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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

Templates

Here are some links to various template drawings that can be modified and used with gCADPlus in the metric environment.

DesignStudio01.lcd

DesignStudioTemplate.lcd

FirstDesign.lcd

DragDrop.lcd

Flexible.lcd

Funky.lcd

GreenSpadeTemplate.lcd

RearGardenArtDeco.lcd

SiteAssessment.lcd

Some links to various template drawings that can be modified and used with gCADPlus in the imperial environment.

DragDrop.lcd

FirstDesign.lcd

Flexible.lcd

FullSiteBungalow.lcd

Funky.lcd

RearGardenArtDeco.lcd

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