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IMSI FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite Version 10

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 : IMSI FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite Version 10

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: IMSI Design
EAN: 0730526355895
Format: CD-ROM
Label: IMSI
Manufacturer: IMSI
Model: 10014
MPN: 00-fp35-10dc
Platform: Windows NT 4, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Publisher: IMSI
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Studio: IMSI

Features:
  • Tools for customizing, visualizing, and planning home-design projects
  • Over 1,000 customizable home plans; online 3-D kitchen showroom
  • 1900 pre-drawn 3-D symbols; design and edit in 2-D and 3-D
  • New LightWorks 7.4 photo-realistic 3-D rendering technology
  • New QuickTime Viewer to take virtual tour of design in 3-D



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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
FloorPlan 3D Design Suite 10 is a superior collection of tools for customizing, visualizing, and planning entire home-design projects -- from concept to completion. Work with over 1,000 customizable home plans, online 3D kitchen showroom & 1900 pre-drawn 3D symbols. It's also got an option to design and edit in 2D and 3D. View your design in stunning realism with gorgeous, realistic 3D walkthrough.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Should come with a bottle of Tylenol
If you enjoy suffering this is the home design software for you. You can get it to produce something eventually, but you will put in hours trying to get the software to do what you want and have to give up on getting it do other things it says it does. I initially purchased Version 9 and nearly tore my hair out trying to do layout for a house remodeling we were working on. I'm in the computer business so I'm used to battling with bad software to get it to work and wasn't going to let this package ... Read More



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Great if you have previous experience...
Not as user friendly as say the Better Homes and Garden home designer, but it does convert to CAD. Takes a lot of patience that I didn't have.



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Don't buy if you have used anything more expensive
I used this "suite" to attempt to design houses for a Habitat for Humanity affiliate. If all you are looking for is a pretty "flyover" of an unrefined house design, this might work. As far as creating a working drawing with enough detail to build off of, this is not the program.

My biggest problem with the software is that you have to export the drawing from FloorPlan to an included CAD program (TurboCAD) and then mark it up with dimensions, etc. If you want to move a window 3 inches, ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - IMSI FloorPlan 3D Advantage over Punch Architect 4000
I own both the IMSI (FloorPlan 3D Version 5) and Punch (Architect 4000) software titles, and the following are my own conclusions. I have no vested interest in either manufacturer. I have a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, and have taught interactive computer graphics, so I guess I am more than usually familiar with computers and design.

I designed my previous home using the IMSI package, and after using it to capture the design, I passed it along to a draftsman to create drawings ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - It will do the job if you invest the time
I have been using Floor Plan 3d since version 3. I have tried all of the other software in its price class and I like this one the best. It takes some getting used to but once you know its quirks (read bugs) and find something to do while it is rendering (it can be really slow) it can be very useful. I have designed two major remodeling plans (over $300k each) with this software. The 3D capability allowed me to evision what I wanted. Then once I was finished with my plans, I gave them to my contractor ... Read More