I’m excited to announce that we have released the second application in the LandSketch Series.  This application is called LandSketch for Highways and is targeted at making the preliminary design process for corridors much more efficient.  With this new product you can quickly layout many alternatives for your possible corridor and immediately check your environmental impacts.  For more information and to watch an online demonstration click on the following link: http://www.eaglepoint.com/solutions/workflow/office/landsketch/landsketchforhighways.asp

Hopefully the subject line of this post tells it all. That “yell” is something we do at Eagle Point to celebrate achievement of all kinds. This one happens to be for posting our first official release of LandSketch. Late Wednesday, we buttoned up the release (and celebrated a little). I’m proud of what the team accomplished in a fairly short period of time and in the fact we hit our project deadline. One of the hardest things in commercial software development is hitting dates because it is so easy to keep saying “but we could just add one more thing”. Taking that approach, many more weeks go by and you don’t get anything out that clients can start using. We want to add more things but we also want you to use it and give us ideas on how to make it better. So this is the first release of many more to come. Congratulations Steve, Jim, Jestin, Anne, Dan and the rest of the product team.

I also want to thank everyone who posted or emailed feedback to us over the last three months. That helped us refine requirements and gave us ideas for future releases. And for anyone coming across this blog who still wants to provide us feedback, you can email us at landsketch@eaglepoint.com.

Check out www.eaglepoint.comfor information not only on LandSketch, but the other products we have recently released.

Good news!  We are in the home-stretch for the release of LandSketch!  We have just one more preview copy for you to check out before we give it our final stamp of approval and send it out to the masses.

Download LandSketch Preview 3

This version has had some more fine tuning and includes some additional features we wanted to have you check out.  Some of these items were thanks to input from you!  A couple of key things to look for in this version is the cleanup of lots and some additional functionality in intersections.  Also, there is a new feature called Sketch Feature that has been added.  What this does is allows you to create areas or features for use within your design.  You can create green spaces, water areas, and feature lines. These items can be tied to when using the Cleanup Lots command.

And you might have seen our recent press release announcing the future release of LandSketch.  If you haven’t, here is a link to the press release:

LandSketch Press Release

One of the key things announced in the press release is the cost of LandSketch.  The list price for a single license is $2495, but it is currently available for sale at $1995.  There is also a network license manager version at a list price of $2995.

As usual, we look forward to your feedback!

In one of our previous posts we mentioned work continues on Landsketch regarding intersections and cleanup. While we’re not quite ready to show how intersections will work, I do want to update you on the things we’ve been doing with lots, cul-de-sacs and defining other types of areas within your design like green space and water features. This 10 minute video focuses on these new things and picks up from where the last video (see below) leaves off. I won’t be covering all of those things again so if you haven’t watched it, make sure you do.

Watch the second demonstration of LandSketch here.

Keep an eye on the blog for Preview Release 3 coming soon!

Hi Everyone!  We wanted to show you some of the feedback we have been getting from all of you.  These are some excerpts from the comments that have been sent to us with the replies from our development staff. 

 

Comment:  …I have been trying to [Gerry rig] several other products to make them do what Landsketch is headed for, Sketch-up was one of them…We do a lot of Low Impact type projects that have irregular road templates and more “freeform” type lots.  A good feature on lots would let you “move” the lot and be able to reshape from the middle of the lot line.  Defining a road template would be good.

 

Reply:  Yes, we do have more options for Lot modification. We plan to have “Slide” working which when done will look something like this (see image below):

 

 

You will be able to slide the segment using the diamond grips and be able to free form the corner grips.  We are considering not doing this until the second release – give us your feedback on this!

 

You should be able to define your street template using the Manage Street Styles command in the Edit menu. 

 

Comment:  The display of the Original Contours does not seem ideal.  The intermediate stands out much more than the index.  It seems like it would be better if the colors could be switched and all were continuous lines…

 

Reply:  We currently have the Index thicker then the intermediate, and the index should be darker so if the background is off it then stands out…We have been thinking of switching the colors if the image is off…

 

Comment:  The architects don’t use the same labels [for all projects]…could you add a command for define the settings of default text value (prefix, suffix and decimal precision)

 

 Reply:  We have already implemented the Annotation labels being read from the LandSketch.ini. You will be able to easily change your labels by modifying the ini [file] until we have interface to do it. Also, when you create a new project the unit gets saved so the next time you create a new project it will default to your last used unit.

 

Thanks everyone for the input!  Hopefully this gives you an example of how we are using your suggestions to help shape LandSketch as we are developing it.  So keep that input coming!