Chief Architect Home Designer Suite 9.0 | 
| From: Chief Architect
List Price: $99.99 Buy New: $66.50 as of 11/22/2009 13:56 CST details You Save: $33.49 (33%)
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Seller: alisag2 Rating: 6 reviews Sales Rank: 554
Format: DVD-ROM Platforms: Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista Media: DVD-ROM Operating System: Windows Vista Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 8042119 Model: S90-DN-0AZ1 UPC: 750839011639 EAN: 0750839011622 ASIN: B002D3A4ZI
Release Date: July 1, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Chief Architect Home Designer Suite is the all-in-one home design software solution for Home Design, Remodeling, Decks, Landscaping, Kitchens & Baths, Interior Design, and Cost Estimating | | • | Create accurately scaled floor plans - change colors, countertops, cabinets, flooring styles and more for your new kitchen or bath | | • | Thousands of items in the built-in library include furniture, fixtures, lighting, doors, windows, and more | | • | Get detailed information on popular plants, learn which ones are best for your climate using the Hardiness Zone Map | | • | Automatic Cost Estimation and Materials list help assign costs for materials, descriptions, quantities, unit costs, and more |
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Product Description This Home Design software, Chief Architect Home Designer Suite 9.0 provides feature rich tools for: home design, remodeling, interior design, landscaping, decks, cost estimation, and site planning.
Amazon.com Product Description Home Designer Suite 9.0 is the latest release from Chief Architect, the professional software design company and the software of choice by more builders, architects and designers. Home Designer Suite leverages the same professional quality from Chief Architect making it the most powerful and easy to use home design, remodeling and landscaping software. An advanced yet easy to use set of tools for Home Design, Remodeling, Interior Design, Kitchens, Baths, Decks, Landscaping and Cost Estimation. Click to enlarge. | Glass House View provides a full translucent view of your design. Click to enlarge. | Create plot and perimeter plans; automatically generate a 3D model of your actual terrain. Click to enlarge. | Doll House View, a 3D overview without the roof, is an effective tool for space planning of furniture placement and traffic flow. Click to enlarge. | Powerful deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and can help you estimate the costs. Click to enlarge. | Choose from over 1,500 plants with the Plant Chooser. Click to enlarge. | Design or Remodel Your Home Today! Chief Architect Home Designer Suite provides a fun and an advanced yet easy to use set of tools for Home Design, Remodeling, Interior Design, Kitchens, Baths, Decks, Landscaping and Cost Estimation. Powerful, Fun and Easy Home Design Software - Perfect for Home Design, Remodeling and Landscaping
- Choose from over 1,500 Sample Plans
- Choose from built-in home style templates, create your own custom home design or use the House Wizard
- Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing and foundations
- Visualize your new Kitchen or Bath
House Wizard and Tutorial Videos Make it Easy! - The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on the type of your project
- Use the House Wizard for quick and easy layout of your rooms
- Select from the pre-designed Home Design, Interior and Landscaping Style Templates complete with colors, cabinets, decks and more
- The online help system provides detail information on all types of building projects
- Includes over 30 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project
Kitchens, Baths and Custom Cabinets - Design the Kitchen of your dreams--move walls, create new cabinets, add appliances--Design your perfect workspace!
- Plan the new layout of your bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers and garden tubs. It's easy to visualize your ideas in 3D.
- Create custom cabinets in minutes by choosing your own colors, countertops, door styles and more
- Design your new kitchen or bath using the Cabinet Designer Tools
- Use the Cabinet Designer tools to create unlimited cabinet styles. Choose your own colors, countertops and door styles.
Interiors and Exteriors - Design and decorating style ideas with inspirational photos by rooms
- Material Painter lets you apply colors and materials quickly and easily
- Choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own materials using a digital photograph
- Design for your lifestyle and personality--change colors, add lighting and choose furniture to accent your new room
- Choose from a variety of interior items--including chairs, tables, sofas, fabrics, accessories and more. Resize, change colors and materials to meet your exact needs.
- Smart Design Objects, Drag-and-drop from thousands of design objects in the built-in Library organized by category
Decks and Landscaping - 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 single or multi-level decks complete with automatic deck framing
- Quickly lay out your deck with stairs and arrange furniture
- Deck foundations automatically generate to match sloped lots
- Plant Encyclopedia to learn more about the plants in your designs
- Choose from over 1,500 plants with the Plant Chooser
- Pathways--Use the Stepping Stone tool to design curb-appealing landscaping using stone, pavers or sidewalks--line with trees, shrubs, flowers and more
|  Chief Architect Product Comparison Which Chief Architect product best suits your needs? Review this product comparison matrix (PDF file). | 3D Models and Virtual Tours - Design in 2D and 3D. 3D Views are automatic with a point-and-click of the camera tool.
