Planning tutorial: Which house planner software should I use?

Go to the homepage of SH3D. Under "Galerie" you will find various example apartments/houses. To try an example, simply download it and open it with Sweet Home 3D. Then you can work with it as if it were your own design. So roughly what you imagine. There are also many in the forum who provide their house plans for download.

Just go to the SH3D homepage. Under "Gallery" you will find various example apartments/houses. To try out an example, simply download it and open it with Sweet Home 3D. Then you can work with it as if it were your own design. So roughly what you imagine. Also, there are quite a few people in the forum who make their house plans available for download.

Before there is any misunderstanding, the elephant does not need it for himself, but wants to make it available to others so that people don't keep running into the literally same unfavorable walls.

Yes.. that's how I understood it too.. I mean, with SH3D it might be possible to implement that well..

For the moment, first of all thanks for the feedback. I am still gathering a bit and will address it in detail later.

Well then, there would still be graph paper drawings to print out…

... but with that, you’re already in the semi-professional range ;).

I didn’t find that very demanding. Of course, better would be output via 3D printer, a stackable model by layers scalable in scale.

First of all, thanks again all around – especially from the "passive readers," it would be nice if some would become active in giving their two cents – now, as promised, I want to respond to some suggestions already:

I find HomeByMe better only for interior design (including decoration etc.).

clear 2D representation, integration of building services, input of measurements not only with the mouse,

the trouble-free modification of the given floor plan, rotating, mirroring, etc., and a good staircase editor

I hadn’t really thought about interior design insofar as I primarily want to "hand-feed" the users the shell construction, but of course the point is somewhat relevant: users should be able to "continue working" on the files later and not have to switch to another software just for carpets and curtains. I prefer to make inputs in 2D, and very much do not want to have to lead the mouse with micrometer precision just to get "whole" real-world measurements at a scale of 1:x. This point annoys me the most with amateur plans: when the walls on the upper floor are offset by two point zero something centimeters from those on the ground floor just because one clicked that way (à la Parkinson-precision). I think cleanly in whole octameters and after all do not want to plan walls with botcher’s gaps, which I always complain about ;-)

Integration of building services, yes, the program should be able to supplement and vary that later according to the user’s taste. My example houses should be "neutral" and at most set up such things as a black box – I do not intend to take sides for any particular heating philosophy (as said, mostly shell construction that the user then "refines" themselves), so I do not explicitly install the Binford 6100 heat pump. Some walls I want to set up from the start as movable objects, namely typical option walls such as those between child 1 and child 2, bedroom and dressing room, kitchen and pantry, or the like. In my way of thinking as a planner, a wall arises in three steps: position, wall thickness, and material.

Rotating, mirroring, yes, hopefully the programs also agree with me that these are absolute basic features. Stairs, yes, also a very good keyword: after all, the "model houses" should also be useful for those home builders who belong to the "XXL ceiling height faction," and that essentially impacts the stairs.

"Scalability" is overall a central point because it should be a help for people with very different tastes and not just produce "houses for 11ant or Nordlys" ;-)