Landscape Design Software – Plan and Design Your Landscape with Attention to Details
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With its new 3D rendering, Home Design 3D Outdoor will help you fulfill your design dreams quickly and easily, whatever your idea: design your garden, come up with your ideal outdoor space, create a play area, organize your open-air wedding and more! IScape is a landscape design app for iOS devices, which provides virtual design tools to plan and design your garden and landscape. The editor tools provided in the app include lock layer, unlock layer, delete layer, flip horizontal, duplicate, and arrange layer. Marshalls Garden Visualiser. More sophisticated than many rivals, Marshalls Garden Visualiser tool is 3D, and allows you to upload a photo of your garden. After setting your garden's dimensions, you select from ranges of objects such as walls, hedges and fences. 3D Architect Landscape Design 2017 offers a comprehensive set of tools to plan, design and visualize your. Software is a home design software for Windows and Mac. It has easy to use tools for do-it-yourself landscape design, interior design, kitchen design, bathroom. Flexible and Easy Garden Design Software Looking for an easy-to-use garden design software? Edraw is an ideal solution to help design and plan gardens and other landscapes such as seating plan, emergency plan on Mac, Windows, or Linux. Punch Landscape Design for Mac focuses entirely on your landscaping plans, so the tools, features and choices are uniquely geared to make the outdoor area around your home look beautiful. Using a free garden planner to plan the layout and contents of your garden is a great way to stay organized and get everything you want out of a garden. Each garden planner has various tools that will make it easy for you to come up with a plan of action.
When you want to have a beautiful garden in your home, it is difficult to do if you don’t design the way the garden will look beforehand. It is the same with other landscapes that you want to create. You need to spend some time to plan and design your landscape before you can make it a reality.
Landscape design software can help you to plan and design your landscape in details, using the modern 3D engine that allows you to design your landscape the way you want it to look.
Realtime Landscaping Plus 2016
This software provides an easy way for you to design your landscape the way you want it to look. It allows you to create a movie and presentation from your design, with more than 10,000 landscape objects. With this landscape design software, you can start your design from a photo, or you can create the whole design from scratch with the realistic 3D design tools.
Punch! Home & Landscape Design Premium v18
This is a landscaping software that includes home and landscape design tools designed to help you to put your home design ideas to life. The software features thousands of design objects, professional layouts, green objects and materials, and interactive help system. It allows you to not just design your landscape, but it also allows you to design your home interior as well.
Punch! Landscape, Deck and Patio Design v18
This landscape design software allows you to create a design for your landscape, deck, and patio easily. You don’t need to have any prior design experience in order to use this software, as it is designed for both beginners and professionals. It features thousands of outdoor objects, drag and drop materials, dynamic search tool, and plant finder.
HGTV Ultimate Home Design
This software allows you to design the interior and exterior side of your home, providing you with the ultimate home design experience. It allows you to use your digital photos as the basis of your design. It features thousands of plants, terrain modeling, garden visualizer, plant care calendar, fences and gates, lighting and irrigation, and deck builder wizard.
Smartdraw
SmartDraw allows you to plan and design various types of landscape, including garden, patio, deck, small park, and others. It features various landscape symbols, such as pool, pathways, trees, patio sets, and plants. You can create a new landscape design from the available templates, or you can create your own design from scratch.
Turbo FloorPlan
TurboFloorPlan is a landscaping software for Windows and Mac platforms, which allows you to plan and design a beautiful landscape for your home. You don’t need to know anything about design in order to use this software since it has a simple drag and drop mechanism to allow an easy design creation for you. It offers various features, including 2D/3D design, automatic cost estimator, complete landscape design tools, interior and exterior lighting, and multiple design layouts.
DreamPlan Home Design
DreamPlan allows you to design your home the way you want it to look, with the realistic home model in 3D. The software includes home and floor plan design, landscape and garden design, interior and room design, bathroom design, and kitchen design. It features trees and gardens, outdoor terrains, and additional content download.
VisionScape
VisionScape allows you to design 3D landscape and outdoor living areas around your home. It allows you to design your landscape quickly and easily, with a realistic 3D design. You can download new designs to your software, as well as customize the design that you have downloaded. The software also provides various 3D landscape and outdoor living designs that are done by professionals.
Other Landscape Design Software for Different Platforms
Most landscape design software is available for Windows, with a small number of similar software available for other platforms. You should choose the landscape design software based on the platform that you are using.
Garden Planner
Garden Planner is a simple landscape design tool that you can use via a web browser. In other words, this software is available for all platforms, but you need to be online in order to use it. With this software, you can create a 3D model of your landscape, check out the isometric view of your design, and print your design. The offline version is available for PC.
