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Floor Plan 3-D Design Suite 4.0 Special Sized Box | 
 enlarge | From: IMSI
Category: Software
Buy New: $119.99
New (1) Used (2) from $28.99
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 23962
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows NT
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8 x 2
Model: 00-FP3540CC-01
UPC: 730526348019
EAN: 0730526348019
ASIN: B00002S7PO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: WE SHIP OUT DAILY.
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| Features:
| • | Building and landscaping design software | | • | Easy, intuitive tools help you create plans of nearly any scale | | • | 3-D graphics help visualize potential problems | | • | Easily save, print, and e-mail plans | | • | No design experience required |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Did what I needed March 14, 2002
Karl Tyrrell (United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
With this tool I was able to create a virtual model of my home and try out different improvements, furniture, and paint colors. This program allows me to create furniture in TurboCad (a truly great program) and easily access them. The colors in the realistic image tool are accurate enough to use for trying out paint chips on walls (scan the chips in any photo software and sample them for RGB colors). Unfortunately this image tool is Painfully slow. This program handles complex roofs and half stories very poorly. Hopefully newer versions of this software have improved some of its shortcomings (V 6.0 was released in April 2001)
 Only Problems February 18, 2002
Harald (Nuernberg)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I`m very angry about this software. Especially the Garden-Software, but also the Design-Set does not work correctly. Always Errors and break down of my PC. It is gettin' not better by using a 900 MHz-PC. All my complaints to IMSI were without results. Just wasted money !
Floorplan 3D - a struggle February 2, 2002
Mike Early (SF bay area, CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am running Floorplan 3D on windows 2000. I consider myself to be very good at windows GUI, troubleshooting PC software problems, locating information, and making things work. I really wanted to make Floorplan 3D work 'cause I think it could be great. On my 650MHz laptop w/ 256Mb memory, FP3D was very crashy. The install left a lot of loose ends - FP3D wouldnt launch from the start menu shortcut for example. I found that the FP3D UI was very basic, unevolved. I couldnt copy objects and couldnt change properties after placing them. The database kept crashing when I tried to import things from example drawings from their website. I call tech support... they said they were busy - promised to call me back, but never did. FP3D is a cool idea, you can do work with it painfully, but far from a polished product. I put about 12 hours into working the problems, and then decided that even if I became an expert, the workarounds would slow me down too much. I want to do floorplans, not work around software bugs and UI limitations. I am returning my copy for a refund.
Still searching for something better... August 8, 2001
K.W. (American Fork, UT United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have used this program for two years now and find that it can do many fun things. It does have the bugs mentioned in the other reviews, but I have found that many other home design softwares have similar bugs. You can have a "basement" in it, but only if you designate the first floor as the basement and go from there. You can add multiple levels, but it is not intuitive and took me months to figure out how to do. My biggest gripe with this software (and all the others I have tried), is that it will not allow for attic designing. Any new floor level generates a new roof line. I am still searching for a product that will allow me to convert attic space to living space. Also, it does not allow for curved stairs. I have spent hours of fun with this product and have remodeled my home many times on screen. This software remains my favorite until I can find a product that will allow me to convert my attic.
A waste of time...... March 22, 2001
Russ (Indianapolis, IN USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
We were planning on building a home so I purchased this software to help me design a basic floorplan to take to our architect. Luckily all I wanted was a basic design because that is about all you can get.First off, when I got the software home and loaded on my PC it would even run without getting an error. I ended up waiting two months for IMSI to post a "patch" on their website that I could download to fix the error. Then after loading the patch the program would run, but every once in a while it would just crash (especially when trying to delete walls). After doing a few changes I would always have to save it so that I wouldn't lose what I had just done when it crashed. Another bothersome thing is that you cannot print out the floor plan to a specific scale (1/8 inch = 1 foot, etc). In fact, it isn't printed to any scale that I can figure out. It all depends on the size you have it zoomed to on your screen. This was especially annoying when the architect was trying to figure out room sizes. Yes, you can print the dimensions but they are too small to read when you print the floor plan on one sheet of paper. I ended up printing out the floor plan on 6 pieces of paper so that you could read the dimensions and then having to cut and tape the 6 pieces of paper together. The roof drawing feature was very irritating. I turned it on to see what the roof looked like. I guess my plan was too complicated because the software never could figure out what to do, even to the point where it drew one section of the roof upside down so the ceiling was pointing into the air! The worst part was that I turned the roof feature off and then deleted all of the roof that it drew, but then every once it a while it would just decide to draw the roof all over again. I would strongly recommend skipping this software.
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