I’ve been getting to grips with Vectorworks Landmark for the past couple of weeks. It’s certainly not without issues but does have some very useful tools, features and functionality for landscape architecture.
More to come possibly, but to start with I would highlight the VWL Grade Tool as something I’d love to see an equivalent of in Rhinolands.
In its 2D mode the Grade Tool is a very dynamic annotation tool very useful for working out levels in plan and saves a lot of calculator bashing!
Not the easiest to explain but the tool functions like this:
i) Activate the tool
ii) Click at two points - the top and bottom of the slope you want to define/analyse
iii) The Grade Settings menu appears -
The Object Properties tab allows you to create the Grade object in a number of different ways by selecting from drop down fields in the General Section -
The Global Settings tab allows control of the appearance of the Grade object
iv) when you’ve finished setting up the Grade object it looks something like this
Double clicking on the Grade object reopens the Grade Settings menu.
v) This would be useful in itself, but the even more excellent thing is that Grade objects can link up. If I add another grade object intersecting roughly perpendicular with the first, the second grade object picks up the level of the first grade where it intersects -
The linked grade objects can then be manipulated dynamically as a linked group - here I am moving the point where the three grades intersect e.g.
