[.ca] Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0

• Design Planning Center ¿ expert design tips from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens® magazines
• Create a virtual look and feel of the design with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows and window treatments
• Easily design kitchens and baths with plans and 3D layouts
• Choose from a Library of over 6,000 items for your designs
• Generate an Automatic Material List for project cost estimating

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Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0 is software developed by Chief Architect for home enthusiast remodeling and home design projects. This software helps you design the home of your dreams with 3D models, virtual tours, even more library items, easy to use building templates, a new Plant Encyclopedia and landscaping features with over 1,000 plant terrain and outdoor items. Combining the leading-edge home design software with the consumer design editorial expertise of Better Homes and Gardens, Home Designer Suite 7.0 is the best software tool you will find anywhere for home and remodeling design. No matter your level of design expertise, Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0 will get you moving toward a stunning visualized 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. 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 With Home Designer, you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. 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 to use. Create Floor Plans Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. Design Tools With the program's Planning Center, you can use Material Painter to create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built. You can test your design with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows, and even window treatments. Building Tools You'll have complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and more at your fingertips. You can even automatically generate a materials list for project cost estimating. The software includes a complete set of CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools to detail designs and Plan Check, which automatically validates the design against the most current building standards.

Missing some key elements:
This is a very powerful 3D modeling tool, but it is missing some essential elements which make it NOT an ideal program for architectural drawings in particular: there is no ability to enter dimensions, and then have the program draw a line or wall to that dimension. The only way to create walls is to use the click and drag interface with the mouse. To enter dimensions, one must purchase the vastly more expensive Home Designer Pro at nearly $500.00. The ability to edit dimensions accurately seems like a pretty basic componant to any architectural drafting program, so I cannot recommend this item for anyone wanting to draw accurate architectural plans.