Chief Architect P100-15-D Home Designer Professional 10
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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
No matter your level of design expertise, Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 will get you moving toward a stunningly visulaized design of your dream home. The Getting Started Tutorial will guide you through basic design projects. Watch more than 30 videos for step-by-step instructions. Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. This is The complete home design solution. You can create your dream home today with the look and feel before it is built with styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring, and materials. Plus, you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, and architectural objects from a library of over 4,300 items to create a 3D Model in minutes. Use the Library content to size your rooms, evaluate traffic flow, and create a visual model of your design.
Create your Dream Home
Design your dream home today with Home Designer. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Design and visualize your home with 3D Models and Virtual Tours. Choose from Design Templates
Begin your design by choosing from one of six Better Homes and Gardens home style templates that range from traditional to contemporary, complete with colors, cabinets, and moldings.
Powerful Home Design Software
Enjoy the same building and design tools the professionals use – Home Designer is made for the home enthusiasts. Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, stairs, decks, framing, CAD, dimensioning, realistic 3D models, and Plan Check makes it easy for anyone. Create Floor Plans
Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. Open sample plans and customize to your specific needs.
Design Tools
Enhance your designs with the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center. Use Material Painter to create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows, and window treatments. Building Tools
Complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and more. Automatically generate a materials list for project cost estimating. Includes a complete set of CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools to detail designs and Plan Check, which automatically validates the design against standard building principles.
What's in the box:
Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 on CD, with a guide to getting started.