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Epicurus.com - Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Pro 8.0
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List Price: $495.99
Our Price: $479.99
Your Save: $ 16.00 ( 3% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Chief Architect
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Chief Architect
EAN: 0750839015118
Feature: Professional features such as blue prints, manual framing, roofing; Advanced CAD editing tools such as replicate, line weights, point-to-point move, custom patterns and more
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Chief Architect
Manufacturer: Chief Architect
Model: HP80-MN-0AZ1
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Chief Architect
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Studio: Chief Architect
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Features
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Professional features such as blue prints, manual framing, roofing; Advanced CAD editing tools such as replicate, line weights, point-to-point move, custom patterns and more
Fully editable dimension lines and configurable dimension editing allow you to change where dimensions locate walls, windows, doors and other objects
Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped, or sloped lots--use a GPS to import or enter elevation data
Use the Cabinet Designer tools to create unlimited cabinet styles; choose your own colors, countertops and door styles
ICC Residential Design Checklist will allow you to check your plan against national building codes
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Editorial Reviews:
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Designing like a professional has never been so easy! Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Pro 8.0 is professional home design software for the serious home enthusiast. Enjoy the same tools that the professionals use for home design, remodeling, interior design, decks, landscaping and cost estimation. Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Pro has all the same great features as Architectural Home Designer, Interior Designer, Landscaping and Deck Designer plus advanced CAD tools, advanced building tools, the ability to create blueprints, manual framing and roofing and much more.
Integrated Design Tools Home Designer Pro makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas on your next home or remodeling project with over 8,000 powerful integrated tools. In addition, the Design Planning Center provides advice, decorating guidelines, tips and techniques from the editors of the Better Homes and Gardens magazine. Create accurately scaled floor plans that automatically generate 3D models in minutes. Create any detailed view of your design using advanced 3D camera tools like Glass House, Doll House, Framing, Elevation and Cross-Sections Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with How-To tutorials based on your type of project Use the House Wizard for quick and easy layout of your rooms Select from the pre-designed Home Design and Landscaping Style Templates complete with colors, cabinets, decks and more Exclusive Design Planning Center for up-to-date How-To and Design Tips from the experts to help in your design process Includes Step-by-Step Tutorial DVD Packed with over 70 easy step-by-step tutorial training videos Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views Point-and-click to remove wall surfaces, or use 3D Cross-Section Elevation Slider to quickly create a 3D slice of your desired view Create any custom roof or ceiling plan with the Roof Design Tools
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product
Comment: Product is great - much better and more powerful tool than 7.0 or Designer Suite.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good and Bad.
Comment: Pro 8.0 is good at creating general floor plan layouts and visual reviews But I purchased the Pro version because it claims to have layout/blue print generating capability that the cheaper versions don't.
But although you can make blue print type pages it is almost completely a cut and paste style of operation where you have to go through time consuming multiple steps to do so. At $500 it should at least automatically generate basic front, back, side and top elevations for prints!
The Roof and framing automatic functions work well only on very basic designs, even manual roof designs have problems if you have more complex roofs such as an RV storage saltbox type high roof attached to a standard gable house roof.
Recommend product for floor planning/visualization but not for actual building/working plans.
Save yourself a lot of money and buy one of the cheaper versions if your just going to do floor plan layouts and visualization.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Finally
Comment: The Home Designer Pro software is a cut-down version of the full Chief Architect product (allowing a building to be drawn that is less than 4 stories tall). It is a good product for professionals in the residential construction field -- WAY better than the others available. If you have version 7.0, Chief Architect's website would be a good visit -- they update to version 8.0 for products purchased between certain dates.
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