The philosophy of PlantARE and its success is largely based on its many years of product development as well as a fruitful exchange of ideas with its users. This has led to the development of an open, flexible and safe system with a focus on default but adjustable data structure.

The concept of the program‘s development considers both the creativity of the planner, as well as the importance of a convincing graphic presentation. Automatisms are meaningfully integrated as the demand still exists, that the user has control of all the planning phases. Therefore, PlantARE‘s philosophy provides all planners and designers an instrument to hand which offers maximum functional and presentational liberty.

You will find PlantARE a high quality, economic and efficient technical application which is easy to learn and simple to use.

It consists of three modules:

BASE MODULE

The base module serves to support and administrate all functions of the planting plan and design modules.

Features include:

• Extensive 2D and 3D symbol library
• Detail manager for the administration and creation of symbol libraries
• Layer manager and layer tools
• Raster image transformation and cut
• Calculator

DESIGN MODULE

The design module provides helpful tools for the technical construction and realisation of individual plan graphics, as well as the simplification of normally complex design processes.

Features include:

• Image Creator - the bi-directional Photoshop interface
• Hatch Manager for the administration and creation of hatches
• Dynamic hatches as well as the ability to move and rotate hatches
• Linepattern and Linetype Managers
• Building Manager
• Parking Manager
• Topography Tools

PLANTING PLAN MODULE

The Planting Plan module contains professional tools for the creation and editing of every type of planting plan.

Features include:

• A choice between single, series, distributive and area planting
• Direct interaction with the extendable plant database PLANTUS (Ulmer Publications)
• Access to over 8,000 plants under 480 criteria and 5,000 high quality color photos
• Database supported labels and legends for every possible presentation
• Automatic and semi-automatic consistency test
• Bill of Quantities / Specifications documentation

PLANTUS

PlantARE’s Planting Plan module stands in constant, interactive connection to Europe‘s most successful, commercially used plant database PLANTUS which is available in two editions: PLANTUS North (Northern Hemisphere) and PLANTUS South (Southern Hemisphere), each with a database of around 8,000 plants and 5,000 photos. These two editions can also be combined to form PLANTUS “World”. PLANTUS is also extendable to fit your own needs.

This connection concerns not only the plant selection, rather, provides access to all functions and data contained in PLANTUS.

Version 2010

PlantARE is an AutoCAD application, the minimum system requirements are therefore based on thosed required for AutoCAD. It is important to note though that as PlanARE is also used to create, large project detailled plans, therefore it is highly recommended that your system contains more than just the minimum requirements.

Minimum Requirements

• Windows PC with Intel® Pentium® IV- or AMD-Athlon with not less than 2,2 GHz or Intel respectively Athlon Dual-Core-Prozessor with not less than 1,6 GHz
• 1 GB Ram
• Hard-drive with minimum 500 MB free memory space
• CD-ROM-Drive
• fast PCI- or AGP graphic card.

For an Optimal Setting

• fast Windows PC, e.g. Intel Pentium IV- with 3 Ghz or mor.
• 3 GB Ram.
• fast hard-drive with at least 1 GB free memory space.
• fast DVD-ROM-Drive.
• fast PCI- or AGP graphic card with 256 MB or more.
• The ability to save via network card, DAT-Streamer or DVD-ReWriter.

Important Note: If you intend to work with PLANTUS World, please note that PLANTUS World requires around 1.2 GB of free memory space as all photos will be saved in the hard-drive.

If you wish to run PlantARE on your network, the system requirements are component dependent. Please contact your local distributor/dealer or Widemann Systeme for further information.

Software Requirements - PlantARE 2010 can be run on the following CAD-Platforms:
• AutoCAD 2007-2010
• AutoCAD 2004-2006

AutoCAD must be installed and running on your PC.