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Chief Architect Architectural Home Designer 9.0
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- Chief Architect Architectural Home Designer provides an advanced yet easy to use set of tools for Home Design, Remodeling, Interior Design, Kitchens, Baths, Decks, Landscaping, Site Planning and Cost Estimation
- Artistic 3D rendering techniques for Watercolor, Glass House and Technical Illustration views; 3D Design Tools and Virtual Walk Thru Tools
- Powerful automatic building and design tools like one-click automatic roofs and automatic dormers, material painter, color chooser, deck designer tools and more
- Choose from over 7,000 built-in library items or import your own for unlimited possibilities
- Over 3,200 realistic landscaping plants with plant encyclopedia data
Product DescriptionArchitectural Home Designer 9. 0 is all-in-one Home Design software and includes: Home Design, Remodeling, Decks & Landscaping, Interior Design, Site Planning & Estimating. It leverages the same professional quality from Chief Architect making it the most powerful and easy to use home design software. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, and cabinets. Choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Powerful building tools like standard CAD. . . More >>
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February 27, 2010 -
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The seller delievered and did what they were supposed to do. Good service. So far, the product is good. I’m still trying to maneuver my way around but there are lots of tutorials to teach you how to use the software, which is a plus
Rating: 3 / 5
While the product is comprehensive in its ability to create rooms and decorate them as you please, it is way complicated. The tools and menus are many and multifaceted, which is good and bad. Also, had trouble finding our new Pulte home as a standard layout. I guess it was too “low end”. This product is not for Average Joe beginners.
Rating: 3 / 5
This software is powerful and yet relatively easy to learn.
It is designed for the rugged-individualist armature who wants to take charge of their own design project and see it first in 2-D and then instantly in full-color 3-D with just the click of a mouse.
A perfect way to plan and execute your own projects or to communicate your ideas to building professionals so as to be sure they understand exactly what you want!
The above is the same review I wrote for Home Designer Suite Version 9 and it is all true for this title as well.
What is different from Home Designer Suite is more tools and choices, thus the higher price over Suite.
The careful and demanding buyer should read, understand and compare the seven different titles offered by Chief Architect Inc. via its Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Line because they are all similar in function and use but they are all different in capability and choices.
Choice to me is everything and I’ll bet it is important to you too. They are all great but they are not created equal.
David Jefferson Potter
Austin, Texas
Rating: 5 / 5
This looks like a great product put lacks the instructual material to get started. To get any information, rather than a printed manual you have to go online and search for the information which is a pain when your are aready on the computer trying to draw something. A printed instruction manual would be very helpful in getting started for first time user!
Rating: 4 / 5
Absolutely wonderful software. I am new to a PC (former MAC user) and new to design software, so I had a lot to learn. I was quite intimidated when I first opened the software (intimidated enough to place a frantic call to Chief Architect). Thw woman ant the other end of the phone calmed me down, gave me a few tips, and encouraged me to join the ‘live class’ that was set up for the following day. FANTASTIC! I spent about 5 hours on my own just ‘playing’, then listened in on the class. I learned so much in that one hour. So. . . support is fantastic, software is amazing. . what more can you ask for? Buy it!
Rating: 5 / 5