Grand Designs 3D Renovation & Interiors

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• ASIN: B001FWYMKQ
• Release Date: 10 Oct 2008
  

By : Eleco
Price : £29.06

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Product DescriptionGRAND DESIGNS 3D Renovation ; Interior home design software is the perfect solution to enable you to quickly and easily visualise your home improvements before starting work. Save money by avoiding expensive mistakes, create your own designs and view them in 3D. Check that your ideas work before you commit to a design. By utilising a simple to use interface with dedicated tools for each part of a design, you can plan out and see your ideas in full 3D simply by drawing a 2D plan. Draw walls, rooms and buildings quickly and accurately with dedicated, fully customisable tools. Then add doors, windows, roofs and other features with fast drag-and-drop modules. Additional floors can be added easily, and you can even duplicate existing floors. Change measurements, scale, colour and textures at the touch of a button to create accurate scaled plans. With a single click of your mouse, enter 3D mode where you can add furniture, lighting, change the décor and take a virtual walkthrough of your building. If you are considering a diy project, some home improvements or an extension project, GRAND DESIGNS 3D software will enable you to communicate your ideas and designs.
Easy to Use Home Design Software
GRAND DESIGNS 3D software has been created to help you to design your dream home, whether you are building from scratch or improving your existing property, our home design software will help you visualise your ideas. Create multiple buildings, split levels, apartment blocks, traditional and contemporary designs or even just a single room. Use the landscaping tools to define your plot, garden and pathways. Add furniture, fittings and objects from over 4,800 items in the catalogue. Then decorate interiors and exteriors with colours, textures and materials, all added in a simple drag-and-drop interface. Once you're done, walkthrough your design in 3D to fully visualise your ideas.






Draw your plans accurately and simply in the 2D view. click to enlarge
View your designs in full 3D at any time. click to enlarge
Create scaled plans, cross sections and elevations. click to enlarge
Fully design, decorate and explore interior layouts with furniture and fittings. click to enlarge
Explore kitchen and bathroom designs to perfect your layout. click to enlarge
Design your dream home and render images with real shadow calculations. click to enlarge
2D Plans to 3D Models - In a Single Click

Draw in 2D quickly and accurately

View everything you do in 3D at the same time with a 3D preview option

Single mouse click or key press to toggle to full 3D mode

Rotate, zoom in and out and walkthrough your 3D building

Designing Your Dream Home

• Fully scaled drawings, change scale and paper size at any time
• Work in metric and imperial measurements, even swap mid-project
• Use a full range of guidelines, grids, origin and rulers to ensure your drawings are accurate
• Fully dimension floor plans, cross sections and elevations
• Display room sizes and volumes automatically
• Change wall thickness, define individual construction layers
• Flexible door and window designs, resize existing styles
• Stair editor automatically creates staircases including ceiling cut-outs
• Huge variety of roof types including automatic roof generator, roof editor and customisable settings
• Add skylights, solar panels, balconies, dormers and more

Home Improvements

• Model your existing home to actual measurements to create a starting point
• Move walls, doors and windows virtually before you try for real
• Re-arrange kitchen and bathroom fittings to see the effects of layout changes
• Add an extension or visualise a loft or garage conversion
• Generate new floors by copying existing designs
• See the effects of colour changes to walls, floors, ceilings, furniture and more before you settle on a new scheme

Interior Design

• Drag and drop colours and materials from the catalogue, add your own textures
• View the effects of lighting including shadow details and reflections
• Colour dropper allows you to select colours from an item to apply to another object
• Insert, position, edit and re-style furniture and fittings from over 4,800 items in the object catalogue
• Create kitchen and bathroom layouts, show custom tile designs and patterns
• Combine objects and elements to create new items and furniture

