What’s new in Lands Design

    Lands Design 6.4 (September 2025)

    • Plant List
      • Shrubs, Groundcovers, and Topiaries are now listed with an icon closer to their appearance in the drawing
    • Plant 3D Display
      • The possible presence of roots is now taken into account when adjusting the plant scale to achieve the desired height
      • Foliage color now has some transparency
    • Performance
      • Terrain is now evaluated only once when calling context menu commands on several Terrain Input Data objects (like disabling all divisions at once from the Divisions root node)
    • Error fixes
      • Plant photo was not being updated in some cases when changing its image
      • Walls along a polyline path curve were not properly adjusted to terrain
      • Objects elevated to terrain were not automatically updated when modifying the hardscape terrain (like ramps)
      • Creating a Groundcover from a circle could crash Rhino
      • Fatal error when trying to change the color of Zones with a different initial color
      • Fatal error when purging blocks inserted from the library
      • A bad triangle appeared at the origin when computing the terrain base box in AutoCAD
      • Recent files named with non-ASCII chars were not being shown in RhinoLands Ribbon’s File menu
    • Notes
      • Supported Rhino versions
        • Rhino 8 SR23 or later, and
        • Rhino 7 SR33 or later
      • Supported AutoCAD versions
        • AutoCAD 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021

      Lands Design 6.3 (May 2025)

      • RhinoLands Interface
        • Fixed default panels not opening or not docking as intended in Rhino 8
          • On first run
          • When user clicks on “Reset Window Layout”
      • Windows
        • Slight appearance improvements on Windows 11
          Fixed error that prevented Lands from loading on N versions of Windows 11/10
      • TwinMotion
        • Very detailed plants can now be generated when user click on Synchronize button in recent TwinMotion versions
      • Plant library
        • 17 new realistic plant files to replace old versions with significant improvements
      • Error fixes
        • Terrain path not properly modeled when document units were very small (mm)
        • Animations not working when camera path was a polycurve
        • Minor error fixes in Ramp object
      • Notes
        • Supported Rhino versions
          • Rhino 8 SR18 or later, and
          • Rhino 7 SR33 or later
        • Supported AutoCAD versions
          • AutoCAD 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021

        Lands Design 6.2 (December 2024)

        • Terrain Object
          • Path
            • Enhanced slope control with multiple methods:
              • Curve elevation
              • Terrain elevation
              • Curve start-end elevation
              • Start-end terrain elevation
              • Constant grade
              • Per-segment grade
            • New option to specify a maximum grade
            • Added justification option for improved alignment
          • Earthmoving
            • You can now switch between cut only, fill only, or cut & fill modes for any operation at any moment
            • Cut and fill angles can now be defined separately
            • Angles can be specified in degrees, as a percentage, or using a rise-over-run ratio
            • Added an option to limit the extent of cut and fill operations
          • Elevation Data
            • Added sampling options for finer control over curve-to-point conversion for triangulation:
              • Specify maximum sample interval
              • Specify maximum deviation
            • Added the ability to extract the resulting triangulation mesh
          • Improved Input Data Editing
            • Input Data objects are now accessible through the Edit Panel selection tree as child elements of the Terrain object, each with its own property tabs
            • The Input Data tab has been removed from the Terrain object
            • You can now assign names to all types of input data (elevation data, earthmovings, boundaries, divisions, etc.)
            • Added an option to temporarily disable any input data for later use
            • Added the ability to extract the curve from any single input data
          • Base box
            • New option to show/hide the bottom cap
        • Earth Importer
          • Roads are now joined and trimmed automatically
        • Animation
          • Animations are now saved as MP4 files encoded with H264 standard
        • IFC Support
          • Added support for IFC 4
        • Other Improvements
          • It is now possible to add elevation data to a Terrain imported from Earth or DEM files
          • Ramp and Path objects are now taken into account when elevating to terrain
          • You can now edit the names of objects tagged as terrain or plant
          • Lands now remembers the Plant Label properties when inserting multiple labels
          • Break lines can now be inserted in the Plant Database fields
          • The units in the Terrain List are now updated when the model units change
        • Error Fixes
          • Slope object was showing the rise-over-length percentage rather than the rise-over-run
          • Shrub, Groundcover and Topiary 2D display could fail to fill the hatch
          • Default species initials were including the ” x ” part of hybrid species scientific name
          • Level Mark object displayed two negative signs for negative level values
          • Superhatch object wasn’t working properly
          • Sidebar could not appear in some cases when using the RhinoLands user interface
        • Notes
          • Supported Rhino versions
            • Rhino 8 SR11 or later, and
            • Rhino 7 SR33 or later
          • Supported AutoCAD versions
            • AutoCAD 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021

               

          Lands Design 6.1 (July 2024)

          • Lands Design 6 for AutoCAD
          • Improvements
            • Take species flowering color into account when assigning the default crown file
            • Take CPlane orientation into account when inserting Lands objects (lists, labels, plant photos…)
            • Better highlight in viewport of curves selected from terrain Input Data properties tab
            • Interface
              • New buttons in RhinoLands Visualization tab to set the view aligned to CPlane
              • New buttons in RhinoLands sidebar to add/remove control points
              • Added 2D/3D buttons to Lands Design 6 toolbar
            • New desktop icon Lands Design 6 to launch it as a plugin on AutoCAD or Rhino, in addition to the RhinoLands desktop icon to use the RhinoLands interface
          • Error fixes
            • IFC import/export not working in Rhino 8
            • Grasshopper bake not working on Lands objects
            • Japanese translation of RhinoLands ribbon not properly loaded
            • laDeploy command not properly working
            • Default terrain contour line colors not properly set
            • Several errors in level mark object
          • Notes
            • Supported Rhino versions
              • Rhino 8 SR7 or later, and
              • Rhino 7 SR33 or later
            • Supported AutoCAD versions
              • AutoCAD 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021