Dave McCorquodale

99% of what we do is for residential pools and we use Pool Studio.  They have a landscape program called Viz Terra that is similar, but I don’t have any real experience with it.  Pool Studio is flat out the best way we’ve found to communicate our ideas to the clients (and that equates to more sold projects).  Being able to see in 3D what they ar…[Read more]

we use an HP designjet 800ps 42″.  got it refurbished from a place online called Minnesota Computers several years ago.  can’t remember the cost but I think around 1K give or take a couple hundred.  Great service from them, enough to buy from them again when the need arises.  Ink use is great.  Doesn’t scan, but we don’t have a huge need for over…[Read more]

I’ve read the forum for a while but generally don’t say much.  I’d echo the comments from above by saying that I don’t look as often for reasons not unlike those above.  While things in Houston never really slowed down during the market downturn, I hope things are looking better for those that have seen a pretty rough go of it.  When I moved he…[Read more]

Landscape architecture is better, of course!  Kidding aside, Kansas State was set up such that all design disciplines went through the same first year program.  Toward the end, each college pitched their program to the 1st year students and we headed off down our respective paths.  I presume that most schools do this, but if a school has a st…[Read more]

HP 7780 (?) Just under $300 I think.  Noticed that when I printed from a residential 3D software and CAD that line drawings were not printing to scale.  There has to be a way to correct it, but probably above my echelon level.  I turned off all scaling, etc and went through all the GUI settings, but never got it right.  Does good on color for …[Read more]