Architect 3D is a Home Design application that allows you to design, equip and decorate your home and garden in 3D. Design your creative project step by step and room by room, from the basement to the loft space. Draw up plans of your house, equip your interior and exterior areas and add your own personal touch to your living space. A virtual tour and extremely realistic 3D rendering allow you to review the results. Architect 3D nexGen™ Express brings you all the professional tools you need to design your home and garden.


Functionalities
Creation & Design:
Create your house in 3D, from the basement to the loft space: kitchen, living room, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.
Furnish your rooms using a 3D furniture library containing more than 2,600 objects
Design your garden and the topography of your land

Tour & view:
Design your plans and visit your future home!
Walk through each room of your new home
Generate plans to create a 3D paper model
View the bare-bones structure and technical plans of the house: framing, beams, plumbing, heating, ventilation and electricity

Management & Advice:
Advanced cost estimation tool: automatically calculates your expenses
Green Tips module to help you save energy and money!

Product Highlights
Complete: Design your entire house and garden: rooms, foundations, furniture, openings, etc.
Simple: Recognition of Architect 3D's quality and glowing reports in the press (No. 1 in Micro Hebdo, Micro Actuel and PC Mag).
A product suitable for beginners wishing to tackle the details of their project or people with a basic grasp of the concepts
Universal: Architect 3D runs on the most widely used PC operating systems, including Windows® Vista™ and Windows 7. Architect 3D is also compatible with the most widely used 3D design tools (AutoCad®, 3DS Studio Max, etc.)

Latest Updates
SmartWand: apply a material to a surface, similar surfaces in the room or the entire house with a mouse click.
Visual Array: define a spacing distance and add an evenly spaced row of objects in the drawing.
ProjecTape: measuring tool that gives you real time measurements between surfaces as you move it around your drawing.
Decorator defaults: define default colours and materials for different objects in your drawing: floors, ceilings, walls, stairs, countertops, deck, window and door trim, and more.
Import Background: easily import images to use as a backdrop in 3D renders.
Preview added to QuickStart: open up a 3d view of the QuickStart layout.
RoomView: select a room(s) in 2D and get an instant aerial view.
Room Addition: add a room addition to the perimeter of the house.
QuickPalette: customisable sets of materials and colours that can be applied to a room instantly.
Room Estimating: Estimator now also does estimating by rooms to help with your remodeling or decorating projects.
New Leader dimension tool : when you click on an object in the drawing, it will automatically insert the text for you and let you define a custom name for your object.
Save 2D plan to image: Share your 2D easily by exporting it to a 2D image (bmp, jpeg, png, tiff).

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- Windows 8, Windows 7, XP (32-bit and 64-bit) or Vista
- 1 GHz Pentium Processor or equivalent
- 512MB RAM
- 5.5GB free hard disk space
- 3D Video card (1024*768 min 32-bit)