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Contents 1 Syllabus 2 Calendar 3 Assignments 3.1 Photoshop 3.1.1 Tutorial 3.1.2 Assignment 3.1.3 Entourage submission 3.1.4 Collage/photomontage submission 3.2 Illustrator 3.2.1 Tutorial 3.2.2 Assignment 3.2.3 Submission 3.3 Sketchup 3.3.1 Tutorial 3.3.2 Assignment 3.3.3 Submission 3.3.4 Other resources 3.4 AutoCAD 3.4.1 Tutorials 3.4.2 Assignment 3.5 Autodesk VIZ 3.5.1 Tutorials 3.5.2 Assignment 3.5.2.1 Map section/group 3.6 Others? 4 External links

Syllabus

LA 232 Syllabus

Calendar

LA 232 Full size calendar

LA 232 Schedule

Assignments

Photoshop

Tutorial

Photoshop tutorial small (no images) - class handout

Photoshop tutorial large (images)

Assignment

Assignment 1 Photoshop

Entourage submission

Submit one image that has been isolated in white space to each of the pages in the Entourage category:

• Texture
• Program
• Surface
• Vegetation

Collage/photomontage submission

Using the elements submitted by the class in the pages in the Entourage category create a collage or photomontage. Upload a jpeg, about 1600 x 1200 pixels in size, of the collage to the wiki, and link to your uploaded collage in the gallery below. See the images section of the help page for details about linking to images in pages.

Ryan's Montage	Kyle Slivnik	David	Chidozie
Laura	Zach	Jonny	Steph
kevin	Brent	Jim's Montage	Josh McKinney's montage
karin	Jean's Montage	|kavan donohue The Commons	Joshua's Montage
Michael Van Beek's Montage	Amber's Collage

Illustrator

Tutorial

Illustrator tutorial

Assignment

Illustrator assignment

Submission

Group Base maps

Individual Site analysis maps

Sketchup

Tutorial

Self paced tutorials (introductory)

Video tutorials (advanced)

GSD Site modeling tutorial

mapping texture to terrain tutorial

alpha channel tutorial for transparent trees

Assignment

Sketchup assignment

Submission

Group model submission 

Sketchup model of Mahnomen Health Center site on the Mahnomen Health Center site analysis page

Subgroup Terrain (site and context) 

Mike Kavan Jim Duce Jon

Subgroup Health Care Building (existing and proposed) 

JoshM Kyle Ryan Laura

Subgroup Context (buildings and other features) 

Jean Steph David Josh

Subgroup Vegetation (site and context) 

Kevin Zach Chidozie

Other resources

Sketchup bonus packs

AutoCAD

Tutorials

Drawing objects in AutoCAD

Modifying objects in AutoCAD

Using images in AutoCAD

AutoCAD plotting

step by step instructions on plotting in AutoCAD

AutoCAD scales

Chart of different scale settings and text sized for plotting in AutoCAD

University of Sheffield landscape digital tutorials

Very good sequence of tutorials that are landscape oriented from the University of Sheffield

Assignment

Autodesk civil assignment

Autodesk VIZ

Tutorials

Creating a walk through in Autodesk VIZ

Detailed info on creating a walk through. Dated info (for VIZ R2!) but the principles are the same as the current version.

Creating terrain objects

Detailed information on creating terrian, applying materials and texture maps. Dated info but as above the principles are the same.

Autodesk tutorials

List of in depth tutorials from Autodesk

Autodesk tutorial installer

normally available under Help > Tutorials in Autodesk VIZ)

Assignment

assignment 5 a & b Autodesk VIZ

assignment 6 modeling

Map section/group

• 1. Brent, Jon, Chidozie
• 2. Jean, Steph, Ryan
• 3. & 4. Kyle, Josh M, Mike VB
• 5. David
• 6. & 10. Laura, Kevin
• 7., 8., 11., 12. Karin & Zach
• 9. Josh K
• 13. & 14. Amber

Others?

External links

Landscape Technology Wiki Feel free to contribute http://latech.wetpaint.com/