[[wiki-architecture]] · [[Biographies]] · [[ARCHITECTURE]] · [[000]] # Landscape design software Landscape design software is used by landscape architects, landscape designers and garden designers to create two dimensional to 3 dimensional planting, softworks, groundworks and hardworks plans before constructing a landscape. There are two levels of software available, amateur and professional. The former is usually aimed at simple visualization of a garden design, whilst the latter provides tools that allow stylistic representations of a design to be accurately labelled and dimensioned for contractors to interpret and land authorities or local government to sight and approve or otherwise. Since the advent of the personal computer, several software packages have come into existence. The main professional software being: Idea Spectrum's Realtime Landscaping Architect CS Design Software's CS Artisan LANDWorksCAD Keysoft Solutions' KeySCAPE LandCADD Landmark, PRO Landscape Structure Studio's VizTerra VisionScape's VirtualProperty Architect Visual Impact's Earthscapes Asuni's Lands Design Dynascape Vectorworks SketchUp AutoCAD Professional landscape design software requires detailed information to be produced for contract documentation, typically including drawings, specifications, and reports (schedules/bills of quantity). More advanced software automates the generation of such reports from intelligent data in the drawing; this data is usually embedded in labels (annotations) that, in the case of planting, automatically calculate the number of plants based on spacing per area or length. When labelled areas or lengths are modified, the corresponding labels and reports are recalculated simultaneously. == Features == Below is a list of some features provided by such software: Video Tutorials Digital Photo Import 3-D View creation Plant Encyclopaedia Plant Selector Growth Zones & Hardiness Maps Images of Plants and Objects Print Shopping Lists Print Design Visualize Plant Growth Outdoor Lighting Irrigation Design Outdoor Furniture Reports/Schedules/Bills of Quantity Labels/Annotation Photorealistic Design Presentations Generating Quotes, Invoices, Reports, Plant Information == See also == List of 3D terrain generation software == Notes == == References == - [[Landscape/Landscape Design]] - [[Professional Practice/Codes & Standards/National Building Code of India/Part 10 - Landscape and Signs/Section 1 - Landscape Planning]] - [[Professional Practice/Codes & Standards/National Building Code of India/Part 06 - Structural Design]] - [[Professional Practice/Codes & Standards/National Building Code of India/Part 10 - Landscape and Signs]] - [[Building Construction/Specifications and Detailing/Joint Design]] - [[Building Services/Building Performance/Lighting Design]] - [[Design/Architectural Design/Design Process]] - [[Design/Architectural Design/Design Theory]] - [[Design/Architectural Design/Universal Design and Accessibility]] - [[Digital Architecture/ePractice/Computational Design]]