ᐅ Which software is recommended for floor plan design and modeling?
Created on: 14 Mar 2021 15:29
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--Lars--
Hi,
my wife and I are just starting our project to build our own detached single-family house. The plot of land is already secured, and now we are working on the floor plan design.
I would like to model our ideas in a floor planning software in 3D, as this helps to better visualize things and get a clearer impression compared to sketches on paper.
However, this is not about creating a final model like an architect would do. Therefore, I am not looking for a professional high-end tool, but rather something that allows simple rough modeling to brainstorm ideas.
Which software would you recommend for this? Thanks for your suggestions!
my wife and I are just starting our project to build our own detached single-family house. The plot of land is already secured, and now we are working on the floor plan design.
I would like to model our ideas in a floor planning software in 3D, as this helps to better visualize things and get a clearer impression compared to sketches on paper.
However, this is not about creating a final model like an architect would do. Therefore, I am not looking for a professional high-end tool, but rather something that allows simple rough modeling to brainstorm ideas.
Which software would you recommend for this? Thanks for your suggestions!
You really have to work with light sources, otherwise the images always turn out too dark. For "test renders" (trial runs), I usually use 400px to speed things up. Once the brightness is right, render the final image at a minimum of 3000px in the highest quality. That way, there won’t be any pixelation. However, this can take 1 to 2 hours per photo.
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mathias.fabian19 Apr 2021 13:29Obermuh schrieb:
I have also used Sweet Home 3D on the iPad. If access to the building site is already allowed, you can use the right device to project a 1:1 scale model onto the site in augmented reality and walk through it.@Obermuh Hello, the images from Sweet Home 3D look great. However, I can’t find the app in the App Store for the iPad. Is the tool named differently there?Best regards
mathias.fabian schrieb:
@Obermuh Hello, the images from Sweet Home 3D look great. However, I can’t find the app in the App Store for the iPad. Is the tool named differently there?
Best regardsIt seems to have been renamed to Home Design 3D by now. At least the app icon is the same.
We used Sweet Home 3D and were satisfied with it. It offers some basic models, and you can also find many Ikea furniture pieces online to import later.
The advantages compared to paper and pencil, in my opinion, are the quick editing options. Walls can be moved or drawn anew in no time, doors shifted, windows changed, all without the annoying leftover marks from erasing.
At first, we mostly used the 2D view to see how things would look – at the end of the planning phase, we even “painted” our nearly final and well-developed rooms in 3D. We tested wall colors and checked how different elements worked together. Of course, this doesn’t exactly match reality, but it allows for a rough estimate of whether everything fits well.
The advantages compared to paper and pencil, in my opinion, are the quick editing options. Walls can be moved or drawn anew in no time, doors shifted, windows changed, all without the annoying leftover marks from erasing.
At first, we mostly used the 2D view to see how things would look – at the end of the planning phase, we even “painted” our nearly final and well-developed rooms in 3D. We tested wall colors and checked how different elements worked together. Of course, this doesn’t exactly match reality, but it allows for a rough estimate of whether everything fits well.
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Hausbauer202119 Apr 2021 14:38Steffi33 schrieb:
Here are a few examples from Sweet Home 3D. I used it for our planning. We are still impressed today by how accurately SH3D reflected the final reality.
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Can anyone recommend house design software?
I personally don’t really need something like that. I was already designing houses before only computer enthusiasts – and I wasn’t one – even had PCs, and I’ve forgotten as little about it as about riding a bike. Still, I would like to use an application like this now.
I am planning to create a tutorial for friends who enjoy semi-DIY projects, through which a beginner planner can get a push for their first step and experience firsthand how to systematically approach the consequences of changing knee wall heights, and so on.
For this purpose, I want to design a simple rectangular house that can then be modified by adding either a bay window or a gable with a dormer, and where the knee wall height can be varied until the one-and-a-half story house becomes something like a villa. Conversely, it can also be flattened into a bungalow.
I want to develop different version stages, and what is important is the following:
1. It must be interactive.
That means users should not just watch a video and then have to build by themselves based on what they saw. Instead, with the example house, they should be able to continue working on it themselves – ideally, until they have developed their own home from it.
2. It must serve many users and be low-threshold accessible.
Therefore, it must be downloadable software for offline use that allows generating drawings or models whose file format is either widely used or can be cleanly imported and further edited by “competing software.” I want to offer this help free of charge – I am certainly not going to do the same effort seven times for different software.
So, what would be suitable offline software, at least for the Windows environment, to create a building envelope with load-bearing interior walls and save the file to share online?
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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I personally don’t really need something like that. I was already designing houses before only computer enthusiasts – and I wasn’t one – even had PCs, and I’ve forgotten as little about it as about riding a bike. Still, I would like to use an application like this now.
I am planning to create a tutorial for friends who enjoy semi-DIY projects, through which a beginner planner can get a push for their first step and experience firsthand how to systematically approach the consequences of changing knee wall heights, and so on.
For this purpose, I want to design a simple rectangular house that can then be modified by adding either a bay window or a gable with a dormer, and where the knee wall height can be varied until the one-and-a-half story house becomes something like a villa. Conversely, it can also be flattened into a bungalow.
I want to develop different version stages, and what is important is the following:
1. It must be interactive.
That means users should not just watch a video and then have to build by themselves based on what they saw. Instead, with the example house, they should be able to continue working on it themselves – ideally, until they have developed their own home from it.
2. It must serve many users and be low-threshold accessible.
Therefore, it must be downloadable software for offline use that allows generating drawings or models whose file format is either widely used or can be cleanly imported and further edited by “competing software.” I want to offer this help free of charge – I am certainly not going to do the same effort seven times for different software.
So, what would be suitable offline software, at least for the Windows environment, to create a building envelope with load-bearing interior walls and save the file to share online?
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/