Home Design 3D Outdoor Garden

If you need an app that will help you visualize your landscaping ideas this is it. This software is surprisingly powerful on an iPad Pro. Through trial an error, once you figure out how to use the built in design tools you are off to the races. For instance, using an outdoor carpet icon as a substitute for grass by altering the dimensions and then changing the texture to grass. Or using that same carpet to create a modern pool shape by changing the color to blue and then adding a board shaped object shaded the right color for borders. The end design will satisfy all but, I would think, professional designers. Once your done with your design you can the see it from an aerial 3D Birdseye view or 3D ground view, simply awesome. I only wish they had more plant options, desert plants for example.

Pretty powerful app with the ability to go 3D and visit once done, but things like concrete and house features are difficult to find. Types of objects is oddly limited as well. You can just replace with similar items for some. Other than that great app to get an idea of what the yard will look like.

I just got this app for my Mac/Ipad/iPhone I can’t open any of my drawing from the home design app. It says I can’t open stuff from a new version. Why can’t all your apps work across a brood spectrum. I paid for all of your design apps you would think you could access everything across all apps. I have to change my rating from an original 5 star down to 3 and that’s being generous at this point. But I am sure you don’t care since you already have my money. Once you change the interface to access across all your apps I will change back to a 5 star rating. Also your home design 3D app needs some work with being able to add multiple floors and a roof system.

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It seems like a fairly powerful consumer design tool but the brief built-in user guide is virtually worthless. There is, supposedly, a "texture" option that allows the user to add a wide variety of surfaces to areas in the design. However, the textures option doesn't show on my menu (the user guide says to click on the pencil to see the textures..... What/where is the pencil???) Without that you can't fill in an area with grass, add pavement to a driveway, add deck boards to a deck or fill in a paver patio. This app needs work - or at least a useful integrated help feature. If I could figure out how to use the features it would be well worth the $4.99 cost. Unfortunately, as it is now, in my opinion it is a waste of money.

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I wasted hours of coordinated work between the free 'outdoor' app and the paid 'home' app with the intention to merge them for a beautiful AND USEFUL model, but alas, 'outdoor' won't open 'home' files ('can't parse' error). Until these devs stop listening to their marketing department (who apparently value a fast fiver to a long-term customer base)and focus on good coding practices, this app will remain a shiny baubel of a toy instead of a design tool. This app, as is, is a revenue-generating toy posing as a CAD program.