Book: Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark
5th Edition by Tamsin Slatter

Book: Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark 5th Edition by Tamsin Slatter covers the process of residential garden design using Vectorworks Landmark. Author Tamsin Slatter, the leading Vectorworks Landmark expert in the U.K., guides the reader through a landscape design project from start to completion.

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Beginning with a site survey, Tamsin details the processes of drawing up measurements and importing information from a surveyor. She then explains how to draft a design and formalize it using the software's hard and soft landscaping tools and 3D modeling capabilities. Finally, she demonstrates how to produce hardscape and planting schedules and present the design in both 2D and 3D perspective views.

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This edition of the manual has been updated for use with the newest version of Vectorworks. With step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations throughout, it is the ideal reference to keep on hand following your initial product training.

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The exercise-based training covers:

• Setting up your “Drawing Board” to make starting new projects easy and efficient
• Setting up and storing your own graphical style for reuse
• Drawing up your own or importing a survey
• Creating a layout plan using simple drafting techniques
• Drawing and specifying quantities of hard landscaping with steps and simple level changes
• Using text and dimension tools to add relevant notes to your plans
• Placing and customizing plants and then producing a planting schedule
• Adding further 3D elements to the garden
• Adding lighting to the garden
• Basic rendering techniques
• Creating 3D views, sections, and construction drawings
• Preparing drawings for print/sharing