Home CAD Review

Sketch Up

Sketch-Up is Easy-to-learn, 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of homes, sheds, decks, home additions. You can add details, textures, and glass to your models. The tape measure and protractor are a great add-in for anyone who wants to design to scale.
The tutorial section is outstanding. You will really like how easy it is to create models using this program and I recommend it to anyone. Free download. www.Sketchup.com




Plan 3D

Plan3D lets you see a 3D version of your home, kitchen, landscape your Garden, or design a complete office, and change your remodeling ideas for every room in the house, and fill in each room with colours, fabrics, surface textures, and furniture until you find the one you like. It looks so real - and the 3D effect helps you to see exactly how your home will look when you have completed it. PRICE: Around £20-30 www.Plan3D.com




Grand Designs 3D

GRAND DESIGNS 3D is a CAD (Computer Aided Drawing) application but is dedicated to room planning and constructing buildings and is therefore intuitive to use. You will be creating rooms and even buildings within minutes of installing GRAND DESIGNS 3D. With the easy-to-use drop and drag interface, simply place your construction elements in the 2D project and see these brought to life in a 3D environment. Published by Eleco Visualisation Software www.3darchitect.co.uk




Smart Draw

Smart Draw is a program that helps you easily create various floor plans in your home. Comes with numerous templates and symbol libraries to get you started quickly. Allows you to export your drawing to several popular formats including PDF, MS Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Smart Draw is easy to use, especially for floor plan sketches including simple elevations. The only disadvantage with this software is that you can only draw your design in 2D. Free Download. www.Smartdraw.com



Design Soft - My House

My House can help you layout a full multistory floor plan or a renovation project, and it will let you see the results in full colour 3D. Intuitive icons guide you through. Also, My House makes dimensioning your floor plan easy. My House automatically calculates the length of walls or the distance between walls. You can also instantly determine the square footage of a room or the whole house.
It uses information about textures, materials and light sources to produce truly realistic images. My House provides advanced ray-tracing for high-quality photorealistic image production. PRICE: Around £20 www.rapidsharedownloads.org/showthread