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Comments (13)Warning, do not purchase 3D Home Architect version 5.0 For years 3D Home Architect was made for Broderbund by the company that makes the professional design program Cheif Architect. The program received glowing reviews based on its ease of use. For some reason (probably money) Broderbund decided to go with a completely different company to develop version 5.0 I purchased version 5.0 based on the reviews I had read for earlier versions and was seriously disappointed. It was slow, difficult to use (and I'm a computer programmer by trade), and would crash frequently. Also there are certain relatively basic features that it just can't handle. Cathedral ceilings? Too bad. Windows above other windows? Too bad. Unusual roof line? Too bad. The worst of it for me was that my main reasonfor purchasing it was to visualize different configurations for the new kitchen and different color schemes and materials. Well for the most part the program only displays a wireframe version of the 3D design. It does allow you to "Render" a full color 3D version of the design, but takes 5 to 10 seconds to draw the image (when I know that the hardware ought to be able to render the entire design 60 times each second.) and the image it produces is so cartoonishly textured that you can forget any sort of subtle tweaks to evaluate the looks created by different woods or different materials. Please do yourself a favor and do no buy 3D Home Architect version 5.0...See MoreWhich option to pick and can someone with 3D software help visual
Comments (11)Ok, two votes for one and two for the other? This is just about where I started :) But somehow it helps anyway to get the different opinions. rhome, thanks for your offer, if you can do it in any nearest future it would be great (and I promise, no big expectations). If you can't, not a problem. I am already amazed at the input you are able to provide here while raising such a big family. as far as malhgold's idea, I love open shelving in kitchens in magazine photos. But in our case I think we'd give up too much practical storage if we changed that cabinet to open shelves and the adjacent cabinets to glass. It would limit us to dishes in all three. With wood doors, i could have my everyday dishes in the cabinet to the right of the sink and any other kitchen items in the cabinet to the left. Another concern is dust since we wouldn't have items we use and clean daily on the upper shelf above the sink. So whatever goes there would have to be dusted regularly. Also we have those other glass cabs on the other side, so it could end up being too much glass all together. So as you cal tell I sort of talked myself out of that idea. And I did check the 12" cabinets, they are 10.5 deep inside and i've taken my plates and pots down there for a "trial fit". Also, we may be able to move the lower cabs out by 0.75" and make the uppers 13" and 10" deep which would be great. I just have to confirm with the KD after the final measurement they did this week that we have enough room by the basement door....See MorePlan 3D Home Design for Homeowners
Comments (4)I "bought" and used Plan3D for designing my kitchen remodel a few years ago. I had previously purchased Broderbund 3D Home Architect (version 5) which was slow, buggy, and unusable to the point that I simply threw it out. One of my many complaints about it (3D Home Architect) was that you could only edit your design in a 2D overhead view, drafting mode, and to see the results in 3D you needed to wait 15 sec. while the program slowly rendered a single 3D view. Plan 3D pros: * Plan3D not only allows real-time 3D rendering including interactive 3D walkthroughs, but it even allows you to edit the design in the 3D view. * Well designed user interface that makes it fairly easy to do the common tasks that users are most likely to want to do, without also making less common user needs impossible. * If you are not happy with the textures available for the objects in your design, (for instance I wanted quarter-sawn oak) you can find use any image you want and easily used that as the texture for the object in question. * Although its kindof gimmicky, the ability to open and close doors on the models in the program allowed me to see whether the doors would interfere with one another or impede traffic flow when open. * Realistic enough rendering that you get a good sense of how the end result will look (see images below) Plan 3D cons: * Their wacky pay-as-you-go pricing model. * If your internet connection goes out, you cannot start the program. * Although their online downloadable distribution model allows them to easily push out upgrades, bug-fixes, and new models and objects, I never noticed any of the bugs that vewed me being fixed or any new models. * Very hard to make and edit complex shapes for floors and counters, especially when trying to approximate a curve. After finishing the remodel (mostly) and taking a bunch of pictures, I went back to the Plan3D design and took snapshots from the same view points:...See MoreTweak this 3d color landscape design
Comments (20)No, not get rid of palms. At one end of bed is palm cluster. At other end of bed is agave cluster. These create balance for each others mass. I say "clusters" because only one of a plant in the landscape (one agave or one palm) usually looks skimpy or weak. Avoid too much variety and small amounts of things. Better to have less variety and larger things (or amounts of things conjoined in a cluster.) Why is there a need to "play with the height"? Pick a proper height (a goal ... not a installed height) to begin with be done with it. Many shrubs can be trimmed at varying heights if one picks the proper plant for that range. Or ... use a groundcover type plant that automatically terminates at the proper height so there is no top trimming. Those are the choices. Don't know what height will give proper privacy? Place a stick at each end of the proposed bed area and connect them with a ribbon or flagging tape. Set the ribbon at various heights and observe each from a distance and location where it will matter to you. Keep changing the height until you're satisfied that it's the height that will give you the privacy you're looking for. At each stick measure the distance from ground to where the ribbon is attached. If the bed surface soil will be mounded at all, take that into account in your calculations....See MoreAndrew T Boyne Architect
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