Hold your breath – LANDWorksCAD v.6 is just around the corner!

We are now on the final stages of development and testing of the stand-alone version. (the AutoCAD and Bricscad versions will follow)

Here are just few of the exciting new features and enhancements to look forward to.

• Easy Search process – to quickly filter and select your plants to insert. It’s faster and simpler than ever.
• Custom ‘Palettes’ that allow you to create and name logical groups of plants to select from. You could for instance create a a pallette of only natives or ones that grow well near the ocean or are particularly hardy in desert regions or ones you used in a previous job. The uses are endless.
• Visual Plant Selector so you don’t have to guess what a figure looks like when choosing to use it in to your database.
• Mass Planting Tools to insert large regions of plants in all sorts of planting patterns in one go – really cool! It even lets you use a simple plane without figures to represent an area of plants.
• Customised Enhanced Labelling tools that allow for dozens of combinations of labelling styles. Our USA clients will love this improvement particularly. It even has multiline labelling and fully automatic updating as your design changes.
• Customisable Enhanced Schedules with heaps more options including hatched planting regions, bold headings, easy column selector and even the ability to save named schedule types.
• Automatic Plan Shadows to instantly enhance your plans. Fully customisable for all or each plant in almost unlimited styles.
• Enhanced Existing Plant Replace tools to swap-out Circles on a survey plan for Landworkscad Existing Plant Figures.
• Find Unlabelled command to highlight existing plants that haven’t been labelled yet.
• Enhanced Existing Plant Schedule with more display options.
• Enhanced Proposed Plant Legend with sorting and size variations to get the look and feel you want.
• Introduction of hardworks, eletrical, lighting and irrigation into the database.

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PlantFile is the most comprehensive and useful plant database available as well as being very easy to use.

PlantFile is an easy-to-use database with over 3000 species and over 6000 cultivars and varieties of commonly used ornamental and native plants, together with over 14,000 photographs.

PlantFile covers common pests and diseases, and their control methods. PlantFile is a functional, real-time resource for anyone with an interest in plants – from gardening enthusiasts to professional horticulturalists and landscape designers. PlantFile is based on the principal database, which is networked through Horticultural Colleges in Australia and New Zealand.

In recent months PlantFile has released mobile applications for iPhone and Android phones. Visit the links below for more information:

• PlantFile for iPhone (iTunes)
• PlantFile for Android (Google Play)

if you are interested on the Windows application, you will find all the information here: PlantFile

Our RealCAD Starter Pack and LANDWorksCAD Starter Packare a great opportunity for new CAD users to get to know CAD software in a short space of time and with ease. The packs include the complete software, training and support, all for less than $2 per day.

If you are reading this and you don’t already have CAD, this is the way to go to get the most of of CAD with very little outlay.

We have just released the a starter pack for ArborCAD too. ArborCAD is specifically designed for Arborists and Arboriculture work.

Our loyal clients have been asking for a long time for newer ways to get more in contact.

We have listened and uploaded dozens of new videos to our YouTube account and informing about news, tips and tricks and more through our Twitter account.

• CAD International’s YouTube account
• CAD International Twitter account

SketchCAD is a combination of innexpensive 3D modelling and 2D drafting software that can be tailored to specific industry design needs. In simple terms it is a combination of products that get the job of design, visualisation and drafting done very cost effectively when precision to the millimeter is not always required. Since the specifications can differ wildly, we have created a new range of SketchCAD products to suit everyone.

Visit our SketchUp Product Range for more information or contact us for more details

As promised, Bricscad delivers quality and affordable CAD software at your fingertips. The long awaited Block Manager option will be available very soon.

• Block Manager – Browse blocks in non-open drawings and insert them in the current drawing from the new Blocks panel of the Drawing Explorer.
• Viewport Layer Property Overrides – Override a layers visual properties in each viewport
• New VLE functions in LiSP

You don’t have to wait a whole year to get new features. Buy Bricscad now and secure your free v.12.2 update when it is released.

RealCAD is our easiest and most generic CAD program and it suits a wide range of industries – Recently we had an enquiry from a clothing manufacturer wanting a solution to assist them with showing clients the layouts of their branded shirts. They’d been using Photoshop but this was slow and complex for the task. Within a few minutes of using RealCAD they had dozens of new shirt layouts in different sizes and different colours. Now who would have though a CAD program could do that?

T-Shirt or Polo designs? RealCAD gives you easy to use tools to do the job in just a few clicks! Put your artistic flair to practice by using the different curve and plane commands to do the job easily!