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Software : Better Homes and Gardens Landscaping and Deck Designer 7.0 [OLD VERSION]

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: Better Homes and Gardens Landscaping and Deck Designer 7.0 [OLD VERSION]

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Used Price: $62.00

Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Chief Architect
EAN: 0750839022208
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Chief Architect
Manufacturer: Chief Architect
Publisher: Chief Architect
Release Date: January 15, 2006
Sales Rank: 2897
Studio: Chief Architect

Features:

Find your plants with a newly designed search tool - Search according to shade/sun requirements, growth attributes and more
Import a photo and add landscaping, create an outdoor living space or design the exterior of your home
Add water features to your landscape such as pools, ponds and streams
The Growth Slider tool shows what your plants will look like in 0-20 years
Choose from a Library of more than 4,000 items, including over 1,500 plants

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Product Description:
Better Homes and Gardens Landscaping and Deck Designer helps you turn your vision of a better home into reality. Better Homes and Gardens, the number one home and garden publisher, has partnered with leading software designer Chief Architect to bring you the Landscaping and Deck Designer. Using the software's fun, intuitive, and easy-to-use tools, you'll quickly be on the way toward becoming the envy of your neighborhood as your backyard barbecues in the sun turn into elegant moon-lit affairs on your new deck. Deck foundations automatically generate to match sloped lots Produce realistic images of your outdoor projects Import your own photos of houses, plants, people, and more Easily create hills and valleys for custom landscapes Includes tutorial CD

Amazon.com:
Better Homes and Gardens Landscaping and Deck Designer 7.0 is the latest in outdoor design software by Chief Architect. Planning the perfect outdoor living space has never been easier with powerful tools for landscaping, decks and patios, site planning, and cost estimation. Choose from a variety of over 1,500 plants with Plant Chooser and start designing today!

Plan and design the perfect outdoor living space

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Outdoor living designs

Over 2000 plants

Deck and patio design

Plant hardiness zone maps

Garden and landscaping templates

Powerful Design Software
Plan and design the perfect outdoor living space! Landscaping and Deck Designer makes it easy to quickly design the virtual look and feel of your backyard, deck, patio, pool or any outdoor project. Just point-and-click to add pre-arranged landscaping beds and any of over 4,000 library items to your design. Choose from an array of terrain feature and design tools. It's quick and it's easy!

When you need inspiration and ideas for your design, just turn to the Design Inspiration Gallery for help. Look through a collection of beautiful photographs to spark your creativity. Or get expert advice, tips and techniques from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens magazines. We've gathered all the information and inspiration you need!

Landscaping and Deck Designer makes it easy! Use valuable resources like Plant Chooser, Design Planning Center and over 2,000 plants, trees and shrubs to place and arrange in your outdoor living space.

Landscaping

Plant Chooser--Find the plant you want with this newly designed search tool! Search according to shade and sun requirements, growth attributes, deer resistance, ease of growth and, much, more!
Exclusive Design Planning Center for expert design advice, tips, and guidelines.
Landscaping templates designed by Better Homes and Gardens quickly places pre-arranged landscaping beds.
Terrain Wizard imports the specifications of your terrain.
Choose from a Library of more than 4,000 items for your designs, including over 1,500 plants.
Design and visualize in 3D, including Virtual Tours.
Import your own photos of houses, plants, people, and more.

Decks and Patios

Design single or multi-level decks with Deck Designer tools, complete with automatic deck framing.
Patio Design assigns materials like concrete, brick, or Cultured Stone.
Create retaining walls that follow the shape of your terrain.
Layout your deck, add stairs, place and arrange outdoor furniture.
Deck foundations automatically generate to match sloped lots.
Quickly add water features to your landscape with round and kidney shaped ponds and stream tools.
Automatic deck railings with height adjustments.

