gCADPlus

gCADPlus logoUse gCADPlus landscape design software to create professional landscape plans quickly. Imagine producing high-quality CAD drawings quickly using custom templates. Consider the possibility of emailing vibrant images of concept plans to clients without the need to print.  Incorporate photos and part designs of previous work to save drafting time. Extract quantities such as volume of mulch, lists of plant species, etc. Visit your client and edit the design ‘on the fly’.

Own gCADPlus with a once-only payment of USD$95.00.

  Digital design work saves paper. gCADPlus is free to try – download a copy here.

Typical landscape designs created with gCADPlus

Free e-book. About Landscape Design and CAD

YouTube movie This movie highlights the use of gCADPlus in the metric environment to provide a detailed set of drawings for a childcare center.  A design for the spaces around an outdoor play area for children is presented on an AO sheet. Photos of species used in the design, a plant schedule, and magnified views of portions of the design are shown on the layout sheet.

Professional Landscape Design Software

Tip: The images shown on the layout sheet are taken from SppDb, a plant database application that’s designed to work with gCADPlus. Buy gCADPlus and get a free copy of SppDb.

Professional landscape design software We take a quick look at the landscape design shown below from the USA (Imperial) environment where distances are measured in decimal feet. We discuss changing your view of the design, zooming in and out on the plan, panning the drawing, calculating areas of garden beds, identifying plant symbols, switching to a layout view, and adjusting the view of the model. We then print the design using a PDFWriter. To view a PDF print of the design shown in the movie, click the image below.

USA example

Professional landscape design software  In this movie, we show how a landscape designer working on a site in Texas, USA was able to save time by automating the generation of a plant schedule in gCADPlus.

Working from a mud map Most designers will work from some type of measurements taken on a site visit. This movie demonstrates how to take a ‘mud map’ and create a full-size base plan and develop the design in gCADPlus.

YouTube movie Many first-time gCADPlus users are moving from an environment where they have been drawing by hand and want to use CAD to draft plans. This video is designed to show how to take a hand-drawn landscape plan and recreate the design in CAD software. The garden space is small but crammed with interest. The line command is used to accurately define the site, the block command is used to create some large format pavers ready for placement, a wooden ‘bridge’ spans a small pond with riparian planting, a pergola is set at 45 degrees to the rectangular space, and so on. Here is a link to a movie that compares drafting by hand to CAD drafting with gCADPlus.

Pricing

gCADPlus is affordable with no ongoing fees.  Own professional landscape CAD for a once-only payment of $95.00. gCADPlus runs on Windows, Macs, or Linux computers (with emulator software).

gCADPlus is a productivity tool for professional landscape and garden designers. It is used not only by single but also by multi-person design studios in many countries. Professional garden designers choose gCADPlus because we offer a quality landscape design tool, free upgrades, and add comprehensive support. Assistance ranges from helping users improve drafting efficiency with custom templates and site-specific plant database files. for your specific locality, to providing online and one-on-one training for your staff, and much more.

What others say

“Botanica Garden Styling is a boutique landscape architecture business in Melbourne. In the past, plans were hand-drawn, and CAD work was outsourced when required … until we discovered gCADPlus.  Admittedly, we were slightly nervous about picking up this new skill but having a landscape design software program that is specifically tailored for garden design work is fantastic. 

For what you get, the program is of excellent value and the support is second to none.  I regularly contact Keith with queries and in no time at all he has created a video and put it on Facebook for all of us to learn from.  The tutorials are excellent, and we have gone from no knowledge of drawing or design programs to star pupils.  We probably haven’t touched the sides of what the program offers, but within quite a brief period have mastered the basics and can produce accurate, attractive, and useful plans for clients and landscapers for quoting purposes.”

“​For the solo garden designer or small landscape design-build firm like mine, no other landscape cad-design package offers so many features in such a solid package for such a small cost.  For small companies like ours, spending $2,000+ on design software doesn’t make sense, especially when that software comes with additional yearly or monthly maintenance fees that add hundreds of dollars more per year to that cost. Chris M – The GreenMan, Florida USA”

I have used gCADPlus since 2016. From day one, it has been a trusted and reliable partner to my landscape design business. Simple to use with great support tools available. Management has equally impressed me with a high level of support and super quick response to any inquiry over the years. Highly recommended.  Theo A
 www.curvesld.com.au