The best programs for landscape design

Why use standard plans orequip your site after the fact? After all, you can create absolutely any project from scratch on a computer, satisfying your most diverse desires.In order to model your summer cottage in advance and imagine how it will look in the future, numerous software systems for landscape design have been developed. Moreover, they are used by everyone - both professionals and amateurs. As a result, a project of absolutely any complexity can be created without leaving a computer or tablet. Let's consider the most popular programs. 1. Complete Landscape Designer 3.0 Reviews of this assistant for the design and visualization of the site are mostly positive. In the program, which has both English and Russian versions, you can upload a photo of an existing site and transform it in various ways using all the available toolkits. Add a plant, body of water or paths? No problem! The interface is very friendly, especially if you get used to the fact that all objects have to be observed in two-dimensional display. 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 so as to best suit taste preferences. The editor is three-dimensional, so you can change the height and relief, and a huge selection of textures and colors is able to simulate thousands of site variations. A pleasant addition will be the function of changing the time of year and day, in order to evaluate from which side the shadow from the tree will fall on the sunbed or how much the fence will stick out of the snow. 3.Realtime Landscaping Architect The peculiarity of this program is that a video walk option is available in it, which in its essence resembles that in Google maps. You can also look at the projected 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. The import of photos or drawings also works, and the existing library of objects is constantly expanding. But all these functions, unfortunately, are available only in the paid version. 4. Our garden "Crystal 10.0 »If all programs for landscape design represent approximately a similar set of attributes, then the task of developers is reduced to a higher quality of visualization and filling the library. And in this regard, such a program looks like a full-fledged encyclopedia of building objects and garden elements, the drawing of which is very realistic. The choice of plants is huge, you can plant an entire area with them and see how it changes 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. five.Garden Design Pro What about tablets and smartphones? Since they are actively pushing personal computers out of the market, they are increasingly developing all kinds of applications for them, including those in design. 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 you what the result will be after the end of landscaping. 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 in order to quickly and clearly depict what will happen 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 - the photo of the site even takes up more volume. 7. Sierra Land Designer 3D 7.0 Designers highly recommend this program. Just a few tutorials are enough to get you started with almost all functions. Adding objects, plants, trees works in both 2D and 3D mode. The position of the camera can change according to the user's requirements, as well as the terrain, weather or time of day. eight.Punch! Home Design Three-dimensional planning of a house, apartment or plot - this program will cope with everything. Objects from the library can be changed according to your vision and saved, and renders are able to process loaded drawings and drawings, bringing to light unique 3D projects. Working with them and with an integral site plan is not much different from all the programs reviewed today, but here everyone chooses for himself what is more to his liking. Here the interface and the library are in Russian, so it's also worth trying out this software. And what program do you use?