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CAD only?
I'm just getting into landscape design and I'm considering taking a course in landscape design graphics at a local technical college. But I'm pretty good with computers and terrible at hand drawing, and I was wondering if my time would be better spent learning to design on a CAD system rather than learning to hand render designs (I have PRO Landscape which has a nice CAD system).
I'm not suggesting that I should skip courses in design principles, only the class that focuses on hand drawing. Some people tell me that I need to learn to draw by hand but I know that I would be slow at it and I just don't believe that I'm going to be doing things that way in the real world (I'm a self-employed landscaper so I'm not going to be looking for a job).
My question is this: If I skip over this class, is it likely that I would miss things that would be necessary for me to know in order to properly render things with CAD? The answer I really want to hear is no, because I dread the thought of having to draw things by hand. But if I'm going to miss something that's essential, then I'd rather take the course.
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