AutoCAD Garden Design: Designing a Modern Zen Garden

Описание: A calming Zen garden is designed using AutoCAD’s powerful tools, showcasing the steps to create a serene, balanced space. This video gives you a practical, visually appealing guide to bring this popular style into your own landscape architecture projects.

In this step-by-step tutorial, we transform a small London courtyard into a modern Zen retreat with stone paths, decorative rocks, a tsukubai water bowl, a lantern, and two seats—all drafted precisely in AutoCAD. You’ll learn to build clean 2D layouts, add planting labels & schedules, and compose a tight 6-species palette for year-round calm:

Plant palette: Pinus mugo, Fargesia (clumping bamboo), Acer palmatum, Ilex crenata mounds, Hakonechloa macra, Black mondo (Ophiopogon).

What you’ll learn

Plan the layout: paths, stones, water feature, lantern, seating

Use layers, blocks, hatches, Mleaders for tidy documentation

Create a planting plan with labels/schedules (UK/London friendly)

Keep it minimal: six species, texture first—colour second

•📂 Patreon Resources for this Video

Get the CAD base file used in the tutorial + a the final A3 PDF for the 6-species Zen palette.

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Includes:
.DWG xRef base file & template (paths, stones, water bowl, lantern, seating)
Planting list (PDF): Pinus mugo, Fargesia, Acer palmatum, Ilex crenata, Hakonechloa, Black mondo
Usage: personal/educational projects
Supporting on Patreon helps me make more in-depth tutorials—thank you! 🙌

00:00 - Intro
01:56 - xRef Image
02:32 - Site Boundary
03:31 - 1200mm Grid
06:03 - Defining Hatd & Soft Areas
10:52 - Refining Shapes
12:47 - Adding detail to linework
13:58 - Stone Footpath
15:42 - Water Feature
16:40 - Decorative Stones
17:55 - Lantern
21:04 - Sink Water Feature
22:34 - Detailing benches
22:55 - Refining Footpath
24:16 - Adding basic hatches
25:48 - Adding Planting
34:16 - Planting Specs
44:52 - Refining Graphics
46:41 - Adding Annotations
55:00 - Final Tweaks
55:53 - Presenting Layout