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"Incredible software! It has completely transformed the way I create irrigation designs. The built-in features save me so much time. Highly recoommend!"

Built-in hydraulics, material takeoffs, and plan drawing — all in one stand-alone CAD application built specifically for irrigation and landscape contractors. No spreadsheet alongside the drawing. No manual reconciling at the end.

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Contractors who add landscape lighting to their scope usually need a second application to draw the plans. That's another software license, another interface to learn, another file to manage alongside everything else.

PCS handles lighting plans in the same tool as your irrigation and drainage work. Lighting-specific symbols, plan layout, and export for submission — in the same file as the rest of the job. One application. Less to manage.

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After the first job in PCS, most landscape contractors say the same thing.

They didn't expect the symbol library to already have what they needed. The plants, the hatching, the fills — it's all there. You're not starting from scratch or building your own library one species at a time.

If you've been piecing together landscaping plans in a tool that wasn't built for it, it's worth an hour with the free trial to see what the difference looks like.

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Scope creep on a landscape job: the client adds a drainage system to the irrigation contract. In most workflows, that's a second tool, a second set of symbols, a second round of submissions — and more room for things to fall out of sync.

In PCS, drainage lives in the same plan set as your irrigation work. Switch between plan types in the same file. Same interface, same symbol library, same export for permit submission. One file for the whole job.

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Getting stuck on a feature at 6:30am before a job site visit isn't the time to log a support ticket and wait two days.

The PCS Knowledge Base is written for irrigation and landscape contractors. Plain language, organized by task — not by software module. Find what you need, get back to drawing.

It's there from day one of your free trial. No paywall, no support tier required.

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Most of the time that goes into bidding a job isn't estimating — it's counting. Heads, pipe runs, fittings, valves, zones. You draw the plan, and then you count what's in it.

In PCS, that count comes out of the drawing. Generate a material takeoff directly from your plan — heads, pipe, valves, the works. Less time before you submit a number. Fewer counting errors on the bid. More time on the jobs you've already won.

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The most common thing contractors say after their first month in PCS: they didn't need AutoCAD, they didn't need a CAD background, and they didn't need weeks of setup to draw a real plan.

PCS is built for the way irrigation and landscape contractors actually work. Draw plans, run hydraulic calcs, handle drainage and lighting — all in one stand-alone application. No third-party platform. No steep learning curve.

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If you're a Hunter Preferred member, your rewards don't have to sit unused.

You can apply them directly toward a Pro Contractor Studio subscription. PCS is a stand-alone CAD application built for irrigation and landscape contractors — draw irrigation, drainage, lighting, and landscape plans without AutoCAD or any third-party platform.

If you're already earning Hunter rewards on the products you buy every season, put them toward the software you draw with.

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Rework eats more job time than almost anything else — and every contractor has a different culprit.

What's yours?
**A** — Client changes after the plan is drawn
**B** — Calc errors caught late
**C** — Last-minute scope additions
**D** — Permit feedback requiring a redraw

Drop your letter in the comments. And if your biggest rework trigger didn't make the list, tell us what it is — we want to hear it.

Client calls the night before permit submission. Two zones moved.

In a spreadsheet-based workflow, that's an hour of recalculating — update the sheet, cross-reference the plan, hope you caught every change. In PCS, your hydraulic calcs are built into the drawing. Move a zone and the numbers update automatically. No separate spreadsheet. No manual re-entry. No wondering if the plan and the calcs still match.

Revisions are part of the job. They don't have to wreck your schedule.

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