A green is a landscape. Design it like one.
Tile and turf are flat. A putting green is not, and that changes everything the tool has to do. Shape the contours, set the pins, roll a ball across the result, then hand the falls to whoever is building it.
Six things a flat surface never needed
Everything below is in the designer today. None of it is a rendering trick: the contours, the roll and the exports all come off the same model, so what the customer approves is what the installer receives.
A solver, not a mesh editor
Drop control points where you want a rise or a hollow and the surface is fitted through them, smoothly, up to 40 cm of relief. You are shaping a green, not pushing vertices around.
Contours you can read
The plan draws its own contour lines at a fixed interval, so the falls are legible on paper rather than something you have to infer from a shaded render.
Cups and pin positions
Place the holes, then look at the approach to each. A green with one fair pin position and three unusable ones is a common and expensive mistake.
Roll a ball across it
Set the green speed and putt. The ball obeys the surface you built, so a slope that quietly feeds every approach off the back gets found in the designer instead of on site.
A build pack, not a picture
Two pages of the spec pack are the green: the topographic plan, and the falls, base and zone schedule the installer sets out from.
Geometry for the ground crew
The same surface exports as STL, DXF or a heightmap, so whoever is shaping the sub-base is working from your model rather than their reading of a drawing.
Start from a shape golfers already recognise
The designer ships with 6 topography profiles, named in the terms course architects use. Load one, then move it around until it fits the plot you are actually working with.
The four we get asked
No. A putting green is a surface type, so it is switched on alongside tile and turf on any plan carrying the full surface range. There is nothing extra to buy.
Both. The green designer runs in the same embeddable designer your customers use on your own website, and in the internal editor your team works in.
A two page topographic section of the spec pack covering the contour plan and the falls, base and zone schedule, plus STL, DXF or heightmap export of the surface itself for setting out and for shaping the sub-base.
The designer ships with 6 profiles, named in established golf architecture terms: the false front, the punchbowl, the saddle, the turtle back, the double plateau and the ridge. Each is a starting point you then reshape.
Put it on your own website
The green designer runs inside the same embed your customers already use, under your brand, on your domain.