Schools: Australian landscape symbol libraries

July 8, 2008 – 6:23 pm

The National Office was contacted by a teacher of Year 10 Graphics Technology at Port Hacking High School, on the southern side of Sydney.

He have the class currently undertaking a module on Landscape Drawing and was wondering if any AILA members could suggest a few good on-line Australian landscape symbol libraries they can access for symbols to use/duplicate in class exercises.

The school has found a handful, but none that they would describe as comprehensive by any means.

Failing that, are there any other sources of landscape drawing symbols  could be recommended? (ie. not on the internet)

Are there any good Landscape Drawing related teaching resources you can recommend? (on or off line)

This is the first time they have run the Landscape Drawing module and they are very low on resources for it!

Thank you in advance for /any / help your members might be able to provide.

Greg Bennett

  1. One Response to “Schools: Australian landscape symbol libraries”

  2. I am not aware of online landscape symbol libraries specifically created for Australia but you will find plenty of freely available CAD symbols for plants online (plan and section views) if you Google AutoCAD symbol (or AutoCAD tree).

    A useful reference book is Landscape Graphics by Grant Reid.

    By Jennie on Jul 19, 2008

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