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Yes Indeed. Jonathan was an excellent mentor and an excellent landscape architect. Although he did tell once very early on there was no place in a landscape architectural office for a computer. He later changed his mind and I was with him when he purchased his first Mac, a MacPlus as I recall.

Don

I am a landscape architect practicing in Sonoma County, California. I started here in 1985 working under the late Jonathan Herr. While working with Jonathan, it became apparent there was a practical use for computers in the business of design. As I recall, we first started with MacDraw, then ClarisC...

Here is a sampling of landscape architectural site illustrative site plans I drew using PowerCadd and Photoshop. One of my graphic goals has always been to maintain a hand drawn feel. The style I use is loosely based on the use of alcohol markers (without the fumes). Generally these present well and...

Regarding Draftsight: I am using the latest version of Mojave 10.14.5 and Draftsight 2019 for Mac on an iMac Pro. I have found it to be excruciatingly slow. 2018 never crawled at this pace. I have just downloaded Teigha File Converter, and it seems to work well. A tiny bit of a learning curve withou...

Hi Alfred,

Finally! I am delighted the forum is back online. After many years I finally have been trying to post a few images of my work to no avail. Mostly due to your not so veiled threats of blackmail. The files are always too large (753 KB). Any suggestions?

Don MacNair