Welcome to Qscape 

Qscape is exceptional software for Landscape Architects that enables you to produce:

• Hard and Soft Landscape Plans.
• Planting Plans.
• Plant Schedules.
• Cost Estimates and Schedules of Quantities.

Qscape is:

• Intuitive to use.
• Extremely fast.
  
• Quick to learn. (You can start using it almost immediately).

Qscape has an inbuilt flexibility that allows you to add new landscape design elements or plants in seconds.

Qscape’s mission is to deliver excellence to the Landscape Architect.  It wants to be an 'invaluable friend' rather than a 'necessary evil' to get the job done.

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The business case for Qscape 

Qscape is much smarter and faster than other landscape software.  It works in a fundamentally different way to its competitors - it stores and accesses information in the same way a CAD engine does.  This makes Qscape very natural to use, clever and crucially fast. 

Qscape manages your landscape design and planting data in such a way that it can be expanded or changed "on the fly".  This means that the more you use the software - the better it becomes.  Indeed Qscape is designed to feel like your company's bespoke "inhouse" software rather than a compromised third party application.  

Detailed cost estimates and quantifications can be generated at the press of a button.  Project costs can be closely monitored, clients can receive full costing information and the quantification allows landscape proposals to be accurately (and therefore competitively) priced by contractors.

The software represents excellent value.   For the same price as a single copy of Autodesk's limited capability AutoCAD LT  - it is possible to fit a workstation with both Qscape and full featured CAD.  This price is far less than competitor products including their "standalone" versions with their inferior OEM (CAD) engines.  Qscape's pricing strategy allows the investment to be recouped with one single decent sized job (through time savings).  

Qscape has a proven track record in providing first-rate software/support to an ever expanding client list.  Large national corporations through to home-based sole traders have switched to Qscape.  Many of Qscape's most useful functions are thanks to feature requests and suggestions from our highly valued clients.

In conclusion - for minimal investment, Qscape boosts a company's efficiency, profitability, competitiveness and gives its employees more time to do more important things than CAD drafting.

About the Developer 

Hello, my name is Dan Wiseman, I am the developer of “Qscape” and the director of Qscape Ltd.  I am also a chartered member of the Landscape Institute with much experience of professionally using (and being frustrated by) various landscape design software.

As you are doubtless aware - Landscape Architects generally develop and enjoy a range of alternative skills, you know the kind of thing - Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Horticulture, Arboriculture - the list is endless!  Personally, I developed a passion for CAD - the more I explored the power of this extraordinary tool - the better, quicker and easier I could do my job.   As my career progressed, I diversified first into CAD customisation and subsequently onto wholesale computer programming and developing software applications.

It may seem strange to go from Landscape Architecture to computer programming, but when you think about it, the “skill set” for the two different disciplines is not all that different – It is important to have an attractive and highly functional end product and to achieve this usually requires inspiration, a technical aptitude, problem solving skills, communication skills, an appetite for research, a great deal of stamina and of course - a real passion for what you are doing.  Based on my personal experience of using various landscape software products and indeed working closely with computer programmers - I think anyone who programs should get themselves a good grounding  in a design discipline such as Landscape Architecture first!

“Qscape” is not the first landscape software package that I have been professionally involved with.  Previously I helped develop a competitor product and was in charge of customer support for it. I have also undertaken private commissions for bespoke “inhouse” software.  However it is “Qscape” which is the “sum” of my experiences both as a Landscape Architect and a computer programmer – it is a unique product and developing and supporting it is my passion!