gCADPlus is a productivity tool for professional landscape and garden designers. It is used not only by single, but also in multi-person design studios.
Professional garden designers choose gCADPlus because we offer a quality landscape CAD design tool, free upgrades, and comprehensive support. Assistance ranges from helping users improve drafting efficiency with custom templates, and plant database files specific to your locality, to providing online and one-on-one training for your staff, and much more.
Custom template
Here is one example of our support where we assisted in the development of a template.
Interface
gCADPlus professional landscape design software works in an elegant, stripped-down interface. AutoCAD users feel right at home because the interface and commands are familiar.
Productivity tools
The software has many features that allow you to:
- Automate many repetitive landscape design tasks such as counting symbols in automatically generated plant schedules,
- Extract quantities ready for costing a design,
- Calculate numbers of ground cover species,
- Automate the labeling of symbols for individual species,
- Easily substitute one species for another,
- Incorporate Google maps/Earth images and other aerial site data directly into drawings,
- Add extra value to your design and add extended data for both ‘hardscape’ and ‘softscape’ data be that irrigation, outdoor furniture, paving, or plant species information,
- Extract that data into spreadsheets for further manipulation.
Symbol library
Choose from hundreds of quality plant professional landscape designs and hardscape symbols. View sample symbols by clicking on the images below.
About gCADPlus
gCADPlus (aka GardenCAD Plus, gCAD Plus, gcad) is based on some earlier software called GardenCAD, a tool developed for groups of landscape design students at a local college. We now have users in many countries. gCADPlus has been developed by three designers – two in Australia and one in the USA who were long-term AutoCAD users. They saw the need for a modestly priced landscape tool that used AutoCAD commands and was focused on landscape design.
We wanted users to produce designs quickly and focus on design, not CAD techniques.
The development of gCADPlus is a labor of love – every dollar raised from sales is used to pay programmers to improve and add features to the software. The first version of gCADPlus was published in 2012. There have been > 70 versions released in that time, each adding features requested by users. Note that we do not charge for upgrades. The current (2022 ) version of gCADPlus is version 10.9.
We encourage you to visit the downloads page of this website, download, and try gCADPlus. We do not collect your contact information and there is no obligation to purchase.
Links
Here is a link to some other work by designers who use gCADPlus.