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IMSI FloorPlan 3D Home Design Suite Version 10

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From: IMSI
Category: Software

List Price: ~~$39.99~~
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Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars

9 reviews

Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT 4
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 2.4

MPN: 00-fp35-10dc
Model: 10014
UPC: 411378016492
EAN: 0730526355895

Release Date: June 10, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Tools for customizing, visualizing, and planning home-design projects
•	Over 1,000 customizable home plans; online 3-D kitchen showroom
•	1900 pre-drawn 3-D symbols; design and edit in 2-D and 3-D
•	New LightWorks 7.4 photo-realistic 3-D rendering technology
•	New QuickTime Viewer to take virtual tour of design in 3-D

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
FloorPlan 3D Design Suite 10 is a superior collection of tools for customizing, visualizing, and planning entire home-design projects -- from concept to completion. Work with over 1,000 customizable home plans, online 3D kitchen showroom & 1900 pre-drawn 3D symbols. It's also got an option to design and edit in 2D and 3D. View your design in stunning realism with gorgeous, realistic 3D walkthrough.

Customer Reviews:

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Don't expect to use it unless you obtain a degree in IMSI February 11, 2009
Dieter Schmied
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Turbofloorplan Home & Landscape Pro V12

I have tried three of IMSI's building design software and just gave them away. It wasn't worth the aggravation and there was no support. The "help" is designed by IMSI pros and for IMSI pros. The software has all the needed capabilities, I think, but they really need to spend their time developing user-friendly instructions. This problem is typical among software developers but it is at a ridiculous level with IMSI.

2 out of 5 stars

Not for the regular Joe Home Owner August 30, 2008
C. Cameron (Hanging out by the Grill)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Might be a good product, but too hard to use for the
regular Joe Home Owner.

2 out of 5 stars

Should come with a bottle of Tylenol August 5, 2008
K. Peterson (Easthampton, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you enjoy suffering this is the home design software for you. You can get it to produce something eventually, but you will put in hours trying to get the software to do what you want and have to give up on getting it do other things it says it does. I initially purchased Version 9 and nearly tore my hair out trying to do layout for a house remodeling we were working on. I'm in the computer business so I'm used to battling with bad software to get it to work and wasn't going to let this package get the best of me. I did finally get some useful floorplans out of it. The 3D modeling was helpful although certainly not as good as they say it is. When an upgrade offer for Version 10 came in the mail I thought to myself, OK, maybe this will fix some/all the bugs (yeah, right!). On the contrary, it was essentially the same package, nothing changed except that it was worse. Now I couldn't get it to print floorplans with dimensions. After the upgrade joke, I'm certainly never giving IMSI another penny. I recently pulled the software off the shelf and reinstalled to work on another project. It was a bad dream coming back, after about 10 minutes I remembered what a nightmare this software is and said "Never again!" It is now shelfware destined soon to be given to some poor soul on freecycle. I guess to be realistic, if you want GOOD floorplan design software you'll have to spend many hundreds of dollars, not tens.

2 out of 5 stars

Great if you have previous experience... May 10, 2008
R. Shepherd (near Seattle)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Not as user friendly as say the Better Homes and Garden home designer, but it does convert to CAD. Takes a lot of patience that I didn't have.

1 out of 5 stars

Don't buy if you have used anything more expensive January 12, 2008
R. Hawkins (Colorado)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I used this "suite" to attempt to design houses for a Habitat for Humanity affiliate. If all you are looking for is a pretty "flyover" of an unrefined house design, this might work. As far as creating a working drawing with enough detail to build off of, this is not the program.

My biggest problem with the software is that you have to export the drawing from FloorPlan to an included CAD program (TurboCAD) and then mark it up with dimensions, etc. If you want to move a window 3 inches, you have to go back into FloorPlan and move it, and re-import and start all over again with dimensioning.

I was probably expecting too much for a cheaper CAD program but this one isn't even worth the effort. Any advantage over old school hand drafting was nearly non-existent from my experience.

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