landscape architecture software

[G Rundlett]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:
> Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
>> I wanted to do some modelling of my home landscaping.  Anyone know of
>> an application that does this (Linux-compatible of course)?
>>
>> There are many software packages available for Windows, but I can't
>> seem to find any that are linux compatible.  I thought to try my hand
>> at using Blender, but I'd really like to use something that is
>> specifically pre-tooled to deal with landscaping.  For example the
>> commercial Windows packages have thousands of photorealistic plants
>> and things that you can add to your models.
>
> Not sure if this will do everything you want or not, but the SourceForge
> project of the month is called Sweet Home 3D.  http://www.sweethome3d.eu/
>

Thanks,  That's impressive.  It doesn't do landscape just yet... or it
seems to do "exterior" just enough to render the view from the house.
But, knowing that there is an opensource interior design package means
that it's more likely that we will see an opensource landscape design
package.

~ Greg