Irrigation Design Software

Easy to Use

SmartDraw's irrigation design software makes it easy to plan and visualize your entire sprinkler and irrigation system layout. Start with a built-in template, then customize it to fit your yard using simple drag-and-drop symbols. This allows you to create an accurate irrigation design that ensures efficient water coverage across your entire yard, landscape, or garden. You can even color-code your pipes, sprinkler heads, zones, and other irrigation system elements to design a layout that's easy to follow.

Easy to Find the Symbols You Need

SmartDraw offers all the symbols you need to design irrigation and sprinkler systems. Our libraries include sprinklers, meters, pipes, and valves. You'll also find an extensive selection of landscape symbols, making it easy to accurately map out your yard.

Easy to Design Irrigation Plans to Scale

SmartDraw supports all standard scales, including metric, and even allows you to change the scale at any time.

Easy to Work With Other Apps

SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add floor plans to:

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  • PowerPoint^®
  • Excel^®
• Microsoft Teams^®
• Google Workspace^™
  • Google Docs
  • Google Sheets
• Atlassian^™ apps
  • Confluence
  • Jira

Easy to Save to Your Existing Storage Solution

SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your floor plan designs directly to:

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• OneDrive^®
• Google Drive^™
• Dropbox^®
• Box^®

There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up. You can spend less time managing software and more time on making floor plans.

Easy to Get Help

Have a question? Chat or email us. SmartDraw support is in-house and free!

Irrigation design is the act of planning and creating a system to deliver water to plants and crops in the most efficient and effective way possible. Once you determined your irrigation method and water needs, you'll need to design a layout to show where the sprinkler heads, pipes, and valves will go on your property. SmartDraw provides irrigation system symbols and intuitive tools to accurately map out your irrigation design using just drag and drop.

There are four main methods of irrigation: surface, drip, sprinkler, subsurface.

Surface irrigation, also called flood irrigation, is the simplest to set up, but it can be least efficient. Water is applied directly to the soil while gravity takes care of the rest.

With drip irrigation, water is applied to plants using pipes and emitters usually near the surface of the soil. It is highly efficient, with minimal waste and evaporation, but requires a lot of pipes to install and maintain.

Sprinkler irrigation sprays water through the air from pipes and sprinkler heads, mimicking natural rain. It can be both fixed or portable. Its main advantage is it can cover a large area and be controlled via timers. However, like surface irrigation, sprinkler irrigation is subject to potential inefficiencies through evaporation.

Subsurface irrigation, like its name implies, delivers water underground, directly tot he plant roots. It is the most efficient of the systems of irrigation we discussed, but it can come with a large price tag and maintenance challenges.