[Brian J Wethington]

1. Well, as near as I can tell, a person in a wheel chair can’t actually get to the accessible ramp to the building (on the left side).  The “accessible route” between the wall of the ramp and the corner of the building looks too narrow for a wheel chair to get past…not to mention the gate and fence that prevents access to the ramp (although I am assuming that is someone accessible to those that need it).

2. The “crosswalk” is nearly completely blocked.

3. That someone is paying money to eat at Gordon Biersch…that place is expensive and the food is mediocre at best.   

[Brian J Wethington]

The benefit is really only for licensed LA’s who would like a comprehensive work history and a need for licensure in multiple states. So, until you’ve had two or three jobs, are licensed, and need reciprocity to multiple states, it probably isn’t necessary.

Or, if you want to provide CLARB with yearly financial support beyond licensure fees…which is not a bad idea considering they do a great deal to legitimize our profession and are worthy of our support.

[Brian J Wethington]

Clayton: When I added detail to a terrain model I have it add the new lines between planes as solid (or visible) instead of hidden.  If you use the eraser with while holding the shift key and select those lines (like your erasing them), you will turn them from visible lines back to hidden geometry.  A assume it does this so you can see what your making when you add detail. 

[Brian J Wethington]

My 2 cents, however YMMV (your mileage may vary). Indesign is a publishing program, much like PageMaker was back in the day. You may have more success with Illustrator as a tool for vector based rendering (I am assuming that is what your using it for, then exporting to an eps or some other file that can be imported into AutoCAD). Illustrator may be the better tool.

As far as efficiency, I don’t see any particular gain in MAC vs. PC in regards to Adobe products, although each has thier fans and detractors. If there is any difference, I think it comes down to preference and workflow rather than hard and fast number crunching. Using the right program would probably have a much more profound effect.

AutoCAD is native only to a windows (PC) environment. To run it on an Mac you need a virtual machine running a Windows OS of some sort with AutoCAD on that. I’ve had several friends and colleagues work in that environment for some time and without exception there seems to bugs and often lags and crashes even on the faster machines.

I’d say look at getting a decent desktop machine running a current version of Windows 7 (or XP), Adobe CS5, and try using Illustrator with AutoCAD to achieve your workflow. There may be a learning curve to Illustrator (although many tools and vector-based art should transfer without issue), but it was created to handle the larger, vector rendering that it sounds like your trying to do with a publication layout program (InDesign).

Good luck!

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