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DESCRIPTION

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 are very open to suggestions which would help it to fit your garden software needs.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 080516 (16 May 2008):
  • Should quit sheet dialogs when the window closes
  • Fix double-clicking test.gsx file If we had both canonical & common, re-search for a match. IF filling in a common to match the canonical (or vice versa), don't re-search. double-clicking a gse file should import into the current document (create if needed)
  • Clicking on a newly opened date dialog should set the date should be able to exit Add/Replace dialog with a
  • Fix bug where you can't add "current height" on a row where maxHeight hasn't been set
  • Resize widths of columns when the font is changed
  • Clearing source column doesn't make an undo record correctly If column set is read-only, then open a read-only version of the picture selection dialog
  • Recalculate scroll parameters when column set changes
  • Save doesn't use the name given (saved as untitled)
  • Triangle isn't visible in read-only picture select
  • Added context sensitive menu for Picture dialog
  • Load up metadata fields in picture select dialog
  • Add "created by" metadata field
  • Fix an issue where paste would sometimes not work
  • Make sure that the elipses for over-long cell text get written
  • Center column header text vertically
  • Add context menu (right-click) to text entry dialog
  • Create painted shape, export, re-import.
  • Have two identically named plots, with the empty plot visible. Increasing the path width of a point path stretches the Y size of the "+", but does not affect the X size.
  • Clean up printing of tables
  • Doesn't immediately display warning icons if plants are too close (undo redo & the warning appears)
  • Fix problem reading overlap warnings from documents
  • Prevent an identical warning from being raised multiple times on the same plan
  • Fix a spurious warning message
  • Try new overlap detection routines, check for aditional message depending on shade tolerance
  • Fix a problem with displaying pictures in OpenGL
  • Improve handling of overlap warnings
  • Don't give an overlap warning when one item is not a plant
  • Don't give "no spread" warning for non-plants
  • Hardscape items have yellow background on MacIntel
  • Can display 4'12" instead of 5'
  • Close and open new document can't pick non-plant item again
  • Select placement tool and point path
  • Now drag a non-plant. Does BOTH the placement and the drag. Shouldn't be able to resize title box too small
  • When making title box tall and thin, text doesn't wrap until it was way outside the border
  • Plan view colors are byte-swapped on the printout when printing on a MacIntel
  • Fix problem where elements would look selected when they weren't
  • Changing the application font doesn't cause the DB pane to repaint
  • Handle creating overview plots without an aerial photo
  • Zone was not being included in search criteria
  • Widen the search window so that the menus fit
  • Improve material search query
  • Add area calculation to info tool Can't select another plant in the material palette (can drag any one)
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Redstart Software
Downloads:10,462
  - Version d/l:2,557
Home & Personal:Arts
License:Free
Date:18 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    GardenSketch User Reviews (8 posts)Write A Review
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    Oct 26 2008

    ALBERT3  Refuses to launch.  
    (Version 080516)

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    May 19 2008

    SJHA  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.  
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    May 23 2008

    JLBEDELL  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.  
    (Version 080516)

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    May 24 2008

    SJHA  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.  
    (Version 080516)

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    May 18 2008

    MACBIRD  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)

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    May 18 2008

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

    Thanks and best of luck with this product.  
    (Version 080516)

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    Mar 29 2008
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    SCHMELDING  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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    Mar 29 2008

    MACUPDATE ADMIN  Previous versions here.  
    (Version 1.0b5.1)

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    Mar 1 2008

    SANS DIEU RIEN  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)

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    Feb 24 2007
    *****

    KRIS  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)

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    Feb 24 2007

    F451  For some reason I cannot get it to launch on my G5 PPC. Love to try it though.  
    (Version 1.0b5)

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    Feb 24 2007

    JLBEDELL  I apologize for the mistake, and have uploaded a new version which should correct the problem. Could you please repeat the download?  
    (Version 1.0b5)

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    Feb 24 2007

    VENTIFACT  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"  
    (Version 1.0b5.1)

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    Feb 24 2007

    MACUPDATE ADMIN  "ventifact", which version did you have this experience with? 1.0b5 or 1.0b5.1?  
    (Version 1.0b5.1)

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    Feb 24 2007

    VENTIFACT  Version: 1.0b5.1 . Will try new download, thanks.  
    (Version 1.0b5.1)

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    Feb 24 2007

    MACUPDATE ADMIN  Version 1.0b5.1 *is* the newer download.  
    (Version 1.0b5.1)

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