Reply To: Design Software and system

If you are a paper and pencil guy, all you have to do is apply the same drawing principles to screen as you do on paper and you will have aesthetically pleasing just as you do now. Line weight (hierarchy), hachures, stippling,, …. can all be done with a  basic CAD program once you gain an understanding and control of the commands. ACAD Lt is just fine if you learn the commands.

It sounds like you are looking for something that will do that part of it automatically. That would be throwing away what you already know.

If you want that sort of stuff happening by letting the program defaults keep you from having to get through a learning curve (that’s OK, too) something like Dynascape, Vectorworks, or ProLandscape might be better for you.

… or you could follow Robert’s advice that I’m sure will be forthcoming. … wait for it, … wait for it, ….