Which software is used for floor plan design and modeling?

I also started with Home Design 3D on the tablet, unbeatable value for money and an idea can be implemented quickly, but it also has limitations such as no adjustable geolocation (sun position) or terrain modeling. Then I installed Live Home 3D on the computer, here all that is possible and more, and the software also has significantly fewer errors. Unfortunately, all the furniture is from a 70s sitcom, but the Trimble Warehouse connection compensates for that. It is certainly still far from a proper architectural software, but it leaves hardly any wishes unfulfilled for trying it yourself.

So I have to say it looks great. Until now 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 is only possible through a screenshot.

What exactly are you limited by in Homebyme?

Honestly, no. You can't get it that to scale. And you can't so nicely take off the first or top floor. And painting Legos is also dumb. Our house was back then 50x50 in the floor plan

There are colorful Lego bricks too... I don't even know what's wrong with you???:;)

I have tried all sorts of affordable software programs and found them all very limited and imagination-stifling. The programs (or I with them) already failed in the representation of our living space. The programs seem to require a very precise distinction between basement and upper floor. And then the furnishings – with those you can design rooms like in a telenovela. Not my cup of tea at all. If only you could at least import furniture...

I then dealt with PaletteCAD (great company) and considered buying the same software as my architect. But I lacked both the interest and patience for the learning curve of these tools. I actually consider model building especially practical for people who have no special interest in or skills with design programs. And if that is already given, you might as well buy something decent.

Or you go to a VR service provider, which is probably the most impressive.

There are also colorful Lego bricks...

Exactly. Assuming that as laymen we generally consider all interior walls to be load-bearing and that non-monolithic exterior wall constructions differ only slightly from a 36.5 cm wall thickness (which could be represented by the classic 2x4 Lego brick), we are practically at a scale of about 1:23.43 in the 8 mm Lego grid. With the courage to allow further inaccuracy by using two-row bricks symbolically as exterior walls and single-row bricks accordingly as interior wall bricks, as well as brushing over double and single steps in the grid uniformly, we thus effectively switch to a scale of 1:46.87. This brings us close to the working drawing scale of 1:50. So with Lego bricks, you can build two stories side by side on an ordinary kitchen table anyway. For finer planning of just the kitchen or bathroom, the scale is adjusted accordingly. Overall, the Lego brick grid is coarse modular enough to prevent silly ideas like re-walling wardrobe cabinets to the centimeter from even arising. Planning as an imperfection experience for the whole family, and even the little ones can join in, since they have no fear of contact with the familiar "tool." Planning at the tactile conceptual horizon of the whole family and including slightly larger inaccuracies than later tolerances in implementation—couldn't be better.

Just spoke with my son. He suggested Minecraft. I find that quite creative.