Exterior Design and Landscaping

• Define your plot, garden or landscape area
• Add terrain detail from simple contours through to individual height points
• Show paths, driveways, garden beds, paving, patios and lawns using the ground area tool
• Cut-away sections of ground for pools, ponds or basement entries
• Fully texture external construction with brickwork, roof tiling, woodwork and more
• Place plants, shrubs, trees, fences and other garden items
• Insert a background picture of your plot to see your design in place
• Display shadows based on the sun's position at any time and any location. Ideal for considering patios and outdoor seating areas

Easy to Get Started

• Getting started guide will help you familiarise yourself with the toolset
• Online support through forums, video tutorials, guides and UK based phone support

Key Features

• 2D and 3D design tools
• Create accurate 2D plans and photorealistic 3D views
• Walkthrough your designs in 3D
• Easy to use software complete with Getting Started manual
• Full UK based support
• Includes several Grand Designs project files for you to enjoy
• Compatible with PC running Windows XP(SP2)/Windows Vista/Windows 7

About Eleco Software LtdEleco Software Limited is a subsidiary of Eleco plc. Eleco Software Limited produce and publish a range of 3D CAD applications suitable for all levels and aspects of architectural design and visualisation

 

Grand Designs 3D Renovation & Interiors

 

Product Features

• Design templates from GRAND DESIGNS and other iconic buildings
• Easy to use interface for planning and designing
• 2D plans to 3D models in a single click
• Remodelling, extending and landscaping to create your dream home
• Drag and drop construction elements
• Create split level buildings and loft conversions
• Powerful measuring and ruler tools
• Landscaping and garden design
• 4,800 objects and 1,300 textures to apply to your project
• Block feature to create additional shaped objects not found in the catalogue
• Examine your room in detail by cutting through 2D and 3D section views
• Any 3D view can be rendered to see the effect of lighting and shadows
• 3D walk through function to move into completed projects
• Export as 2D DXF to commercial architectural packages

Customer Reviews

Hoping to upgrade my design software to one that is Windows 7 compatible, I looked forward to seeing what over 7 years of development from my last 3D Floorplan software would bring. I can't believe it could be this bad. Admittedly, I'm trying to recreate an existing house design rather than designing from scratch. But this was nearly impossible. Features that should have made it easier either don't work as advertised or not at all.
After half a day's work, I had barely got in a the walls of the plan. When I came to retrieve the plan the next day, walls had disappeared at random. My backup copies also showed walls missing but different walls! Exasperating!
Icons are ludicrously small on my screen making choosing doors, windows or other objects an effort of fine mouse control. I tried for ages to rotate an object without finding a way in the 2D mode. I could sometimes do so in the 3D view but not easily. The Help was useless. Suggesting options that simply weren't in the toolbar.
To try and change a wall, for example requires a major effort. In my previous software I could simply drag the whole side of a room or even house to increase the size while showing the measurements. Trying to get measurements of rooms was an effort.
Snap! Don't get me started. No matter what option I chose out of the plethora in the options, 'Snap' insisted on staying on. Meaning walls could not be fine tuned to exact measurements.
Am I going to persist? I've tried designing something from scratch. Plain annoying. I've tried starting with one of the pre-made designs; Frustrating! I've tried to watch one of the tutorials, which have more in common with Monty Python's 'How to Play the Flute' than serious training.
So when I have more time and nothing serious I need to achieve, I'll give it a few hours more. But seriously, I got my complete plan done in Powerpoint in less time than it took to get a toilet to rotate in this package.
This product needs serious consumer testing and feedback.

If you're great at sitting down and reading a 100 page manual before diving into something then you may find it a bit easier but both myself and my mum (whom I got it for) really struggled with this product.
The interface is awkard to use and the learning curve is very very steep for someone who's just looking for a tinker around for fun. It also seems to only allow one computer install so if you upgrade your pc, chances are you'll not be able to use this software again as its already used its one licence activation. Not good.
However it does seem that if you get the hang of it, there's lots to do, but search me if I could get to grips with it!

 

Grand Designs 3D Renovation & Interiors