Home Designer Professional
Nina Pentecost
Home Designer Software is the top-rated 3D interior design, remodeling and home design software. Based on technology from Chief Architect's professional architectural software, Home Designer is made easy for DIY. Discover why Home Designer is the best home design app to visualize and design your next house project.
Advanced building tools for roofs, foundations and framing make the design process easy. As you draw walls, the program creates a 3D model. When you place a door or window, it is inserted into the wall and the program automatically updates the framing. When you move walls, the roof and foundation are also updated. Every item you add into the design is included in a list of materials so you can cost estimate and budget your home project.
Remodeling a kitchen or bath? Cabinets are smart objects that snap, bump and form to walls. You will find a large selection of cabinet types. Quickly change colors and styles with the Material Painter to visualize design options.
Design your projects in both 2D and 3D! 2D floor plans provide the details of room layout and dimensions, while 3D provides realistic visualization, including virtual tours so you can experience your design before it's built. See our Samples Gallery for a variety of 3D rendering examples completed in Home Designer.
Chief Architect provides the highest quality software, live customer support without charge and the very best resources for learning in the industry. The software runs on a Mac or PC. It can be deactivated, making it easy to switch between multiple computers. All Home Designer products are compatible with the Chief Architect professional architectural product line, and you can share your designs with friends and family using the 3D Viewer app.
Home Designer Pro is professional home design software for the serious DIY enthusiast. Enjoy the same type of tools that the professionals use for home design, remodeling, interior design, and cost estimation. Home Designer Pro offers advanced design and smart building tools to produce detailed construction drawings.
In addition to all the great features found in Home Designer Architectural, Home Designer Professional includes several manual building tools and layout tools to create detailed construction drawings. Consider these added features:
Home Designer Pro automatically generates fully editable framing including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts, and more. Choose from multiple framing types such as lumber, steel, or engineered materials.
Create horizontal and vertical layouts for doors, drawers, and appliances on any cabinet. Create entertainment centers and vanity cabinets with doors on one side and drawers on the other. Place objects and lighting inside of your cabinets and define multiple styles for doors, drawers, and hardware.
Save snapshots of your materials list at different stages of the project to evaluate and compare cost differences. Add detail to each individual component and then store it to your master list for use in future projects.
Create plot plans, site plans, and terrain plans to show the specific house location or remodel additions including lot boundary, setback requirements, and other information for your local building requirements.
Chief Architect Software is a leading developer and publisher of 3D home design software for architects, builders, designers and DIY home enthusiasts. For professionals, we publish the Chief Architect software line: the most popular product for residential home design. And, for the DIY home design market, we publish the top-rated Home Designer software line. The two software lines are compatible, enabling professional designers and homeowners to easily communicate and share ideas. Learn more at HomeDesignerSoftware.com.
All Home Designer software products have an upgrade discount to Chief Architect software. For example, a $500 discount is available to upgrade from Home Designer Pro to Chief Architect Premier. Learn more and compare Chief Architect software to Home Designer Pro.
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I am a newbie to all kind of 3D-programs, but have become interested in designing/modelling houses and other buildings. I have downloaded the test version of Home Designer Pro and I liked it very much. It seems to be a great program for my needs (but as a beginner it is hard to know what the needs really are..).
I have compared different versions of the Home Designer and the more professional Chief Architect Premier X8. The Premier is to expensive and I don't need such a professional software to do what I want..I think. The Home Designer Suite packade seems on the other hand to be a little bit to simple. So..Pro or Architectural version!?
When I compare these two versions I can see that there are a lot of things missing in the Architectural version which can be find in the Pro version. But many of these things do I not know if I need or not. I don't know how essential they really are..
Some things would I have liked to see/do in the Architectural version: editing a couple of windows, doors etc at the same time, rotate the whole plan/house, set the north point and building the roof manually. But I think I can live whithout these things..at least for a while.
I think it is best to go for the Architectural version first..and if it is not enough it is allways possible to upgrade to the Pro version later. What is your opinion? Do you think I will miss some functions or tools if I go for the Architectural version instead of the Pro? My reason to go for the Architectural version in the first place is to save some money. But if I will miss some very important features with that version I will rather pay the double and get me a copy of the Pro version.
I have been through a similar process this year and ended up starting with Pro in January after considering Architectural. More recently I moved up to Premier X8 despite being a home user just working on my own renovation (I find it fun for some reason ).
Chief Architect give fair upgrade prices so you won't lose out starting with Architectural and moving up as required. However I can now say I would have regretted getting a lesser version than Pro to start with as the time to work around limitations is something you don't get back. Now on X8 I am finding myself reworking some areas with the superior features and wishing I had started with it (I never dreamt of spending that amount originally though!).
So my advice would be if you can afford/don't mind the cost of Pro and want to avoid possibly wasting some time then start there. It will give you a much better and less frustrating experience from the start and if you're doing it partly for interest then that's important.
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