Free tree generator for architecture and urban planning – top-down and side view
Generate procedural vector trees in plan view and in side view – as many as you need, each one different – and download them as editable SVG or PDF, or as PNG, for Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino, Vectorworks or QGIS. Free, without sign-up, right in your browser.
Trees for plan and elevation in four steps
- Choose the view – from above, from the side, or both – and set how many trees you need, from a single one to a sheet of a hundred, and the range of crown diameters in metres.
- Pick one of the ready-made styles to start from – watercolour, foliage, line drawing, winter tree and more.
- Shape it under “Edit” if you like: fill, texture, outline and shadow for both views, branches and trunk for each view on its own, and the crown form for the side view.
- Download the trees as one sheet or as one file per tree – as SVG, PNG, PDF, or all three in a ZIP.
Every tree is different
A site plan with forty copies of the same tree symbol looks stamped. Here each tree is drawn by a procedure: its crown outline, its branches and its foliage are worked out anew for every tree, within the style you have set. The trees belong together and still no two are alike.
“New variations” deals a new set. The same settings and the same set number always give the same trees, so you can come back later and export more of them in another format.
Vector through and through
Every tree is built from vector paths: the crown, each leaf of the foliage, each watercolour wash, every branch and every pen stroke. Nothing is traced from a photo, and nothing is a pixel image dressed up as a drawing.
In SVG and PDF the trees therefore stay sharp at any size, on an A0 sheet as in a detail, and every path can be selected, recoloured and reshaped in Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape or your CAD program. Lines remain lines with a width you can change, and the files stay small.
The one exception is the noise texture, which is a pixel pattern by nature. And when a program needs pixels, there is the PNG export.
From a plain circle to a watercolour crown
Crown shapes
Circle, oval, organic, cloud or foliage – for the fill, the outline and the texture separately, each with its own strength.
Textures
Watercolour washes that run out beyond the crown, scattered leaves in light and dark, pen linework, or dots, stripes and noise.
Outlines
One clean line or a hand-drawn one: broken, looped or scribbled, with inner rings or a double line on the shadow side.
Branches
A winter tree: branches that fork, taper and bend from the trunk towards the edge of the crown – all round from above, fanning upwards from the side.
Trunk
From above a dot or a ring in the centre, sized in metres like the crown. From the side the stem itself: its height, taper, root flare and bend, with one to three stems.
Side view
Every tree in elevation as well, in the same style: a round, egg-shaped, columnar, conical or umbrella crown on its trunk, standing on a ground line – on its own or over the top view on one axis.
Shadow
A cast shadow with direction, length and opacity of your choice: from above in the shape of the crown, from the side slanting down from crown and trunk to the ground.
SVG, PNG and PDF – for Illustrator, CAD and more
- SVG – Vector, in millimetres. Every tree is a group of its own with a name, ready to move, recolour and copy in Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape or Figma.
- PDF – Vector as well. Place it in InDesign, or import it into AutoCAD, Rhino, Vectorworks or ArchiCAD.
- PNG – Transparent background at 150, 300 or 600 dpi – for Photoshop, SketchUp, presentations and collages.
Sizes in metres
Crown diameters are given in metres, and the sheet is drawn at a scale of 1:200: a tree with a 10 m crown measures 50 mm, and the line widths you set are millimetres on that sheet. In a 1:200 drawing the trees have the right size at 100 %. For another scale, resize them there – to 200 % for 1:100, to 40 % for 1:500. SVG and PDF are vector, so nothing is lost.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the tree generator free?
- Yes. Generating and downloading trees is free, and there is no account to create. It runs entirely in your browser.
- Are the trees vector graphics?
- SVG and PDF are vector: the trees stay sharp at any size and every line and fill can be edited. PNG is a raster image with a transparent background, in the resolution you choose.
- How many trees can I generate?
- Up to 100 at a time, each one different. For more, deal a new set with “New variations” and export again.
- Can I download every tree as a separate file?
- Yes. Choose “One file per tree” and you get a ZIP with a file for each tree in every format you selected.
- Can I get the trees in side view as well?
- Yes. Set the view to “Side View” or “Both”: every tree is then also drawn in elevation, in the same style as from above, with a crown form and a trunk you set for it. With “Both”, the side view stands over the top view on one axis.
- Do I get the same trees again later?
- Yes. Your style is remembered in your browser, and the same settings with the same set number always produce the same trees.
- Can I put the trees on a real site plan?
- Plantaube, the site plan maker this generator is part of, loads the real tree positions of any place from OpenStreetMap and draws them in these very styles – together with buildings, streets, green spaces and shadows, to scale as PDF, SVG, PNG or DXF.
Trees on a whole site plan
The tree generator is the tree module of Plantaube, taken out on its own. In Plantaube the same trees stand where they really are: positions and crown sizes come from OpenStreetMap, and the plan around them – buildings, streets, water, shadows – is drawn to scale.