Chief Architect Architectural Home Designer 9.0

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	Chief Architect Architectural Home Designer 9.0 Windows \| Chief Architect, 2009 average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Architectural 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 tools, automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing, foundations, and Plan Check make it easy. Choose from a Library of more than 3,600 plants and 7,000 items including windows, doors, lighting, furniture, interior/exterior fixtures, cabinets, and more. HOME DESIGN Choose from thousands of styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring, and materials. Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen, create your own cabinets, and estimate costs before you build. REMODELING Experiment and create models and virtual tours. Arrange walls, windows, doors, decks, and automatically generate 3D models to visualize at any angle. Powerful building and remodeling tools include automatic roof generation, foundations, stairs, and more. INTERIOR DESIGN Choose or import thousands of items to customize your design. Point-and-click to change wall colors, flooring styles, countertops, and more. Choose from name-brand colors and materials or create your own. DECKS & LANDSCAPING Over 1,500 botanically accurate flowers, trees, and shrubs. Create gardens, pathways, hills, valleys, ponds, and more for your outdoor living area. Powerful deck tools allow you to design, visualize, estimate, and build your outdoor living project. SITE PLANNING & ESTIMATING Design your lot and plans with easy terrain tools. Identify your costs and materials for your next project before you begin. Design in 2D or 3D. Add, resize, and automatically dimension your plans.

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Very Pleased

I recently purchased the Architectural Home Designer 9.0 and am very pleased with the product. I use AutoCAD daily and find that this program is superb when it comes to showing clients colored elevations and perspectives. It takes no time at all to learn how to use it effectively and just as much time actually creating the images.

I am shocked that this type of program was so reasonable in cost as well! It has a few limitations but for the money does everything that I am needing it to do and more.

Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!

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!

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Great software at an affordable price

I believe this is an upgraded version of a software that I have been using for years, 3D Home Architect. I believe the software was sold to Chief Architect and they certainly improved it over the years. I have been looking for an upgrade but couldn't find the software until now. This software is very easy to master and certainly allows for a professional customer presentation. It is also affordable for the small contractor that mostly deals in residential remodeling. I would recommend this product to any contractor that needs to sell jobs to clients without having to go to the expense of an architect.

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Comrehensively Complex

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.

Overpriced for the feature set

This program shows great promise at first until you dig into it deeper. I bought the software primarily for its landscape capabilities but also because of the home design software. It can easily create single story homes quickly and easily but multilevel homes are much more difficult. If you plan to replicate your existing plan you will be quickly be frustrated because all homes have features which are not automated in the feature set of this version. I have a 20 year old home with lots of roof hips and cathedral ceilings which proved very difficult. I eventually gave up after many, many hours (days) because I moved on to the exterior landscape which is why I bought the software.

I was really disappointed with the landscape capabilities. Again if you're trying to replicate your existing landscape forget it. It's just not that flexible. Duplicating my existing landscape took days. I had to find workarounds for everything. For example you would think making a pool would be easy for a landscape program but it's not because there are no tools for it. There is a ridiculously tedious work around detailed on the Chief Architect website but it's a total afterthought. I also have a simple wrought iron fence around the pool that was nearly impossible to replicate. The user will also be frustrated with the plant libraries. I live in California where oak and redwood trees are common. The depiction of these species is unrecognizable. The library seems east coast centric.

One of the more frustrating problems was the software's inability to rotate my plan 90 degrees. When I rotate the plan it rotates the first floor leaving the foundation and second floor in place. You can individually rotate these layers but they never register with each other. When I contacted tech support about this they offered to sell me a $400 upgrade to a pro version. I have experience with a less capable program from a competitor but I'm definitely no pro. If you plan on becoming more than an advanced beginner you will probably need the $500 version. I gave it three stars because I eventually succeeded replicating my existing landscape and creating a newer renovated one.

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