Vectorworks® Landmark is a tailored CAD solution for landscape architecture, landscape design, and land planning professionals in both municipal and private enterprise fields. With Vectorworks Landmark, you can handle all phases of a design: quickly drawing the first idea or sketch, easily developing the design, creating compelling presentations, and documenting construction plans, all while visualizing the design in 2D or 3D.

 

Flexible:

Enjoy the Freedom to Design the Way You Want

Work on any size project in 2D or 3D. Design whatever you can dream up. With the Vectorworks Landmark application, you’re not limited by the software. The possibilities are wide open.

 

Range of Projects

Work on any type of project with a flexible design environment. Design residential plans at ¼-inch scale up to urban plans at 1:1,000 or larger. The elegant design tools easily scale up or down to accommodate your work.

 

Graceful 2D Designing

Sketch out concepts, create illustrative master plans, and produce precise construction drawings. The sophisticated 2D drafting tools and unique 2D presentation capabilities of the Vectorworks Landmark program make it easy.

 

Powerful 3D Modelling

Whether you’re working in 2D or 3D, the unified view mode lets you draft or model within a unified coordinate system. Intelligent objects display correctly in both views. With an intuitive interface, you design from any 3D view, and enjoy the superior quality that allows you to manipulate your model with ease. More accurate object information and better snapping make drawing in 3D so easy. The SmartCursor™ helps you by showing hints, like the angle from the previous segment, as you draw. Plus, an advanced suite of solid and NURBS modelling tools allows you to create any freeform shape and easily explore organic geometry. Blend, twist, sculpt, deform, or punch holes. Create stunning 3D renderings and even animated flyover and walk-through movies.

 

Limitless Designs

Bring your ideas to life. The Vectorworks Landmark program goes beyond planting plans. You can design anything—graphics, ornamentation, hardware, furniture, decking, urban master plans, or whatever you can imagine—without having to learn or use additional applications.

 

Efficient Workgroup Capabilities

Break up complex projects. Whether you’re a sole practitioner collaborating with other professionals or a large firm dividing work among different members of the team, “workgroup referencing” provides a flexible way to split even the most complicated project into manageable pieces.

 

Easy-to-share CAD Files

Easily exchange files with builders, architects, surveyors, and engineers using AutoCAD®, MicroStation®, or other CAD applications that support DXF/DWG.

 

Google Friendly

Import concept models from SketchUp® and access thousands of models from Google’s 3DWarehouse. Export 3D models to Google Earth®.

 

Endless Digital Images

Make your work even more compelling and easier to communicate with digital imagery. Import scans, digital photos, or web images. Import or export a wide array of image files, including Illustrator® EPS and native Photoshop® PSD files. Export your design for use in your company’s marketing materials and website.

 

Versatile:

Create, Model, and Present with One Application

Move easily between tasks. From design concepts to documentation, and every design phase in between, the

Vectorworks Landmark software marries precision drafting and flexible modelling with state-of-the-art technology. Create, model, and present easily and precisely with one application. With the Vectorworks Landmark application, you can do it all.

The software boasts a comprehensive set of design tools to support your entire practice.

 

Streamlined Site Documenting

This is where it all begins, and no one does it better. Add survey data to the drawing and use it as the basis of your site model, or import CAD drawings and data from architects, builders, or engineers to use as base plans. Download GIS files from the city or state. Scan in planting plans and trace over them with ease. Or, simply enter your field measurements. Use the property line tool to define a site’s boundaries and setbacks. Building tools and site objects easily document existing structures and site conditions.

 

Easy Sketches and Presentations

Find your inspiration. Then rework and refine it with intelligent site model tools—all while analysing your design for areas, volumes, slope, and other data like zone of visual influence and site model section studies.

