Landscape Design Software

Bernie Biggs

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Jan 1, 2001, 6:34:31 PM1/1/01

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Can anyone recommend a good package to use for renovating my garden?

I recently moved into a house with a small garden and thought I could spend
these cold wet winter months planning what I will do in the coming year. It
would need to have a good database of plants with the option of importing
others. I would think of spending about 50 or 60 dollars on it.

Has anyone used one that they could recommend?

KrisHur

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Jan 1, 2001, 7:02:19 PM1/1/01

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I have Sierra's Land Designer, from '96 though, and it is terrible. It
is not made to work in small dimensions, plants and text keep
disappearing from designs. I've e-mailed them on several occasions and
they have never returned a message. I'm looking forward to other posts,
I'd like a good software too.

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Bernie Biggs

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Jan 1, 2001, 7:25:21 PM1/1/01

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I currently have 'Geoff Hamilton's Garden Designer' by GSP (from a few years
ago also) and I found it really messy even trying to set up the dimensions
of my garden (which is only rectangular with borders on each side). It
claims to have a 'comprehensive' Plant encyclopaedia but contains no
fuschias at all, which is why I want to be able to import items to the
database..

I had been looking at the current Sierra offering on Amazon 'Complete
LandDesigner 6.0' but was wary because I have found their games software
often looks really good but is rubbish to play. From what you say about
that sounds about right.

Has anyone else got any suggestions?

Nan Zitney

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Jan 1, 2001, 9:10:07 PM1/1/01

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Kris, I have that same package, and am no happier with it than you are. And
it's hard to work with to begin with without stuff disappearing when you've
slaved to get it there.

Jeff

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Jan 1, 2001, 10:28:44 PM1/1/01

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might sound smart-ass'ish, but not intended to be. might just try
drawing on card stock, cutting them out, and arranging on graph paper.
that's what i'm doing. can't exactly do a 3-d fly-by of it, but if it's
on a table and you get your eyes down close to table level, you can
pretend! :)

Bernie Biggs

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Jan 2, 2001, 4:08:16 PM1/2/01

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Well, you see, I am a programmer by trade so my first idea was to use
software for the job. I'm not terribly arty, so anything that I have tried
on graph paper so far has not been that successful.
Maybe I will give the card stock idea a try if I don't get a solid
recommendation for a package.

Melody

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Jan 2, 2001, 6:02:42 PM1/2/01

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Paintbrush from Windows works okay, too.

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loki

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Jan 2, 2001, 10:47:10 PM1/2/01

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"Bernie Biggs" <ber...@esatclear.ie> wrote

I use 3D Landscape 2.0 from Sierra. It's several years old, slow and a bit
clunky but it works.

For those who say that the software they are using has "disappearing"
elements, my first question is how much RAM do you have and what else are
you running (or have open) at the same time.

I work for a software house and generally when that happens to us, the RAM
is used up by something...

Loki