Home Designer Suite 2015 by Chief Architect

Home Designer Suite is 3D home design software for DIY home enthusiasts. Created by Chief Architect, so you can enjoy the same type of tools that the professionals use for home design, interior design, and outdoor living. Home Designer Suite offers intuitive design and smart building tools for your home projects. Create Your Dream Home Today.

Home Design

Home Designer Suite makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas with smart building and powerful design tools. The tools have commonly accepted defaults for most building practices to assist you in your home design projects.

• Choose from built-in home style templates, create your own custom home design
• Use the House Assistant to space plan your rooms and room layout
• Design in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously
• Choose from over 6,000 library items or download free bonus items to customize your design
• Choose from Final View, Glass House, Doll House, Night Views and Elevations to see your design from every point of view
• Use powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing, foundations, dimensions and terrain

Remodeling

Home Designer can help you plan, visualize, and estimate the costs before you begin your project. Create a new room or addition to your home, remodel your kitchen or bath, and visualize floor and space planning.

• Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen and estimate the costs – all before you remodel
• Create a new room or addition- add and remove walls, place windows and doors and size your rooms with dimensions
• Change your colors, countertops, finishes and flooring styles with Material Painter
• Move or resize walls by clicking on the wall and moving or entering a precise dimension
• Import plans from the Chief Architect Room Planner mobile App

Kitchens & Baths

Create thousands of cabinet combinations, change your countertop material, add appliances and fixtures, create custom colors and materials, and more.

• Choose from over 1,000 cabinet combinations
• Plan the new layout of your bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers and garden tubs
• Choose from a wide variety of appliance styles for your kitchen
• Choose from several floor types such as hardwood, stone, tile or carpeting
• Import your own favorite objects, materials, colors or textures from a photo or website
• Use the Color Blending tool to stain a translucent color or apply a solid colors

Interior Design

Give your home the look and feel you want – choose from thousands of styles, colors, flooring and materials. Design and decorate your living, dining, kitchen, kid’s rooms or master bedroom.

• Place name brand products in your design including: Cultured Stone, Sherwin Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr Paints, Viking Appliances, and more
• Drag-and-drop from thousands of design objects in the built-in Library organized by category
• Choose from a variety of interior items – including chairs, tables, sofas, fabrics and accessories. Resize and change colors and materials
• Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors and accessories
• Turn lights off and on in your design with a single click Material Painter allows you to change the color and material of any object in your design- cabinets, countertops, walls and flooring

Landscape & Deck

Create beautiful landscapes, terrain features, gardens and decks for your perfect outdoor living spaces.

• Powerful deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and can help you estimate the costs
• Design straight, curved, single level or multi-level decks
• Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped or sloped lots – use a GPS to import elevation data
• Choose from over 1,500 plants with the Plant Chooser
• Use the Plant Encyclopedia to learn more about the plants in your designs

User Resources

• Download Library Content from the 3D Library
• Online Training Videos & Training Webinars
• Technical Support

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PC System Requirements

• Windows 8 / 7 / Vista
• 2.4 GHz processor or multi-core processor
• 2 GB of memory (32 bit) or 4 GB of memory (64 bit)
• Video Card: 1. Dedicated Graphics with 512 MB memory e.g., NVIDIA or ATI – OR – 2. Integrated Graphics e.g., Intel HD Graphics (driver 2012 or newer)
• 5 GB of available hard disk space
• Internet access*

Mac System Requirements

• Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion) or newer
• 2.4 GHz processor or multi-core processor
• 4 GB of memory
• 5 GB of available hard disk space
• Internet access*

*Internet access required for installation, license authentication, deactivation, video and library catalog access. Internet access for license validation is required once every 30 days.

	Home Designer Interiors	Home Designer Essentials	Home Designer Suite	Home Designer Arhitectural	Home Designer Professional
Home Design	Good	Good	Better	Best	Best
Interior Design	Best	Good	Better	Best	Best
Remodeling	Better	Good	Better	Best	Best
Decks & Landscaping	–	Good	Better	Best	Best
Kitchens & Baths	Best	Good	Better	Best	Best
Professional Tools	–	–	–	–	Best

Platforms

Mac OS X, Windows 8

Product Features

• Software for home design, remodeling, interior design, kitchens and baths, decks and landscaping, and cost estimation
• Take a virtual tour and use 3D views to know exactly what your project will look like before you build
• Design in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously; built-in style templates; 6,000+ library items
• Intuitive design and smart building tools for your home projects; powerful deck and patio tools; Plant Chooser offers 1,500+ plant options
• Get started quickly with easy how-to videos that offer step-by-step instructions; includes free technical support

More Details
Publisher: Chief Architect	Category: Business & Office	Binding: CD-ROM	Language: English

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