GardenCAD (aka Garden CAD) is powerful, easy-to-use, entry level landscape design software for professional landscapers. Imagine being able to quickly produce CAD landscape designs for your clients using Windows or Mac* computers. Incorporate photos of your previous design jobs into plans to save drafting time. Consider the possibility of visiting with your client and together altering the concept ‘on the fly’. *A Windows emulator such as CrossOver, Parallels or Fusion is required to use GardenCAD on a Mac.
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GardenCAD is affordable – $AUD 49.50 – approx. $USD 35.00.
Note: We have ceased future development of GardenCAD and developed GardenCAD Plus (aka gCADPlus) and we would encourage you to take a look at it. We offer special pricing for gCADPlus. Email us info@designcad.com.au and ask for details of our special gCADPlus offer.
GardenCAD in action
Complete a landscape design in 5 minutes. Add to the design.
Click the YouTube icon to watch GardenCAD in action in a design with mm as the base unit.
Watch GardenCAD in action in a design for a courtyard working with feet (and inches) as the base unit.
Another design for a site using feet/inches as the unit of measure.
Plant tagging.
Dimensions & Pages.
Redefine a symbol.
How to print a landscape design to a PDF file
Tip: Type GardenCAD in the YouTube search box to find more examples of the use of GardenCAD.
Try GardenCAD
GardenCAD is now free for testing and available for download here. If after trialing GardenCAD, you want to convert your demonstration copy to allow file saving, please visit our ‘e-Shop‘ page and the ‘buy now’ button in order to create a user name and get an activation (license) code. That will enable you to save design work.
GardenCAD features
Some of GardenCAD’s many features include a comprehensive library of symbols, great snapping tools, an ability to open several drawings at once, precision control over layers, line types, colors, line widths, layouts (pages), automated plant scheduling, dimensioning and text styles and more.
Requirements
GardenCAD takes a small amount of disk space and makes little demand on computer resources. Any computer running Windows should work comfortably with GardenCAD. To confirm that GardenCAD runs well on modest equipment, please download a trial copy of GardenCAD and try it out on your intended CAD computer before purchasing.
Here is a link to the GardenCAD user guide.
Add your own landscape symbols to GardenCAD
While we include more than 200 symbols in GardenCAD, you can create your own. The figure below shows some new symbols. These are not part of GardenCAD, but have been created by GardenCAD users for their own landscape practice and donated for download on this site. Symbols downloaded and placed in the appropriate GardenCAD block library automatically become available for new designs.
Here is a link to more information on creating and naming your own GardenCAD symbols.
Free Garden Designs
One design – many sheets
It is possible to print a GardenCAD design on any size sheet (in color or Black & White). The figure below shows a design as a high resolution PDF file by TooKoo landscapes and printed from the GardenCAD Pages palette onto an A1 sheet using the (free) PDF writer from CutePDF.
and another where GardenCAD has been used to assemble 3-D views from a SketchUp model on a page layout.
GardenCAD and broad scale work
The examples above showed GardenCAD in use on relatively small scale projects. You can however use GardenCAD for broad scale work. The figure below shows some data from an extensive survey of trees surrounding a constructed wetland. Here we have stored attribute data about the condition of trees growing in and around the wetland. Data on the condition of an individual tree can be accessed simply by clicking on the symbol – GardenCAD displays attributes hidden behind the symbol relating to tree health and canopy diameter.
Drafting aids
Not only are there many planting symbols supplied with GardenCAD, but the software also contains numerous general purpose symbols and tools to help lay out site boundaries, locate buildings, take dimensions directly from the design (the model), set up design grids, apply hatching to entities (objects) such as paths, paved areas etc. etc. Our downloads page also provides some useful resources for using these tools.
The figure below shows dimension applied (automatically) to the drawing by picking (snapping) to control points (ends of lines).
Lettering styles
Many users configure GardenCAD to use a custom font to give their drawings ‘personality’, thus moving their designs well away from typical CAD drawings (which can be rather stilted and mechanical).
Automatically build plant schedules
GardenCAD also allows the storage of much non-graphic information with its symbols. You can store botanical name, common name, plant name, size, code as hidden attributes with each symbol.
Printing plans
Your plans can be printed to any size sheet of paper in full color and can be printed to the printer attached to your computer or in PDF form for emailing to your clients. Alternatively, designs can be sent to copy centers for professional printing and laminating on larger sheets.
GardenCAD design philosophy
We have consulted with many professional designers during the development of GardenCAD and have tried to make the software work in a visual and intuitive way, mimicking the classical approach to hand drawing. We encourage users to provide suggestions for future releases of GardenCAD.
