Home Designer Suite 8
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Adding in all the furniture, fixtures and materials is easy using the library as well as the grouped objects and the new library contents make it even easier. To give a home that lived in look quickly and show more than just simple rooms without picking out everything individually the library contains several new groups of objects like the bathroom vanity set complete with mirror, cabinets and sink or desks with a chair and books for that really lived in look.
There are complete rooms with furniture and fixtures as well as the kitchen islands and counter areas so you can quickly add in some things to get a good idea of what things will look like with furniture and other objects. For seeing what things look like you have the 2 dimensional top down view as well as the host of 3 dimensional views from the regular view you have from a camera at whatever height you desire or the dollhouse view and glass house view.
You can choose from the framing view to see the home or design before walls are completed to get an idea of the wall structure and framing. The Home Design suite comes complete with a lumber and materials estimator as well as a loan calculator to help you figure out monthly payments at certain percentage rates for a loan on the building or remodeling project. The Home Designer has a built in error checking tool that finds errors and helps you correct them like windows to close to a corner or outlets interfering with fixtures.
The program comes complete with built in building design and construction techniques and will design detail drawings like roof truss construction so the builder knows the exact details for constructing the house. These types of detail drawings are required to get building permits and the program has added them as a way to help you the home owner design and draw your own blueprints that may be used for permits.
This will of course depend on your city and county codes as well as the construction company or individuals that will be doing the work and you may have to get other drawings created. But this does help you with a great way to see exactly what you want and be able to show a drafter or architect the specifics of your home design.
The Home Designer Suite 8.0 also comes with the complete deck, landscaping and terrain building features so you take existing terrain features and create them into your design for accurate designing. You can take actual GPS readings and import them into the program for the program to give you an actual terrain following the GPS readings.
