- Inspire your designs with the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center
- Create a Virtual Walk-Through of your house
- Design and visualize with 3D Models
- Choose from a Library of more than 9,000 items for your designs
- Generate an Automatic Materials List for cost estimating
- No Design Experience Needed
- Plan your dream home with the Getting Started Tutorial
- Complete software for residential design, remodeling, landscaping, visualization and more
- Design Planning Center provides important design and product material information
- Material PainterT applies color and materials to walls, countertops, cabinets and more
- 3D Models and Virtual Tours
- Import and Export files including BMP, WMF, PNG, AVI
- 3D Modeling Tools: Glass House™, Doll House™, and Plan View™
- Project Cost Estimating automatically generates a materials list for cost estimating
- House Wizard™ allows easy space planning design
- Automatic and Manual dimensioning
- Automatic Roofs creates gable, hip and dormers
- Automatic Stair tools for curved and split entry
- A complete set of CAD tools to detail designs
- Compatible with Chief Architect® and 3D Home Architect® (versions 4.0 and prior) file formats
- Import Sketchup and 3D Studio files
- 9,000 Architectural Library items
- Automatic building tools for roof generation, stairs, framing, dimensioning, foundations and electrical
- Create custom lighting and electrical plans
- Home Design Style templates
- Plan Check™ validates your building against standard building principles
- Decking and fencing tools
- 3,700 Landscaping plants
- 5,000 Sample home plans
- Over 80 training videos with "how to" information
- Free online technical support