.

Vectorworks Landmark is definitely ‘The’ software for Landscape Architects – it will be what you want it to be, at any stage of the project.

Check out the official gallery and see for yourself:

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