Good evening everyone,
My problem in brief:
I am looking for “THE” 3D home design software that allows creating as photo-realistic house plans as possible. The program should also enable realistic furnishing of interior spaces and the design of the outdoor area. If possible, I want to be able to virtually fly around and through the design with virtual cameras, similar to a drone.
Ultimately, I want designs comparable to those published by various home builders in their catalogs. Unfortunately, it’s probably not allowed to mention names here.
The reason why (for those interested):
I would like to build a house, or rather my wife and daughter have been pushing me for a long time.
However, I have zero visual imagination when looking at drawings. The architects I met during initial contacts with building companies either did not understand or did not have the (financial) motivation to create a custom design with me. It was basically just house designs A through X from a drawer. They might generously move a wall or a window... “Try design No. 3, it’s very fashionable and popular…” That was all I was offered. A proper architect, if I could even find one, would cost me a large five-digit sum, because I’d have to engage them full-time for months.
To overcome these hurdles, I want to take on this task myself, working on the design evening by evening, virtually walking through and exploring the design, identifying needed changes, and adjusting until everything fits perfectly. Many years ago, I had the chance to create designs with the program Arcon, which worked reasonably well. But this program did not offer the current possibilities for photo-realistic rendering of designs.
What I don’t need...:
are pessimistic comments about how I wouldn’t be able to do it anyway. I’m not aiming to win an architecture award, and my lack of experience, feasibility, structural engineering, etc. is a different matter. I also don’t need any CAD or structural analysis modules, etc.
Let’s say others build model railways as a hobby, and my wife and I would like to design our tailor-made dream house.
Many thanks in advance for all serious advice!
Best regards,
MiHoe
My problem in brief:
I am looking for “THE” 3D home design software that allows creating as photo-realistic house plans as possible. The program should also enable realistic furnishing of interior spaces and the design of the outdoor area. If possible, I want to be able to virtually fly around and through the design with virtual cameras, similar to a drone.
Ultimately, I want designs comparable to those published by various home builders in their catalogs. Unfortunately, it’s probably not allowed to mention names here.
The reason why (for those interested):
I would like to build a house, or rather my wife and daughter have been pushing me for a long time.
However, I have zero visual imagination when looking at drawings. The architects I met during initial contacts with building companies either did not understand or did not have the (financial) motivation to create a custom design with me. It was basically just house designs A through X from a drawer. They might generously move a wall or a window... “Try design No. 3, it’s very fashionable and popular…” That was all I was offered. A proper architect, if I could even find one, would cost me a large five-digit sum, because I’d have to engage them full-time for months.
To overcome these hurdles, I want to take on this task myself, working on the design evening by evening, virtually walking through and exploring the design, identifying needed changes, and adjusting until everything fits perfectly. Many years ago, I had the chance to create designs with the program Arcon, which worked reasonably well. But this program did not offer the current possibilities for photo-realistic rendering of designs.
What I don’t need...:
are pessimistic comments about how I wouldn’t be able to do it anyway. I’m not aiming to win an architecture award, and my lack of experience, feasibility, structural engineering, etc. is a different matter. I also don’t need any CAD or structural analysis modules, etc.
Let’s say others build model railways as a hobby, and my wife and I would like to design our tailor-made dream house.
Many thanks in advance for all serious advice!
Best regards,
MiHoe
1. I don’t think you lose control when you let a professional handle it. You didn’t build an insole yourself or 3D print one. You probably didn’t get offered this insole because you didn’t ask your doctor about insoles that need to be paid for privately. I either take a prescription to the pharmacy or ask myself. Then I get advice. With a prescription, you don’t get advice, only what’s listed on the prescription. But I don’t make diagnoses. If you have no idea or concept of how to translate a 2D plan into 3D, how can a reasonable plan come out? From a layperson like you? An architect knows how it works. You remain in control when you review the plan afterwards.
2. In Arcon, you can also expand your database.
3. Arcon hasn’t improved graphically with the higher versions – it didn’t need to, because it was sufficient for an architect for decades and still is. Only the clients expect these “toys” and are disappointed if the architect picks up a pencil.
3a. Since I’ve had a Mac for 10 years and my PC crashed two years ago, unfortunately I’m limited with objects. But you’d be disappointed. Honestly, I find it unnecessary. Checking partition walls is enough for me when I look at the dimensions—I work with placeholders anyway. For the small things here, homebyme or a pencil is enough, for everything else I just don’t want to waste time here.
4. One point sounds like you just want to play [emoji6]
4. Start by learning to walk before you try cartwheels. Make drawings on graph paper. I have some tips in pinned posts for that. Familiarize yourself with the directions to understand room layouts and alternatives. Draw on the site plan until you have a basic wall framework. Please consider this just as play. Deliver your handwritten room program to a trusted architect and later compare layperson versus professional. Even control freaks can communicate [emoji6] You can also redraw the drawing from them—Cadvilla is probably the right tool for that [emoji2].
2. In Arcon, you can also expand your database.
3. Arcon hasn’t improved graphically with the higher versions – it didn’t need to, because it was sufficient for an architect for decades and still is. Only the clients expect these “toys” and are disappointed if the architect picks up a pencil.
3a. Since I’ve had a Mac for 10 years and my PC crashed two years ago, unfortunately I’m limited with objects. But you’d be disappointed. Honestly, I find it unnecessary. Checking partition walls is enough for me when I look at the dimensions—I work with placeholders anyway. For the small things here, homebyme or a pencil is enough, for everything else I just don’t want to waste time here.
4. One point sounds like you just want to play [emoji6]
4. Start by learning to walk before you try cartwheels. Make drawings on graph paper. I have some tips in pinned posts for that. Familiarize yourself with the directions to understand room layouts and alternatives. Draw on the site plan until you have a basic wall framework. Please consider this just as play. Deliver your handwritten room program to a trusted architect and later compare layperson versus professional. Even control freaks can communicate [emoji6] You can also redraw the drawing from them—Cadvilla is probably the right tool for that [emoji2].
ypg schrieb:
Make sketches on graph paper. Spontaneous doodling flows more easily with a pencil than with a mouse, which is why I always recommend it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t help much: if you (even just imagine) lack the ability to visualize something in three dimensions, you end up stuck in front of the graph paper forever. Unless you take to heart the advice
ruppsn schrieb:
It was a recommendation from owner experience – the best friend of my wife and me is, among other things, Pinterest. then eventually the mental images ingrained in your mind will set the pace you have to follow.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
11ant schrieb:
then sooner or later, the mental images you've been fed set the pace you have to follow Sometimes I really find it hard to understand what you want to say to me or others.
Could you please explain again in simple and straightforward words what you mean? My interpretations were a bit off the last few times, so I’d rather ask again.
ruppsn schrieb:
Sometimes I really find it hard to understand what you want to say to me or others You suggested to the original poster that he train his imaginative sense – where I assume he only has supposed deficiencies – by using a flood of images found online. I meant that once those absorbed images start to work in his mind, it would be easier for him to transfer them into a sketch of his future house with a pencil rather than a mouse. Does that really need a reading aid?
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
ruppsn schrieb:
@ypg I suspected that I would get a "like" from you for this There you go [emoji2] Now you have two already
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