{"id":2302,"date":"2019-12-27T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/?page_id=2302"},"modified":"2020-01-03T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:33:05","slug":"why-cad-drafting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/why-cad-drafting\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of CAD Drafting"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please use the link below to download a paper that we have written that sets out the benefits of using CAD software in the hands of a landscape designer.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/Docs\/Landscape Design and CAD.pdf\">Landscape Design and CAD<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/Docs\/Landscape Design and CAD.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2306 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-830x588.jpg 830w, https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-230x163.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-350x248.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD-480x340.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LandscapeDesignCAD.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ahzTiaugioQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designcad.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/YouTubeLogo.gif\" alt=\"Image files\" width=\"50\" height=\"21\" \/><\/a>\u00a0This movie introduces the world of computer aided landscape drafting and compare the process to hand drafting.<\/p>\r\n<p>To sum up when using CAD to produce your designs rather than hand drafting:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">You work full size when designing. Concern about scale comes later.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The mouse or touch pad is used to zoom in and pan about to display different views of your design.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">We suggest that the Properties window is kept visible at the left of the drawing editor while drafting as it displays the actual size of entities selected together with a wealth of other information.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">When using CAD and unlike hand drafting, you don&#8217;t not need to draw every symbol from scratch. A large set of pre-drawn symbols are available.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The SCALE tool can be used to change the size of a selected symbol.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A drawing can contain layers. These can be switched on or off at will, displaying more or less of the design. This ability is especially useful when printing a design.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Symbols can be associated with particular plant species and will display in the properties box when selected.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">It is possible to automatically generate a plant schedule showing the species name and the exact number of all plants used in the design. It changes are made, the plant schedule can be refreshed and will show count changes.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please use the link below to download a paper that we have written that sets out the benefits of using CAD software in the hands of a landscape designer.\u00a0 Landscape Design and CAD \u00a0This movie introduces the world of computer aided landscape drafting and compare the process to hand drafting. 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