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

Overview

Chief Architect X1 – a new version of a comprehensive set of tools for modeling of various architectural structures and interior design. The program is designed specifically for professional designers. With it you can realize all your design ideas in 3D form. Build a house, move the wall, rebuild the kitchen, put the wallpaper, calculate the cost of repair or construction – all this and more you can do before you start to build in reality.

Features

• Create a detailed floor plan, in cross section and proektsiyah;
• Choose from more than 18,000 library includes CAD details and names of famous producers;
• Use tools for automatic construction, such as automatic construction and building roofs;
• Calculate the final cost of the project taking into account the material used;
• Use the powerful tools of computer-aided design;
• Manufacture detailing drawings and plans;
• Using video lessons step by step, you can create your home just 30 minutes

System Requirements

• System requirements:
• Processor: 2 GHz
• 512 MB RAM for Windows XP
• 2 GB of RAM for Windows Vista
• 3.5 GB of free hard disk space
• 256 MB video