IMSI Announces FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite; Includes TurboCAD Bridge And TurboCAD Designer

IMSI Announces FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite; Includes TurboCAD Bridge And TurboCAD Designer Includes 3 Professional Home Design Programs; Over 1,001 HomeStyles(R) Home Plans; Fully Featured CAD Capabilities; Complete Project Management Component; Virtual Walkthrough

NOVATO, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IMSI(R) (BULLETIN BO ARD: IMSI) , a leading developer of visual content, design, and graphics software, today announced the release of FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite v7.

The software is a complete home design solution with tools to view, customize, and plan any home improvement project from concept to completion with fully integrated interior and exterior home design features. This new version of FloorPlan provides users with dozens of new tools for ease in creating more complex architectural designs, as well as superior photo-realistic image rendering and a full-featured CAD product that allows the user to create a set of final blueprints for construction.

The FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite gives users the ability to simply drag-and-drop walls, windows, and doors into place as they design in both 2D and 3D. Adjustable camera angle views show the design from any vantage point. The Users can then save their project to the web and create real-time 3D walk throughs.

"With the FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite v7, we are once again redefining the standard for this increasingly popular category," said Gordon Landies, President IMSI. "As more people are inspired to design and work on their homes, they want better tools and we are happy to be in a position to provide not only better tools, but tools that give both the professional and hobbyist superior power and functionality at a very affordable price."

FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite v7 offers users the option to design from scratch or choose from over 1,001 fully editable HomeStyles floor plans and edit it to their specification. Decorating is made easy with the inclusion of over 1,000 3D home design symbols for every room in the house, as well as an extensive texture library, now greatly expanded with more textures for the exterior of the home. The intuitive interface makes applying textures and inserting symbols a quick and easy process.

FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite v7 gives users the power to turn object and element layers on and off with a single click, design in 2D and render the project in unlimited, real-time 3D views. Walls can be customized with wainscoting, chair rails, wallpaper and paint. Virtually limitless textures and colors can be applied to any bed, chair, sofa, or furniture object. Custom cabinets can be designed for kitchen and bathroom.

A host of new command features plus a more powerful rendering engine helps to speed up the design process with added flexibility and ease-of-use.

Users can now group multiple items for linked movement, such as a set of kitchen cabinets, or select items by type. Rooms now have individual attributes and all properties can be changed globally for the room, while multilevel undo/redo of any command makes it easier to view design alternatives.

FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite v7 includes powerful new home design tools for roofs, foundations, and stairs to easily create more complex designs. Specifically, users can now build shed, hip, gable, mansard, or gambrel roof styles and easily customize them with dormers and skylights. The slab tool creates foundations and custom floor heights. Additionally, the improved stair tool allows the user to form walls and doors under staircases for closets or entry into another room. Stairs can be edited one step at a time to create landings or straight and curved stair combinations.

A collection of new outdoor planning tools are included to aid in the easy design of driveways and walkways, fence and gate creation, deck and balcony design. Over 100 new symbols for landscape and garden planning have also been added.

Additional Software

The powerful TurboCAD Designer v8 software is included in to FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite v7. Users are able to import FloorPlan files into TurboCAD Designer and easily work with sophisticated architectural tools that make communicating with contractors confusion-free. Users can create window and door schedules, elevation views and professional blueprints with electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems. TurboCAD Designer also enable the user to build and customize 3D decorating objects and furniture.

Managing the whole design project is made easy with the inclusion of TurboProject Express. Innovative "top down" planning techniques allow users to start planning right away. Activities and events are organized independent of one another, which enables the user to run countless "what if" scenarios and create realistic project plans.

FloorPlan v7 is also available as a stand-alone product. Both FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite and FloorPlan v7 can be purchased online.

About IMSI

Founded in 1982, IMSI has established a tradition of providing innovative technology and high quality software to the professional and home user with easy to use products at affordable prices. The company maintains two business divisions: Graphic Design and Visual Design.

Visual Design Division: Anchored by IMSI's flagship product, TurboCAD(R), computer-aided design for professional and home users, this division develops and markets visual content and design, such as TurboCAD CAM, FloorPlan 3D(R), TurboProject(R), FormTool(R), Flow!(TM), and Org Plus(R).

Graphic Design Division: IMSI's Graphic Design division focuses on providing users with state-of-the-art clipart images, photos, fonts and artistic digital content through its IMSI MasterClips(R) collection and over the Internet at. ArtToday.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of IMSI.

This division manages the HiJaak(R) line of award-winning products.

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