Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark is a guide to landscape designers who want to use Vectorworks to create and document their projects.
The author, Tamsin Slatter, assumes that the reader does not know, or knows Vectorworks very little, and goes through all the steps, from the initial set up of tools and menus through drawing hybrid objects, textures, lighting and printing.
Almost all explanations are based on the development stages of a single design project (particularly from 'Setting Out the Design' onwards), trying to bring the book content closer to the computer-equipped landscape design practice. In my opinion, this strategy is great for readers who already know some Vectorworks (or other CAD program) and have an idea of what the end result will be.
I believe CAD software beginners, however, will have some difficulty understanding the work sequence, especially early in the book. Those users would benefit from more detailed explanations of basic design and sheet preparation, even if this is not the main subject of the book.
Those already familiar with Vectorworks will make good use of explanations on Landmark tools use. The book is nicely written, clear and direct and will be of great help for those who read it carefully, from beginning to end, trying all the exercises.
Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark - 2010 Version
Tamsin Slatter
Columbia, MD, United States
Nemetschek North America, 2009
233 pages - wire bound - comes with CD.
For more information and to buy online: www.nemetschek.net/training