Plangarden
Plangarden is a web-based landscaping tool designed specifically for vegetable gardeners to create a landscape design for their garden. It features drag-and-drop graphic interface, menu selection with labels, layout tools, gardening activities, and harvest estimator. Plangarden is available to download for PC and Mac versions, but you still need a live internet connection in order to use the software.
Chief Architect Home Designer Suite
This landscape design software allows you to create designs for your home interior and exterior, assemble your design with an extensive library of objects, take a virtual tour, and use a 3D design models. It is available for the modern Windows operating system, as well as Mac OS X. You can archive the entire project to a single ZIP file for convenient storage.
iScape
iScape is a landscape design app for iOS devices, which provides virtual design tools to plan and design your garden and landscape. The editor tools provided in the app include lock layer, unlock layer, delete layer, flip horizontal, duplicate, and arrange layer. The texture tools include cutout tool, delete texture, and add texture.
VizTerra – Best Landscape Design Software of 2016
VizTerra is a professional landscaping software that allows you to design your landscape in a better way. This is the landscape design tool used by professional designers who want to design a wide range of landscapes, either for home or business. The Instant 3D feature allows you to design your landscape seamlessly, with interactive tours that allow you to go through your landscape design and see all of the landscapes and hardscapes that you have created.
What is Landscape Design Software?
Landscape design software is a type of software that allows you to plan and design your landscape. This software is useful to be used when you are in need to renovate your home or build a new home. Usually, a landscape design software will include a home interior design feature to allow you to not only design the outdoor area of your home, but also the indoor area.
Many landscaping tools are available for both professionals and beginners, and they provide easy tutorials that will guide you to start designing, even though you don’t have any prior design experience before. You can use this software to design your home interior, garden, patio, and deck.
How to Install Landscape Design Software?
Installing landscape design software is easy. You just need to download the installation file for the software and install it on your computer. But, be aware that most landscape design software will require a high system requirement, so you should make sure that your hardware meets the system requirement of the software before you install it.
Some landscaping tools are available as a web-based application, in which case you don’t need to install anything in order to start using the software. You simply need to visit their website and use the landscape design tools via your web browser.
Designing your dream home and garden is something that is not difficult to do. Many people may spend a lot of money just to hire a designer to design their dream home and garden. But, you really don’t need to do that. By using a good landscape design software, you can start designing your dream home and garden right away, without any prior design experience.
Since most of the software is designed to be easy to use, even beginners that know nothing about design can start using the software and create their own landscape design. This is the first step to making your dream home and garden a reality.
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Home & Landscape Design Studio for Mac 14.1 is a 3-D program aimed at home owners who want to design or remodel a home or landscape. This updated version creates a much richer experience for Mac users, than the previous package. New features such as QuickStart home layout, built-in green building tips and materials, and an expanded object library including Google 3-D support, will have users designing quickly and easily right out of the box. Home & Landscape Design Studio (H&LDS) tries to provide you with results similar to a professional CAD (computer-aided-design) application with the ease of use and quick learning curve of a consumer-level design program.
Timesavers
One of this version's new standout features is the QuickStart part of the SmartRoom technology. It works like this: At the start of a project, you drag and drop rooms onto a grid as simple rectangles. Want a kitchen? Grab the kitchen box, place it, size it, and move on to the next room. When you finish this rough layout, the program automatically creates a floor plan with labels and dimensions. But the plan is not simply 2-D; it is 3-D as well. So you can view your creation in 3-D, add an automatically generated roof, and view a photorealistic rendering of the project. Click the Continue button to move back to the 2-D design space to refine and modify your drawing.
This process works great on fairly simple designs (not too many twists, turns, or alcoves). However, when creating designs that are more complex, or after tweaking the walls of your design, it does not always work perfectly. For instance, the automatic roof creation function would often get confused after wall edits and come up with something odd, impractical, or just plain impossible.
Another timesaving new feature is the included library of templates. Instead of designing a kitchen from scratch, you can go to the template library and choose a pre-designed kitchen. Then you can decorate your kitchen with your preferred colors and materials. With templates for most rooms in a house, you can quickly plug in pre-organized rooms with minimal effort to create an entire home. You can edit templates for dimensions and content, but each element making up the template must be edited individually for good results. So, if you find templates that satisfy your vision when designing your space, then this process works great. Designing a custom kitchen or other room from scratch, or by modifying the included templates, is much more time consuming.
