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I disagree. The automation is a slow down once you have your lineweights down and a library of plant symbols built up. I have all of my 140 plant symbols on the tool pallet at 1' diameter. All I do is drag, drop, click on it (select), click the scale tool, and type the size that I want it at (2.5 for a 30" diameter, ....). I do my lineweights by color rather than by polyline. I've used the same lineweight and color system for nine years with only a couple of adjustments, so I see the color as a certain thickness as I draw, although it is not actually thicker on screen.
The trick to speed is to be consistant in how big you draw things and what line weights you use for what.It has a side benefit of building in a recognizable scale into your drawings as you zoom in and zoom out. That sense of scale is one of the hardest adjustments people go thrugh when transitioning from hand drawn to cad.
I use Acad Lt 2008 at my home office and acad land desktop at my full time job.
Having said all of that, I think Dynascape is a great program for people to jump right in with. They cut out a big chunk of the learning curve. If you have used acad and have gotten through lineweights and have built some graphic standards, the input in the "automation" is a burden rather than an asset, in my opinion.
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