Arcadium 3D vs PRO Landscape+

Arcadium 3D is a browser-based tool for designing landscapes, houses, floor plans, and interiors. Its landscape tools cover property boundaries, terrain, patios, paths, retaining walls, fencing, planting, and outdoor features. The landscape planner includes hundreds of trees, shrubs, flowers, garden furniture, pergolas, fences, and outdoor structures. Users can create 3D designs, generate photorealistic landscape renders with AI, take first-person walkthroughs, and export printable 2D plans as PDFs. Projects can be shared by URL, and viewers can open shared designs in a browser without an account. The service runs without software installation and lists Mac, PC, iPad, and mobile device support, with web, iOS, and Android platforms. The free plan allows two projects, up to 30 objects per project, and one floor plan generation. Pro is $18 a month billed yearly; Power is $60 a month billed yearly. Paid plans raise limits and include custom model import, AI images, storage, and additional floor plan generations.

PRO Landscape+ combines landscape design, presentation, material takeoffs, estimating and proposals in a subscription platform. Users can create before-and-after concepts from property photos using a library of more than 19,000 images, or produce scaled CAD drawings and material takeoffs from an object library. The software generates estimates from photo or CAD plans using the user's prices and tax rate. Scaled CAD drawings can be rendered in 3D, viewed from rotated angles, and turned into walkthrough movies; the listed features also include flyovers and night and holiday lighting designs. Planning tools include terrain modeling, planting plans and irrigation design. CAD files can be imported or exported as DWG, DXF or PDF, and the maker says the CAD tools require no prior CAD knowledge. A Companion app transfers designs between a computer and an iPad or Android tablet. The annual plan costs $75 a month billed annually, for one user, one computer and one tablet. Desktop use requires 64-bit Windows 10 or Windows 11; Mac use through Parallels with Windows is described, but that setup is unsupported.