Land8 | Michael Lynskey | Activity https://land8.com/members/michaellynskey/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Lynskey. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2008125c42dc2a2c1f164e3b1bc93e6f Michael Lynskey replied to the topic Landscape Architecture Travel Map/Blog in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-architecture-travel-mapblog/#post-156348 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:01:28 +0000 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.

]]> 0 89c87b014730eb9bb313a8dfc59ce292 Michael Lynskey replied to the topic Terrain Modeling in the forum TECHNOLOGY https://land8.com/forums/topic/terrain-modeling/#post-156351 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:58:24 +0000 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]

]]> 0 3ff5b225d28f50cd4823a7f7940a977f Michael Lynskey replied to the topic Terrain Modeling in the forum TECHNOLOGY https://land8.com/forums/topic/terrain-modeling/#post-156353 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:59:09 +0000 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.

]]> 0 ac1f4e3022441efa2e9499e2e692c3ee Michael Lynskey replied to the topic Not what I signed up for in the forum EDUCATION https://land8.com/forums/topic/not-what-i-signed-up-for/#post-157112 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:36:43 +0000 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…

]]> 0 4f59d3b020d8e149eb1828c71c246fe1 Michael Lynskey replied to the topic Drawing Units: Decimal vs. Architectural in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/drawing-units-decimal-vs-architectural/#post-167592 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:04:42 +0000 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]

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