Model the house. Design the garden around it.

Terrafold is a 3D modeller for buildings, gardens and landscapes. Draw edges and faces, pull them into solids, then shape the terrain, lay paths and patios, dig a pond and plant a garden that grows over the years. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows and FreeBSD, and in your browser.

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A path-traced render of a sloping garden with a paved patio, a lawn, a formal pool, a natural pond, a hedge and trees, made in Terrafold. — A garden designed and rendered in Terrafold with its built-in path tracer.

Everything for the plot, in one model

Precise push/pull modelling for buildings and objects, with garden tools built on the same geometry: terrain, hardscape, water and plants live in one model and one undo history.

Push/pull modelling

Draw edges and faces appear. Pull them into 3D, snap with inferences, and type exact lengths in the Measurements box.

Terrain and grading

Build terrain from contours or a grid, grade level pads with batters, and see the cut and fill volumes.

Sculpting

Raise, lower, level, smooth or roughen the ground with brushes that follow your pointer.

Hardscape

Paths, patios, paving, decking, lawns and planting beds drape on the terrain, with edging, steps, ramps and retaining walls.

Ponds and pools

Dig natural ponds with planting shelves or formal pools with walls and coping, and get water volume and liner area.

Planting that grows

Place plants from the library and move the garden time slider: plants grow over the years and change with the seasons.

Match Photo

Match the camera to a photo of the site and model in its perspective, then project the photo onto faces.

Path-traced renders

Photoreal images with physically based materials, sun and sky, depth of field and a denoiser.

Extensions

Add your own commands with sandboxed scripts that run on the desktop and in the browser.

Files

Saves .tfo files, imports .skp files, and imports and exports COLLADA, OBJ, STL, glTF, 3DS, DXF and KMZ.

The hardscape example garden in Terrafold's modelling view: terrain mesh, lawn with steel edging, paved patio, pool, pond, hedge and trees.

Hardscape on real ground

Paths, patios and lawns follow the terrain they are drawn on. Steps and ramps work out their risers and slope, retaining walls hold the high side, and every area reports its surface and build-up volume.

Hardscape and water · Terrain and grading

A garden that grows

Plants come with their mature size, growth rate and seasonal colour. Set the garden time to see the planting in its first spring or ten years on, then export the plant schedule with quantities.

Planting and garden time

A path-traced render of a planted garden five years after planting: birch, maple, apple and pine trees, hedges, lavender and a perennial border.

The planted garden seen from above, with trees, shrubs, hedges and perennials.

Plans and quantities

Look at the design from above, export images and section slices, and take quantities to the supplier: areas, edging, cut and fill, walls, steps and the plant schedule as CSV.

Rendering and images · File formats

Start now

Open Terrafold in your browser, no installation needed, or download it for your computer. The documentation covers everything from the first line to the plant schedule.

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