TPC Desktop™ Can Help You Grow Your Landscape Business
Landscape Mapping and Planning: Cultivate Your Designs with TPC Desktop™
TPC Desktop™ starts with actual property boundaries and areas so there’s never a question about where you’re working. Locate existing water and electric services so you can design and install the underground before you work your way up.
- add background images from Google Earth, ESRI and easily add your own photos to drawings
- any number of drawings per project, like the Landscaping and Bioswale Typicals shown here
- use drawing layers if you want or draw without them
- choose from hundreds of ready to use fonts, symbols, line types and hatching patterns or add your own
- strip plant blocks from existing CAD drawings and reuse them in TPC Desktop™
- use the automatic legend to identify vegetative treatments
Would you like to use the perfect software for landscape planning and mapping?
For landscape architects, designers, and planners, the foundation of any successful project lies in a precise understanding of the existing site conditions. TPC Desktop™ provides a robust platform that begins with accurate property boundaries and area calculations, eliminating any uncertainty about the project’s spatial context. Knowing exactly where you’re working is the first step towards creating impactful and functional landscape designs.
A critical aspect of landscape planning involves understanding the location of existing utilities. TPC Desktop™ allows you to easily locate and map existing water and electric services on the property. This crucial information enables you to design and plan the installation of underground elements, such as irrigation systems and lighting, efficiently and safely, before any above-ground work commences. Avoiding conflicts with existing infrastructure saves time, reduces costs, and ensures a smoother construction process.
Visualizing the project within its real-world setting is invaluable. TPC Desktop™ allows you to seamlessly integrate background imagery from popular sources like Google Earth and ESRI, providing valuable contextual information about the surrounding environment. Furthermore, you can effortlessly add your own site photos directly to your drawings, allowing for a highly customized and accurate representation of the existing landscape. This visual integration aids in site analysis, design conceptualization, and client presentations.
Organizing complex landscape plans requires flexible drawing management. TPC Desktop™ allows you to utilize an unlimited number of drawings within a single project. This is particularly useful for separating different aspects of your design, such as overall site layout, planting plans, hardscape details, and irrigation zones, as illustrated by the Landscaping and Bioswale Typicals example. You can also choose to work with or without drawing layers, providing the flexibility to organize your design elements in a way that best suits your workflow and project complexity.
TPC Desktop™ offers a rich library of ready-to-use fonts for clear labeling, a wide array of symbols relevant to landscape design (such as trees, shrubs, site furniture, and recreational elements), various line types to represent different features, and customizable hatching patterns for indicating ground materials and planted areas. Additionally, you can significantly enhance your efficiency by stripping plant blocks directly from existing CAD drawings and seamlessly reusing them within your TPC Desktop™ projects, saving you the time of recreating commonly used elements.
Effectively communicating the plant palette and vegetative treatments in your design is essential. TPC Desktop™ features an automatic legend generator that can identify and label the different plant species or vegetative treatments used in your plan. This automated feature ensures accuracy and saves time in creating professional and informative planting schedules for construction and maintenance purposes.
By leveraging the precise boundary handling, utility mapping capabilities, visual integration, flexible drawing management, extensive symbol library, and automated legend features of TPC Desktop™, landscape architects and planners can streamline their design workflows, enhance the accuracy of their plans, and effectively communicate their visions to clients and contractors. This powerful software provides the tools you need to cultivate your landscape business and create stunning and functional outdoor spaces.
