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FREE LANDSCAPE DESIGN SOFTWARE
October 31, 2009 | 
Author 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.
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FREE LANDSCAPING SOFTWARE
Showoff: Show off is an internet based tool to create landscapes (if you google it you might need to scroll down a little to find it because of SEO by other internet marketers). It downloads a 8 MB file to your system from the internet. Hence internet connection is a must for showoff to work. User can visualize and experiment with the custom landscape designs. The user can choose the model home, plants or landscape with different colors. The software is very user friendly but takes some to load the categories. The fun feature of this product is user can also see how the model will look when the plants grow.
Smart Draw: Smartdraw is popular free landscaping software. It allows the user to create landscapes and plans in minutes. Using Smartdraw one can easily create plans for Garden, Landscaping and Patio&deck.
Key features of Smartdraw are:
1. No Need to know architecture and all. Just quickly plan your home and garden. The interface is very intuitive and easy.
2. It is not necessary for the user to be an artist. Smartdraw helps in drawing, aligning and arranging automatically and perfectly.
3. Prebuilt out of the box templates to start landscaping.
4. Library of plants, garden, brick patterns, flowers, shrubs and grasses available out of the box. Also available are sprinklers systems and more.