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Chief Architect Home Designer Pro 9.0 Upgrade Windows Download
Professional Home Design Software
Chief Architect Home Designer Pro 9.0 is professional home design software for the serious home enthusiast. Enjoy the same tools that the professionals use for home design, remodeling, interior design, decks, landscaping and cost estimation.
Home Designer Pro has all the same great features as Architectural Home Designer, Interior Designer, Landscaping and Deck Designer plus advanced CAD tools, advanced building tools, the ability to create blueprints, manual framing and roofing and much more.
Designing like a Professional has never been so Easy!
Professional Home Design and Landscape Software
Create accurately scaled floor plans that automatically generate 3D models in minutes. Create any detailed view of your design using advanced 3D camera tools like Glass House™, Doll House™, Framing, Elevation and Cross-Sections.
– Create the Virtual Look and Feel Before You Build!
Home Design Software by Chief Architect
Choose from over 5,000 Sample Plans
Choose from built-in style templates or 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
Integrated Design Tools
Home Designer Pro makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas on your next home or remodeling project with over 8,000 powerful integrated tools. Use the automated building tools to assist you in your design process. The tools have commonly accepted defaults for most building practices to help you in your home design projects.
Get Started Quickly and Easily
The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on your type of 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 80 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project
3D Design Tools
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.
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
Automated and Manual Building Tools
Design roofs and walls in 3D
Generate various styles of Automatic roofs or manually design any custom roof including curved roofs
Use the Automatic Dormer tool to quickly place dormers – shed, gable, eyebrow and barrel
Automatic Structural Dormers
Unblock and manually edit Automatic Dormers
Create any custom roof or ceiling plan with the Roof Design Tools. Edit and create roof planes to create a roof of any pitch and shape. Start with an automatic roof and then add custom details, or create the entire roof manually.
Automatic framing tools
Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts and more
Choose from several built-in wall styles with individual wall layers or define your own wall style
Ability to read and edit files by Chief Architect® Full Professional Software
ICC Residential Design Checklist will allow you to check your plan against national building codes
Kitchen and Bath Design
Design the kitchen of your dreams – move walls, create new cabinets, add appliances – Design your perfect workspace!
Design your new kitchen or bath using the Cabinet Designer™ tools
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
Use the Cabinet Designer™ tools to create unlimited cabinet styles. Choose your own colors, countertops and door styles.
Design and edit custom countertop shapes and styles
Interior Design
Smart Design Objects, Drag-and-drop from thousands of design objects in the built-in Library organized by category
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 file types including .SKP, .OBJ and .3DS
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 and an advanced deck framing option for more complicated deck designs
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
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
Export Material List to spreadsheet programs including Microsoft® Excel
Save snapshot Material Lists for different stages of the project
Add detail to each individual component in the material list for a comprehensive cost estimate breakdown
Master Materials List allows you to store and manage commonly used material prices
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.
Define Terrain Elevation lines, Elevation Regions and Terrain Breaks
CAD Tools
Powerful CAD tools to detail cross-section views with insulation, cross-boxes and more
Advanced CAD editing tools such as replicate, line weights, point-to-point move, custom patterns and more (Compatible with AutoCAD® patterns)
CAD-to-Walls™ allows you to convert CAD lines from DXF file format to walls
Layers can be used to separate key building components such as electrical or framing. Display or hide features of your design, set colors, lock layers and use reference layers for precise editing.
Create Back-Clipped Cross Section/Elevation Views to limit your view to relevant details for precise plan editing
Building Tools
Customize construction methods for walls, floors, ceilings and foundations. Identify the exact placement of framing components, specify wall layers, floor structure platform height, mudsills and more.
Advanced stair tools allow control of shape, starter treads, flaring, tread width and more
Create pony walls and edit wall shape or create a stepped foundation in cross-section view
Multiple-select editing. For example, select all your cabinets and change them all with one command.
Use callouts to reference between details, plans and cross-sections in a blueprint layout
Create blueprint layouts (up to Architectural C drawings 18" x 24") with 3D, CAD, Cross-Section/Elevation and Plan Views
Rotate and Flip Plan
Advanced dimensioning tools include angular, end-to-end and interior dimensions
Fully editable dimension lines and configurable dimension editing allow you to change where dimensions locate walls, windows, doors and other objects
New Features in Home Designer Pro 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
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
Automatic Framing - update your framing instantly as the design changes
Specify the size and style (In Line, Stagger, or Cross) of Roof Blocking and Bridging
Rich Text tools allow varying formats, colors, and fonts in a body of text
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:
Operating system: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Processor: 2.4GHz recommended
Storage: 5 GB of available disk space
RAM: 2 GB
Optical drive: DVD drive
Video: Dedicated Video Card with 256MB supporting Open GL 2.0
Internet connection: For software activation & training video access
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