Ashampoo Home Designer Pro

Moving, new building or renovation? Plan up front on your PC!

Version 1.0.1, 2011/07/11

Do you want to renovate, furnish your apartment or plan your dream home? Be your own architect and plan a project on your PC with Ashampoo Home Designer Pro. Get started now and build your dream home, plan your garden according to your wishes, furnish your living room or lay your favorite flooring. Ashampoo Home Designer Pro is a professional 3D planning software with which you can plan and furnish a room, flat or even a whole house. For your project there is a wide range of elements as well as large catalogues with objects, materials and textures available. Using this software you will not only build your dream home, but also easily design the whole property. Shape the terrain almost realistically with hills, slopes, swales etc. With the editor you can add a terrace, paths or (flower) beds. Catalogues with garden furniture and plants are also available for individual garden design. Ashampoo Home Designer Pro offers 3D and 2D views to look at your results. This way you dont only get a realistic 3D view, but also the exact ground plan of your project. Then you can print or save your results in different image file formats. If you already use the Ashampoo Home Designer, you will be able to import your previous projects, and edit, expand or complete them with Ashampoo Home Designer Pro. But dont worry, if you have no previous experience with the Ashampoo Home Designer. Getting started is quick and easy, because Ashampoo Home Designer Pro offers a start wizard. In an intuitive step-by-step process you will draw the ground plan of a room or floor and adjust basic settings for your project. With the start wizard its also possible to watch training videos or open a sample project, which can be edited in the editor. Use the Ashampoo Home Designer Pro to plan, experiment and create a realistic picture of your project without further costs or mispurchases.

Software Highlights:
Create and furnish rooms or even a multi-story house Start wizard and project wizard Import Ashampoo Home Designer projects Design a garden with realistic terrain forms Interior furnishing with large catalogues containing objects, textures and materials 2D and 3D views Realistic visualization with ray tracing, antialiasing, smooth shadows and ambient occlusion Print or save results in different image file formats

Please note: The Ashampoo Kitchen Catalog Extension and the Ashampoo Office Catalog Extension include several hundred 3D objects for detailed and realistic kitchen and office planning.

Planning and construction

Ashampoo Home Designer Pro, the newest extension of the Ashampoo CAD & Construction software series, combines the straightforwardness of creating ground plans with the freedom of individual design. The new start wizard offers different options to get started with a project. You can for example watch training videos first, or open a sample project and edit it. The fastest and easiest way to start a project is to use the project wizard. In two easy steps you can adjust basic settings for your project and draw the outline of a floor or room on the basis of different shapes. Planning gets even easier with the construction and input aids. You can for example use guide lines and numerical reference points to exactly place objects. If youd like to create several identical objects, for example chairs around a dining room table, use the function multiple copy, with which you can create any number of copies of the desired object with just a few clicks. Ashampoo Home Designer Pro contains all constructive functions to design whole floors or buildings. Predefined elements like walls, ceilings, staircases or roofs also make planning easier. Complete your project with elements from catalogues containing windows, doors, solar elements etc. When you designed a floor, the software provides the option to copy the whole floor, and this way a multi-story building is created in seconds. If youd like to create buildings with clinker constructions or insulation, this is no problem either. Just use the layer construction option for a detailed presentation of the layers of walls, ceilings or floors. These layer constructions can also be saved to a catalogue. With the Ashampoo Home Designer Pro you can use different views to look at your project. In order to get a realistic image of your project use the 3D view. In the 3D view you can rotate, pan and also zoom in and out of your project, in order to look at it from every angle. The 2D view shows the exact ground plan of your project. Of course you can use both views parallel, for example to already see your project in 3D, when drawing the ground plan. Construction features at a glance Creation of multi-story buildings 2D and 3D view Polygonal winding staircases (solid or wooden) Polygonal landing staircases (solid or wooden) Construction aids, 3D/2D guidelines 3D /2D dimensioning, snap-to functions for 3D objects Accurate positioning using reference points and numerical editing

