> 1. How do you place/make your planting legend in autocad?

I run a lisp routine that counts all of the blocks on a drawing and
outputs that data to Excel. I have named all of my plant symbol
blocks so when I switch to Excel, the names are already there with
the counts. I then add the size and latin name by accessing an Access
database. Then I just insert it into my drawing.

> 2. How do you do irrigation design?

I have made blocks for each type of sprinkler head with coverage
circles. It is very simple to layout the heads. Then I use the same
lisp to count the sprinkler head types in excel, add GPM, divide into
zones, ect. It's not as elegant as Landcadd, but landcad costs a
fortune and takes forever to configure for irrigation.
>
> 3. Plant blocks - do you have an master plant block file, so you
can always use the same block to be the same plant for all your
projects or do you just use any block for that project. I.E. a circle
w/ a soild box is alway Rhaphiolepis indica?

I use a master plant block file with common names.

> 4. How do you set up you drawings?

I am the lone landscape arch. in an architect's office, so I am
always working with drawings that are edited by multiple users. We
xref all of our drawings and submit revision notices to one another
so that we know if a drawing has been changed that affects another's
work.

> 5. Have you made custom line types that likes like the old
formaline
> tape?
No.

> 6. Do you do color rendering plots w/ autocad and m-color software?
> How easily/hard is it to use?

No, I used to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to render when I
was in school. I have Landcad at home and it came with some kind of
rendering add-on that I have not tried yet.

> 7. Do you have any Lisp programs that will help you do grading,
> irrigation, or slope factoring for plant counts?

Just the one for plant counts.

> 8. Have you used the raster design program from autodesk? How
> easily/hard is it to use?

No.