Spot coordinate, spot elevation and spot slope are powerful annotation functions in Revit.
It looks like Lands Design has spot slope covered with the laSlope command, but am I right that Lands Design doesn’t currently offer currently spot elevation and spot coordinate functionality?
Spot elevations and spot coordinates are absolutely essential in landscape drawings for construction. IMO the addition of these tools is essential in terms of Lands Design being a viable alternative to Revit.
Hi,
Thanks for your suggestion. We already developed the elevation mark tool available in Lands Design 6 & RhinoLands. See this: https://youtu.be/l7i8-Qh8sYc?si=gw_AHnZ41e9tYR7l
Spot coordination is available but not so straightforward. We’re listing that for the next version.
Hi @elham many thanks for coming back to me.
Just to confirm: the elevation mark tool ‘reads’ the elevation at any point on surfaces modelled in Rhino and adjust the elevation value accordingly?
I understood from this LandsDesign help page that laInsertLevel inserts a symbol where the elevation value needs to be entered manually, But maybe elevation mark is a different/updated tool?
I’m in the process of firing up my dormant Lands Design licence so will actually be trying this out shortly!
On another point, I may well have some informed feedback/suggestions for Lands Design Planting Plan/Planting Schedule functionality. I need to check the current functionality before writing in more detail but I believe my feedback/suggestion may relate to the ability to set up multiple herbaceous mixes for different areas within one planting plan. This functionality is key in current best practice planting design and can be found in Keyscape for autocad and possibly other planting plan/schedule plugins/software.
Hope this makes sense!
I would be delighted if Rhino and Lands Design could become the best cad & BIM tool for Landscape Architecture and enable an escape from the dismal experience of Autodesk software!
The elevation mark you mentioned is for the AutoCAD version as is not the level mark object of the new version. You will find it as the level mark in version 6. It’s smart and automatically recognizes the elevation of the insertion point.
Thanks for sharing your suggestions and feedback with us!
Great news!
Just to clarify on this specifically - does Lands Design have this functionality at present or is it in the works for the next update?
Many thanks
Level Mark as a smart object is one of the new features included in the recently released Lands Design 6 version:
Spot coordinate is not present yet. Level Mark object has the option to set a custom text, so it could be used as spot coordination, but in a manual way. We’ll improve this in future versions.