Garden Design
Janet Turner
Anyone know of any good 3D garden desining shareware.
David Bridges
Janet Turner wrote in message <35708A...@virgin.net>...
>Anyone know of any good 3D garden desining shareware.
>
If you'd lurked before posting, you wouldn't have asked that question.
That's meant to be helpful rather than rude, but it's the second time today
that someone has asked that question. As questions go, it's a hardy
perennial. ;-)
David Bridges
Chris French
In article <35708A...@virgin.net>, Janet Turner
<janet....@virgin.net> writes
>Anyone know of any good 3D garden desining shareware.
>
If you'd lurked here first for a while, which is always good practice in
a new ng. You'd have seen this question answered already.
If not there is already a thredad on this (first posting Sat 30th about
9 am) which you should get soon if you haven't seen it yet.
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Jim Burgess
In article <896570960.3861.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "David Bridges" (c...@craigwell.demon.co.uk) writes:
[snip]
>If you'd lurked before posting, you wouldn't have asked that question.
>That's meant to be helpful rather than rude, but it's the second time today
>that someone has asked that question. As questions go, it's a hardy
>perennial. ;-)
I don't know about a hardy perennial David, because they come up
every year. This one's more like a hardy daily. :o)
Jim Burgess jbur...@greenslate.win-uk.net
Knutsford
Cheshire UK
Phil whitehead
In article <7...@greenslate.win-uk.net>, jbur...@greenslate.win-uk.net
(Jim Burgess) wrote:
Yeah OK now we've had the sarky comments is anyone goingto actualy answer
the question or are you all just going to sit infront of your keyboards
feeling superior?
phil "p*****D off with smartarses" whitehead
Alan J Holmes
In article <whitehea-010...@mac054104.lif.icnet.uk>,
Phil whitehead <whit...@icrf.icnet.uk> wrote:
>In article <7...@greenslate.win-uk.net>, jbur...@greenslate.win-uk.net
>(Jim Burgess) wrote:
>> In article <896570960.3861.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "David
>Bridges" (c...@craigwell.demon.co.uk) writes:
>> [snip]
>> >If you'd lurked before posting, you wouldn't have asked that question.
>> >That's meant to be helpful rather than rude, but it's the second time today
>> >that someone has asked that question. As questions go, it's a hardy
>> >perennial. ;-)
>> I don't know about a hardy perennial David, because they come up
>> every year. This one's more like a hardy daily. :o)
>Yeah OK now we've had the sarky comments is anyone goingto actualy answer
>the question or are you all just going to sit infront of your keyboards
>feeling superior?
>phil "p*****D off with smartarses" whitehead
I think the general consensus of opinion was that there is no
such thing!
Satisfied?
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David Bridges
Phil whitehead wrote in message ...
>In article <7...@greenslate.win-uk.net>, jbur...@greenslate.win-uk.net
>
>Yeah OK now we've had the sarky comments is anyone goingto actualy answer
>the question or are you all just going to sit infront of your keyboards
>feeling superior?
>phil "p*****D off with smartarses" whitehead
Queries similar to Janet Turner's are posted frequently to urg. For example,
earlier the same day (30/5/98), 27/5/98, 24/5/98, 17/5/98, etc. Janet
herself posted another similar (but not identical) query, and started yet
another thread yesterday (31/5/98). In addition to what you call sarky
comments, those queries have been adequately answered several times in the
past few weeks.
Nobody here has to my knowledge found any freeware or shareware worth
recommending. Computeractive (May 21 - June 3) did a comparative review of
the following products.
**** Geoff Hamilton's Garden Designer
**** 3D Garden Designer 3
*** Land Designer 3D
***** 3D Landscape 2 Deluxe
*** Expert Complete Home Gardener
*** Expert Landscape Design 3D
I think Computeractive were rather generous with their *s, but the opinion
seems to be that 3D Landscape 2 Deluxe is the best of what is available.
Personally I would recommend a general purpose graphics program with which
you are familiar, whether it be AutoCad, TurboCad, Visio or whatever, and a
good plant encyclopedia such as the RHS Gardeners' Encyclopedia of Plants &
Flowers.
David Bridges, who thinks it is reasonable to expect people to lurk before
they post their queries
Paul Kelly
David Bridges wrote:
>
> Personally I would recommend a general purpose graphics program with which
> you are familiar, whether it be AutoCad, TurboCad, Visio or whatever, and a
> good plant encyclopedia such as the RHS Gardeners' Encyclopedia of Plants &
> Flowers.
I fully concur with this view. In fact it is what I (I am a pro garden
designer) do for small projects, esp those using rectangles squares or
other regular shapes. The facility to try out a dozen shapes, positions
and detail variations of (say) a patio in 15 minutes is oh so
It is less useful for informal gardens where flowing amorphous shapes
are required. I don't use for large projects (... silent thought to
self.... if I ever got one...) as printing at anything over A4 is so
expensive.
The greatest use of the package I use (TurboCad Designer: £30 from
Dixons) is in planning paving designs, it allows design to exact
dimensions and easy specs of quantities.
I won't risk the collective ire of the group by posting a binary of a
design, but if any one cares to mail me direct I will mail a sample.
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Chris French
>
>> In article <896570960.3861.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "David
>Bridges" (c...@craigwell.demon.co.uk) writes:
>> [snip]
>> >If you'd lurked before posting, you wouldn't have asked that question.
>
>> every year. This one's more like a hardy daily. :o)
>>
>the question or are you all just going to sit infront of your keyboards
>feeling superior?
Well, I already have, but this question does come up so often lately
(including three times this weekend). It is annoying because people do
not seem to be making the effort to lurk for a little while before
posting, else they would have seen similar questions.
Nor have they made any effort it seems to look on Dejanews, or
elsewhere.
No I don't sit here feeling superior but I do expect people to respect
others in this group and make some effort themselves.
Otherwise, well it's as good as any an intro to urg!
Frank Huijsmans
>That's meant to be helpful rather than rude, but it's the second time today
Is there a FAQ for this newsgroup? If yes, isn't there a chapter about
this?
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