FREE LANDSCAPE DESIGN SOFTWARE

Curbing — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:10:45 +0000

Landscape design software is helpful in many ways while landscaping. It helps the landscape architects and the garden designers to visualize their designs so that it will be helpful to correct the mistakes and flaws and can be avoided while implying the idea in real time. It also helps the designer to improvise his ideas in an effective manner.

The landscape design software not only used to visualize the proposed model of garden but also clearly mentions the dimensions of the garden which is helpful for the land owners to prepare an accurate miniature model or a file for approval and other legal purposes. Almost every landscape software’s will have a video tutorial, photo uploading option, 3-D view creation, pre loaded basic designs, Encyclopedia about plants, preloaded images of plants and objects, print design option, lightings, irrigation methods of plants, furniture probably used and the schedule to complete an entire landscape design. Using these options a user can easily bring his imagination into a visual image and changes can be made several times before finalizing the design and even after that.

Landscape design software’s are of two levels, amateur and professional. Even an amateur can handle the amateur level software but normally there won’t be many specifications in it but in case of professional software’s, it needs a tutorial to learn but there will be a lot of advantages in it. Some of the free landscape design software’s that are available are Virtual Garden Designer, BHG Plan a Garden, Showoff.com, Smart Draw, Google Sketchup, Design Workshop Lite and Chief Architect.

Landscape Design Software

Curbing — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:42:21 +0000

Are you a landscape designer looking for some information about software that is used for designing? You don’t know CAD but still you want to design landscape plans? If you nod your head and tell YES then without any doubt you will get valuable information in the following guide. It is easy to become a professional designer these days with the landscape designer software. Internet is filled with this kind of software. What all it can do? What are all the features? Are you excited to know? Go ahead to read the next

The landscape design software helps in generating new ideas for you. Even if you are an amateur in designing this can help you while starting. It helps in visualizing the ideas and implementing it in a unique and different style. This helps you to make unique and stunning landscape plans and presentations. Another interesting feature about this software is that it is easy to make plans. Designing a plan for your landscape or a garden could take weeks, months, or even longer. It is not the case in this software Yes, time consumption is less. You can make plans in a minute’s time. You can find number of drawing tools in this software which can be used for designing purposes. This software also comes with object symbols in them. These symbols are natural and give you a real feeling when you design something and these helps in visualization too. These symbols count may vary from 10,000 to 12,800. This software also has high-resolution plants in them and that number may vary from 5000 to 5700. These plans and symbols are easy to move and you can fix them in the desired places that you want them to be. Just Drag and drop the symbols.

There is an option called as 3D movies in the landscape design software. This can be used for converting your design into 3D movies and you can showcase your work. This adds a value to your design and enhances your plan. Another tool present to visualize your plan is walk around. This option helps you to visualize and you can go through your plans with a real time feeling.

Usually this landscape design software runs in all windows OS. Windows XP and vista are highly recommended as it has more GUI. It requires minimum hardware requirements to run and it ranges from 512MB to 4GB RAM. There is no constraint on the type of processor. This program runs on any good and decent processor.
Some of the names of this kind of software are,

• Custom Land Designer 3D Design 7.0 by Sierra
• www.Plan3D.com
• Punch Super Home Suite 3
• Broderbund 3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5
• Garden Composer etc

This landscape design software is available in the internet. You can download trial versions of the software and you can test it. If you are satisfied then pay the full amount and you can avail the full version. There are some freeware available in the internet but you have to adjust with the fact that they lack some features and that kind of freeware cannot meet real time quality as given by the shareware.

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FREE LANDSCAPE DESIGN SOFTWARE

Landscape Design Software