How to use AutoCAD as your primary landscape design software.
The hardest part about learning a new software is overcoming the learning curve and knowing you will be confident within the software once completed. Rest assured, this course is designed to teach you a method to repeatedly use on all future landscape plans with pre-built tools to start designing immediately.
What you’ll learn
- How to set up AutoCAD LT for landscape design.
- How to create accurate base plans of existing project sites.
- How to create landscape layers in AutoCAD.
- How to use 24 of the most used landscape commands in AutoCAD.
- How to dimension patios.
- How to import a Plat of Survey.
- How to work with XREFS (other files from AEC indsutry).
- How to create a plant list.
- How to draw a topography/contour section.
- How to set up your landscape plan on paper.
- How to export your landscape plans for client meetings.
Course Content
- Overview of AutoCAD –> 2 lectures • 13min.
- 24 AutoCAD Commands for Landscape Design –> 24 lectures • 2hr 7min.
- AutoCAD Settings for Landscape Design –> 2 lectures • 7min.
- Developing a Landscape Plan from Scratch –> 15 lectures • 36min.
Requirements
The hardest part about learning a new software is overcoming the learning curve and knowing you will be confident within the software once completed. Rest assured, this course is designed to teach you a method to repeatedly use on all future landscape plans with pre-built tools to start designing immediately.
This course is strucutred to teach a complete beginner of AutoCAD the ins and outs of what’s important in the software if you’re a landscape designer. All tutorials focus on landscape design and cuts out the general use of the program. However, the course is also designed to enhance the knowledge and speed of an intermediate landscape designer who already uses AutoCAD as it provides individual tutorials on AutoCAD commands that you may not have used before.
During the course, materials are provided to expedite the learning curve and for you to use on all your future landscape projects. These materials include:
- 100+ AutoCAD Layers for Landscape
- Plant Symbols
- Site Diagrammatic Symbols
- Title Blocks
- Pen Settings
- 24 AutoCAD Comannds for Landscape Design eBook
- Landscape Design Checklist for Homeowners
By the end of this course, you will understand AutoCAD and how to use it for landscape design. The course and sequential videos will be the foundation to all of your future landscape plans. The pre-built assets / tools can also be used on all your landscape plans to eliminate the need to create tools from scratch.