Hardscapes & Outdoor Living 3D Professional Landscape and Hardscape Design Software

Hardscape design software helps professionals plan the built elements of an outdoor space, including patios, retaining walls, decks, pergolas, walkways, and outdoor kitchens. With VizTerra, you can lay out these elements in 2D, continue designing in interactive 3D, present the completed design to your client, and prepare measurements and construction plans from the same project file. You can also design the surrounding landscape alongside the hardscape, keeping the entire outdoor space in a single file.

Hardscape design software focuses on built, nonliving features such as patios, retaining walls, decks, walkways, and pergolas. Landscape design software typically covers the broader outdoor environment, including both hardscape and softscape elements such as plants and planting beds. While some software programs handle only one or the other, VizTerra brings both together so you can design the hardscape and surrounding landscape in the same 2D and 3D project.

With VizTerra, yes. Smart Data automatically calculates your projects, giving you accurate measurements for every patio, retaining wall, deck, or pergola you draw — including square footage, linear footage, and material quantities.

Because the software accounts for scale and spatial relationships in real time, you can prepare build-ready construction plans directly from the same file you use to design and present your project.

• Eliminate double work: Finished designs don't need to be redrawn in secondary drafting software.

• Avoid manual errors: Material takeoffs calculate automatically from your exact design dimensions.

• Stay synchronized: Smart Data keeps pace with you whenever you make changes.

With VizTerra, you can design a full range of hardscape work: patios, walkways, retaining walls, pergolas, decks, fire features, outdoor kitchens, and other custom elements, along with the surrounding landscaping. The built-in library includes thousands of 3D objects and HD materials that you can quickly drop into a project and customize, making it easy to transition from a custom paver pattern to a finished outdoor kitchen without leaving the project or sourcing assets elsewhere.

You do not need CAD or drafting experience to design hardscapes in VizTerra. Its guided workflow takes you through each stage of the project, from laying out the property and drawing hardscape elements in 2D to refining the design in interactive 3D and preparing build-ready construction plans. Professionals who already work with CAD files can also incorporate them into their VizTerra workflow.