Land Planning Software Recommendations for Houses

If you can manage something as complex as autonomous driving with software today, then intelligent planning software is no rocket science either.

First, you have to do all the preliminary work (dependencies, variables, min. and max. dimensions, ...) before programming. I am currently doing this for a small configurator. When this is done for a complex structure like a house, it becomes really elaborate. From my point of view, it is only worthwhile for manufacturers who build model houses like a kit. However, the typical home builder is an individualist, and there you have a batch size of one.

If nowadays you can manage something as complex as autonomous driving via software, then an intelligent planning software is no rocket science either.

It definitely is not ... that would already be possible

That's intense. Is there no cheaper software that would meet my criteria mentioned above?

But that's simply not compatible ... You apparently have absolutely no idea what lies behind software development and how elaborate it is for your example autonomous driving. How much of the purchase price of your car you pay for it and how many millions or billions of units the automakers can spread this software effort and cost over.

A 3D rendering on a PC screen is also not comparable to a physical sample; maybe you would be better satisfied with VR, but you won't get a 'feel'. VR is becoming more common, but it isn't available for €20 from ama**n, which is probably the reason why no one bothers with it for a little experimenting with house planning.

But parts of it you can map with DiaLux, HomeSweet3D or similar. However, that requires patience and time to learn. Otherwise, you'll probably end up going back to the architect or similar ... And there are no completely fixed rules about what you are allowed and not allowed to do, regarding water etc., with enough effort almost everything is possible. Bypassing the effort through clever solutions will likely be difficult for you as a layman, which again falls back to the architect or expert. (You almost get the feeling these professions have a reason to exist.)

The more you engage professionally with the subject areas and get into it, the more you can understand, join the conversation, and make meaningful decisions. But you won't find a clicky-colorful solution with which you can plan a house without having background knowledge, not now and not in the future.

Why don't the providers do something like that, they already have the plans? If necessary, they could hire an intern to digitize it or just a few Asian freelancers for a few euros...

- Because the providers are already booked up for 2 years and don't know which request to answer first, so why bother? - Because it costs a lot of time and money - Because most builders manage quite well without it anyway - Because the quantities of houses sold/built usually do not justify such an effort - Because the connections are too complex and probably would mostly produce nonsense, see the quote in the floor plan discussions

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Well, one could define load-bearing walls as non-movable in the software.

Well, I think you have very strongly internalized the fundamental error of the modern person, that everything in the world has exclusively parametric dimensions – and accordingly overlook the limitless complexity of the phenomenon "correlation." The classification of walls into "load-bearing" and "non-load-bearing," for example, is by no means absolute: if you shift the constellation of non-load-bearing (but unfortunately not weightless themselves!) walls on the upper floor, suddenly quite different walls on the ground floor enjoy the fact that one must expect a load-bearing role from them. So one is by no means less clever than you "enlightened consumer" (or "spoiled brat," as my generation, the old fart, calls it) if one struggles completely inefficiently with a multi-year civil engineering degree, when one actually only should have waited for the next brainwave of an Indian app developer.

We once met a construction company at a trade fair that creates plans in 3D and offers a tour via [VR-Brille] and 3D printing of the building. Just Google Hafner Haus Kinding.

I designed my house with Autodesk Revit. There are free student versions of it. However, the familiarization requires "some" effort to put it mildly.