Home Floor Plans

Computer assisted design programs can help build house floorplans.

Anyone with a dream and a computer can draw home floor plans, house elevations, and stunning 3D pictures using home design software programs.

This article describes home floor plan design software.

Building a new home from home floor plans should not be frightening. A great deal of time and money is invested in a project with little to no idea of how it will look upon completion

How can you be sure that floor plan is going to look the way you want?

Home floor plans software design packages are created with that problem in mind. Not only will they help you layout a full multistory floor plan or a renovation project, but also they will let you see the results in full color 3D before hammering the first nail.

Home floor plans computer assisted design programs can't take the place of an architect, and most aren't recommended for creating working drawings. They can, however, help you visualize your house and some rival the professional-grade CAD (computer aided design) software programs architects use.

Most home floor plans software features the following items in one form or another:

• Design rooms -- layout some rooms on screen, move them around, rotate, expand, and shrink rooms.
• Expand or shrink entire floor plans.
• Mirror and rotate entire floor plans.
• Print functions (split drawing, part print and print group drawings)
• Angled walls design.
• Display and print with crosshatched or solid walls.
• Site location plan function all helping to make home design so easy.
• Metric or Feet and Inches
• Customizable and easy to use.
• Auto Insertion of windows and many door styles.
• External walls - auto draws 2 or 4 line walls - your spacing, and automatically corrects all the corners.
• Internal walls - draws double line partitions, and automatically shows distance to nearest wall.
• Draws a complete room with dimensions and text.
• Shows maximum room available size.
• Save drawings as bit maps.
• Change the drawing titles to suit yourself.
• Automated to help design house floor plans easily.

Most home floor plans design software is created for PC – Windows machines, running Windows 95/98 through XP.

If you have a Mac, your choices are limited. But there is at least one program for a Macintosh operating system, and another one that is dual platform for both Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

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