Broderbund 3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe 6 OLD VERSION
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Broderbund 3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe 6 OLD VERSION
3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe makes planning your dream home a pleasure, instead of a chore. Floor plans, remodeling or working on additions is problems at all for this software. Begin planning the perfect home with software like that used by real architects & designers! Budgeting tools and materials lists make it possible for you to break ground with confidence Landscaping and garden modeling tools are included — create a beautiful yard to compliment the home of your dreams!
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Just fine for $13.50
Got it today. It is a little clunky, and you have to be patient when using “duplicate”, etc, but I have the first floor about done, and it works okay. Has stopped once but no big deal, just leave auto-save on. Have not used stuff like this before. It will really help my wife picture things. It isn’t real intuitive, but it suffices. The help menu and index is sparse. The views are okay, but the rotation in 3D is slow on this 1.X gigahertz 500MB ram 64MB video card machine. Good night. I hope to have my house plans done within a week.
Update after several weeks: still same opinion. Works, decent graphics, and my wife did appreciate the opportunity to view what things ‘might’ look like, so the rendering was acceptable. I would recommend to someone who is just wanting to visualize a home, and maybe play a little with sizing up rooms, re-locating doors and windows, etc.
1 Star User hostile program!
I began using 3D Home Architect years ago and found I could do most anything I wanted with version 4 deluxe. Then I tried this POS, which is as user-hostile as any program I’ve ever encountered. Not intuitive, takes ages to set up defaults to make it do what you want it to do, pitiful documentation and tech support, not able to import plans from previous versions (even using the industry standard DFX files - but the did warn me). Version 4 and earlier were written by Chief Architect; later versions by Punch Software. Go try something by CA, like Better Homes & Gardens Home Designer. The only reason I gave this product 1 star is because there is no lower rating!
4 Stars He loves it!
Ordered this for my fiance’s birthday. It arrived just on time, and he loves it!
3 Stars Powerful But Buggy
The most powerful of the consumer level design applications. Lots and lots of capability, but the bugs will drive you crazy. Walls disappear, cabinets stretch to infinity, the roof building feature will make you cut your wrists. Views add levels to themselves unbidden. Lots of hard reboots. They should have left in the capabilities and fixed the bugs, instead of dumbing down subsequent versions.
1 Star Absolutely awful
In a word. CRASH!!
The only thing good was Amazon gave me a full refund.
Dont waste your time on it.
