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Smile Store - Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 8.0
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List Price: $99.99
Our Price: $99.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Chief Architect
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Chief Architect
EAN: 0750839011554
Feature: Home Design, Remodeling, Decks, Landscaping, Kitchens & Baths, Interior Design, Cost Estimating
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Chief Architect
Manufacturer: Chief Architect
Model: HS80-DN-0AZ1
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Chief Architect
Release Date: 2008-03-01
Studio: Chief Architect
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Features
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Home Design, Remodeling, Decks, Landscaping, Kitchens & Baths, Interior Design, Cost Estimating
Automatic Building Tools--Roofs, Stairs, Doors, Windows, Framing, Foundations and more
Design Planning Center
Material Painter--point-and-click colors for walls, floors, countertops and more
Create Your Custom Kitchen with 1,000's of Cabinet Combinations
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Editorial Reviews:
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For a fun and advanced, yet easy-to-use set of tools for Home Design, Better Homes And Gardens Home Designer Suite 8 is the perfect solution. Use it for remodeling, interior design, kitchens, baths, decks, landscaping and cost estimation. Powerful, Fun and Easy Home Design Software
Custom cabinets, sinks, showers and garden tubs in 3D Inspirational photos by room or type Thousands of colors and textures or create your own materials with a digital picture Deck and patio tools Design single or multi-level decks with automatic deck framing Deck foundations automatically generate to match sloped lots Plant Encyclopedia - Over 1,500 plants Pathway tool - design curb-appealing landscaping using stone, pavers or sidewalks Design in 2D & 3D Glass House View - a translucent view of your design Doll House View - a 3D overview without the roof Create a Virtual Tour Day and night views Assemble a scale model of your design Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools - 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 Easy-to-use terrain and landscaping tools - Add a pool or pond and visualize in 3D Fencing tools - a variety of fencing styles, custom gates, driveways, sidewalks and curbing tools Hill and Valley tools - add gardens, beds and slopes that automatically appear in 3D Cost Estimating
Minimum System Requirements Windows XP/Vista 1.2 GHz processor 2 GB of available disk space 512 MB of Memory on XP 1 GB of Memory on Vista DVD drive
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome, and worth the Money!!
Comment: I am a girl who is very interested in architectural things, when I once played "The Sims"TM I realized I just had to get a cad software for designing. It is very good to design your dream home, or simply design a room or a kitchen. It has pretty good graphics, even though I think that the could have done their foliage better. I was so excited when my dad bought it for me for a graduaton present. When most kids were getting software, I was getting software. Eventhough I was going to get a cellphone anyway, which I stll haven't gotten. This program is worth the money please buy! note that it does not have elevators. If a thing that pops up and says update available for the product,I downloaded it, and nothing happened, all it does is gives a few more things. If you go on the website, you might find a couple of update things, for 7.0 and 8.0 I tried downloading a 7.0 it didn't work, but the updates are really cool. I have Windows XP and the software works great! If your looking into this I'd buy it, and I submitted 4 of the customer images.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 8.0
Comment: Have just tried one structure - an outdoor pavilion. This product is definitely geared toward traditional applications. Try to do anything "outside the box" and you are in for a long session trying to find creative ways around standard commands and insertable, pre-developed architectural elements. If you have any CAD experience at all, it is frustrating to not be able to just create your plan from scratch. Cannot seem to save file to file type that is compatible with my plotter. Consider your options carefully before purchase.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Love the program! Well worth the money and the time! Seller was fantastic! Item arrived in record time!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Tool
Comment: This software tool is so much more efficient than pencil and paper. While someehat difficult to learn, it seems to have have all the features for basic design work.
Customer Rating:
Summary: very poorly organized
Comment: I spent 2 or 3 nights on this product, and watched a few of the tutorial videos and will probably throw this away. I don't have the attention span or the time to dive in and learn how to use it - and I'm a computer professional. They should have had a checklist - step 1, step 2, etc. but instead there are these videos to watch and programs in 2 different installs. I thought the "wizard" would be a good place to start (how about telling us where to start?) designing a basic floorplan but got stuck in that and didn't ever figure out how to move on. Several of the options I tried (for instance, to convert my 2-d to a 3-d plan) did nothing so must have required something but didn't give me a clue what it needed. If I kept playing with this product I might accidentally learn how to get something useful out of it but it is much more time than I care to spend.
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