Which software is used for floor plan design and modeling?

You really have to play with light sources, otherwise the images always turn out too dark. For "pre-rendering" (trial and error) I always use 400px so it goes faster. When the brightness is right, then render with at least 3000px in the highest quality. Then nothing pixellates anymore. But that can take 1 to 2 hours for a photo.

I also used Sweet Home 3D on the iPad. If the property can already be accessed, you can also project a 1:1 model onto the property in AR with the right device and walk through it.

hello, the pictures from Sweet Home 3D look great. However, I can’t find the app in the AppStore for the iPad. Does the tool have a different name there? Best regards

hello, the pictures of Sweet Home 3D look great. However, I can't find the app in the AppStore for the iPad. Is the tool called something else there?

Best regards

It seems to have been renamed to Home Design 3D by now. At least the app icon is identical.

We used Sweet Home 3D and were satisfied with it. It offers some models for the basics, and you can also find many Ikea furniture pieces on the internet and import them later.

I see advantages over paper and pencil in the quick modifiability. Walls can be moved or redrawn in no time, doors repositioned, windows changed, without having annoying eraser marks everywhere.

In the beginning, we used it a lot in the 2D view to see how things worked – at the end of the planning phase, we even "painted" our final and well-developed rooms in 3D. We tested wall colors and looked at how things interacted. Of course, it does not correspond 1:1 with reality, but it allows for a rough estimate of whether everything fits together.

Here are a few examples for Sweethome 3D.. I used this for our planning. We are still very impressed today by how well SH3D represented the later reality. [ATTACH height="200px" alt="B4E4E663-0E83-46E1-8268-59FCF142EC41.jpeg"]58777[/ATTACH][ATTACH height="200px" alt="88740904-1F95-4E4E-AC6F-6A99A487F198.jpeg"]58778[/ATTACH][ATTACH height="200px" alt="AC6ACBF8-9471-4871-90F8-82F65AE18658.jpeg"]58779[/ATTACH][ATTACH height="200px" alt="86158CE4-7D0A-4243-A142-379350518783.jpeg"]58780[/ATTACH][ATTACH height="200px" alt="7EC92F13-4DB5-46FF-AA03-E0C670BF6862.jpeg"]58781[/ATTACH]

So I have to say it looks great. So far I have worked with Homebyme but you are limited in many ways. Can you export the floor plan in 2D with Sweet Home? With Homebyme this only works through a screenshot.

Can someone here recommend a house planning software?

I myself don’t really need something like that. I have already planned houses when only computer freaks – I was not one – had a PC at all, and I have forgotten it as little as riding a bike. Nevertheless, I would now like to have an application for such stuff:

Namely, I plan to develop a tutorial for friends of the semifinale ;-) DIY, with which the amateur planner can get the push for the first step and experience with their own mouse finger how to systematically approach the consequences of changes in knee wall heights, etc.

For this purpose, I want to develop a rectangular house, to which one can then add a bay window or not, put a captain’s gable on it, and vary the knee wall until the one-and-a-half-story house has become an [Anstattvilla]. Conversely, one can also flatten it into a bungalow.

So I want to develop different version stages, and the following is important:
1. It must be interactive.
That is, one should not watch a video of me and then have to reconstruct what was seen oneself, but one should be able to continue working on the example house oneself – ideally, until one has developed one’s own home from it.
2. It must serve many users
and be low-threshold available.
It must therefore be software downloadable for offline use, in which one can create elaborates whose file format is either widespread or can be cleanly and further processed imported by “competing software.” I want to be able to offer this assistance free of charge – of course, I will not make this effort sevenfold for different software.

So what would be a suitable offline software at least for the Windows world to build a house shell with load-bearing interior walls and put it online as a file?