there is a book by a dude named hightshoe with nice line drawings, many northeastern species and a wide variety of forms. scan them in, bring them into photoshop, change the mode to 'bitmap', save it as a bitmap, and you're good to go

other el-cheapo route:

take photos of trees from a relatively good distance. bring them into AutoCAD as a raster image and start pline-ing away.

i don't know what version you are using, but the designcenter (insert menu> designcenter) in 2005 has planting elevations. there are about 22 tree elevations, and maybe 7 good ones.

I've always had good luck finding ones online, try Googling "free cad blocks" or "cad trees"... www.cben.net has always given me some good stuff but they are offline for some reason....

When you were in Arch school didn't you create a-bazillion bloody trees in elevation. Come on, I mean COME ON.

You could bang off a quick tree in cad that looks pretty good or aren't you any good with technology . . . oh ya, you are an architect.

HAha

test999, what's your problem?

depending on how nice you need them, I usually use the arch tool and make a tree that way and then copy and scale to give me different size variety.