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Free hedge plant CAD blocks for AutoCAD
By Saumyajit Maity · Published 10 Feb 2023 · Updated 19 Jun 2024
A hedge is a line of clipped or informal shrubs grown together to make a continuous green wall — a boundary, a screen, the edge of a garden room. On a drawing, a hedge block is the symbol that shows that run of planting: a textured strip in plan, a clipped or billowing band in elevation. This page collects free hedge plant CAD blocks in DWG and DXF, drawn to scale and stretchable to whatever length your boundary needs, free for personal and commercial work with no signup and no watermark.
Hedges are unusual among planting blocks because they are linear, not point objects. You don't place one hedge symbol; you draw a run of hedge along a line, and the block has to repeat or stretch cleanly to fill it. So these blocks are designed to array, stretch or hatch along a boundary, giving you a believable hedge of any length without redrawing the texture. Use them to define plot boundaries, screen views, split a garden into rooms, and edge paths and lawns on landscape and architectural plans.
What a hedge block represents
A hedge block represents a continuous line of shrubs maintained as a single mass, so the symbol emphasises the run rather than the individual plant. In plan, a hedge usually reads as a strip of foliage texture or a cloud-edged band of a set width, drawn along the boundary line. In elevation, it reads as a clipped rectangular block (for a formal hedge) or a soft, billowing band (for an informal one), at the height you specify.
Because the hedge is linear, the block is built to extend: either a repeating tile you array along the line, a stretchable section, or a width you draw as a hatched polyline. The goal is a hedge that looks consistent end to end and sits exactly on the boundary, however long the run.
Views and what's included
Hedge sets usually include both a plan run and an elevation, because hedges matter in both. The plan run is what you draw along a boundary to lay out the garden and check it against paths, fences and buildings. The elevation is what you use in a garden section or a street elevation to show the hedge as a green screen at its design height.
Files separate the hedge outline, the foliage texture and any centreline onto sensible layers so you can recolour or simplify the hedge without losing its footprint. Where a single DWG carries both views, insert the one you need and freeze the other. The files target AutoCAD 2004 format and open in AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, BricsCAD, DraftSight and free DWG viewers.
Typical hedge dimensions
Design around the maintained size, since hedges are kept to a width and height by clipping. As references: a low formal hedge or parterre edge runs roughly 0.3–0.6 m high and 0.3–0.5 m wide; a knee-to-waist boundary hedge sits around 0.8–1.2 m; a screening or privacy hedge is commonly 1.5–2 m high and 0.5–0.8 m wide; tall screens can exceed 2 m. Informal hedges are usually wider and taller than clipped ones.
In plan you mainly care about the width of the strip and where its face sits relative to the boundary. In elevation the height drives how much it screens. Drawing the hedge to its maintained size — not its eventual untrimmed size — keeps the plan honest about clearances along paths and against fences.
How to insert and run a hedge to length
Blocks are drawn full size in millimetres, so set your insertion units to Millimeters first (type UNITS). To run a hedge along a straight boundary, draw the boundary line, then either array a repeating hedge tile along it or draw the hedge as a polyline of the right width and apply the foliage hatch. For a curved boundary, ARRAYPATH the hedge tile along the curve so the texture follows the line.
Keep the hedge on a planting or boundary layer so you can toggle it independently of fences and walls. At corners and ends, overlap or mitre the tiles so the hedge reads continuous rather than showing a seam. When a designed hedge run is finalised, WBLOCK it for reuse on similar plot boundaries.
Where hedge blocks are used
Hedges appear on residential garden plans (boundary and screening hedges, garden-room dividers), landscape masterplans (avenues, parterres, formal structure), and architectural site plans where a green boundary replaces or softens a fence. Highway and infrastructure drawings use hedges for screening and ecology along roads and car-park edges.
Landscape architects use hedge blocks to give a scheme structure and define spaces; architects use them to show boundaries and privacy screening; ecologists note species-rich hedgerows for habitat. Combine hedge runs with tree, shrub and ground-cover blocks to build a full planting plan, and with fence and wall blocks to coordinate the green and built boundaries together.
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Questions
Frequently asked
How do I draw a hedge of any length from the block?+
Draw the boundary line, then either array a repeating hedge tile along it or draw the hedge as a polyline of the right width and apply the foliage hatch. For curved boundaries use ARRAYPATH so the texture follows the curve.
What views do hedge blocks come in?+
Usually both a plan run, for laying out boundaries and garden rooms, and an elevation, for garden sections and street elevations where the hedge acts as a green screen at its design height.
Are the hedge CAD blocks free for commercial projects?+
Yes. They download free in DWG and, where available, DXF, with no signup, no watermark and no attribution requirement, and they are cleared for commercial use.
What width and height should I draw a hedge at?+
Use the maintained size: roughly 0.3–0.6 m for a low formal hedge, 0.8–1.2 m for a boundary hedge, and 1.5–2 m or more for a screening hedge, with informal hedges wider and taller than clipped ones. Draw to the clipped size, not the untrimmed size.
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