On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:43:51 +0100, Christopher Norton
wrote:

The message
from Ulf B contains these words:

Do you know if there are some good free-ware ”garden CAD programs” around?

I have just taken over an old garden I have to breathe some new life
into. A CAD planning tool would be a great help.

I believe we have 3D Studio at my job - for totally other purposes.
Would that be possible to use?

/Ulf B

You can use any cad program you like as they are only a computerised
version of the drawing board.

The general concensus as I read it is that buying a specialist garden
design program is of little or no benefit really.

thats not entirely true because professional cad packages like
"landcadd" (which used to be an autocad addon iirc) shows what trees,
shrubs etc. look like projected in time

a mate of mine used to work for the local council and used to use that
program for the design landscape of the local tesco store & country park
projects. he was a qualified landscape architect which obviously helped
no end though ;-)