Pearce B Designs – DynaScape Master Class – 2024

Pearce B Designs - DynaScape Master Class

Elevate your business and join Pearce Butcher in Charleston at The HarbourView Inn Hotel as she dives into her knowledge of the Landscape Business and teaches the user friendly software DynaScape!

Why should a landscape designer come to Charleston?

To go from good to masterful at your craft. Consider this a “master class” in CAD software that is designed for the landscape industry. DynaScape is software that will help you become a leader in your industry. You’ll learn to create professional design packages for your clients and contractors that include beautiful graphics, complete catalogs of plant pictures, plant and materials lists, lighting plans, dimension plans, and more. You’ll learn to easily import plans from architects, builders, and surveyors to create accurate base plans in 15 minutes or less.

The learning curve can be daunting when you try a new platform, so that’s where Pearce
comes in: In sessions lasting just two days, she has taught students what usually takes weeks
(or months) to learn. She will break down the interface and teach you the most efficient way to
make the software work for your business, so you can turn around projects faster and put prices
on your projects that reflect their value.

In addition to learning DynaScape, you will get real-world experience by visiting historic
Charleston gardens and working on a site-analysis together for a local homeowner. The group
will then learn how to input that information into the DynaScape and create a design from start
to finish. You leave with the skills and confidence to “create beautiful spaces for functional
outdoor living.”

This is an intimate conference with a limited number of spots available.

Itinerary

Day 1: February 18

Optional: cocktail hour meet and greet 5:00pm

Day 2: February 19

8:30 – Harbor Inn Hotel Lobby:

meet for garden tour

9:00-11:30

• Garden tour and site analysis (location TBD)

Lunch: catered Harbor Inn conference room

Afternoon Session: 1:00-5:00

• How to get started: opening the program and understanding the interface
• draw toolbar, edit tool bar, dimension toolbar
• images: importing and scaling
• setting up a drawing using measurements and online data
• sketching ideas: applying design principles to the landscape using the clients’ program
• drawing bedlines, grouping plants, drawing hardscapes
• Q&A, wrap up

Dinner on your own

Day 3: February 20

8:30-11:30

1)  hatch patterns, using closed polylines

2) tour of the Figures Library

Break – Lunch catered in conference room

12:30-3:30

• plant picture catalog customization
• labeling drawing
• plant list
• plant picture catalog
• dimension plan for estimate

3:30-4:30

• Invoicing software, final landscape design package, Q&A

Cocktail hour in hotel lobby

Dinner on your own

Day 4: February 21

Breakfast in hotel, checkout

Pricing

Sign up

In order to sign up each person will need to register by clicking the register button on this page and also pay a $1,000 deposit. Remaining balance will be due 60 days prior to arrival. Link for Deposit payments and Balance due payments are below.

Pay Deposit ($1,000) HERE

Pay Single Occupancy Balance ($4,350) HERE

Pay Double Occupancy Balance ($3,900) HERE

*Travel Insurance is also recommended for each person. Purchase Travel Insurance

About Pearce

I’ve always known I was an artist who loved nature & science… so in college I found myself double majoring in Earth and Environmental Science and Art. When I stumbled upon the idea that I could Design the Outdoors, I knew I’d found my niche.

Landscape Design is a unique combination of art, science, and problem solving. I love the challenge of looking at a space, listening to the concerns and dreams of the homeowner, and coming up with beautiful solutions.

You can find me off on an adventure on the weekends, usually hiking in the mountains with my husband and 3 kids. I’m also super sarcastic and have a fascination with true crime podcasts. I love to wake up early to enjoy the quiet with my coffee, and I’m a professional power napper. I’m a chronic over-sharer and wanna-be comedian. I can’t wait to meet you!

Q & A

Q: Is this for beginners or advanced designers?
A: Both! If you’ve never used DynaScape before, I’d advise purchasing it at least a few weeks
before and watching a few of Pearce’s free tutorials online that explain how to get started. If
you’ve been using DynaScape already and just want to learn how to be more effective, we’d
love to have you. Pearce will also share her design process and business tools.

Q: What is included in the conference fee?
A: 2 days of instruction, a garden tour, site analysis, breakfast and lunch both days, and three
nights in a premier Charleston hotel.

Q: What do I need to bring?
A: laptop, charger, mouse (with left and right click with a scroll bar), good walking shoes
– A representative from DynaScape will be with us to help with any software/hardware
questions