- Glass House View provides a full translucent view of your design
- Doll House View, a 3D overview without the roof, is an effective tool for space planning of furniture placement and traffic flow
- Create a Virtual Tour--draw your record line to Automatically Generate; or record your camera movements
- Visualize your home with day and night views
- Assemble a scale model of your design with Model Maker
- Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views
- Point-and-click to remove wall surfaces, or use 3D Cross-Section Elevation Slider to quickly create a 3D slice of your desired view
Site Planning & Estimating - Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped or sloped lots--use a GPS to import or enter elevation data
- Create plot and perimeter plans; automatically generate a 3D model of your actual terrain
- Make your backyard design come alive using several easy-to-use terrain and landscaping tools. Add a pool or pond and visualize in 3D.
- Fences and Driveways--With the Fencing tools you can choose a variety of fencing styles and custom gates. You will also find driveway, sidewalk and curbing tools
- Hill and Valley tools make it easy to add gardens, beds and slopes that automatically appear in 3D views. Choose from landscaping style templates or create your own.
- Cost Estimating--Don't be surprised by the cost of your project. Automatically generate a complete spreadsheet for your project costs, broken down by category. Calculate the amount of lumber for your deck or concrete required for that new patio.
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Chief Architect Software November 6, 2009 L. Lynch (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful
For the Novice,easy to get started. Very Nice to work with, even an expert would like it.
Misleading Advertising November 5, 2009 Bill R 1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought this product to get some ideas for custom home plans. The box advertises "1500 sample home plans" on it. However the "sample home plans" are all non editable and are provided via HTML web pages. They don't open up in the program, or use any portion of it. All the info that is given is a few two dimensional pictures and a one paragraph description. You can get tens of thousands of such descriptions for free on the internet. What a disappointment.
Tedious October 16, 2009 Jewels Mc (Kansas) 3 out of 9 found this review helpful
What a tedious pain in the neck this is! I just wanted to plan some landscaping, but I could spend the rest of my life just getting set up. Too labor intensive, not fun. Sure, it looks like it would be fun, but it's not. I'm going to buy a book and never open this program again.
Powerful program for the money August 30, 2009 M. Wenzel (Franksville, WI United States) 18 out of 21 found this review helpful
I bought this product this week and overall, I'm very happy with it. I'm an interior designer who already has extended experience with autocad. I've also worked with 20/20 for kitchen design and I'm familiar with Google Sketch-up, but haven't worked with it. I bought it because we're planning to build a house and I thought this would be a fun way to design our new house. I also thought it would be great to use with clients to show them 3D views of the rooms I would be designing for them. If you're familiar with autocad, this program is about the same difficulty to use and the tutorials are helpful, but don't go into too much depth. So far, I've found it easy to get started, but there are a lot of small details that you need to experiment with in order to get what you want. The best thing about this program that I've found, is it's ability to draw a 3D picture directly from a floor plan. (From my experience with Sketch-up, that program requires you to build the walls, doors, etc.) This program allows you to put windows and doors in very easily -- almost like cut & paste. Because I read quite a few reviews of this product and others, I wasn't sure if it would be as good as I would like. It's not professional, of course, but it does enough for my purposes. The only thing that I would like is if it had more furniture styles to choose from, so that if I wanted to use it with clients, I could show them a closer replica of what their room would look like. I have to experiment some more, but for now it only gives me a general idea of what the room would look like. It's a good planning tool. I'm happy with my choice. I think I got a lot of progam for a relatively small cost. One thing I would like to reiterate is that if you're not familiar with any other autocad products, you may have difficulty learning to use it.
Over my head August 22, 2009 Nancy Winjum 8 out of 23 found this review helpful
This software is obviously geared for people experienced in working with fairly complicated software and architectural design. I was merely a new homeowner who wanted to work with a basic floorplan to move around furniture, and this was way beyond that level! Some information on ease of operation as a software program, plus degree of technical expertise needed in architectural and interior design would have helped to steer me away from spending money on a program I will never be able to use!
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