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Custom LandDesigner 3D Design 7.0 | 
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| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Software
List Price: $49.95
Buy New: $39.95
You Save: $10.00 (20%)
New (1) Used (3) from $32.75
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 10449
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 3.1
MPN: 63006
Model: 71195
UPC: 020626711951
EAN: 0020626711951
ASIN: B00005A8XU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Sierra's Custom LandDesigner 3D Design 7.0 may offer only five landscaping and gardening applications as opposed to the eight titles bundled with Complete LandDesigner 3D Design Collection 7.0, but the suite still packs an enormous amount of functionality for its relatively low price. The program let us design complete landscapes and gardens by dragging plants, walls, trellises, and other elements from an extensive database into either a 2-D or 3-D representation of our yard. It was easy to position and reposition these elements, and the truly uninspired can turn to the included predesigned gardens and design guide for inspiration. These two aspects of the program can incorporate everything from your climate to feng shui in order to provide suggestions that are relevant to your landscaping needs.The software comes with so many features it's tough to decide where to begin. We really liked the aging feature that let us see how the plants we had selected would look any number of years after we planted them, letting us plan for the future. There's also a handy slider bar that let us easily see how the plants would look during various seasons, adding accurate blooms in the spring and leaf color changes in the fall. It was simple to import digital pictures of houses and add virtual landscaping elements, and once a design was finalized everything we wanted to include was added automatically to a shopping list. The one drawback to this software is that the graphics aren't too great, especially in the 3-D modes. They are adequate for giving an impression of what a garden will look like from a distance, but up close everything disintegrates into a mess. Still, the top-down 2-D views are crisp, and the photographs in the plant encyclopedia are good, and as long as you have the patience to deal with the frequent CD access this software demands you'll be planning the landscape of your dreams in no time. --T. Byrl Baker
Amazon.com Product Description
Custom LandDesigner is a collection of five products to help you visualize and create your ideal landscape and garden: LandDesigner 3D, Photo Garden Designer, Garden Encyclopedia, Landscape Design Guide, and Designer Garden Library.LandDesigner 3D offers a library of 4,600 plants and more than 2,200 objects and materials to use in your designs. Design wizards help you create virtual garden beds, sprinkler systems, and more. You can walk or fly through your designs, viewing them from every angle, and see how your landscape will grow and change in appearance through the seasons. Photo Garden Designer allows you to import a photo of your own home and design around it, experimenting with over 1,000 plants, trees, and shrubs. Garden Encyclopedia is a reference guide with full-color photos and entries on over 3,000 plants, and features a multimedia guide on selecting and caring for your plants. Landscape Design Guide gives you expert advice and tips on all the details of keeping a great garden, from choosing appropriate plants to what containers are best for what plants. Designer Garden Library lets you use predesigned gardens for inspiration, including feng shui, rose, herb, Japanese, and other gardens.
Product Description
5 unbeatable tools for designing and maintaining the perfect landscape! Combines 84 professionally designed gardens and landscapes, 1400 structures and photo-realistic 3D! Includes: LandDesigner, Photo Garden Designer, Garden Encyclopedia, Designer Garden Library, and Landscape Design Guide.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
Plants and objects - really funky!!! July 22, 2006
J. Tollstrup (belmont, ca United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've used the photo design tool for a few years now...struggling to make my final landscape projects look more realistic and professional. Caveat emptor: the objects in the database are (1) limited for designing with anything beyond Home Depot plants here in California; (2) cartoon like (3) not easily turned, skewed or put into the right scale in the photo. Example: good luck finding a useable Birch, Laurel or Crape Myrtle tree. No realistic groundcover - not to mention Lavender, Plumbago, Roses or Salvia. These are just basic plants and should be represented. Also - big issue: the scale of plants and objects is either too small for most photos or, when increased in size, has a funky look (chunky). Last, none of the objects can be "skewed" properly to show them from a 3/4 angle or along beds and borders.
Don't buy this unless you want an Amateur package for your home with limited plant selections. Another drawback: you can't "block" out objects in your photo that you want to remove (plants, steps, patios). So I'm back in the market for a new product.
 Sorry, I disagree. March 18, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I LOVE this software! I was almost completely discouraged from buying it by the negative reviews, but I'm glad I decided to take a chance. I'm working on landscaping my yard, and I'm one of those people who can't visualize things: I have to see it. This software may not reproduce everything perfectly (my backyard is all slope, and I can't get it perfect: but it gives a pretty good idea), but for my money its done a fantastic job of recreating my house and all surrounding areas. I've experimented with different hardscaping and planting beds, and I've created really good designs that work for me. Yes, the software took some time and patience to learn, but I found the Help menus extremely helpful and easy to use. Maybe I'm more motivated to put this time in-- but I've enjoyed every hour I've spent. I find it so much fun and so useful that I'm using it to help my brother design a landscape for his backyard. It far surpassed my expectations, which were admittedly kinda low at the start.
 Do Not Buy!! September 23, 2001
Spence (Helotes, Texas USA)
47 out of 49 found this review helpful
This is the worst written software I have ever bought! There is no valuable help built in and it is very restricted on the shape that you make your lot or garden. The toolbar has only a couple of buttons and you have to click on them every single time you complete a task, even if it's a repeat task. There also is no toll-free support. Very user unfriendly!
Buyer beware! August 27, 2001
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
I NEVER write product reviews, but I just had to with this item. Be advised that (according to Sierra online support) you DO NOT get everything listed on the box--LandDesigner, PhotoGarden Designer and Garden Encyclopedia are the only products you'll receive software for. You WILL NOT get Designer Garden Library or Landscape Design Guide. I wrote support three times on this and the fact that I can't seem to go back to fix the windows I added to my house, and received curt, insufficient answers days after I submitted them. I'm considering sending this product back, but I haven't seen another with reviews that were much better. I'm very frustrated and wish you better luck with your software purchase.
Doesn't live up to expectations May 14, 2001
49 out of 50 found this review helpful
Perhaps later versions will be more intuitive to use and the plants more realistic but this one is neither. I found the user interface and help confusing and inadequate. Many frustrating hours were spent trying to learn it. My hope was that the program would provide a better idea for plant spacings and mapping of what I have. I had also hoped it would illustrate visually what groupings would look like before I purchased them. But when I entered the groupings I already have, what I saw was a badly rendered cartoon version of my plants. It is like looking at a badly done portrait and recognizing only elements of the person. Maybe a later version will be worth the time and effort to get the data entered.
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