What’s New in Version 15
Version 15 Features List
Image Editor
- Over 1500 New Images – PRO Landscape now has over 7,500 of the industry’s best images. Includes new plants by climate zones, as well as new hardscapes, statues, pergolas, etc.
- New Outdoor Living Category – Design your outdoor living projects with new images including outdoor kitchens, furniture, fireplaces and structures such as pergolas and arbors.
- New EZScape Tools – Drawing grass, mulch, edging, walls and pavers is now just a click away. Simply select the tool, then the pattern and start drawing. Makes you even more productive.
- Shadows - You can now implement shadows easily in 3D and control the angle, size and intensity.
- Terrain Editing - Topography can now be edited directly in 3D editor by creating slopes, contours and berms.
- Object Curves - 3D objects can now be curved to increase the realistic effect in your 3D projects.
- Object Manipulation - Moving of objects in the 3D editor is much easier than ever before.
- Object Brightness - You can now easily lighten or darken all objects in the 3D Editor.
- RealDWG™ 2009 Support – – RealDWG support has been upgraded to support the latest AutoCAD files, including AutoCAD 2009.
- Green Roofs - – Now you can create and bid your green roof projects with ease. Specify and entire roof area as a green roof, or draw and designate a section as a green roof.
- Enhanced Gradient Fill - You now have the ability to add directional control to the gradient fills. Choose from left, right, up, down, or radial in or out.
- Scale Selection Option – Select all or part of a drawing and easily re-scale it based off of one known measurement. - New Property Bar puts key options such as line weights, colors, textures and patterns at your fingertips for faster drawing.
- Change Symbol Graphic – New easy interface to change a symbol you use to a different look/feel. Choose the new symbol graphic from any of the thousands that are found in the symbol libraries.
- Enhanced Replace Symbols – You can now replace multiple PRO Landscape symbols with the option to keep the same size, or use the default size from the new symbol. You can also replace a symbol that isn’t in the PRO Landscape database with one that is. This is useful if you receive a CAD Drawing and you want to turn it into a PRO Landscape drawing for bidding.
- Change Plant Size for Multiple Symbols – Need to change the plant size for a number of symbols? Now, you can do that easily for a single symbol or all of the same type of symbol.
- Draw Drainage Pipes – New drainage pipe commands and database items for adding drain pipes to your projects and bids.
- New Direct Interface to QuickBooks –– Directly transfer your customer and quote details to a QuickBooks file.
- Import Prices Utility – Now you can import more than just retail prices. You can import list prices, install prices, cost, guarantee, labor charges and much, much more.
- Add New Size to a Category – – Option to add a new size to every object within a category.
- Set Default Size – You can now set the default size for an entire category without having to do it for individual objects
- Enhanced Delete –You can now delete multiple quotes or customers at once.
- New Report Templates – We’ve added more report templates for even more choices when creating customer proposals.
- Enhanced Search Capability – You can now perform partial name matching by specifying that the search criteria starts, ends, contains or exactly matches what you typed. In addition, you can specify which climate zones to search.
- Auto-Backup – PRO Landscape now backs up your databases automatically. No need to click to backup, it now happens without prompting.
- Export/Import Database – If you are using PRO Landscape on more than one computer, this new feature allows you to easily transfer changes to additional computers running PRO Landscape. Keep all your designers up to date by exporting and importing the databases, symbols, and objects you have added to all your computers.
3D Editor
Enhanced 3D – PRO Landscape 3D Editor has improved to help you create designs like never before. 3D Editor now includes:
