Michael Lynskey

That is a really great blog!  Thank’s for sharing and hope the rest of the trip goes well.  What a great idea…

P.S.  I love Pittsburgh.

The Civil 3D feature lines work a lot like SketchUp lines, interacting with each other as you raise/lower them.  Just keep items you don’t want interacting in different “sites”, much like SketchUp groups and you’ll be fine.  Civil 3D has many useful tools for editing the feature lines, such as by slope, by reference surface (“draping” on ex…[Read more]

Do you have access to Civil 3D?  You have the most control that way & then could export either a TIN or breaklines (feature lines in Civil 3D) into your rendering program of choice.  Might be overkill if you don’t need survey-level accuracy, though.

You could probably get an Ecological Engineering degree in about the same time it takes to earn an MLA.  That might be a little more valuable in the current job market.  Just an idea…

I’m a little surprised on how little consensus there is on something this fundamental to our practice, although this is an admittedly small sampling of opinions. I guess it’s just another aspect of our profession, being sort of an intermediary between the other more specialized fields, that we need to be fluent in either system of…[Read more]