The document outlines the top 10 features required for landscape design software, highlighting the most requested capabilities in professional forums and their importance to landscape designers and urban planners. Key features include professional results, ease of use, full functionality in 2D/3D, a comprehensive plants database, and realistic rendering capabilities. Lands Design, integrated with Rhino, provides a cost-effective option with regular updates and extensive documentation tools for professionals in the field.

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TOP 10
Features in demand for
Landscape Design Software

2. Why these are the 10 top features
• Because these features are the
most requested and discussed in
professional landscape forums.
• Because they are the most
valued when selecting a
landscape software for
professionals.
• Because these are the buying
criteria for most of the landscape
designers and urban planners.
• Look for those features when choosing a landscape design software.
Here you will find the examples provided by Lands-Design.

3. TOP 10 in Landscape Architecture Software
1. Professional Results
2. Easy to Learn
3. Fully functional in 2D / 3D
4. Availability of variety of views
5. Free-form modeling
6. Ability to exchange designs with other software
7. Plants Database
8. Realistic Images
9. Documentation
10.Price and Support shouldn’t be a problem

4. 1. Professional Results
Landscape architects, urban planners, town council technicians, constructors, designers and draftsmen,
environment departments, nurserymen, and gardeners… all of them demand professional results, from technical
planning to photorealistic rendering.
It’s not just about obtaining a 2D drawing but getting terrain modeling, plants information, include watering
systems, civil works elements, furniture, 3D models, renderings, documentation. Lands Design provides them all.

5. 2. Easy to learn
Either by using the same commands and tools of an already known software or by using a really intuitive software.
Rhino and Lands Design interfaces are meant to be intuitive, customizable and easy to use.
Lands Design is fully integrated in Rhino, it uses the same workflow and all the Rhino editing tools and commands
to work with 2D and 3D objects can be combined with the Lands Design objects.

6. 3. Fully functional in 2D / 3D
Landscape designers must use 2D & 3D, depending on which part of project is being created. Customers enjoy 3D
because they see what they will get but designers need to develop their creation in 2D.
Lands Design offers different simultaneous 2D and 3D displays of vegetation on the drawing.

7. 4. Availability of variety of views
All projects should be shown with different display modes, virtual tours, animations, image filters to exploit all the
possibilities of the design.
Besides, Lands Design includes a variety of tools to distribute plants, trees, shrubs and flower beds, individually, in
rows, in forests…

8. 5. Free-form Modeling
It’s not just about obtaining a 2D drawing but getting 3D models, terrain modeling, plants information, include
watering systems, civil works elements, furniture, renderings, documentation. A balanced assembly of structural
elements and plants will give a highly attractive spatial composition.
Lands Design is a free-form modeling tool and incorporates a vast library of urban street equipment in two and
three dimensions, in order to meet the needs of landscaping professionals. Lands-Design can be used to easily
draw stairs, fences, paths, walls and other structural elements in both 2D and 3D.

9. 6. Ability to exchange designs with other software
Landscape designers need to share their projects with other designers or customers. It won’t possible unless their
software allows to export their designs to a compatible format.
Rhino can import and export AutoCAD drawing (.dwg) files. DWG is the native format for several CAD packages
and it’s included in Lands Design.

10. 7. Plants Database
What’s a landscape without plants? Nothing. Even if you are projecting an urban space, you need plants. Your
software must not be limited to provide images but all the information regarding the plants.
To make it easier, Lands Design has a database with around 1800 plant species. Realistic plants database with their
data, morphology and specific characteristics, such as the resistance or type of soil. The plants database can be
filtered by species, scientific or common name and characteristics.

11. 8. Realistic Images
Realism is necessary, not only for the landscape designer but also for the customer, whether they are private or
corporate. Their expectations will be satisfied if you submit realistic images of their orders.
Just insert plants and shot renders! All Lands Design elements and vegetation species can be rendered with any
render engine supported by Rhino: Rhino render, V-Ray, Flamingo nXt, Maxwell render, Brazil, Penguin, Neon …

12. 9. Documentation
The “other” side of the landscape design process. Apart from plans and renderings, a Landscape Architect needs
to obtain the documentation of the whole project.
Lands Design provides many features for the documentation including self-generated tables -exportable to Excel-,
plant labeling, spot dimensions, automatic schedules, space zoning and others.

13. 10. Price & Support shouldn’t be a problem
Even if you are lucky enough to afford to pay a high price, why should you be forced to pay an exorbitant price?
Lands Design is a WIP (Work In Progress) software and its DOWNLOAD IS FREE. There is a new WIP released every
3 months approximately. When the first commercial version is released, the introductory price will be determined.
Even then, it will fit into the pocket-friendly brand philosophy. Like its own community.

14. Try it for FREE
• Download Lands-Design with or without Rhino and Flamingo nXT
• Contact Lands Design for a free demo
• Visit the Lands Design Community

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Lands-Design is developed by ASUNI, the specialist in ARCHITECTURE – LANDSCAPE - ENGINEERING