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gCADPlus

Affordable easy-to-use landscape software

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    • Complete design – rear garden
    • Complete design – from mud map (metric)
    • Complete design – decimal feet (USA)
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      • CAD drafting – part 1
      • CAD drafting – part 2
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    • 30 Trees in Elevation
    • Deciduous trees in elevation
    • 36 Shrub Symbols
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    • Make a new plant symbol
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gCADPlus

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Some example of landscape design work created by gCADPlus users.

Two options for client
print on A3
Playground
gCADPlus elevation design
gCADPlus gallery
Vertical Garden
Gabion details
Irrigation sample

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1 week ago

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Focusing on Acer palmatum, we illustrate how SppDb, the companion plant database to gCADPlus, can be used to store multiple images of a single species. ... See MoreSee Less

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1 week ago

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Most landscape drawings require entry of lengths as decimal feet. This movie shows how to enter lengths in designs when site surveyors have used the Imperial (USA) system of feet and inches to record data. We show how a simple conversion table can be used to quickly determine the decimal values to type when a length has been recorded in feet and inches. ... See MoreSee Less

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