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PawelM

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Dec 15, 2006, 2:05:37 PM12/15/06
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Hi,

I'm looking for garden & landscape design software. Can you give me some
advice?

3majCieSie
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PS. MB or MBPRO

Clever Monkey

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Dec 15, 2006, 3:15:00 PM12/15/06
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PawelM wrote:
> I'm looking for garden & landscape design software. Can you give me some
> advice?
>
Omnigraffle is pretty handy for this sort of thing. Google SketchUp can
probably be coerced into doing this.

The Mac Dude

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Dec 15, 2006, 9:34:18 PM12/15/06
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In article <9nDgh.47351$43....@nnrp.ca.mci.com!nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
Clever Monkey <clvrmnky...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

OmniGraffle may be handy, but a garden or landscape design tool it is
not. It is a graphics program of sorts.

In the same vain one could argue that Canvas were "handy", which it is,
too. But it is not a garden design tool either.

What the OP presumably wants is something specialised with templates,
sample layouts etc., maybe a 3-d view of a particular layout. I used to
look for same for my Macs and never found any. But this is years back.

Mad Dude

Dave Balderstone

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Dec 16, 2006, 12:55:31 AM12/16/06
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In article <do-56C652.18...@news.stanford.edu>, The Mac Dude
<d...@not.use> wrote:

Funny. Searching for "landscape" at versiontracker.com brings up at
least one candidate. I've even downloaded and tried it. But that was
years back... Still, it's there.

The Mac Dude

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Dec 16, 2006, 1:51:36 AM12/16/06
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In article <151220062355317514%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

The original question made me curious so I looked around...

There are at least *some* options:

BBC Virtual Garden,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/virtualgarden_index.shtml

is an online or downloadable Macromedia Director app that does do garden
layouts etc., also runs online as Shockwave. It seems rather limited but
then, it is freeware (& runs on OS 9 & friends as well).

Then there is "Home Design" from Home Punch, which I even saw as retail
box this evening in a local computer store. It apparently does landscape
as well. Spendy at $149 or so.

The link on Apple's software page:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?
mco=F063DF38&nplm=TK916LL%2FA

Mac Dude

Dave Balderstone

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Dec 16, 2006, 9:09:06 AM12/16/06
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In article <do-61E272.22...@news.stanford.edu>, The Mac Dude
<d...@not.use> wrote:

And GardenSketch...
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29655>

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