Custom 3D LandDesigner
BBbearBB
for 20 bucks,and looked pretty good.
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KrisHur
your designs, I contacted their customer
service dept on several occasions and they never got back to me. Someone
here told me that it might be my ram- I upped it from 125 to 256 and it
still happens, albeit less frequently. I've heard others here say they've
had trouble with it too.
The plants are "cartoons" and do not resemble the real thing. There are only
7 colors to choose from and they are as artificial as it gets, (white,
bright yellow, orange, red, shocking pink, purple, dark navy blue). The
plants are cartoons that do not resemble the real thing.
It doesn't appear to be made to work on garden areas or perennial beds--more
like overall landscape designs. For example, when setting the background
grid to 1'x1' a single daffodil is 3' sq. ft., once you shrink it down to
real size it's too small to tell what it is, unless you really zoom in; then
one isn't able to view the entire garden area. After all that, when you go
into 3D mode it's an overgrown mess; it doesn't appear to realize you've
shrunk things down to size. When it's set to 5'x5' it's better, but you
still have to zoom in.
Good things:
You can add info on plants not listed in the database but cannot upload a
photo.
You can set everything on "layers", for example I have 4 layers marked
spring, early summer, late summer and fall and can view the design by
season. I find that helpful so that I can see if I'm overloading w/spring or
summer plants, or if I have, for example, all the spring bloomers grouped
together leaving bare spots in the garden in any particular season.
There is a cost report that gives you to get a general idea of the cost of
the design you've built and an order form to order plants from White Flower
Farm.
When looking for plants, it allows you to search the database (flower,
groundcover, vine, shrub, bulb or tree) by zone, sun, water, soil, perennial
or annual, size, flowering season, color of bloom, color of foliage, fall
coloring of foliage, evergreen or deciduous.
Overall, it's OK for generally planning a bed, if you can overlook the
serious color flaws and can remember what is where so that you can replace
it once the program starts erasing things. Paper and colored pencils, IMHO,
work much better.
Donna M. Forosisky
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> If it's Sierra Landscape Designer, it stinks. It erases plants and text from
> your designs, I contacted their customer
> service dept on several occasions and they never got back to me. Someone
> here told me that it might be my ram- I upped it from 125 to 256 and it
> still happens, albeit less frequently. I've heard others here say they've
> had trouble with it too.
they're hte same thing. What version are you talking about? There's a
cheapie version 2.0 that has a LOT of flaws. That said, it is a fun
piece of software.
A. Ingram
LandDesigner 2.0, 3D Deck, Personal Garden Planner, and Garden Encyclopedia.
I'm not fond of Land Designer 3D, as it is difficult to work with. The same
goes for 3D Deck. My husband was trying to design a deck for our backyard,
and was aggravated that you couldn't input your dimensions or angles, you
had to use their standard angles, which are very limited.
I have used the Photo LandDesigner with good results, tho. It allows you to
use a photo of your yard and design over the photo.
For $20, it's a good place to start, but I understand the new edition
(version 7, I think), which sells for about $70, has the bugs worked out and
is much easier to use. Haven't tried it yet, as I paid $30 for my version,
and don't want to spend another $70. Too bad they don't let you update
earlier versions. :(
KrisHur
"Donna M. Forosisky" <fr...@frisk.org> wrote in message
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vl_...@hotmail.com
>Was wondering if anyone has this program, and any thoughts on it. It's on sale
>for 20 bucks,and looked pretty good.
Well, I think it boils down to how comfortable you are with a computer
and working various programs. It's much harder to figure out than
most programs, but once you do, you can really do some neat things
with it.
--
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Pennie
>On 20 Apr 2001 11:27:12 GMT, bbbe...@aol.com (BBbearBB) composed:
>
>>Was wondering if anyone has this program, and any thoughts on it. It's on sale
>>for 20 bucks,and looked pretty good.
Is that the one by Broderbund?
Because I haven't heard anything good about Sierra Designs. Mine
didn't even work.
Anyone out there have to Broderbund one?
cdunk
the freedom to plan the way I wanted to.
Finally I settled on a draw program, Corel Draw. Other programs would
work fine too, I guess. I can plant my whole lot and/or individual
beds. I like to have plan that shows just where plants are because I
can't remember every spring and the winter and snow play havoc with my
signs.
Once you've put your plans into a draw program, revamping the beds is
fairly easy.
Carol Dunk
Barrie, Ontario
vl_...@hotmail.com
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>
>>On 20 Apr 2001 11:27:12 GMT, bbbe...@aol.com (BBbearBB) composed:
>>
>>>Was wondering if anyone has this program, and any thoughts on it. It's on sale
>>>for 20 bucks,and looked pretty good.
>
>
>Is that the one by Broderbund?
>Because I haven't heard anything good about Sierra Designs. Mine
>didn't even work.
No, it's by Sierra, but it takes a while to learn how to use it.
Roots
<vl_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:08v5etsq801cu07be...@4ax.com...If that is the Sierra one, I got it for my birthday a couple of years ago.
It was lousy. Wait 'til it's 5 bucks. It's not worth more.
Roots