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- Professional home design software for the serious DIY home enthusiast
- Tools for home design, remodeling, interior design, decks, landscaping, and cost estimation
- Create accurately scaled floor plans and elevations that automatically generate 3D models in minutes
- Advanced design and smart building tools provide a high level of customization and accuracy
- Get started quickly with easy how-to videos that offer step-by-step instructions. Includes 1-year of free technical support
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Product details
- Product Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.1 x 5.25 inches; 1.13 ounces
- Our Recommended age : 5 - 20 years
- Manufacturer recommended age : 10 years and up
- Item model number : PR2020-19-USB
- Date First Available : April 1, 2019
- Manufacturer : Chief Architect
- ASIN : B07BVB46Z6
- Country of Origin : USA
- Best Sellers Rank: #391 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
- #25 in Home & Hobbies
- #165 in Mac Software
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Product Description
Home Designer Professional, by Chief Architect, is professional home design software for the serious DIY home enthusiast. Enjoy the same type of tools that professionals use for home design, remodeling, interior design, outdoor living, and cost estimation. Home Designer Pro offers smart building tools that make it easy to design, visualize and build your home projects. Use the advanced layout tool to create scaled construction drawings on large format paper to obtain a permit. The tools have commonly accepted defaults for most building practices giving you more time to focus on the design rather than the technical aspects of building. There are automatic and manual building tools for framing, foundations, roofs, and stairs. Whether you are creating a single room or an entire house, Home Designer automatically creates a 3D model once you draw your walls. And, in 3D, you can continue design work – adding cabinets, placing furniture, painting walls, or visualizing your project with photo-realistic views. An extensive 3D Library of over 60,000 architectural objects makes it easy to design your perfect space. Home Designer has a powerful CAD software engine from Chief Architect that includes an array of tools. Use the CAD tools with floor plans, cross sections, and elevation views to detail construction drawings, specify, estimate, and build your projects. Get started quickly with easy how-to videos, step-by-step instructions, and free 1-year technical support. All Home Designer products include a 2-week money-back guarantee.
System Requirements
- Operating System: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: 64-bit Memory: 8 GB Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Requirements: Video Card: 1. Dedicated Graphics with 4 GB memory e.g., NVIDIA or 2. Integrated Graphics e.g., Intel integrated graphics on 6th generation or newer Intel processors (i3/i5/i7). Internet access required for installation, license authentication, deactivation and video & library catalog access. Internet access for license authentication is required once every 14 days
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House Design
Home Designer Pro is a complete residential home design app created by the professionals at Chief Architect Software for the serious DIY home enthusiast
Powerful building tools include automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, automatic framing, foundations, dimensions, and terrain
With a materials list, know how much it will cost before you start construction
Customizable defaults can be set up to match commonly accepted requirements for most building practices
Create scaled construction drawings most building departments expect using the Layout tool
Automatic and manual framing tools use structural lumber or trusses
Advanced CAD tools: geometric shapes, splines, arcs, boxes, replication, and transformations
For 3D, use several styles of views, including photo-realistic, glass house, doll house, night-time, or an elevation to see your model from different points of view
View models in Virtual Reality using VR goggles
Remodeling
What will my remodeling project look like, and how much will it cost? Home Designer Pro knows – with its built-in materials list! Save time and money before you remodel
Create a new room or addition - add and remove walls, place windows and doors, and size rooms with dimensions
One-click automatic dimensions or use the advanced manual dimension tools
Choose from various wall types such as curved, interior, exterior, foundation, and half walls. Easily modify wall types; move wall layers toward the interior or exterior of the wall, set materials, define wall layers
Create a materials takeoff for your remodel project
Foundations automatically build and update based on the main floor walls
Automated and manual wall framing tools; define header sizes; use metal, wood, or engineered framing members
Define room structure options for floor and ceiling heights, ceiling styles, molding styles, wall coverings, and others
Automated and Manual Building Tools
Automatic & Manual Roof tools
Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, posts, and beams
Floors build automatically and align with the exterior walls below. Define floor and ceiling platform layers and dimensions
Foundations are automatically generated
Kitchens, Baths & Interiors
Creating your dream kitchen is fun and easy. With the cabinet tools, you can create various combinations for base, wall, full height, angled and corner cabinets
Smart cabinet objects know how to bump, merge countertops, and create automatic cabinet fillers
Create nearly any custom cabinets in minutes by choosing your colors, countertops, door styles, backsplash, counter edge, crown molding, base molding, and hardware.
Add multiple-faced cabinets and evenly space doors and drawers on cabinet fronts
Plan the new layout of your bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers, and bathtubs
Choose from a Library of fixtures and appliances and place them inside or adjacent to cabinets
Use the Color Blending tool to stain translucent colors or apply solid colors to create design options
Select from name-brand paints like Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr, and countertop surfaces from Cambria to Vetrazzo
Create detailed wall elevations with dimensions
Landscape & Deck
Powerful deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new outdoor space with 3D views
Design straight, curved, single level or multi-level decks. Choose from numerous railing styles from balusters, cable, or glass
Automatic and manual framing controls allow you to generate and customize deck framing quickly
Estimate costs with a detailed materials list
Use stair and ramp tools that automatically connect from deck to deck or from the ground to the deck
Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregularly shaped, or sloped lots. Use a GPS to import elevation data
Create beautiful landscapes, terrain features, gardens, and decks for perfect outdoor living spaces!
Use the Pathway tool to design curb-appealing landscaping using stone, pavers, or sidewalks
Choose from over 3,600 plants with the Plant Chooser
Automatically Distribute Plants in garden beds to make them look natural
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THE BIGGEST ISSUE is that I now can't access ANY of my files, because I got a new laptop that runs Mac OS Catalina. The old version is not compatible with the new OS and they will not support it. Tech Support told me that my only option is to spend $395 to purchase the most recent version ... just so that I can view my files! That $395 includes a $200 discount for upgrades. That is just ridiculous. I already spent $500 to purchase this product in 2018! Why should I have to spend another $400 to view my files 2 years later??? Very frustrated customer.
It would be unfair for me to rate this program as I would like to. PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM!
If you want to avoid this situation, buy direct from Chief Architect, as the price is the same and you will get the latest version up front.
As for the software itself. I have a background in computer programming, as well as construction and architectural drafting. With this past experience, I found the software to be fully loaded with the features and details required to produce professional results.
That being said, even with my background I find that it is challenging in regards to jumping right in and knocking out a project.
Because the program attempts to cover every aspect or need we may have for any situation, the variables required for each task could have dozens of choices or defaults required to attain the desired result. This leads to a lot of study within the Help and on-line videos that are available. However, there is also an on-line user group forum that you can join to learn and share information. Basically, the support that is available to you is immense.
Best advice - Be Patient and set up several "Test" projects to play around with and get familiar with the available tools. You will need to spend a lot of time in this "training" mode before you start a real project. If you just jump right into your intended project, expect a lot of rework and frustration.
If you are already familiar with CAD drawing, you will be ahead of the game somewhat. However, you will still need some time to get up to speed with navigation and possibly some terminology.
I am a month in on this now and have a long way to go. But, I am already getting comfortable with the navigation and knowing which tools do what. Like anything worth your time and interest, practice makes perfect.
And finally, I cannot say enough about their Customer Support. Polite, responsive and exceeded my expectations.