I've been hankering, toying & finally playing with using Sketchup in our particular line of landscape work.
Doing a bit of due diligence (..take that as a bit of reading) I came across this review of a piece of sofware called SiteOps that sits alongside/integrates in Sketchup that looks real interesting. There's a great demo video & description here
http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/1…