Category: Software

Update or design your living spaces with ease. Intuitive tools provide a fun way to remodel your kitchen or bath, plan room additions, even your dream home. Start designs easily with QuickStart or a professionally drawn sample plan. The Designer’s Toolkit provides what you need to quickly experiment with your decorating ideas. Add room additions, furniture groupings, even landscape gardens with a mouse click. Design an outdoor living area or experiment with landscaping by importing a photo, adding plants, custom fence and use the ‘grow’ feature to age your landscape over time.

New features in version 17.7 make planning an easier process from the ground up. Build the new home of your dreams or renew, restore or rebuild your current home. Any way you choose, you will love our new product features.

Use SmartWand technology to decorate a room or the whole house by just dragging and dropping! Design outdoor living areas or experiment with landscaping ideas by importing a photo, adding plants, customizing fencing options and use the “grow” feature to age your landscape over time to see your expected results.

A huge library of materials is reorganized and consolidated for a more streamlined process. High resolution textures appear more realistic. Get the right surface for every part of your project – backgrounds and sky, or fabrics and upholstery!

A selection of 300+ new 3D objects put more realistic dimension and detail to your project. Add a personalized touch to every room. Explore a vast collection of fixtures, furniture pieces and accessories.

Enhanced Floor Management: Create up to 6 floors, or independent structures such as outbuildings and detached garages. When you change the elevation on one level, other connected levels will also change.

Drag and drop 3D objects while using the 3D viewpoint. Objects will automatically position themselves on the top of surfaces like countertops and tabletops. Objects placed on walls, will automatically rotate to match the surface’s angle.

Easily print your floor plans using the Punch! Plotter Printing Service, access over 300 3D furnishings, save time with improved shortcut commands, and so much more!

System Requirements:

• Supported OS:   [Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP]
• Processor:   Intel® Pentium® III, Celeron® or compatible 1.0 GHz processor or higher (multi-core processors supported)
• RAM:   1GB of RAM
• Hard Disk:   2.4GB of Hard Disk Space
• Video Card:   VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024×768 with 32-bit color
• Additional Requirements:   Mouse with wheel recommended, 64 MB Video Card Memory, Internet access and Internet Service Provider account required

Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional 5 is targeted at draftsman, interior architects and landscapers with high demands. The application helps with the planning of sections for building applications or construction documentation that meets professional standards.

The user interface of Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional employs the ribbon style made famous by MS Office products and offers a clear and thematically structured approach. All essential features are fast and easy to reach. The application provides extensive support from start to finish of your projects in the form of input aids and wizards that help with data input and processing.

The visual appeal of virtual rooms and buildings can be greatly enhanced by adding various objects like construction elements, textures, materials and symbols that come with the included object catalog. This gives a very realistic impression of future buildings and so does the integrated light and shadow simulation that also helps place modern photovoltaic elements in their ideal positions.

Data exchange is supported through 2D im- and exporting based on the fairly common DXF- and DWF- formats. As a specialty, Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional 5 also exports to Maxon Cinema 4D format, e.g. to add additional polish to your constructions for presentations.

Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional 5 Highlights and features:

• Easier and more intuitive with ribbons
• Faster and future-proof with native 64-bit support
• More beautiful and expressive with custom fill patterns
• 3 Design Views: 2D, 3D, Cross-section
• Precise dimensions for metric and imperial measurements
• Various input aids for exact data input
• Extended roofing wizard, window designer, stair generator, topography designer
• Support for area, length and volume calculations
• Freely positionable camera and viewing angles
• Huge object library included
• 2D DXF/DWG project import/export
• Maxon Cinema 4D export

System Requirements:
Processor:	1.8 GHz Single Core Processor or higher
RAM:	4 GB or more
Hard Disk:	1.6 GB for installation
Additional Requirements:	Active Internet connection for download, installation and product activation. Microsoft .Net 4.0 Framework Visual Studio 2012 Redistributables

Recommended System Requirements:
Recommended Processor:	Multi-core processor recommended for optimized rendering

Home Designer Suite is 3D home design software for DIY home enthusiasts. Created by Chief Architect, so you can enjoy the same type of tools that the professionals use for home design, interior design, and outdoor living. Home Designer Suite offers intuitive design and smart building tools for your home projects. Home Designer Suite makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas with smart building and powerful design tools. The tools have commonly accepted defaults for most building practices to assist you in your home design projects.

Home Designer automatically creates a 3D model as you draw the walls. And, in 3D you can continue design work – adding cabinets, placing furniture, painting walls or just visualizing your project. An extensive 3D Library of over 6,500 architectural objects make it easy so that styles, finishes and other design details can be accurately visualized. Home Designer uses smart design objects, such as cabinets, to quickly and easily create various styles, shapes and sizes.

Create any style of cabinet by choosing colors, countertops, door styles, backsplash, crown molding and hardware. Home Designer includes automated tools to create site plans, landscaping, decks and patios. There are over 1,500 plants with detailed information about each plant including integrated Hardiness Zone Maps. Decking tools include automatic deck framing and a materials list for estimating. Get started quickly with easy how-to videos that offer step-by-step instructions; and free technical support. All Home Designer products include a 30-day money back guarantee.

System Requirements: PC Minimum

• Windows 8 / 7
• 2.4 GHz processor or Multi-core processor
• 2 GB of Memory (32-bit)
• 4 GB of Memory (64-bit)
• Video Card:
• Dedicated Graphics with 512 MB memory e.g., NVIDIA or ATI
• Integrated Graphics e.g., Intel HD graphics (driver from 2012 or newer)
• 5 GB of available hard disk space
• Internet access*