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gCADPlus

Landscape Design Software

  • gCADPlus
    • Features
    • Requirements
    • Upgrade gCADPlus
    • gCADPlus and OneDrive
    • gCADPlus on Macs
      • Install CrossOver and gCADPlus on a Mac
        • gCADPlus and CrossOver
          • Missing block library symbols
          • Run gCADPlus under Catalina
          • Use Hatch on a Mac
          • Upgrade a copy of gCADPlus that’s running on a Mac under Crossover
          • Run gCADPlus under WIne
        • Protecting your work when using a Mac
        • YouTube Mac Playlist
        • Landscape design on Macs – step by step
        • Install PDFWriter on a Mac
    • Protecting CAD drawings
    • gCADPlus on Linux
    • Version History
    • About Us
  • Getting Started
    • Imperial Version
    • Metric Version
    • Create your first gCADPlus drawing
    • Create a CAD drawing from a hand plan (metric)
    • First Job (USA)
    • From hand drafting to CAD
  • Gallery
  • Downloads
    • Download gCADPlus
    • Convert feet and inch to decimal feet
    • Add extra symbols
      • Transparent circular symbols
      • Deciduous trees in elevation
      • Vehicles
      • Australian Native Species
      • 30 trees in elevation
      • Landscape lighting plan symbols
      • Streetscape symbols
      • Irrigation symbols
        • Broad scale irrigation
      • Download symbols
    • Templates
    • Free book
  • Shop
  • Guide
    • Shortcuts
    • Making your own symbols
    • Layouts
    • Layer visibilty
    • Delete Layers
    • Managing layers in landscape CAD drawings
    • Landscape Project Checklist
    • Switch languages
    • Managing layers in landscape CAD drawings
    • Selection Sets
  • Support
    • Learn landscape CAD
      • Designs
        • Rear Gardens
          • Formal design
          • Informal/Formal Design
          • Provide for wheelchair access
          • Large rear garden
          • Small space 10m x 10m
          • Brick paving and planters
          • Long narrow courtyard
          • Low maintenance with lighting
          • Small rear garden space with raised deck
          • Rear garden space 28m x 20m
          • Formal rear garden design 20m x 15m
          • Design for courtyard home
          • Food garden
      • Species lists
    • File
      • Recover gCADPlus Backup File
      • Save As PDF
        • Zone marker – PDF transparency
      • Ways to print PDF
        • SaveAsPDF vs Print PDF
        • Print 1:100
      • Use Templates
      • AutoCAD to gCADPlus
        • Convert AutoCAD dwg to binary DXF
        • Convert AutoCAD files to gCADPlus format
      • Protecting CAD drawings
    • View
      • Options on View Drop menu
    • Format
      • Improving the use of the MTEXT command
    • Draw
      • Drawing smooth shapes
      • Using images
      • Hatch
        • Hatch patterns
      • Use Google Earth for base plans
      • Using Splines
      • Use Multiline Command
        • Multiline Styles
      • Boundary command
      • Basket weave paving
    • Dimension
      • How to apply dimensions
      • Leader command
      • Imperial
      • Modify Dimension Leader
      • Dimensioned drawing
      • Override dimension values
    • Modify
      • Offset command
      • Editing Symbols
      • Break command
      • Trim and Extend
      • Customizing Symbols
      • Drawing Sheet Frames
      • Converting from surveyors drawings
      • Reset the base point of blocks
      • Using grips to edit
    • Interface
      • gCADPlus interface
      • Zoom and Pan
        • Adjusting the view of a design
      • Modify toolbars
      • Polar tracking
      • Layout
      • Use AREA
      • Shortcuts
      • Use Templates
      • Contour data from Google Earth
      • Controlling osnaps
      • Snap and Grid Settings
    • Tools
      • Extract Irrigation Quantities
      • Sustainable landscape design
      • Place PDF
      • Fix corrupt drawings
      • Gridline command
    • Library
      • New Plant Symbol
      • Irrigation symbols for gardens
    • gCADPlus
      • Plant Schedules
      • Plant database files
      • Label plants
        • SmartLabel tool
      • Store non-graphic information landscape plans
      • Create database files from Excel
      • Broadscale planting
      • Sustainability calculator
      • Copy along line
  • Design Course
    • Building an online presence
    • Meeting Clients
      • Build a Design Portfolio
    • Site Survey
      • Equipment Required
      • Measuring Sites
      • Draw Full Size
    • Drafting Plans
      • Benefits of CAD Drafting
      • Complete Design – Decimal Feet
        • Deciduous trees in elevation
      • Base Plan from Mud Map
      • Use Google Earth and Google Earth Pro to create a base plans
      • How to label plant symbols
      • Hand lettered text styles
      • gCADPlus fonts
      • Compare gCADPlus with Vectorworks
    • Design Objectives
      • Design in 2D but think about 3D
      • Vertical and Horizontal Planes
      • Paving, Pattern and Perception
      • Sustainable landscape design
    • Designs Based on Geometric Shapes
    • Allocating Spaces
  • Links
  • Q&A
gCADPlus

