Land8 | ernie garcia | Activity https://land8.com/members/erniegarcia/activity/ Activity feed for ernie garcia. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 50464d821dadecd94654b83b5bf056a2 ernie garcia replied to the topic Mainstream Hollywood Movies Portraying Landscape Architects? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/mainstream-hollywood-movies-portraying-landscape-architects/#post-160603 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:29:06 +0000 in the pilot episode of “angel,” one of the talent agents claims to be dating a landscape architect.

]]> 0 744cdfbf556e45501a64ee20edec51e3 ernie garcia replied to the topic Why designers are afraid of showing hand sketches to their clients? in the forum GRAPHICS https://land8.com/forums/topic/why-designers-are-afraid-of-showing-hand-sketches-to-their-clients/#post-159869 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:52:50 +0000 I think a good deal of us already out of school are so ingrained in our CAD programs that we forget (or never learned) how to draw by hand.  After I was laid off from a company that did little to no hand drawing (unless I was asked to draw a perspective), I went back to doing my residential work by hand. 
Here sketchup works as a blessing and a cu…[Read more]

]]> 0 085e97b44728ed0a8b30a2cec54b9b6e ernie garcia replied to the topic Help! Looking for theoretical info about using a "Big Idea" to start the design process and LA's that use it. in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/help-looking-for-theoretical-info-about-using-a-big-idea-to-start-the-design-process-and-las-that-use-it/#post-160415 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:10:45 +0000 There is a book called “From Concept to Form in Landscape Design” by Grant W. Reid  that may help a bit.  The first 10 pages or so discuss methods of the design process and essentially how a concept is evolved into something that you can take to design documents.  The rest of the book discusses pretty basic stuff like formal geometric versus na…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c442f92f500944cc5a22a9abd772e47 ernie garcia replied to the topic Autocad 2011 - Where do I start? in the forum TECHNOLOGY http://land8.com/forums/topic/autocad-2011-where-do-i-start/#post-163479 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:02:12 +0000 I had similar problems transitioning to CAD 2011 from 2006 or 2007, whichever release altered the print menus.
 
We had a CAD class at A&M (many moons ago) that was not very useful.  At the time, it was an elective and not a requirement.  If you work in anything that is not residential, it is essential.  Residential design/build appears to be the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d289163346c566eb8a3a7143d9cf8a1 ernie garcia replied to the topic Why do we make built elements brown all the time? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/why-do-we-make-built-elements-brown-all-the-time/#post-161078 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:27:24 +0000 if you made them blue, planes would hit them. 

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