Home Designer Architectural 2012 [Download]
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- Home Designer Architectural is your all in one home design tool with all the features of Home Designer Suite, Home Designer Interiors, and Home Designer Landscape & Deck and more!
- What will my remodeling project look like and how much will it cost? Home Designer Architectural knows! Save Time and Money Before You Remodel
- Experiment with your interior design ideas using 3D models, virtual tours and advanced design tools. Choose from a variety of furniture, appliance, and cabinet style. Easily change the size, color and fabric to create just the look and feel you desire
Start your new remodeling or home project today with Home Designer Architectural! The program offers advanced yet easy to use tools to help you complete any design project including home design, remodeling, interior design, kitchen design, bath design, landscaping, decks and patios, and cost estimation
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Pleasantly surprised,
I purchased the HD software to generate 3d floorplans and walkthroughs for my business(apartments). I am no computer genius, but for the cost of the software you get a very powerful tool to model structures, landscapes, and a very complete library of 3d objects. This is very user friendly, and if you put the effort in you can learn and use it pretty quickly. There is a learning curve, so be patient and keep working through it(watch their how to videos and call in: they have good free support). Honestly the most negative thing I have to say is this: I didnt understand the fact that you need a fairly powerful computer if you are going to run really complex models with this software. Simple cad views and design, etc can be done with a “weaker” computer, but in order to generate really complex 3d models with millions of surfaces you really need a computer with a strong 3d graphics card and lots of fast processors. Despite this I highly recommend this software and think it is great. The customer service is excellent, Mrs. Sloyka upgraded me from designer 2011 to 2012 for free because I bought 2011 close to the release date(thank you I appreciate it), and I called sales several times before deciding to purchase and they were very helpful, answered all my questions, helped me with the free trial version, etc. So if you need an intro product to do cad work do your research, but dont hesitate to buy home designer from chief architect(also you can install on 3 computers which is a good bonus).
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|Better than Punch,
Read other reviews that compare Punch products to Home Designer products and you will see that this software is superior. I had an old version of Punch that, well, wasn’t just right. I blamed myself that while I am very good at learning new software, I simply could not get Punch to behave. Home Designer is clearly a simplified version of the professional Chief Architect products made by the same company (which are simply too expensive) but Home Designer does everything a “designer” would want.
There are several products in the series and you should compare which features you would need. There is a three-hundred dollar difference between Architect (which I have) and Professional. The only feature that Pro has that I wish was included is the ability to press the Control key while clicking on similar items (like kitchen cabinets) to change the features of all of them at once – say to go from oak to a birch finish. That is very time consuming to do one-at-a-time.
I designed my kitchen with opening walls and putting in cabinets and appliances, then I developed 3D views and even a short video walk through. This after 6 hours of watching short training videos and playing with the program.
Don’t think the software will solve all your problems anymore than buying an expensive word processing program will solve the problem of writing a thesis. You need to know the logic of what is possible in moving walls and how best to layout a kitchen. But this software will do exactly what you ask and won’t LET you do something impossible.
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|Good Product, Great Tech Support,
The program is very easy to learn how to use, especially considering how powerful it is. The program is not without faults, however. Walls can all of a sudden change length and angle without input. You have to “trick” the software in order for complex roofs to be created properly. The tech support from Chief Architect is what makes this software worth purchasing (and the 5-star rating). I have been able to upload plans on their website and I have received a response within 24 hrs every time.
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