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from Paul contains these words:

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 ;-)

Which supports my initial comment because he was using an Autocad addon.
Plus of course all the ballache of training on it too. I have a whole
heap of wmf`s for gardens but the projected time thing is something
special. Don`t forget the cost of Autocad too before even thinking about
landcadd too. I`m a structural engineer and I use intellicad when I need
too. Bit cheaper than Autocad to say the least and I get to do what I
need to no problem. Just took me 2 years of training to go from paper to
electronic and I`m still about twice as fast on paper than the comp.

The specialist ones I referred to where the likes of Alan Titchmarshes
Barleywood design program. Great fun but not really that good in
reality. Probably should have clarified that.

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