3D CAD 7 Professional - Plan & design buildings from initial rough sketches to the finished blueprints - CAD and architecture software

This tools is good for working out an initial house layout. It is not a professional drafting program. Do not expect to produce working drawings for building a house. It is also very buggy. If you are easily frustrated by buggy software you should probably stay away.

Reading the box, I was excited that it mentioned that it could use things saved in .dae files. This sparked my interest since I am making mesh objects for use in a virtual world. Other reviews mentioned the program being difficult to use for those not experienced in other DAD programs. I felt confident since I have used CAD programs for a long time. The program installed easily from the CD. Then I went to the file menu expecting to see import as one of the options. It wasn’t there. I did a help search for import and found a reference to importing DXF files in which it indicated that I should go to the file menu and select the import DXF option. No mention of other formats and that option wasn’t on the file menu anyway. I did find over in the 3D drop down a place where I could pick up objects that I had with the .dae format and that did work as I could see the object I was expecting. It could be that if one is very persistent this program may have benefits over other solutions.

Measurements are meters and not feet/inches; unable to change. It makes it difficult to do what I need it for.

When I first used AutoCAD 2.5 on a 80286, I lacked an 80287 or Weitek. I also had no idea what I was doing. Sure enough, I was a kid armed with 1.2MB disks, but no real understanding of 2D CAD software. A few years later I actually was pretty proficient with AutoCAD 10 (having a mouse definitely helped). Since then, Ive used a number of CAD packages for Windows and Unix, and use FreeCAD for my personal use. While FreeCAD is fine (as was SketchUp when Google still owned it), I was curious what Ashampoos 3D CAD 7 Professional would bring to the table, as its a commercial product.

This was very easy to install and download on a Windows 10 OS. It runs well.

This program is for someone who is already experience with similar programs. I contacted the company and they

This is a very full featured CAD program for a very low price. In my brief time playing with it, there was not much it couldn’t do, and with one exception that may not matter to you it works just fine. But I would never recommend it.

GARBAGE!! No volume on videos

Love the program. Just wish the training videos were updated to work properly no sound on videos

Once i took the time to go through all the help i was able to use this tool. I will say once you get the hand of it works great. They have lots of resources to help you.