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You can get Microsoft Office 365 (~~If you don't want to spend $20~ at CougarByte~~). There are details on the Access UH page.

Also, Vectorworks is an AutoCad alternative. You have to submit a picture of your ID.

EDIT: CougarByte no longer allowed to sell Office to students apparently.

Vectorworks is an entirely different program.

You can request a trial/student version here. Basically all it means is that your drafts have an "educational version" border.

I mention Vectorworks because the plant models and patterns in the 2D image look like it's style. Vectorworks Landmark is designed for garden layout specifically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJkOe_DhEBE

Vectorworks has a month demo but there are free alternatives, DraftSight is the first thing that springs to mind but not tailored to gardens. Sketchup Make is free. There are many cheap DIY garden planning apps but they are probably too simplistic for you.

You can draw something like image four with Illustrator, Corel Draw or Inkscape although they are less focused on accuracy. As for intuitive, all CAD software has some learning curve. The easiest way to begin is to choose the simplest tool and so you are right to stick to 2D to begin with.

Here's what you should do right away. http://www.vectorworks.net/getting-started-guides

Then you should overnight this book. http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00CSXWUF0

Learn how to use the truss tool, the plugin lighting objects, class and layers, and that dimensions go in the viewport annotations and not in the design layer and they should feel alright training you from there.

from http://www.vectorworks.net/student/

"How Affordable Is It? How does "FREE" sound to you? Vectorworks Designer with the add-on Renderworks is FREE for U.S. students* and very affordable for start up designers. Vectorworks won't cost you a penny now and won't put you thousands further in debt when you graduate. And you will have all the tools you need to dream it, design it and present your designs to the world - and to your instructors."

I see that you're asking a question about Vectorworks software. Have a look at this book:

http://www.vectorworks.net/guides/Light-Plot-Deconstructed

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http://www.vectorworks.net/guides/Light-Plot-Deconstructed

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Vectorworks actually has a walkthrough of Spotlight as a whole which I recommend since it includes some of the basics of drafting the stage in addition to some of the lighting tools/instruments.

Ah, I see what you're doing.

What I would do in your case, would be to make each room a different "Class," that way you can turn on and off the walls as needed per configuration. That way, the walls are still there, but you change their visibility. You can even grey them out if you need them as reference.

This further explains how layers and classes work in VWX.

http://www.vectorworks.net/getting-started-guides/Common/working-with-classes-and-layers

I hope that makes sense.

This should be resolved by installing SP3 for Vectorworks 2014:

http://www.vectorworks.net/downloads/ServicePack.php?major=2014&servicepack=3

Make sure you have Vectorworks CLOSED before updating.