Sweet Home 3D - Interior Design Planner with an additional 1100 3D models and a printed manual, ideal for architects and planners - for Windows 11-10-8-7-Vista-XP & MAC

The softwares title is Interior Design Planner which is accurate. It allows for basic building design on 5 sides- 4 walls and floor, with the ability to add or subtract levels. One cannot do roofing or exterior simulations of landscape or decking with any semblance of reality. It is fairly user-friendly, but does not have CAD ability. Pros: It has two strengths compared to previous software Ive used-- interior furniture placement with the simultaneous 3D imaging of the same or all levels that corresponds to the 2D plan. So what you place in the 2D plan can be seen on the same screen in the 3D image which can be rotated on all 3 axes. The combination allows for pretty good visualization on the same screen if the plan is a relatively small footprint. Ive been surprised at how the 3D gives better feeling for furniture and people flow compared to the 2D map. Cons: this is designed for a European audience, so selections of furniture, appliances and etc are for largely Scandinavian tastes and small footprints. For a larger up-scale house with American sizes, the 3D image is difficult to manipulate and becomes vanishingly small. The zoom function is not enough to compensate. Modeling for a landscape on a slope is hard because the lower level exterior cannot be visualized. For the price, this is pretty good and allows for beginning designs.

Unlike promised, this installation file did NOT work on my MAC. I am running on the most current version of MAC OS X, and yet no go. Went thru all the Java installation updates, but negative. Not worth my time trying to figure out a $14.99 purchase... Im moving on.

Very difficult to set up room sizes

Great help in designing my kitchen remodeling

The disc was unreadable.

I paid around $15 from my gift card and even though it was indicated as a free return I was only refunded $0.88 . I I had known I was only going to receive such a small amount I would have not returned it and given it to a friend instead of throwing the rest of my refund down the toilet

Inexpensive but works great across many OSs

Another delivery well done and a great buy for the cost.

I couldn’t get it to load with the cd.

Furniture is European. Not as good as 3D Home by Broderbound that was discontinued but not bad for the price. Cant show things like closet hangers.