Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Friday, May 16, 2008

Free Floor Panning Software

I've started playing with a new online tool, Floorplanner.com. This is a really neat little tool. From the site:

Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time.
Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floorplans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, you can make your floor plan in minutes, and rearrange it as often as you want. Then you can save, send, and print your designs to share them, or place them on your own website.
It's easy to use and works in almost any modern browser, no extra downloads required.
I haven't used it heavily but so far it works fine. The free version will only let you create a single floor plan. Since I ownly own a single house, that's not a problem for me. ;-)

You can upgrade to the Plus version. That gives you 5 floor plans. It costs $30.50 per year. That's about what you would pay for a comparable desktop version but a desktop version would give you unlimited floorplans.

You can also upgrade to Pro for $24.50 per month. That seems really steep to me even for a professional.

The free version is definitely worth a look though.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Free 3d Design Software

DesignWorkshop Lite: A fast, fun and free tool for creating 3D models, images, and walkthroughs, from sketches to presentations.

I first found this software a couple of years ago. I used it to design some landscaping. Decent tool for the price.

The complete freeware DesignWorkshop Lite software package provides all you need to build your own 3D models for home design and visualization of architecture, landscapes, exhibits, or any kind of spatial design. With DesignWorkshop Lite you can view and walk-through ready-made models of any size, like the free 3D building models in the Great Buildings Online, in DXF, DesignWorkshop, or 3DMF format, with amazing live 3D speed.

You can get the software with documentation and tutorials for $9.95 but the download version is free.