Create a CAD drawing from a hand plan

Making the jump from hand drawing landscape plans to working with CAD software can be challenging. Here we show step by step how to convert a hand drawn plan to a finished CAD drawing.

Convert hand drawn plan

YouTube movie This video is designed to show shows how to take a hand drawn landscape plan and recreate the design in gCADPlus 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, a ‘bridge’ spans a small pond with riparian planting, a pergola is set at 45 degrees to the rectangular space and so on.