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GardenSketch 1.0

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Redstart Software

GardenSketch is design software which can help plan and lay out a garden or landscape, enabling you to visualize a garden space before any plants are purchased.

GardenSketch has specialized drawing tools to make designing landscapes easy. The existing landscape can be easily entered by incorporating aerial or satellite photos. GardenSketch helps you to choose suitable plants with its search capability. It also makes buying plants and mulch easy, by computing the number of plants and/or amount of mulch required for an area.

Gardensketch is currently in beta, and we

What's New

Version 1.0: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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JohnnaCal commented on 26 Jul 2009

Not intuitive enough.

You need to add tools such as building walls to represent home walls.

There are far better products out there than this one.

The screen is so small.

[Version 080516]

albert3 commented on 26 Oct 2008

Refuses to launch.

[Version 080516]

+78

sjha commented on 19 May 2008

A promising idea - but the interface is far from intuitive and for me the Help did not work so I was unable to design anything! There seems to be no instructional material on the developer's site either.

[Version 080516]

2 Replies

Redstart Software (developer) replied on 23 May 2008

Is there an area that you found especially unintuitive? I'd like to improve the the documentation and will be willing to change the interface if it's giving people problems.

+78

sjha replied on 24 May 2008

I tried to start a project by first filling areas of lawn but could not work out how to do this. I assumed the rectangle tool should be involved but had no success. And as I said the Help system did not function. I would certainly encourage you to provide more comprehensive documentation.

+12

macbird commented on 18 May 2008

Macmini 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB RAM OS 10.5.2

I know it's beta but it should at least run. When launched it froze my Mac. Force quit wouldn't work. Finally able to shut down by depressing the main power button for several seconds, which I really hate to do.

[Version 080516]

-1

+32

Melman Flink commented on 18 May 2008

Crashed on launch. Mac G4 533/DP. OS X 10.4.11

Thanks and best of luck with this product.

[Version 080516]

+76

Schmelding reviewed on 29 Mar 2008

Previous versions were easier to use and had better looking results. This version is unusable to me.

[Version 1.0b5.1]

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+334

MacUpdate Lon replied on 29 Mar 2008

Previous versions here.

+12

Sans Dieu Rien commented on 01 Mar 2008

A very appropriate title for a very appropriate software. If you are tired of wasting money in purchasing plants on the spur of the moment then coming home trying to figure out where to put it, and wasting money on expensive landscaping software then this program is for you! Although it is not as thorough as the big money programs out there, you can't beat the price of GardenSketch. It may very well save you money from frivolous spending and killing plants due to transplanting. Yes, true confession: I've done it many times...
They do request a donation for future development. Awesome.

[Version 1.0b5.1]

+55

Kris reviewed on 24 Feb 2007

Great start! The author was quick to fix the problem of not running. I really like the references. Great for a gardener. Software like this is FREE on the Mac? Geez, not on Windows! The same program kind of program by the Burpee seed company is expensive.

[Version 1.0b5.1]

+232

F451 had trouble on 24 Feb 2007

For some reason I cannot get it to launch on my G5 PPC. Love to try it though.

[Version 1.0b5]

5 Replies

Redstart Software (developer) replied on 24 Feb 2007

I apologize for the mistake, and have uploaded a new version which should correct the problem. Could you please repeat the download?

ventifact commented on 24 Feb 2007

Same here, G5iMac 1.8GH 1GigRAM gets error:
"Link (dyld) error:

Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/CPlusTest.framework/Versions/A/CPlusTest
Referenced from: /Applications/GardenSketch.app/Contents/MacOS/GardenSketch
Reason: image not found"

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MacUpdate Lon replied on 24 Feb 2007

"ventifact", which version did you have this experience with? 1.0b5 or 1.0b5.1?