 |   Author : Nicholas T. Dines Edition : 2 Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional List Price: |
Product Description
For the first time ever, this CD-ROM provides professionals with a full-featured, interactive CAD library of standard landscape design and construction details. Its extensive database of more than 350 landscape details are organized and indexed by project type, climate, intensity of use and substrate condition. With just a few keystrokes, designers will now be able to call up generic details, and find appropriate applications and installation notes as well as common specifications and the most current cost data. What's more, details can be easily download into the most widely used CAD programs, such as AutoCAD and DataCAD, or can be copied as PICT images.Customer reviews
Good for a start on detailing... by .. P. Briggs (North America)
After having wandered through it a bit, this software seems to provide a good starting point for detailing. The interface is quite easy to use, and provides enough choices to make the results fairly accurate. The details that are provided form a good skeleton for devising more appropriate ones (if necessary). The only problem is that the details are completely exploded, so changing them can be tedious (i.e. altering dimensions or hatches), and depending on your office standards, there's a lot of layer work that may be done to get pen assignments and all of that done. So, at first glance it looks like a good tool for a starting point, and to provide 'place holders' for the information that's needed on the details... plus... easy to use and the graphical interface is nice.