Chief Architect Home Designer 9.0

Fun and Easy Home Design Software

Chief Architect Home Designer 9.0 can help you with the basics to design, remodel or add landscaping to your home. With over 4,000 items you can create your perfect design.   Creating your dream home has never been so easy with Home Designer. Choose from one of over 500 sample plans to inspire your ideas or build your own!  Make your remodeling ideas come to life with the built-in 3D visualization tools. Experiment and create models and virtual tours in minutes. Arrange walls, windows, doors, decks, and then automatically generate 3D models you can visualize at any angle. Powerful building and remodeling tools include automatic roof generation, foundations, stairs, Plan Check, and more. – No Design Experience Needed!

• Home Design
• Remodeling
• Interior Design
• Kitchens and Baths
• Decks
• Landscaping

Get Started Quickly and Easily

• Includes step-by-step tutorial online training videos

• How-to tutorials based on the type of project

• House Wizard with drag-and-drop room layout

• Select from the pre-designed Home Design Style Templates

3D Models and Virtual Tours

• Create and take a Virtual Tour of your home

• Import your own digital photos

• Design in both 2D and 3D

• Toggle Day and Night Views

• Advanced 3D camera tools: Glass House, Doll House, and Final View for truly photo-realistic 3D images

• 3D Doll House Views – easily toggle in 3D between floors

Doors and Windows

• Insert doors and windows with One-Click

• Door styles: interior, exterior, sliding, french, pocket, bi-fold, and garage doors

• Window styles: interior, exterior, single and double hung, sliding, casement, corner, recessed, bay, box, bow, and more

• Customize windows and doors with lites, sashes, casings, and shutters

• Window treatments, custom curtains, and blinds

• Skylights

Cabinet Designer Tools

• Over 1,000 cabinet combinations to choose from – customize using unlimited styles and colors

• Define doors, drawers, countertops, and more

• Create base, wall, full height, corner cabinets, partitions, shelves, and soffits

• Add cabinet details: hinges, handles, and pulls

• Add appliances – ovens, ranges, refrigerators, hoods, and more

Automatic Building Tools

• Automatically generate roofs, framing, dimensioning, and foundations

• Automatic framing for floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, and decks

• Automatically create a full 3D overview of framing plans

• Plan Check automatically checks your designs

• Change the size, location, opening, and swing for doors and windows

• Automatically place electrical outlets with One-Click

Deck Designer Tools

• Auto-generate decks with the Deck Railing Tool

• Free-standing, post-and-beam, tiered, and multi-story decks

• Full deck framing with the click of a single button

Landscaping

• Over 500 plants in the Library

• Design landscaping plans in 2D and 3D

Design Tools

• Material Painter – point-and-click colors and textures for walls, floors, countertops, and more

• Control of material appearance, change the color of a material simply and easily – like changing the color of siding, decking, fabrics, and other materials

• Material Eyedropper – choose your own or manufacturer colors and textures

• Choose popular colors or create your own with Color Chooser

• Import your own custom colors or materials from a digital photo or website

Colors, Materials, Textures

• Choose popular colors or create your own with Color Chooser

• Import your own custom colors or materials from a digital photo or website

• Quickly visualize colors and textures for walls, floors, countertops, and more

Roof Designer Tools

• Generate roofs automatically

• Hip, gable, salt box, dormers, gambrel, mansard, and other popular roof styles

• Step-by-step instructions to create the various styles of roofs

• Customize roof pitches and overhangs

• Cathedral/vaulted ceilings and attics

Floor Plans

• Create accurately scaled floor plans

• Print 3D scaled models with the Model Maker

• Generate new floors automatically based on your current floor plan design

• Over 500 sample floor plans

• Windows XP, Vista, 7
• 2.4 GHz processor or higher
• 2 GB of RAM
• 5 GB of Hard Disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• High-speed Internet for registration and video access
• Dedicated Video Card with 256 MB supporting Open GL 2.0