Quick Selling Software

Overview

Chief Architect is specifically designed for the residential and light commercial design professional. Chief Architect makes it easy – use the 3D visualization to sell a project to clients and use construction drawings to be more cost effective in your design work. Move a wall, add a room, redesign a kitchen, change materials, estimate costs, create construction drawings.
– It’s Easy and It’s Powerful!

Features

• Powerful Building & Design Tools
• Chief Architect has automatic building tools that use the typical building defaults – or you can define your defaults. For every automated tool you will find manual tools to customize to your specific needs. Some the tools include:
• Automatic Roofs: hip, gable, shed, saltbox, gambrel, gullwing, half-hip, mansard. Create any style with the manual roof tools including curved roofs
• Ceilings – flat, trey, coffered barrel
• Automatic Dormers and Roof Returns
• Materials Lists for cost estimating and bidding
• Material Schedules: Windows, Doors, Cabinets, Rooms, Fixtures, Furniture and Plants
• Dimensions for One-Click Auto Dimensioning™ , End-to-End, Interior, Point-to-Point, Baseline, Angular and Centerline
• Built-in wall types with layers: interior, exterior, pony walls, ICF, SIPS or design custom walls types
• Advance stair tools for curved, flared, split and straight
• House Wizard™ to quickly layout plans or for space planning
• Automatic Framing for walls, roofs and floors
• Electrical and HVAC tools
• Design with Smart Objects (BIM) windows, cabinets, doors, framing have properties and behave intelligently
• 3D Design and Modeling Tools
• Seamless and simultaneous editing in 3D or 2D
• Photo-Realistic 3D Rendering
• Artistic Rendering – watercolor, painting, line drawing, technical illustration, duotone and Glass House™
• 3D views for elevations, overviews, cross-sections, framing and Doll House™
• Material Painter™ – apply colors, materials and textures from any image or website
• Color Chooser™ – Choose manufacturer colors, materials or textures for your design – or from a digital photo
• 3D Model Maker™
• Record 3D views for virtual tours
• Powerful CAD Tools
• CAD solids – to produce slabs, moldings, shapes for customizing and detailing designs
• CAD drawing tools for lines, polylines, splines, arcs, sun angles, shapes and points
• Convert CAD objects to architectural objects – draw a molding profile and save as a molding to apply to cabinets
• Visual CAD Snaps™
• Over 500 Built-in CAD Details
• “CAD-to-Walls” Import; import an AutoCADฎ, DXF or DWG and easily map the layers
• Cross Sections & Elevations
• Plan Sets and Construction Drawings
• Create construction documents with the Layout tool – send any view to the Layout – define scale and link to the drawing to update as your design changes
• Multiple Layers and Layer Sets – mask layers to create the view you need
• Use a PDF print driver to print to any size paper
• Electrical, Audio, HVAC and Plumbing plan tools
• Terrain Modeling, Landscaping Tools and Site Planning Tools
• ICC – International Residential Code Checklist
• Time Tracker™ to monitor time spent drawing on specific projects
• Kitchen & Bath Design Tools
• Create any style of cabinet with powerful Cabinet Designer™ tools. Select from a library of hundreds of door and drawer styles – or choose from specific manufacturer catalogs
• Smart Cabinets – Design with Smart Objects (BIM) windows, cabinets, doors, framing have properties and behave intelligently
• Create shaped cabinets, custom countertops, back splashes, cabinet feet or choose fixtures and appliances. Over a 1,000 Styles or Choose from the Built-in Cabinet Library
• Create any custom cabinet including curved cabinets
• Curved Cabinets and Cabinet Hardware
• Block cabinets and other like objects together to create architectural blocks – for future use – a great time saving feature! Great for kitchen islands
• Deck & Landscaping Tools
• Automatic deck framing
• Customize deck planking and materials
• Choose from a variety to deck railing styles
• Set the north pointer and define seasonal settings for realistic shadows
• Complete set of terrain tools – easily import or create terrain data
• Over 3,700 Landscaping Plants
• Plant Encyclopedia™, with detailed information about each plant including integrated Hardiness Zone Maps

System Requirements

• - Windows XP/Vista
• - 2 GHz processor
• - 2 GB of Memory
• - 8 GB of available hard disk space
• - 256 MB of video memory
• - OpenGL: 2.0
• - Internet: High speed for Videos, and Catalog / Library downloads
• Recommended:
• - Windows XP/Vista (Vista 64 is the best choice, followed by Vista 32 and then XP)
• - Multi-Core CPU (Celerons are not recommended)
• - 4 GB of Memory
• - 8 GB of available hard disk space
• - A newer NVIDIA or ATI video card supporting OpenGL 2.0 or better with at least 512MB of video memory; more is better