Help Centre & Guides
The Permiehub Help Centre offers resources and guides for using Permiehub. Tailored sections are available for designers, PDC students, and permaculture practitioners, alongside essential topics such as navigating Permiehub, starting your first project, and following the design process within Permiehub.
Featured Video Guides
Video Guide: Base Map
- Building a base map provides a foundation for any design, helping you place elements that support the land. Use the Base Map Wizard to import data, …
Video Guide: Site Analysis
- Site analysis lets you observe the land and record details for your future concept design. Use markers and icons to note sun exposure, prevailing …
Video Guide: Concept Design
- Concept design addresses opportunities and observations from your site analysis. Use custom-shaped zones to organise the land and refine the layout. …
Using Permiehub: Step by Step Guides
Frequently Explored Topics
Creating Base Maps in Minutes
Build base maps using the Base Map Wizard and manual tracing. Import spatial data, set scale, and overlay key features for site planning.
Drawing Sun Path
Master the Sun Tool to analyse solar patterns across your property. Adjust dates and coordinates to evaluate light and optimal crop placement.
Generating Contour Maps
Understand topography by generating contour maps anywhere in the world in seconds with Permiehub to guide your permaculture property design.
Drawing Planting Rows
Explore how to visualise food forests, planting guilds, orchards, syntropic agroforestry rows, and planting nests on your site plan using Permiehub.
Drawing Water Tanks & Irrigation Lines
Map water tanks and irrigation lines onto your site plan. Customise dimensions, label contents, and set flow arrows for clear infrastructure plans.
Printing Your Project
Export designs as high quality PDF files with customisable legends. Adjust scale, page sizes, and layer visibility to output print ready documentation.
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Starting with Permiehub
Discover essential guides for getting started with Permiehub, covering canvas navigation, drawing controls, supported devices, and foundational setup for your design workflow.
Mapping Base Map
Build accurate base maps, process drone imagery, work to scale, and handle site topography. Explore practical Permiehub tools and step-by-step guides for land mapping.
Observing Site
Map environmental sectors, record sun patterns, and track microclimates for site analysis. Find practical Permiehub guides and updates for site observation.
Zoning Concept Design
Organise land layouts using zones, calculate area measurements, and map communication pathways. Explore practical Permiehub guides and tools for zoning concept design.
Detailing Design
Map detailed site features like food forests, water tanks, animal spaces, fencing, and outdoor furnishings. Find practical Permiehub tools and guides to detail your design layout.
Printing & Sharing
Export scaled layouts for paper printing, toggle greyscale modes, adjust label controls, and share projects. Explore practical Permiehub guides and tools for printing and sharing designs.
Accelerating Work
Streamline your design process with keyboard shortcuts, right-click object selection, reference grids, and project duplication. Explore Permiehub workflow tools to speed up your canvas work.
Managing Your Plan
Discover essential guides for getting started with Permiehub, covering canvas navigation, drawing controls, supported devices, and foundational setup for your design workflow.
Tailored Topics
For Designers and Consultants
Learn how Permiehub can help you deliver a successful design to your clients by digitally enhancing your design process.
For Students of PDC Courses
See an overview of all features to help you enrich the experience of designing your project during your course.
For Permaculture Practitioners
Read a selection of the most relevant topics for graduates of permaculture courses, gardeners, and land owners.
'How-We' Guides
Create Base Maps for Design in Minutes
- Great ecological landscape design begins with mapping the property to create an accurate representation of the land, known as a base map. Crafting a …
Create Designs with Permaculture Design Software (in 2026)
- When choosing software for permaculture design, the range of available options might feel overwhelming. In this article, we break down the main types …
Map Land
- An accurate map provides multiple benefits, as it acts as a foundation for design and helps place elements that support the land, its inhabitants, and …
Latest News
- Sept2026
Visualise Your Canopy: Introducing the Planting Row Sideview
- Top-down planning makes it hard to see how canopy layers stack and interact. Permiehub's new Planting Row Sideview gives you visibility into vertical …
- Aug2026
Aerial Imagery in France, Portugal, and Denmark
- In addition to the worldwide topographic coverage in Base Map Wizard, we have added aerial imagery in France, Portugal, and Denmark.
- July2026
New Base Map Wizard: Interactive Map Selection, Worldwide Data
- Setting up a precise base map is the foundation of any good design, but gathering contours, roads, and water lines by hand can take hours. Today, we …