Lands Design is a professional landscape design software with BIM technology. It lets you develop 2D drawings and 3D technical model of the project. You can easily switch between 2D and 3D with just one click. By leveraging BIM technology, Lands Design automatically generates quantity takeoff lists of plants and other materials and lets you collaborate easily with other architectural and civil engineering software supported by the program.
Lands Design is offered in 2 versions as plugins for AutoCAD and for Rhino. Both versions have the same functions and toolbars.
Main features that streamline the design processes in Lands Design include:
– Powerful terrain modeling tools for creating terrain, earthmoving operations, and creating terrains by easily just indicating the location of the project on the map.
– Plant database with more than 2000 plants totally customizable with the Lands Design ВЁplant editorВЁ which lets you produce a new species or modify the characteristics and the 3D model of an existing one.
– Documentation tools for preparing technical plans such as dimension plan, planting layout plan, and irrigation plan, producing lists, labels, etc.
– Visualization tools for creating animation with seasonal change of plants and plant growth, render variations, image filters, etc.
Lands Design is distributed based on the “try-before-you-buy” policy and offers a 90 days free trial. You can download it for free, try it, and make sure it works for you before you make a purchase decision.
Learning Material
Lands Design has a fast and intuitive user interface that lets users learn quickly. You can find learning material including tutorials and course series on https://www.landsdesign.com/learn/.
There are different license types for commercial use, labs and students. All of licenses are permanent with no extra fees.
