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robmunach
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
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Location: Pittsboro, NC
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 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:49 am Post subject: Slightly OT: Cheap Home Design Software |
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My wife wants to design our future new house. On our last house, she used 3D Home Architect on the PC. It is an object oriented system that worked fairly well for $50. I then drew the strucutural plans on Powercadd. Since we don't have acess to a PC anymore, are ther any similar Mac programs for less than $100? I tried running 3D Home Architect on VPC and it was waaay tooo slow to be worthwhile.
Thanks,
Rob Munach
(PC6 User)
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John Cruet
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
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Location: Guilford, CT
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Design Your own Homeis one such program, it runs in Classic.
FYI, I use Vectorworks for my 3D representations (hold the tomatoes, please!  ) as I find it just as easy to use as the dedicated home design programs and more flexible.
I don't like VW's 2D interface at all. That's why I use PowerCadd. As a result, my entire presentation winds up on PowerCadd, with the model being constructed in Vectorworks.
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G4/733 w/1028 mb RAM & OS 10.4.10, Classic-free, skuzzy-free (runs PC7)
MacBook Pro 2G Intel core duo 2 gig RAM & OS 10.5.4.
PowerCadd 8, WT 9
Canon iP710 printer
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robmunach
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I have a copy of Vectorworks, but I feel it is still too complicated for my Wife to use. I agree, that the 2D portion of it is awful (compared to PCADD, anyhow)
Take Care,
Rob
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robmunach
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FWIW, I just tried a copy of Abracdata 3d home walkthru.
It is very diffcult to use, will not auto dimension and will only handle single story buidlings. I am going to have to return it. VW11 may be the way fro me to go.
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