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Chief Architect Architectural Home Designer 9.0 Full Windows Download
Create Your Dream Home...
Chief Architect Architectural Home Designer provides an advanced yet easy to use set of tools for Home Design, Remodeling, Interior Design, Kitchens, Baths, Decks, Landscaping, Site Planning and Cost Estimation.
Exclusive All-in-One Home Design Solution
Choose from over 2,500 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
Artistic rendering techniques for Watercolor, Glass House™ and Technical Illustration
Get Started Quickly and Easily
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 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 40 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project
Kitchen and Bath Design
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.
Interior Design
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.
Import your own symbols from 3D files types including .SKP, .OBJ and .3DS
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 3,600 plants with the Plant Chooser™
Plant Hardiness Zone reference maps
See what your plants will look like in 0 – 20 years
Pathways – Use the Pathway tool to design curb-appealing landscaping using stone, pavers, or sidewalks – line with trees, shrubs, flowers and more
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. Choose other Artistic rendering techniques for Watercolor and Technical Illustration views.
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.
Sprinkler Designer™ tools to easily layout sprinkler zones
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.
New Features in Architectural Home Designer 9.0
Ability to Add 3D Objects to the Library Browser
Ability to Export Custom Libraries - Export libraries in a zipped format and share with other Home
Designer Users
Updated library browser makes arranging and organizing library objects easy
Improved Speed for Library Searches
500+ New Library Items to customize your designs
Rotate Previews in the Library Browser to examine items before you place them in your plan
Enhanced editing feedback - preview the placement and orientation of objects while moving your cursor
makes adding and moving items easy and fast
Generate a custom editable countertop from cabinets that are already in the plan
Ability to display the countertop edge in relation to the cabinet in plan views
Default controls for Soffits - preset size and color to your design needs
Cabinet Countertop layer allows separate control of countertop display in 2D and 3D
Use layers to control the display of labels in plan views - Architectural Blocks, Cabinets, Electrical,
Fixtures, Furniture, Shapes, Hardware, Millwork, Plants, and Sprinklers
Show or hide Electrical Connections, Architectural Blocks, Hardware, Schedules, and Light Sources
using layer controls
The Vector View Rendering Technique allows you to create professional looking line drawings for any
part of your design
New Artistic Rendering Styles - Watercolor and Technical Illustration, for non-photo realistic rendering
views
Enhanced Texture Filtering gives you smoother, higher quality renderings when you create 3D views
Create Rendered Cross-Section and Elevation Views with photo-realistic textures
Elevation and Cross-Section cameras show the foundation in the view - see your basement, slab, or
crawlspace in a section view
Change the size of lights and electrical objects - height, width, and depth
Record Walkthroughs with the stylized views of Rendering Techniques
Rich Text tools allow varying formats, colors, and fonts in a body of text
Use Edit Area to select, move, edit, and copy entire regions of your design
Use the Move to Front tool to control the display of stacked objects in plan view
Plant Schedules - Generate a list of all the plants used in your design
Distribute Objects in Garden Beds - fill in your garden planting automatically
Show plants with filled colors in your 2D landscape design
New plant symbol types allow you to customize the look and feel of your landscape and plants
Lock and Reset the aspect ratio for plants and images - choose to stretch or resize plants and images
based on your design needs
Download Additional library catalogs from www.homedesignersoftware.com in the V9 format
Compatible with Chief Architect® Version X2
Online Training Tutorials with "How-To" videos
Searchable Training Videos - use keywords to find exactly the help you need
Windows 7 / Vista / XP Compatible
Chief Architect 2010 Technology
System Requirements:
Windows® 7 / Vista / XP
2.4GHz processor Recommended
5 GB of available disk space
2 GB of Memory
DVD drive
Video card with 128 MB for Windows 7/XP; 256 MB Windows for Vista
Internet for software activation & training video access
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