Landscape Design Software

  • 30 trees in elevation
  • 36 shrub symbols
  • 3D concept landscape plan
  • 3D modeling
  • 3D Modeling – step by step
  • About Us
  • Add a Google Earth image to gCADPlus and Geo Referencing it
  • Add extra symbols
  • Adjusting the view of a design
  • Allocating Spaces
  • Apply dimensions to landscape plans
  • Apply Imperial Dimensions
  • Arborists using gCADPlus
  • Assess a site
  • Australian Native Species
  • AutoCAD to gCADPlus
  • Base Plan from Mud Map
  • Basket weave paving
  • Benefits of CAD Drafting
  • Blog
  • Boundary command
  • Break command
  • Brick paving and planters
  • Broad scale irrigation
  • Broadscale planting
  • Build a Design Portfolio
  • Building an online presence
  • CAD and landscape design
  • CAD drafting in Imperial units
  • CAD drawing crashes
  • Change the base point of a block
  • Climbers
  • Compare gCADPlus with Vectorworks
  • Complete Design – Decimal Feet
  • Concept plans
  • Constructors
  • Contact Us
  • Contour data from Google Earth
  • Controlling osnaps
  • Convert AutoCAD drawings
  • Convert AutoCAD dwg to binary DXF
  • Convert AutoCAD files to gCADPlus format
  • Convert dwg files for SketchUp
  • Convert feet and inch to decimal feet
  • Converting from surveyors drawings
  • Copse tool
  • Copy along line
  • Create a CAD design from a hand plan
  • Create a CAD drawing from a hand plan (metric)
  • Create CAD version of a hand drawn design (metric)
  • Create database files from Excel
  • Create your first gCADPlus drawing
  • Customizing Symbols
  • Database files
  • Deciduous trees in elevation
  • Delete Layers
  • Design Course
  • Design for courtyard home
  • Design in 2D but think about 3D
  • Design Objectives
  • Designing for wheelchair access
  • Designs Based on Geometric Shapes
  • Different 3D Modeling Techniques
  • Dimensioned drawing
  • Distance enquiry
  • Download gCADPlus
  • Download symbols
  • Drafting Plans
  • Draw Full Size
  • Drawing Sheet Frames
  • Drawing smooth shapes
  • Edit polylines
  • Editing Symbols
  • Equipment Required
  • Explode
  • Extra Symbols
  • Extract Irrigation Quantities
  • Features
  • Feet and inches conversion
  • First Job (USA)
  • Fix corrupt drawings
  • Fix corrupt files
  • Fixed scale 1/64
  • Food garden
  • Formal design
  • Formal rear garden design 20m x 15m
  • Free book
  • Free version of gCADPlus
  • From gCADPlus to SketchUp
  • From hand drafting to CAD
  • From hand drafting to CAD
  • Gallery
  • Garden Design Software
  • gcad
  • gCADPlus and CrossOver
  • gCADPlus and OneDrive
  • gCADPlus fonts
  • gCADPlus interface
  • gCADPlus on Linux
  • gCADPlus on Macs
  • Getting Started
  • Gradient fills
  • Gridline command
  • Guide
  • Hand lettered text styles
  • Hatch
  • Hatch Patterns
  • Hatch patterns
  • Hedge
  • How to apply dimensions
  • How to label plant symbols
  • Human figures
  • Imperial
  • Imperial Version
  • Improving the use of the MTEXT command
  • Increase line thickness in PDF
  • Indicating massed planting
  • Informal/Formal Design
