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

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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.

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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:43:51 +0100, Christopher Norton
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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 ;-)

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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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