Fast photorealistic views
One really fun element of H&LDS is the real-time 3-D. Once you have the basics of your design down, try opening the 3-D window and watch the design update. Adding 3-D objects to your 2-D design will cause them to appear in your 3-D model immediately. Adding color and textures to finishes in your design will bring it to life and give you impressive photorealistic views. You can move through and around your design to see how rooms will feel, what the view will be from windows, or how spacious that bathroom really is. Punch! has improved the program's performance for this release. Even on an older PowerBook G4, the 3-D rendering engine had no problem keeping up with the 2-D design window in real time.
If you are working on a landscape plan, adding plants to your landscape can be a little frustrating; they are so small and unimpressive when first planted. H&LDS solves this problem by letting you 'grow' your landscape by up to 20 years so you can see how foliage will look when it's mature. The program includes a fairly large library of plants and trees, although you will inevitably find that specific plants you would like to use are missing.
Going green
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New for this release are 'green' features that include 'green tips' and green library objects. The tips consist of a list of general guidelines for green building. For instance, one tip is to include storm water collectors to be used in air conditioning, but there is no instruction on how to implement this in your design. The same green tips could easily be obtained online with more useful detail.
In my review of version 11, I encouraged Punch! Software to add more brand-name manufacturer products and materials to future versions and for this version and they have; the new version's 3-D library includes items from many manufacturers, the most significant being a new group of Green objects for making more environmentally sustainable selections. These include finishes such as bamboo flooring and EnviroGLAS counters and objects such as wind turbines and solar collectors.
In addition, H&LDS now lets users import SketchUp objects from Google's 3D Warehouse. This gives you access to thousands of objects from furniture to entire buildings. These objects are created by SketchUp users, so quality, scale, and usefulness may vary.
Construction tools
There is a new cost estimation tool for H&LDS. Estimator will help you determine the construction cost of your creation using a spreadsheet that is broken into sections such as foundation, flooring, and landscaping. Each section automatically shows the items and material quantities from your project that H&LDS has calculated for you. The catch is, you have to provide your own unit costs. For instance, if you have added a concrete patio, you will have to find out and fill in the cost per cubic yard of concrete in your area, including labor and delivery.
Also new is a Framing Editor that allows you to design your framing elements such as beams, floor joists, roof joists, and more. Note that no contractor will commence a construction project without a design executed by a certified engineer or architect. However, the H&LDS framing 3-D view automatically shows you what your house framing might look like, and is very cool.
Still quirky
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Home & Landscape Design Studio is definitely a fun program and can engage users in the excitement of designing. The tutorial videos are extremely useful for learning new tools. Keep the inch-and-a-half thick user's guide handy, though, as you will run into situations that are difficult to solve through intuition alone. For example, creating a multiple story house is a snap but adding a staircase and cutting away the upper story floor will prove much more difficult. Once you get comfortable with the basics and start having fun, you will soon run into frustrations as you try to make your model more detailed and more dimensionally accurate.
Practical applications
Home & Landscape Design Studio users will likely fall into two categories: They're designing a new dream house or dream landscape or remodeling an existing house or landscape. If you are starting from scratch and are willing to stay within the limits of the QuickStart features, the provided object libraries, and the auto-generated features, you can get astounding 3-D rendered views of your creation with a minimum of effort and time, especially when compared to more expensive and complex professional CAD and drawing programs. However, if you are drawing an existing home plan into the software, be prepared to spend a great deal of time tweaking walls, doors, and windows to get them to the correct size and positions. Specifying exact wall sizes requires a special wall tool. Changing the size of a wall and placing it exactly where you want can be challenging. Angled walls and other non-standard wall features are difficult to replicate in the software.
Home & Landscape Design Studio is marketed as a way for you to design your own home, and Punch! even includes a way to send your plans to a printing service where you can pay for prints. It also provides a way to contact contractors through a Web site referral service. The problem is that your drawings will not be exact enough to build from, or even to get a building permit. The drawings will lack information needed to satisfy local building codes and show construction methods necessary for producing construction documents. You would still need to employ a professional architect or designer for that. However, your drawings will be an excellent way to communicate your ideas to such professionals.
Macworld's buying advice
Punch! Software's Home & Landscape Design Studio for Mac 14.1--at about $150--is an excellent value for what it does well: create quick and impressive 3-D views of your dream home or landscape design that showcase your vision for your property. Staying within the bounds of the QuickStart process, the templates, and the provided objects and materials make this process a blast. But coaxing the program to the level of customization and accuracy demanded by construction documents or to create some of the impressive and detailed renderings used in their marketing, while technically possible, will prove a time consuming and sometimes frustrating experience.
[Greg Miller is an architect and an interactive software and Web developer specializing in new media for the architecture, engineering, construction, and publishing markets.]
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