Note: We have developed GardenCAD Plus (aka gCADPlus) and we would encourage you to look at it. We offer special pricing for existing GardenCAD users to upgrade from GardenCAD to gCADPlus.
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The concept landscape architecture includes landscape planning, design and creation, as well as the management of resources and buildings. With reference to smaller scale projects the design stage and planning are referred to as landscape design. Accordingly, for owners of private houses the time scales and size of projects are smaller, and the section for such projects is referred to as garden design.
The specific design documentation is created independently from the scale of project, and at this stage the irreplaceable assistant for you is ConceptDraw. Included in the project documents are: - sketches,
- a general plan,
- working documentation.
In addition to this, included in the working documentation besides various estimates and pages are also: - The marked drawing of a lay-out on which is shown how the building elements will be added to an already existing structure. On this drawing all existing lines of supply such as water and gas pipelines, as well as electricity and telephone lines must be marked out.
- The planting drawing and development plan. On the planting plan is shown how the planted area will be laid out and how it will fit in with the other elements of the plan. On this landscape development plan the fixed arrangement of specific plants is shown.
Drawings and plans can all be created using ConceptDraw library objects such as trees, bushes, ponds, fountains, plots, fences, garden accessories, furniture, roofs, patios, flowers, grass, plumbing, roads, junctions, entertainment, walls, windows, doors, etc. | By using multilayered pages, all your work can be collected together on one ConceptDraw document. As well as this, by using layers on one drawing it is possible to show the levels of the location dynamically, the plan of the location with lines of supply, and also the plan with and without buildings. To create a ConceptDraw drawing you first have to open a template from a gallery and then all the libraries needed for your work will open automatically. | After opening a template you can set its parameters, such as unit of measurement, scale and page size. Then simply drag the objects you need from the library to the document page, set the sizes and arrange them how you want. |
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The convenience of ConceptDraw is that although you can only place available library objects on the page of the document, you can always create an object and add it to your own library for later use. Objects in ConceptDraw can be connected to each other or to a group. For example, if you show a water pipe in the form of a connection between two final points, when moving these points it will automatically be extended or shortened. As the plan created using ConceptDraw is not a static document, it can be used not only in the work of landscape architects and engineers, but also by landscape managers who maintain artificial landscapes such as parks and gardens, or natural landscapes like woodlands or nature reserves. The landscape manager or engineer can easily transfer ConceptDraw objects of landscape design directly to a document in order to view the end result, as well as use ConceptDraw smart objects to understand their physical influence on the environment. For example, how the shadow from an object will change depending on the position of the sun, how the finished work will look when viewed from a different angle such as the window of a building, what changes the addition of new objects to an existing landscape will make, or even how much a tree will bend in a strong wind. |
It goes without saying that a plan or drawing created using ConceptDraw can be printed or exported to a variety of formats such as: - HTML for use on a web page
- PDF for printing and viewing
- MS PowerPoint for presentations, and many more.
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Pic. 1. Landscape Design Software for Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows
The Landscape & Garden solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM includes a wide collection of templates and samples to help you draw any landscape-related diagrams and schemas as quickly as possible.
Pic. 2. Landscape Architecture solution
This solution contains four libraries which are very useful for creating such plans. The Parking and Roads library contains elements for comfortable parking projection: ramps, driveway, intersections, parking lines and parking stalls.
The Site Accessories library contains useful elements with various urban objects: benches, lamp posts, site lights, drains, gates etc. You can add elements from this library to a parking plan or a street plan.
The Trees and Plants library contains various shapes of trees, tree crowns, evergreen shrubs, hedges, grass, etc. The Vehicles 2D library contains vector shapes of cars, trucks, pickups, buses and vans. This library is useful for lane planning, parking plans, etc. You can color them with any shade you like.
It is worth mentioning that all these elements are stretchable, and you can customize them in every way you want.
The following features make ConceptDraw DIAGRAM the best Landscape Design Software:
- You don't need to be an artist to draw professional looking diagrams in a few minutes.
- Large quantity of ready-to-use vector objects makes your drawing diagrams quick and easy.
- Great number of predesigned templates and samples give you the good start for your own diagrams.
- ConceptDraw DIAGRAM provides you the possibility to use the grid, rules and guides. You can easily rotate, group, align, arrange the objects, use different fonts and colors to make your diagram exceptionally looking.
- All ConceptDraw DIAGRAM documents are vector graphic files and are available for reviewing, modifying, and converting to a variety of formats: image, HTML, PDF file, MS PowerPoint Presentation, Adobe Flash, MS Visio.
- Using ConceptDraw STORE you can navigate through ConceptDraw Solution Park, managing downloads and updates. You can access libraries, templates and samples directly from the ConceptDraw STORE.
- If you have any questions, our free of charge support is always ready to come to your aid.
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