Outdoor Living

Use the Design Inspiration Center with a gallery of images to help plan your landscaping and outdoor living space.
Create custom landscaping plans in 2D and 3D.
Choose from a Library of more than 4,000 items.
Material Painter allows you to apply materials to individual items--change the color of your patio set, texture of your flooring, and more.
Fence Designer tools let you click-and-drag to follow the shape of your yard.
Design the exterior of your home or import a photo and add landscaping.

Site Planning & Estimating

Landscape design tools easily create hills and valleys for custom landscapes.
Use the Growth Slider tool to see what your plants will look like in 0-20 years.
Use powerful Fence, Garden, Driveway, Path, and Terrain Feature tools.
Create plot and perimeter plans; automatically generate a 3D model of your actual terrain.
Automatically generate a materials list to estimate costs.
Sprinkler Designer tool easily lays out sprinkler zones.

No Design Experience Needed!
Design it and enjoy it! Use over 3,000 integrated tools:

Create custom landscaping plans in 2D and 3D

Use over 3,000 integrated tools

Automatic Building Tools

Create automatic framing for decks
Automatically generate roofs, dimensions, foundations, stairs, railings and new floors
Automatically create a full 3D overview of your landscaping plans

Library Content

Over 4,000 items in the built-library including furniture, fixtures, lighting and more
Over 2,000 realistic plants
Brand names such as Benjamin Moore paints, Cultured Stone and more
Additional plants can be found in the Bonus Plant Library

Dimensions

One-Click automatic dimensions
Dynamic Dimensions--displays dimensions as walls or decks are drawn

Landscaping

Pre-Designed garden beds
Over 2,000 realistic plants
Import photos of your own plants
Plant Encyclopedia--for detailed plant descriptions
Plant Chooser to quickly locate and learn about plants
Plant Hardiness Zone maps
Advanced plant searching by sun, shade, watering, deer resistance and more
Grow your plants 0-20 years!

Terrain Tools

Automatic Terrain Perimeters--customize to define your specific plot
Add elevation points and elevation lines for custom contours
Create Terraces with retaining walls
One-Click hill and valley tools

Sprinkler Design

Sprinkler Design tools help you lay out sprinkler systems
Show sprinkler coverage areas
Adjust sprinkler coverage area
Choose from a library of sprinkler heads

Project Cost Estimating

Accurate materials calculations for concrete, lumber, plants and more
Automatic cost estimations and materials list
Assign costs for materials: descriptions, quantities, unit costs and more

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Not so much
I wanted a program to help me document my "new" yard. I became a Master Gardener to learn how to do the yard and bought the program to record it. The program was more work than the yard (and it is a significant yard) It is limited, convoluted and took up so much space in my computer that it made my other computer tasks more difficult. I removed the program.

Rating:

- Decent but not great
I have mixed feelings about this software. On one hand, it's a bunch of fun to play around with your landscaping and this software does a great job of allowing you to put virtually anything in your yard and then view it in either 2D or 3D. There's a ton of plants and yard "stuff" to use. The interface is fairly easy to understand and use. Where I lose some interest is, I found the feature to duplicate your house and yard fairly difficult. The concept of putting a picture in and the program using ... Read More

Rating:

- Better than most
The application has just about everything I was looking for and more. The views are great! Comparing to other systems, construct of the plans is much easier. My only concern is that to date, I haven't been able to figure out how to add my own plant library items.

Rating:

- Too few plants for the dry Southwest landscape
Simi-permanent water shortages are forcing a rapid change in residential landscape throughout the Southwestern United States. This kind of software is exactly what many of us non-professional could benefit from if it listed a wide variety of beautiful drought-tolerant plants to select from. Unfortunately, neither this nor any other software that I have seen incorporates a large and varied Southwest-friendly plant list. Excluding trees and succulents, I could only find 15 plants in this software that ... Read More

Rating:

- Better than nothing!
It was very helpful in planning my landscaping. Getting my home roof correct was tricky and my property has some slope in the front and I had a very hard time making it right. I planted 17 different varities of plants and I found about half of them in their plant directory.

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