 Detailed visibilities for each view, settings for level of details shown Layer constructions for walls, ceilings and floors Project management with the project viewer Creation of layers Predefined dormer types including eyebrow and arched dormers Extensive range of functions for roofs and dormers incl. gutters etc. Predefined banisters for staircases Insert openings in walls and facade elements Creation of design variants Creation of own layer constructions and usage in a catalogue

Creative room and garden design

Looking for new wallpaper? Which looks better, carpet or parquet? These and other questions are no problem for the Ashampoo Home Designer Pro. Create detailed, individual rooms according to your desires. Change the furnishing and experiment with materials, before you make any purchases that you might regret later. Ashampoo Home Designer Pro offers a big selection of catalogues with different textures for your rooms. To change walls to your desired color, for example, just select all walls of the room and place the desired color on the walls using drag & drop. Of course you cannot only fit your rooms with wallpaper and flooring, but also arrange them perfectly with furniture, lighting and accessories. The extensive catalogue contains 2D and 3D objects, to furnish your rooms according to your wishes. The furnishing catalogues also include many real existing objects from well-known manufacturers, in order to enable more exact and true-to-life planning. All objects can be inserted and moved easily with drag & drop. With only a few clicks in the settings, objects can also be copied and scaled accordingly. Besides your personal dream home, you can also plan your dream garden. Create a realistic garden with 3D modeling with different terrain forms, like hills, swales, walls etc. You can also insert (flower) beds, paths, terraces and water courses. In order to complete the draft of your garden you can insert garden furniture and many different 2D and 3D plants from the object catalogues. Design features at a glance Assistants to transfer properties, make selections etc. Extensive catalogues with 2D and 3D objects, materials and symbols (also catalogues of manufacturers) Creation of 2D symbols and design elements Scaling of objects Multiple copies of objects 3D terrain model with several, predefined terrain forms Landscape gardening with areas like terraces, (flower) beds, paths and water courses 2D and 3D plants for garden design

Lifelike design
Advanced visualization features ensure a lifelike 3D view in the Ashampoo Home Designer Pro. All objects in the 3D view are almost depicted realistically. Among other things the ray tracing feature is used for this. It calculates the incidence of light on objects. Using ray tracing its also possible to adjust the settings for ambient occlusion and smooth shadows. Antialiasing adds to an improved realization of objects. Adjust the individual sun and moon position settings in order to create realistic lighting conditions for your project. In the settings you can specify the location of your project, set a date and time as well as adjust the light intensity of the sun and the moon. In order to make your project even more lifelike, its possible to add people to the 3D view. The object catalogues contain a folder with many 3D images. These people are shown in lots of different situations, for example walking with a stroller, on a bike, playing and in lots of other situations. Personalize your project even further by importing your own images and using them as background. This way youll get an even clearer idea of what your new home will actually look like in a certain environment.

Export
When you completed the plan of your project, you certainly will want to turn these into reality. For this Ashampoo Home Designer Pro provides several, effective functions. Create lists of all objects, furniture and materials as PDF, RTF, XML, HTML or Excel file. This way shopping is more comfortable and you can easily calculate the costs of your project. Furthermore you can create bitmap images of your plan. These may include different views including the ground plan. The lists and images are not only valuable reference material, but are also extremely helpful when hiring contractors.

Extend your creative possibilities with new 3D objects. The Ashampoo Kitchen Catalog Extension includes kitchen lines and devices for your kitchen catalogs. Numerous new 3D objects for your office planning are included in the Ashampoo Office Catalog Extension.

Requirements Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32bit/64bit) Computer: Any computer that runs one of the above operating systems at a reasonable speed. Please install the latest video drivers for best results. CPU: 1200 MHz (or higher) x86 CPU RAM: Min. 1 GB RAM Hard Drive Space: 1000 MB Software: Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 C++ Redistributables

Languages (3): German, English, French Trial period: 40 Days (10 days + 30 days after e-mail registration) Download link: http://www.ashampoo.com/ashampoo_home_designer_pro_sm.exe (964.70MB)

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