The Business of Garden design: CAD - SketchUp for iPad & Morpholio Trace

SketchUp is a highly technical CAD program with an accuracy to fractions of a millimetre. The iPad interface affords the freedom to use this intuitive and versatile program anywhere, giving garden designers an ever more enhanced workflow on-the-go.

· An introduction to the essential basics of 3-D modelling technique.

· A demonstration of how to work from surveyors’ PDFs.

· Creating 2-D and 3-D visualisations for client presentations.

· How to create technical construction drawings.

Morpholio Trace is fast becoming the go-to tool for designers, landscape architects, and contractors alike. Trace is a digital drawing board, and, as such, does everything one would expect a traditional drawing board to be capable of, supported by its very considerable digital capability.

· An introduction to the interface and basic functionality of Morpholio Trace as a design tool.

· Demonstrations of the versatility and precision created by the software.

· How to import topographic surveys to scale and work with them.

· Producing scale plans from satellite imagery within Morpholio Trace.

· Freehand sketching techniques and production of renders for client presentation.

· Creating a technical stencils library, personal to one’s own needs.

Your course leader

For several years now, John Wood has been a regular tutor at the Society of Garden Designers, training designers in a wide range of computer graphics and design programs: SketchUp, Procreate, Morpholio Trace, Layout and Twinmotion. He runs his own private client tuition business, delivering group and 1-2-1 training for garden designers all over the country.

As co-director of the Surrey based design and build company, Pure Form Garden Design, John has a wealth of hands-on construction and planting experience. There is, consequently, a direct correlation between his theoretical CAD teaching and his practical understanding of construction, with the real needs of a garden designer closely informing all his teaching.

Note: The course will be recorded, and all course participants will receive the full recording as a permanent learning resource.

FAQs

Software for your iPad on this course is either free or at minimal cost and you will be sent details when you enrol.

Entry to Kew Gardens is included. Refreshments through the day can be purchased from the Orangery restaurant that adjoins our training room.

You will be sent instructions in advance of the day with where to go to gain free entry to Kew Gardens and how to find our training room at The Orangery Conference Room to the side of the Orangery Restaurant. Kew Gardens’ gates open at 10am and we will start at 10.15am. We will finish by 4.30pm.

Please visit our main website for location details on how to get to Kew Gardens, public transport and parking options.

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