BetterHomes - Home Designer Pro 7.0 - bethomgarhomedespro7 - SaverSoftware

BetterHomes - Home Designer Pro 7.0

Manufacturer - CHIEF ARCHITECT INC.

Price £ 249.99    (£ 212.76 exc. VAT )


CHIEF ARCHITECT INC. - BetterHomes - Home Designer Pro 7.0

Description

Professional Home Design Software


Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Pro 7.0 is professional home design software for the serious home enthusiast. Enjoy the same tools that the professionals use for home design, remodeling, interior design, decks, landscaping and cost estimation.



Customise your home with over 9,000 library items including geometric shapes, cabinets and door hardware and molding profiles.



Designing like a professional has never been so easy, no experience needed!



Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Pro 7.0 has all the same great features as Home Designer Deluxe, but with many additional and upgraded tools to help with your customised design.



Some of the functions we added to Home Designer Pro 7.0 are:



Design Tools



· 2,000 additional library items, bringing the total library items to over 9,000

· Advanced library items include geometric shapes, cabinet and door hardware and molding profiles

· Ability to read custom libraries created by Chief Architect Full Professional Software

· ICC Residential Design Checklist will allow you to check your plan against national building codes

· Advanced Cabinet Tools offers a higher level of customisation



3D Tools



· Define Custom Lighting with shadows, attenuation, intensity and more

· Explore your structure in 3D by temporarily removing surfaces without changing your design

· Line-based "blueprint"-style 3D views

· Define the North Pointer for Sun Angles

· Panoramic or Spherical backdrops rotate to make 3D walkthroughs more realistic

· Aerial view gives overview for fast navigation of plan while editing



Cost Estimating



· Export Material List to spreadsheet programs including Microsoft® Excel

· Save snapshot Material Lists for different stages of the project

· Add detail to each individual component in the material list for a comprehensive cost estimate breakdown

· Master Materials List allows you to store and manage commonly used material prices



Dimension Tools



· Advanced dimensioning tools include angular, end-to-end and interior dimensions

· Fully editable dimension lines and configurable dimension editing allow you to change where dimensions locate walls, windows, doors and other objects

· Manually enter dimensions to precisely position walls and objects



CAD Tools



· Advanced CAD tools to detail cross-section views with insulation, cross-boxes and more

· Advanced CAD editing tools such as replicate, line weights, point-to-point move, custom patterns and more (Compatible with AutoCAD® patterns)

· CAD-to-Walls™ allows you to convert CAD lines from DXF file format to walls

· Layers can be used to separate key building components such as electrical or framing. Display or hide features of your design, set colors, lock layers and use reference layers for precise editing.

· Create Back-Clipped Cross Section/Elevation Views to limit your view to relevant details for precise plan editing



Building Tools



· Automatic Structural Dormers

· Unblock and manually edit Automatic Dormers

· Create any custom roof plan with the Manual Roof Tools. Edit and create roof planes to create a roof of any pitch and shape. Start with an automatic roof and then add custom details, or create the entire roof manually.

· Customize construction methods for walls, floors, ceilings and foundations. Identify the exact placement of a framing components, specify wall layers, floor structure platform height, mudsills and more.

· Advanced stair tools allow control of shape, starter treads, flaring, tread width and more

· Create pony walls and edit wall shape or create a stepped foundation in cross-section view

· Specify foundation types by room

· Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts and more

· Multiple-select editing. For example, select all your cabinets and change them all with one command.

· Use callouts to reference between details, plans and cross-sections in a blueprint layout

· Create blueprint layouts with 3D, CAD, Cross-Section/Elevation and Plan Views

· Rotate and Flip Plan

· Design and edit custom countertop shapes and styles

· Define Terrain Elevation lines, Elevation Regions and Terrain Breaks



General/Support



· Fully Editable working environment including customized toolbars

· Over 70 "How To" training videos

System Requirements

· Windows XP/Vista
· 1.2 GHz processor or greater
· 1.5 GB of available disk space
· 256 MB of RAM or greater
· CD-ROM drive

Release Date: Saturday, 20th October 2007