 

Detailed Construction Drawings

Use our suite of precision drawing tools and intelligent landscaping, irrigation, site design, and road objects to make it easy to lay out plans, elevations, sections, and detail drawings. The exclusive Place Plant tool creates planting beds, with plants at exact intervals or in groupings. Our unique Freehand tool lets you draw organic shapes for beds and water features. Our convenient Hardscape tool creates patterned walkways and areas. A flexible Massing Model tool and suite of architectural objects creates model buildings. When you’re ready, you can batch print drawing sets or export them as multi-page PDFs at full or reduced sizes.

 

Thousands of Free Drag and Drop Resources

Take advantage of our large, free landscape libraries, which include furniture, outdoor equipment, lighting, and irrigation objects. There’s no need to re-draw objects when you can use pre-drawn plants, plant images, and thousands of symbols, tile patterns, and hatches from manufacturers like Unilock®.

 

Automatic Reports and Lists

Stop counting items in your drawings. Automatic data tracking does the tedious work for you. The application goes further than automated plant lists and materials takeoffs. It provides a user-defined way to assign custom data to any object and use that information to list materials and perform calculations. Other automated reports calculate and list site volume and cut and fill volumes, or report existing trees, plants, landscape areas, and other data.

 

Superior Presentations

Define and communicate your signature look with presentation capabilities that are famous for helping our users achieve beautiful, graphically rich presentations. Add gradients, tile and image fills, stipples, and hatching. Easily import digital images and graphics.

 

Unique Hard/Soft Rendering Switch

Use our distinctive sketch rendering and exclusive plant styling technologies to blur the line between construction and presentation. You can switch between hard-lined drawings and soft, hand-sketched illustrations in the same drawing. Unique page layout capabilities make it a cinch to arrange presentation boards.

 

Accurate Mapping and GIS

Integrate maps into your work with ease. Import geo-referenced aerial/satellite images and GIS data to be used as they are, or use the outstanding drawing, modelling, and graphics capabilities to embellish them with 2D or 3D graphics for compelling presentations.

 

Advanced Site Modelling Capabilities

Create grading plans, calculate cut/fill, analyse the site for slope and flow, and present the site in 2D and 3D. Vectorworks Landmark’s site modelling capabilities make it all possible.

 

Bountiful Plant Images

Flex your green thumb. We’ve partnered with Xfrog®, the industry’s premier developer of botanical models, to provide you with one of the largest plant image libraries available in any CAD application. You’ll find photorealistic plant images in several views, including top, elevation, and 3D, as well as seasonal and growth views. Plus, you can dig into a library of stylized plants for more impressionistic presentations.

 

Renderworks

If you think that RenderworksTM looked good before—wait until you see this! We’ve teamed with the award-winning CINEMA 4D render engine to provide dramatic speed and quality gains that are integrated right into your application, so you won’t waste time importing or exporting the model as the design changes. You’ll have deft control of texture mapping and more intuitive shader options to create photorealistic or artistic renderings like never before. And, you’ll really move with speed increases that are five to seven times faster for global illumination renders!

Intuitive:

 

Work The Way You Think

The Vectorworks Landmark software is intuitive. The application was created to mirror the way landscape architects and designers work, so you don’t need to focus on the logistics. You’re free to focus on the project itself.

 

Easy-to-use Interface and Drafting Tools

Do what you like to do best—design. You won’t waste time getting up to speed because the software’s simple, customizable interface and what-you-see-is-what-you-get display make it easier to learn and use than standard CAD applications. No matter what you’re switching from, the Vectorworks Landmark software interface will be familiar. Vectorworks’ SmartCursor™ technology replaces manual drafting tools, so even inexperienced CAD users can make the switch easily.

 

Tailored for Your Success

Work in tandem with the application. The Vectorworks Landmark solution is ready to meet the needs of designers, landscape architects, and planners. In addition to designing with lines, arcs, and circles, you can design with tailor-made objects like plants, hardscapes, and walls. Landmark’s intelligent objects are easy to edit. If you need to change a plant’s spacing or the height of a retaining wall, just type in the changes instead of redrawing them. Plus, intelligent objects display correctly in both 2D and 3D views. With our Pascal-based scripting language, VectorScript™, you can program everything from simple scripts that automate routine tasks to full-blown commercial applications.