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liveDaily Store - Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 8.0 [OLD VERSION]
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List Price: $99.99
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Manufacturer: Chief Architect
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Chief Architect
EAN: 0750839011554
Feature: Home Design, Remodeling, Decks, Landscaping, Kitchens & Baths, Interior Design, Cost Estimating
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Chief Architect
Manufacturer: Chief Architect
Model: HS80-DN-0AZ1
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Chief Architect
Release Date: 2008-03-01
Studio: Chief Architect
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Home Design, Remodeling, Decks, Landscaping, Kitchens & Baths, Interior Design, Cost Estimating
Automatic Building Tools--Roofs, Stairs, Doors, Windows, Framing, Foundations and more
Design Planning Center
Material Painter--point-and-click colors for walls, floors, countertops and more
Create Your Custom Kitchen with 1,000's of Cabinet Combinations
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Summary: BH&G Home Desighner 8.0
Comment: Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 8.0 [OLD VERSION]
I have used 3D Home Architect 3 for several years and began to look for a replacement that included a landscape feature. After working with BH&G Design 8.0 for a couple of weeks, I find it harder to use than 3DH 3.0 and I cannot get landscape walkways and steps to match my house elevations. The landscape feature works OK if I don't try and tie it to the house plan. I found an inexpensive 3D Home Architect 10 to try and found it very lacking, unfriendly and almost useless. I will continue to use BH&G 8.0 because it has several nice features that 3DH3 lacks.
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Summary: very useful tool for a remodel
Comment: I am about to embark upon a full kitchen remodel, which includes the removal of a wall. My brother turned me onto the BH&G Home Designer software and I could not be happier. Although I have used CAD-based programs before, it was purely at a novice level becuase of the steep learning curve required to create plans.However,I was able to get at least a 2-dimensional perspective. With BH&G I used the camera tool and got a true 3-D feel of what the room will be like after the remodel. I also found giant mistakes in my original concept which might not have stood out with a standard CAD program.
I would highly recommend this to anyone about to remodel. Its relatively easy, fun, and has probably saved me thousands in design errors.
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Summary: Good for Visualization of Design
Comment: I purchased this program to communicate our thoughts to our architect accurately. To that end it served us well. Our architect used AutoCAD so I had to redraw the plan into Home Designer Suite 8.0, which turned out to be less difficult than I had expected based on other reviews. The program does have some shortcomings, such as difficult to change roof plan, not able to create a sitting area for stair landing, etc. Worse of all, the program would not allow you to change the template once you had drawn your plan with one. (However, there is a way to change template without having to redraw the whole plan but they don't tell you that.) But over all, the program was easy to use. It was particularly useful to be able to visualize the spaces in 3D, with the desired colors, materials, furniture, appliances, etc. It was also very useful for experimenting with the floor plan to get to the layout and flow that we want in our house. It helped us save some architectural design fees since we could show our architect precisely what we want done and not having to wait for their interpretations and deign iterations. We purchased the older version 8.0 because it cost half as much and we didn't need the extra capabilities, which our architect would provide.
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Summary: Annoting, disorganised tutorials
Comment: The help system for this product consists of a set of videos presented in no logical order. Much better would be searchable, written help notes. At the least a "getting started" intro giving the basics of establishing the size, scale, and layout should be prominent.
The landscaping tools and library, in particular, are very inadequate.
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Summary: Buggy obnoxious crap software
Comment: I'm using verion 7.0, but there's no upgrade to 8.0 for 7.0 users, so ...
I've tried to model my own house half a dozen times with this thing, and it's just beyond frustrating. All the defaults make no sense (why would I want to measure walls from the center of the wall, rather than the surface? Why would I care about measuring to roof lines??), it constantly moves walls as you add new ones, forcing me to re-measure and re-adjust where walls are supposed to be. And constant bugs, where it won't let me do what I want, loses data (I saved a file I spent two hours on, and when I went back to it, it was blank), I had it suddently think all walls were only 20 inches high, and was NEVER able to fix it, no matter what settings I altered....
It's an exercise in pure frustration. It's horribly difficult to use for this purpose. I cannot recommend it for anyone, and wish to god I could get my money back. Do NOT buy this if you're hoping to model your existing home in hopes of having it help you redecorate or remodel.
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Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 8.0 is powerful software for any home design project. With over 5,000 integrated tools it is perfect for home design, remodeling, interior design, landscaping, decks, cost estimation, and site planning. Design in 2D and 3D simultaneously; even do a virtual walk-through. Choose from over 6,000 library items or download free bonus items. Create base, wall, full height, curved, corner cabinets and more for your new kitchen or bath. Choose from over 1,500 popular plants and get detailed information including Hardiness Zone Maps. Import custom colors or materials. Track costs for materials, quantities, unit costs and more.
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