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I don’t know what is typical, but it does add to your marketability if/when you either nee or want to work somewhere else and especially if you step out on your own. The best time to get licensed, in my opinion, is when you can. If you should ever find yourself looking for work, you probably won’t have the financial resources to get licensed, nor…[Read more]

I typically create the base in autocad (flatten if needed), then import the drawing into Sketchup.  I use a lot of plugins to further cleanup the drawing in SU, also to join line, purge any unnecessary layers.  Then run “make faces” (another SU plugin) to generate faces of closed segments, then begin extruding.  
After I am happy with the mo…[Read more]

Hello everyone!
Again, I am in the same boat and looking for any study materials for Section “F” that may be available for sharing.  If anybody has material they would like to share, please send along to krogule2@msu.edu
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks so much!

Anthony,
Bricscad is one of the Intellicads. It is dwg and I’ve never seen anything funky with those files when in the CE office. If I needed full Acad, that is what I would get. You used to be able to run Carlson Survey software over it, but I think Autodesk got Carlson to not work with them anymore, but I’m not sure on that. It does lisp…[Read more]

Anthony, I don’t believe that you can use lisp routines in LT. It does have the align command which I am embarrassed to say that I was unfamiliar with. No issues with importing or clipping images or pdf. Not exactly sure what you mean by coordinate based layout, but if you mean laying our using surveyor’s bearings and distances, that is no problem…[Read more]

Rhino 3d. Nearly identical. You can customize the key commands and the look to be the same as AutoCad, works with dwg files and maintains all the layers and styles. I would still prefer Autocad to work in cad documents, but Rhino comes very close. Basically if you know how to use AC, then you know how to use Rhino since mostly all the functions…[Read more]

Thanks Jim!

Thanks Luke!

Thanks Chris!  

Thanks Eric!  I appreciate the info and offer.  The ability to xref dwg files in is good to know and a definite plus.

Thanks for the response Andrew.  At my last office I had purchased a few licenses of LT in order to try and save some money and they worked out ok, though we did eventually end up going back to all full versions.  I do most of my 3D work in SketchUp and Rhino and Solidworks so I could probably get away with using LT as well.  My biggest issue is…[Read more]

Hi Robert:
Thanks for the response and great questions!  I’m in the process of setting up my own firm so it will be used for all firm based work, which is fairly small at the moment but growing.  At the moment I am using an A.C. 2016 license from my office but that’ll only last as long as I’m working there.  At the moment my primary computer is ru…[Read more]

Anthony, Vectorworks has the ability to import DWG files in two ways, depending on how you expect to use the information. A direct import enables you you manage the geometry as if you created it, and can directly convert the lines and shapes to smart site specific objects. A referenced import is like an ex-ref (external referenced) file. Which…[Read more]

Hi Anthony, there is a really great open source program called Draftsight, they have a free version as well as paid for versions that are a fraction of the price of AutoCAD.
http://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-software/offerings/

Seek out CAD programs that have dwg as their native file format. That will narrow your search, BricsCad comes to mind. I would not recommend VWorks for that reason and the learning curve involved to be proficient. Best of luck.

Well here is the “where”
http://www.homedsgn.com/2013/08/31/villa-nilsson/

There are a number of companies that produce Intellicad which is basically a clone of AutoCAD for about 20% of the price. AutoCAD seems to have worked out business deals with some of the “add on” software companies so that you may find some are no longer available for Intellicad. I believe there are some companies producing landscape specific…[Read more]

Can anyone else comment on their test preparation for California Supplemental Exam. For example, being that I’m new in the region, I’m learning all I can on California Native Plants and their horticulture requirements. I’m spending most of my study time learning the plant communities most of them belong in, is this an overkill? Will anyone else…[Read more]

Walter,
How long was it when you took it, if you don’t mind me asking.

Very easy, when I took it they sent you the materials, read through them and then took the exam.  Simple and straight forward.  Firebreaks, water sensative design.  It is all in the materials they send you.