As you look down the line of Autodesk huge list of products, features for landscape architects dont seem to be a consideration. LandFX came about ($1800 add on) and it does a great job. I feel that if you are using CAD as an LA and dont have LFX, your losing a ton of production time. I would need more than LT for CAD which pushes the $ up a bit. LFX also adds onto BricsCAD ($500). Throw in Photoshop or Illustrator ($600ish) to render and Sketchup ($500 – they are eliminating CAD import on the free version) and now your talking some good cash just for one seat. Vectorworks seems to have all of those in one package for $1700-2200 and a large user base/support. Their marketing sells itself, and it sold me. However, initial research prior to and after purchase showed a lot of comments in forums and testimonials claiming it “easy to learn”, etc.. After a few months, I havent found the switch quite as easy and was curious as to the experience of other users who either switched with ease, struggled thru the switch with victory, or tried but went back to CAD.
