For all aspects of lightweight residential and commercial design. As you draw walls and position intelligent architectural objects such as doors and windows, the program creates a 3D model, generates a Bill of Materials, and, using powerful building tools, helps produce Building Documents with Terrain Plans, Framing Plans, Section Details, and Elevations.
Professional Home Design Software
For all aspects of lightweight residential and commercial design. As you draw walls and position intelligent architectural objects such as doors and windows, the program creates a 3D model, generates a Bill of Materials, and, using powerful building tools, helps produce Building Documents with Terrain Plans, Framing Plans, Section Details, and Elevations.
Construction and design tools
Use powerful construction and drawing tools to quickly create plans according to standard building practices and make the design process efficient and productive. Automatic and manual construction tools allow you to create a variety of styles of roof, stairs, framing - both stick and truss, tables and bills of materials for cutting, purchasing and estimating, sizing, cross sections, elevations and CAD tools.
Kitchen, bathroom and interior design
Chief Architect uses smart design objects, such as cabinets, to create various styles, shapes, and sizes quickly and easily. The Chief Architect partners with specific manufacturers (cabinets, appliances, doors, windows, countertops and flooring) so that styles, finishes and other product-specific design details can be precisely designed and rendered.
3D modeling and design tools
As you draw walls, the program automatically creates a 3D model and supports full 3D editing. With Chief Architect, you can design in any visualization for continuous, simultaneous editing between 2D and 3D. Advanced rendering offers realistic and artistic photo styles such as line drawing and watercolor. An extensive 3D library of architectural tools and objects makes it easy to detail and accessories your designs so that product-specific styles, finishes, and other design details can be accurately reproduced.
Chief Architect Premier
The best rated home design software for professionals
Automatic construction tools
Intelligent tools technology creates all building systems automatically.
3D rendering and virtual tours
Sell more jobs helping your customers visualize with realistic renderings, 360° renderings, live 3D viewer models, and virtual tours.
Building documents
Create professional residential construction designs for licenses, subcontractors, and customers.
Bill of materials and schedules
Bills of materials and instant schedules provide the information you need to fund your jobs quickly.
CAD tools for productivity and accuracy
Chief Architect has a powerful CAD software engine that includes tools for lines, polylines, splines, arcs, and solids to produce objects ranging from custom input columns to ledger details. Manipulate objects quickly with multiple copies, align, reflect, and replicate at specific intervals. A CAD tool for walls imports AutoCAD files and provides mapping to layers so you can see the model in 3D quickly. Draw custom CAD details, import as DWG/DXF/PDF, or choose from over 500 CAD details in the premium SSA catalog to overlay on your design.
Plant sets and construction drawings
3D renderings and virtual tours help sell the project and construction drawings help you specify, enable, and build. All views in your project - floor plans, framing, electrical, section details, and elevations have a user-defined scale and link to a specific drawing that is updated as the project changes. Layers control what is displayed for each of the drawing pages to help create professional detailed construction drawings.
Site planning, terrain, decking and landscaping
Create location plans for one or more batches. Import terrain survey data or create with terrain modeling tools - terrain data can be used for a 2D terrain plane or viewed in 3D to show the specific topology. The Road, Sidewalk, Hill and Valley tools provide additional details. For landscaping, there are more than 4,000 plants with detailed information about each plant, including maps of integrated robustness zones. Set a north pointer and seasonal settings for shadow effects and overlays. Deck tools include automatic and manual deck framing; customize deck flooring and materials.
System requirements:
CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor
RAM: 2 GB
HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit
Resolution: 1024×768
Supported operating systems
Mac OS X 10.5 x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
Hardware requirements
Memory - 1 GB of RAM and more
Free disk space - 50 MB
System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS
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