Introduction

Whether you’re an architect, interior designer or home improver, ARCON 3D Architect lets you plan, design and visualise your creative ideas in photorealistic 3D. In 2D construction mode, simply place your elements like walls, doors, windows, roofs etc and see these come to life in an interactive 3D environment. Generate rendered images to see the effects of texturing, lighting and shading and save high quality images of any 2D/3D view suitable for planning application. All to get the perfect design for that dream home creation.

Note: All features in 3D Kitchen Designer, 3D Bathroom Designer, 3D Home Designer, 3D Interior Designer, 3D Home Designer - Expert, Conservatory Designer and Creative Lines are included in this version of 3D Architect.

Features

Some of the great features include:

• Advanced tools for designing your dream home
• Create drawings suitable for planning application
• Specify a conservatory
• Add cavity wall details to 2D plans
• Create an estate using multiple buildings feature
• Easy-to-use landscaping tools
• Includes home/garden objects & textures
• Import/export 3DS objects
• Add interior & exterior lighting effects
• Create photorealistic visualisations
• Controlled 3D walk through
• Online help, video tutorials & updates

Other Features

• Easy-to-use interface for planning and designing.
• Drag and drop or numerically input construction elements including straight, curved and spline walls, doors, windows, stairs, beams, supports, chimneys, roofs, dormers, skylights and solar panels.
• Create up to 50 floors and 10 buildings.
• Supports metric and imperial.
• Change the display of your 2D plan with cavity wall details.
• Produce complex roof structures using split levels and multiple buildings feature.
• Load other buildings into a project to create an estate.
• Build your conservatory using pre-defined segments and construction elements/accessories, a 3D model of a conservatory can be built in no time. No CAD knowledge required
• Design windows and doors to your own specification.
• Produce balconies and own railings using advanced editor.
• Edit the form/outline of walls using advanced editor.
• Mark out and model a building area with property/ground area and 10 contour tools.
• Existing placed walls can be edited using a set of wall editing tools.
• Set up project using guidelines, measuring and ruler tool.
• Automatic and manual dimensions including height and angle.
• Produce room layouts quickly using planner.
• Examine your building in detail by cutting through it at any angle and to generate 2D elevations and 3D section views automatically.
• The block editor feature can be used to create additional shaped objects.
• Add additional 2D drawing symbols with graphics editor.
• Supports the use of TrueType fonts that may already be installed.
• Pre-defined title blocks available for editing. Create own using advanced editor.
• BUNDLED SOFTWARE: Create professional drawings suitable for Planning Applications using full version of Creative Lines.
• View in 2D and 3D simultaneously.
• Control building and floor views from a single window.
• 7,200 relevant objects included to help furnish your project.
• 1,300 relevant textures can be applied to floors walls and ceilings View 3D model in several modes from wireframe to texture.
• Any 3D view can be rendered to see the effect of lighting and shadows. A rendered view can be saved to file.
• Any viewpoint can be saved for later recall.
• Easily walk through completed projects.
• Using the modeller objects and outline editor create your own textured 3D models.
• Import a digital image into the background of your 3D view.
• Create tiled areas either on wall or floor using the Tile Planner program.
• Import as 2D DXF/DWG, 3DS.
• Save/export as BMP, JPG, WMF, EMF, 2D DXF, 3DS, MBA (Creative Lines), ARCON 3D object, web page with 3D object and views.
• Context sensitive help, direct online access to video tutorials, new objects, new textures, updates and forum.

System Requirements

Windows® XP(SP2)/Vista/Windows® 7
1.32 GB Free Hard Disk Space, DVD-ROM

Shipping Information

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