  • Install CrossOver and gCADPlus on a Mac
  • Install PDFWriter on a Mac
  • Introduction to SketchUp
  • Irrigation symbols
  • Irrigation symbols
  • Irrigation symbols for gardens
  • Label plants
  • Landscape design on Macs – step by step
  • Landscape lighting plan symbols
  • Landscape Project Checklist
  • Landscape Software Australia
  • Large rear garden
  • Layer visibilty
  • Layouts
  • Leader command
  • Learn CAD
  • Learn landscape CAD
  • Learn SketchUp
  • Links
  • Load hatch patterns
  • Long narrow courtyard
  • Low maintenance with lighting
  • Make new symbols
  • Making your own symbols
  • Manage lineweights
  • Managing layers in landscape CAD drawings
  • Managing lineweights in landscape drawings
  • Measuring Sites
  • Meeting Clients
  • Metric Version
  • Missing block library symbols
  • Modify Dimension Leader
  • Modify toolbars
  • Movement in designs
  • Multiline Styles
  • New Plant Symbol
  • Offset command
  • Options on View Drop menu
  • Override dimension values
  • Paving, Pattern and Perception
  • PEPalette
  • Perennials
  • Place PDF
  • Plant database files
  • Plant lists
  • Plant Schedules
  • Plot fixed scale
    • Layout
  • Polar tracking
  • Principles of Landscape Design
  • Print 1:100
  • Problems creating symbols
  • Protecting CAD drawings
  • Protecting your work when using a Mac
  • Provide for wheelchair access
  • Q&A
  • Rear garden space 28m x 20m
  • Rear Gardens – spaces
  • Recover gCADPlus Backup File
  • Remove blocks
  • Requirements
  • Reset the base point of blocks
  • Run gCADPlus under Catalina
  • Run gCADPlus under WIne
  • Save As PDF
  • SaveAsPDF
  • SaveAsPDF vs Print PDF
  • Selection Sets
  • Shop
  • Shortcuts
  • Shortcuts
  • Site Survey
  • Sketchy
  • Small rear garden space with raised deck
  • Small space 10m x 10m
  • SmartLabel tool
  • Snap and Grid Settings
  • Species lists
  • Start a new drawing with a template
  • Store non-graphic information landscape plans
  • Streetscape symbols
  • Support
  • Support
  • Sustainability calculator
  • Sustainable Design
  • Sustainable landscape design
  • Sustaininbility Calculator
  • Switch languages
  • Templates
  • Text in layout tabs too small
  • Transparent circular symbols
  • Tree planting
  • Trim and Extend
  • Upgrade gCADPlus
  • Upgrade gCADPlus under CrossOver
  • URL text
  • Use AREA
  • Use Google Earth and Google Earth Pro to create a base plans
  • Use Google Earth for base plans
  • Use Hatch on a Mac
  • Use Multiline Command
  • Use Templates
  • Use the MiniLayer tool
  • Using CAD for landscape design
  • Using grips to edit
  • Using images
  • Using Splines
  • Using the Array command
  • Vectorworks to gCADPlus
  • Vehicles
  • Version History
  • Vertical and Horizontal Planes
  • Viewport visibility
  • Ways to print PDF
  • Why use CAD?
  • YouTube Mac Playlist
  • Zone marker – PDF transparency
  • Zoom and Pan
  • gCADPlus
  • Recent Videos
    • Printing

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By kwest@designcad.com.au / August 2, 2018

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