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| Landscape Design software for OS X (other than SketchUp)?
Hi All, I've searched far and wide for landscaping software for Mac OS X and have only been able to come up with: SketchUp -- great but too expensive. More professionally oriented than what I'm looking for. 3D Home Landscape Design 5 by Riverdeep -- awful reviews on Amazon.com And that seems like all there is! Windows has a whole slew of highly-rated landscaping and home remodeling software. Why doesn't Mac, the quintessential platform for design? Anyone know of packages I'm overlooking? |
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Thanks for your reply, Perfessor, Yes, Mac is aimed at professionals for design, but when you think of Mac's newer direction in the home consumer market (i.e. iLife) seems as though that's a huge untapped market. |
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Ha! And to illustrate my point, the topic of this thread generated an ad at the top of the page for a landscape design package… for Windows only! This IS an OS X forum, is it not? ;-) |
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SketchUp is a great general purpose design tool, but it's not very good at home and landscape design. I've been developing web-based home and landscape design software at www.MyGardenPlans.com. Its very new, but I'm releasing updates almost every day. Your feedback is appreciated. I've designed the software to be very user friendly. It feels a lot like SketchUp, but it's intended primarily for home and landscape design users. Creating walls is similar to that of SketchUp (e.g. snapping to lines and right angles), but MyGardenPlans.com shows the length and thickness of the walls and doors. The software also has a drag and drop plant database. |
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