Type of Interiors Designer Software Specification

Chief Architect Home Designer Interiors

 

Everyone enjoys a comfortable and attractive living space. Chief Architect Home Designer Interiors 2016 helps you turn any apartment or house into a home that reflects your personal style. Use it to plan the interior of your newly purchased home, build furniture layouts for your apartment or modernize finishes in your kitchen or bathroom. This home design software has an extensive feature list that rivals professional design packages, but it comes with plenty of free training and support, so you're never overwhelmed.

This software gives you the tools you need to handle general design tasks or the special requirements of unique rooms like bathrooms or kitchens. The design software allows you to:

• Use virtual graph paper to create accurate scale floor plans
• Adjust windows, doors and walls to visualize remodeled rooms
• Complete your kitchen or bath with cabinets and appliances from the built-in object library
• Import more objects into this home design software from the free online library
• Create personalized colors and textures from your own photos
• Generate materials lists and cost estimates from final plans

Flexible Visualization Options

Chief Architect Home Designer Interiors 2016 provides multiple ways to view your finished plans so you can see exactly how your new room is going to look and make any needed adjustments. The following views give you unique insights:

• Virtual walk through mode creates a movie-like tour of your room
• Glass house view highlights spatial relationships
• Dollhouse mode displays the current floor without a ceiling
• Watercolor view shows an artistic rendering of your project

Ongoing Support

Tackling renovation projects can be daunting, but home design software won't be one of the challenges you face. This package comes with plenty of support and learning options, including:

• Free online training videos and webinars
• Free technical support

System Requirements

This interior design software is available for Mac and Windows computers. It has the following system requirements:

• Windows 7, 8 or 10 with 2GB (32-bit) or 4GB (64-bit) of RAM, 5GB of hard disk space, a 2.4GHz or multicore processor and a 512MB video card that supports OpenGL 2.1 or newer
• Mac OS X 10.9 or newer with 4GB (64-bit) of RAM, 5GB of hard disk space and a 2.4GHz or multicore processor
• Internet access for license authentication and online library functions
• Creating your own interior design or home renovation project lets you personalize your living space. Let Chief Architect Home Designer Interiors 2016 help you achieve your design goals and create your perfect home.

Top CAD Software For Interior Designers

Undoubtedly  CAD software has become today an essential part of Interior Design business. If several decades ago it was impossible to imagine Interior Designer who cannot draw, today it becomes reality: more and more Interior Design students do all renderings by means of CAD software. We can discuss long hours the downside of this phenomenon and the benefits of ability to produce hand drawn renderings, however this is not the subject of this article.

If you look at job vacancies, you will see that even to get an Internship in the company, an Interior Design student is expected to have perfect CAD skills. We can like it or not but CAD is a must thing to learn nowadays to stay competitive on the market. However, many professionals are actually stuck with the choice of software as there are so many available. This article is aimed to review all popular programs used today in order to help you to make the right choice. It is based on several opinions of real interior designers and architects and covers main pros and cons of each program.

Some programs are more sophisticated and will require to attend special courses or hire a tutor to understand the principles of it. Other programs are quite easy and you can actually learn them by yourself. There are a lot of books and online courses available, for example lynda.com, where you will need to pay a monthly fee to get access to tutorials and then study them at your own pace.

Live Interior 3D

Wonderful Interior Design App for professionals created by Belight Software, which is very easy to learn and can be a great alternative to expensive CAD software. After watching introductory tutorials available on the developer’s website you will be able to make the full use of this app.  While there are two versions available – basic and Pro, I strongly recommend you to go for a Pro version, to enjoy such extensive features, as the ability to design unlimited number of stories, niches and wall cutouts, export images in high resolution, add a light source to any object and advanced material editor. 

 

Archicad

3D model in ArchiCad

As the name suggests this software was created mainly for architects, thus mainly focuses on their needs. It is perfect for creating architectural plans, elevations and sections.
Pros
2) Quick and simple to use, straightforward, no hidden settings
3) Great for creating technical drawings
4) Includes PDF maker
5) Allows to see changes made in 2D format to instantly see in 3D model
6) New Morph tool of the latest version (ArchiCad 16) allows to create complex geometrical forms
7) Large library of BIM components (Interior Design objects)
8) Choice of MAC or Windows
Cons
1) Expensive
2) Arhicad 16 is quite difficult to learn for new users
3) Limited possibilities for creating non standard objects with complex geometry (this was improved in the latest version by introducing Morph tool)
4) Lack of single key commands