CAD for Gardeners
Learn how to use CAD for garden design with this comprehensive course. Discover how to install and customize QCAD software, create fundamental shapes, and edit CAD designs. Perfect for intermediate garden designers and beginner gardeners looking to apply CAD to their designs. Affordable and accessible for all.
What you’ll learn
- An understanding of why you would want to use CAD for garden design
- How to install and customise QCAD software
- How to create fundamental shapes necessary for basic CAD design
- The basic tool and modifications necessary to edit the CAD design
- How to create a satellite photo background as a guide for the CAD design
I will guide you through the reasons for using CAD, how to setup the free version of QCAD, which common drawing shapes to use and how to modify and combine these shapes.
Why CAD?Why should you use CAD? Why would you plan a garden in the first place? CAD has a steep learning curve but is the best choice for designing a garden. It can be free, very fast and portable.
Setup QCADQCAD is my Free CAD software of choice but it can be fiddly to get the free version. I guide you through this setup, and show you how to modify your environment so that the default CAD colours look good in most situations.
Shapes, entities, modsLearn the 4 basic shapes, 3 types of entity and 4 modifications. We’ll cover rectangles, circles, lines and the wondrous NURBS, then look at how these relate to polylines, blocks and text. Once you discover the power of modifying the basic shapes using offset, mirror, divide and rotate, you will be able to create aninfinity of garden design elements.
ExamplesNot one buttwo walkthrough examples, showing you how to establish a CAD design, using a satellite photo as a background and CAD blocks to add plants. We’ll be looking at a 1 acre garden, and then a town garden.
Who this course is for:
- Intermediate garden designer that wants to learn CAD
- Beginner gardener that has the time, energy and aptitude to apply CAD to garden design
- Non-wealthy gardeners that can’t afford £1.5k for a CAD software license!
