Using interior design computer tools, designers can test out their options.
Interior design computer tools are three-dimensional software programs that allow amateur and professional designers to visualize home décor ideas before putting them into practice. Generally, users create a floor plan and populate it with virtual furniture and appliances, allowing them to play with and customize design ideas before putting forth the physical effort required to execute the final plan. These programs run across Windows and Mac operating systems and come from a variety of developers.
plan3D
According to its official website, plan3D is a three-dimensional interior design software tool. With this tool, users create room layouts--including kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms and more--to which they add doors, interior and exterior walls, windows, cabinets and more. Once the room is assembled using a drag and drop interface, designers add thousands of three-dimensional furniture models and appliances, all with customizable colors, sizes, shapes, fabrics and textures. This database of furniture is constantly updated via online download. Users arrange and customize room options to virtually execute and consider interior design options. The plan3D design tool runs on Windows 7, XP, Vista and 2000 operating systems. At the software's official website, users may download the tool and subscribe to its update service.
Interior Designer
Architectural and design software company Chief Architect Software presents Interior Designer as part of its home design suite. This tool uses detailed three-dimensional graphics to simulate the decorating ideas of the user. Designers use the House Wizard option to select from pre-designed templates, which can be customized to personal taste. Once users create a floor plan--consisting of walls, windows, doors, cabinets and more--they add furniture and accessories (available in pre-made matching groups) via 3-D models. Thousands of these furniture and appliance models replicate actual name brand options. The Material Painter and Color Chooser tools allow users to customize flooring, furniture, countertops and more--users can use digital photographs to further customize these options. Chief Architect offers Interior Designer for downloadable purchase at its official website.
Live Interior 3D
From BeLight Software comes digital interior design tool Live Interior 3D: The Art of Home Design. According to the software's official website, Live Interior 3D allows users to visualize interior design ideas in a virtual three-dimensional environment. Once designed, users may create three-dimensional video walkthroughs and save two-dimensional floor plan versions of their creations. The standard version of Live Interior 3D features a furniture and building element library of over 1,200 objects, accented by the virtual library at the online Google 3D Warehouse (users may also import their own custom 3D creations). More than 1,500 surfaces and textures serve to further customize these options. A "pro" version of this tool adds a light source manager, wall designer and advanced material editor to the proceedings. Live Interior 3D runs on the Mac OS X operating system (version 10.4.8 or above). BeLight offers this tool for downloadable purchase at its official website.
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