Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Chief Architect Home Designer Pro 10

Chief Architect Home Designer Pro 10 Review



Chief Architect Home Designer Pro 10 Feature

  • Professional home-design software for the serious do-it-yourself user
  • Kitchens and baths, interior design, remodeling, decks and landscaping, and more
  • Advanced design, building, and CAD tools; site planning and cost estimation
  • 5,000+ sample plans; create blueprints, framing plans, roof plans, and more
  • Get started quickly with easy how-to videos for step-by-step instructions

Chief Architect Home Designer Pro 10: professional software for home design, remodeling, interior design, kitchen and bath design, landscaping, deck design, and cost estimation for the serious do-it-yourself user. Home Designer Pro offers advanced design, building, and CAD tools with the ability to create blueprints, framing plans, roof plans, and more. Use the same tools as the professionals and design your dream home today!

Home Design
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Home Design

Home Designer Pro has all the same great features as Home Designer Architectural, Home Designer Interiors, Home Designer Landscape & Deck plus additional advanced design tools that allow you to design like a professional.

  • Choose from over 5,000 sample plans
  • Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing, and foundations
  • Use advanced 3D camera tools like Glass, House, Doll House, Watercolor, Technical Illustration, Cross-Sections, and Elevations
  • Powerful integrated tools with commonly accepted defaults for most building practices
  • Advanced CAD editing tools such as replicate, line weights, point-to-point move, custom patterns, and more
Remodeling
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Remodeling

Home Designer Pro makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas on your next remodeling project. Use the automated building tools to assist you in the design process.

  • Material Painter lets you apply colors and materials quickly and easily to visualize a new look for any room
  • Create a new room or addition--add and remove walls, place windows and doors, size your rooms with dimensions
  • Create accurately scaled floor plans--one click automatic dimensions quickly create all exterior dimensions and use advance dimension tools for a variety of manual dimensions
  • Choose from thousands of built-in Library Catalog objects you can place, resize to exact dimensions to create accurate models
  • Don't be surprised by the cost of your remodeling project--automatically generate a complete spreadsheet of your projects costs broken down by category
  • Generate cut and buy lists for lumber and decking projects
Interior Design
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Interior Design

Give your home the exact look and feel you desire--visualize new styles, colors, wall coverings, flooring, and other materials. Plan your space with 3D models, virtual tours, and advanced design tools. It's easy to make your design ideas come to life.

  • Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, accessories, and more
  • Smart Design Objects: drag-and-drop from thousands of design objects in the built-in Library organized by category
  • Import your own symbols from 3D file types including SKP, OBJ and 3DS
  • Choose from a variety of latest interior items--including chairs, tables, sofas, fabrics, accessories and more. Resize, change colors and materials to meet your exact needs.
  • Specify when a room is calculated in the Living Area. For example, specify the garage or attic to be included or excluded in the living area calculation.
Kitchens & Baths
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Kitchen and Bath Design

Design the kitchen or bath of your dreams! Create virtually any cabinet style with the Cabinet Designer tools and use the Material Painter to change the wood style and colors. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, furniture and appliances. Then visualize your design in 3D!

  • Choose from over 1,000 cabinet combinations
  • Create custom cabinets in minutes by choosing your own colors, countertops, door styles, and more
  • Plan the new layout of your bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers, and garden tubs
  • Use the Cabinet Designer tools to create unlimited cabinet styles. Choose your own colors, countertops and door styles.
  • Design and edit custom countertop shapes and styles
  • Choose from a Library of fixtures and appliances and place inside or adjacent to cabinets
Decks & Landscaping
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Landscaping & Deck Design

Whether you have a new home or an existing landscape, you'll find valuable resources to create a well-planned outdoor living space. Create an outdoor living area, add new plants, create your terrain, design a new deck, and more!

  • Design straight, curved, single level, or multi-leveled decks
  • Control the orientation and size of deck planking, gap, width, overhang, direction, and border planks
  • Choose from over 3,600 plants with the Plant Chooser
  • Use the Pathway tool to design curb-appealing landscaping using stone, pavers, or sidewalks
  • The Plant Hardiness Zone Map to find appropriate plants for your climate zone
  • Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped, or sloped lots--use a GPS to import or enter elevation data
Home Designer Product Comparison
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Automated and Manual Building Tools

Create accurately scaled floor plans that automatically generate 3D models in minutes. With powerful automatic and manual building tools you can design like a professional!

  • Place Callouts and Markers in Plan, Elevation, Layout, and Detail views. Adjust fill color, line style, line weight, and double-headed callouts.
  • Generate various styles of Automatic roofs or manually design any custom roof including curved roofs
  • Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts and more
  • International Residential Design Checklist will allow you to check your plan against national building codes
  • One-Click Stairs & Ramps. Place full length stairs with a single click that automatically connect to floors or the terrain.
Get Started Quickly!

The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on the type of your project. You can also choose from over 90 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project. Live online training webinars are available on a weekly basis and you can access this training via the Internet. Home Talk is a User Forum you can ask question from the community of users. Finally we offer great technical support by qualified in-house professionals.

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