ᐅ Which software do you use or would you recommend for house design and planning?
Created on: 13 May 2020 11:14
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AleXSR700
Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask which software you use for floor plan design and possibly site planning? Maybe you have tested several and can share their pros and cons?
I have tried Sweet Home 3D and Avanquest Architect 3D Gold 2018 myself.
Sweet Home 3D advantages:
- Free
- Very intuitive (I created a complete house with it within an hour, not including interior design). It can be operated very quickly.
- Excellent user interface including 3D view.
Sweet Home 3D disadvantages:
- You cannot simply scroll right or left without drawing a wall or similar. The drawing area is basically limited to 2m (6.6 ft) around the house (a disadvantage when placing garages, but can be circumvented with little effort).
- You cannot rotate buildings/objects (for example, if you want to move a garage from one property boundary to another). However, you can rotate the entire plan with a plugin and, indirectly, also single objects that way.
- No dimensioning available. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is that Sweet Home 3D does not show any measurements. You have to click on each wall and window individually to check their dimensions and then write them into the plan manually.
Avanquest Architect 3D Gold 2018 advantages:
- Dimensions are entered automatically
- Quickstart feature allows you to create and adjust entire rooms very quickly and easily
Avanquest Architect 3D Gold 2018 disadvantages:
- I haven’t found a way to return to Quickstart after finishing it, making it hard to easily modify or add rooms later
- The program is not intuitive at all. Everything seems very complicated, even adjusting a staircase.
- The 3D view is cumbersome and not enjoyable to use.
- In the first hour, I couldn’t figure out how to remove a room’s ceiling to create an open space to the floor above.
- Creating floors, ceilings, and the like without defining a whole room seems awkward.
As you might guess, I gave up on Avanquest Architect after about 60-90 minutes. It was no fun. I suspect it can do everything, but if everything is very complicated and counter-intuitive, you simply don’t want to work with it.
Maybe newer versions of Avanquest are better. Maybe you have had good experiences with it. Or maybe you know of a program that combines Sweet Home 3D’s ease of use with Avanquest’s dimensioning capabilities.
I’m curious to hear what you use or can recommend, whether free or paid.
I wanted to ask which software you use for floor plan design and possibly site planning? Maybe you have tested several and can share their pros and cons?
I have tried Sweet Home 3D and Avanquest Architect 3D Gold 2018 myself.
Sweet Home 3D advantages:
- Free
- Very intuitive (I created a complete house with it within an hour, not including interior design). It can be operated very quickly.
- Excellent user interface including 3D view.
Sweet Home 3D disadvantages:
- You cannot simply scroll right or left without drawing a wall or similar. The drawing area is basically limited to 2m (6.6 ft) around the house (a disadvantage when placing garages, but can be circumvented with little effort).
- You cannot rotate buildings/objects (for example, if you want to move a garage from one property boundary to another). However, you can rotate the entire plan with a plugin and, indirectly, also single objects that way.
- No dimensioning available. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is that Sweet Home 3D does not show any measurements. You have to click on each wall and window individually to check their dimensions and then write them into the plan manually.
Avanquest Architect 3D Gold 2018 advantages:
- Dimensions are entered automatically
- Quickstart feature allows you to create and adjust entire rooms very quickly and easily
Avanquest Architect 3D Gold 2018 disadvantages:
- I haven’t found a way to return to Quickstart after finishing it, making it hard to easily modify or add rooms later
- The program is not intuitive at all. Everything seems very complicated, even adjusting a staircase.
- The 3D view is cumbersome and not enjoyable to use.
- In the first hour, I couldn’t figure out how to remove a room’s ceiling to create an open space to the floor above.
- Creating floors, ceilings, and the like without defining a whole room seems awkward.
As you might guess, I gave up on Avanquest Architect after about 60-90 minutes. It was no fun. I suspect it can do everything, but if everything is very complicated and counter-intuitive, you simply don’t want to work with it.
Maybe newer versions of Avanquest are better. Maybe you have had good experiences with it. Or maybe you know of a program that combines Sweet Home 3D’s ease of use with Avanquest’s dimensioning capabilities.
I’m curious to hear what you use or can recommend, whether free or paid.
K
KundF_Hof15 May 2020 17:58I have read everything but haven’t quite found what I’m looking for yet – maybe someone else has a tip.
I need a program ONLY for the exterior view because I’m still unsure about the window sizes. I can’t accept downloads and don’t have Java on my computer.
I was wondering if there might be such a program available from certain window manufacturers?!
Do you have any advice for me?
I need a program ONLY for the exterior view because I’m still unsure about the window sizes. I can’t accept downloads and don’t have Java on my computer.
I was wondering if there might be such a program available from certain window manufacturers?!
Do you have any advice for me?
KundF_Hof schrieb:
I thought there might be such a program available from certain window manufacturers?!? To my knowledge, none offer this. But I can’t say that for sure any more than the late Günter Schabowski could.
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bauenmk202016 May 2020 12:20I can recommend Cadvilla. I used it for my electrical planning and also placed outlets and switches in 3D. I import many models from 3dwarehouse, where you can find a lot of Ikea furniture, for example.