The best programs for landscape design

Why use standard plans ordevelop your site in fact? After all, you can create absolutely any project from scratch on a computer, satisfying your most diverse desires. Numerous software packages for landscape design have been developed in order to model your summer cottage in advance and imagine how it will look in the future. Moreover, they are used by everyone - both professionals and amateurs. As a result, a project of absolutely any complexity can be created without leaving your computer or tablet. Let's consider the most popular programs. 1. Complete Landscape Designer 3.0 Reviews of this assistant for designing and visualizing a site are mostly positive. You can upload a photo of an existing site to the program, which has both English and Russian versions, and transform it in various ways using all available tool kits. Add a plant, a pond or paths? No problem! The interface is very user-friendly, especially if you get used to the fact that all objects will have to be viewed in two-dimensional form. 2.X-Designer Almost all programs, including X-Designer, are built on the principle of using an extensive data library. Trees and gazebos, buildings and lawns - everything can be arranged to best suit your taste preferences. The editor is three-dimensional, so you can change the height and relief, and a huge selection of textures and colors can model thousands of site options. A nice addition will be the function of changing the season and day, to assess from which side the shadow of a tree will fall on a sun lounger or how much the fence will stick out of the snow. 3.Realtime Landscaping Architect The peculiarity of this program is that it has a video walk option, similar in essence to the one in Google maps. You can also look at the designed area from a bird's eye view or in real time - that is, taking into account the vibrations of plants from the wind or in the light of the moon. Import of photos or drawings also works, and the existing library of objects is constantly expanding. But all these functions, unfortunately, are only available in the paid version. 4. Our garden “Crystal 10.”0» If all landscape design programs represent a similar set of attributes, then the task of developers comes down to a higher quality of visualization and filling the library. And in this regard, such a program already looks like a full-fledged encyclopedia of construction projects and garden elements, the drawing of which is very realistic. The choice of plants is huge, you can plant them all over the site and see how it will change after months and years. As a bonus - an estimate calculator, a growing guide and the ability to save your finished project even in video format. 5.Garden Design Pro What about tablets and smartphones? Since they are actively displacing personal computers from the market, all sorts of applications are increasingly being developed for them, including design ones. The simplicity of Garden Design Pro is noticeable at first glance, intuitive keys will help you start transforming the photographed area, and 3D animation will show what the result will be after the completion of landscaping work. And another plus - the application is free. 6.Garden Planner 3 A very simple - if not primitive - program. But sometimes this is exactly what is needed to quickly and clearly depict what will be on the garden plot. You just need to take what the program offers and transfer it to the working field. And Garden Planner 3 weighs only 4 megabytes - a photo of the plot takes up more space. 7. Sierra Land Designer 3D 7.0 Designers highly recommend this program. Just a few lessons will be enough to understand almost all the functions. Adding objects, plants, trees works both in 2D and 3D mode. The camera position can change according to the user's requirements, as well as the terrain, weather or time of day. 8.Punch! Home Design 3D planning of a house, apartment or plot — this program will handle it all. Objects from the library can be changed according to your vision and saved, and renderers can process downloaded drawings and pictures, bringing to light unique 3D projects. Working with them and with a complete plot plan is not much different from all the programs reviewed today, but here everyone chooses what they like best. Here the interface and the library are in Russian, so it is also worth trying this software. What program do you use?