Reply To: what the mainly software used to make 3d?

[James Sipes]

I just don’t see landscape architects using Catia or DP … and given the existing tool set in Revit and ArchiCad, most won’t we using those either.

My advice …
(1) learn SketchUp
(2) figure out what program you want to import your SketcUp models into for rendering
(3) gain a better understanding of 3D data in order to know how to move this info from one program to another

and maybe a fourth … Google earth is great for viewing 3D terrain and dropping in base plans and simple 3D shapes … and it is amazingly easy

RFox, are you doing any BIM projects now? Got any good examples?