Ashampoo^® 3­D CAD Architecture 10⁠

3D house planner with 100% transparency and instant assistance!

Would you like to plan and design your new house at home and in peace? Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture is for all who want to make their visions a reality. The integrated step-by-step wizard will get you reliable results fast. 2D, 3D and cross-section views help you keep an eye on your project and instantly spot missing parts or sections that need more work. The program helps you identify and eliminate weak points and bottlenecks! Whether you're building or redecorating a house - visualize in advance what the finished project will look like! Get yourself the home design and 3D construction software that will get you results!

New design and construction tools

Numeric input tools are a must-have for exact plans, which is why the new version has made great strides in this area! New input methods for walls, windows, and doors make your life easier while new number-focused tools allow for added precision and flexibility in these areas. Along with the new extra parts for windows, doors, shutter boxes, blinds and borders, this program delivers a significant productivity boost to all design and construction-related projects.

Many new catalogs and objects

Ashampoo 3D CAD is also so popular because of the sheer number of objects it comes with. Get access to over 1,200 new ED objects and 250 ready-made groups with the new group catalog! It includes groups of pre-assembled garages, kitchen units, garden sheds, and saunas. Create your own directories and access them directly through the catalog. It's a usability dream come true! And by popular customer request, we've added the ability to measure heights at values above sea level in cross-sections and views. Get ready for a program that also shines in the details!

New in Ashampoo® 3D CAD Architecture

• Auto-dimensioning for 2D floor plans and views
• Automatic item text, mark your walls and windows with a unique item number
• Door and Window catalog, extended catalog with US style windows
• Railings, railing editor dialog with multiple style options
• Railing style catalog, save your own railing design
• Fences, as a variant of railings, automatically follow your 3D terrain design
• Retaining walls, used for your plot, garden and terrain design
• Balcony catalog with different railing styles
• New north arrow property dialog, including 2D preview, rotation options, scaling
• New plot element for terrain editing
• Automatic borders for terrain elements such as beds, terrace, etc.
• Extended catalogs, new doors, more than 250 new 3D objects, 200 new 2D symbols, etc.
• Area specifications for 2D drawing elements, polygons, circles, rectangles, etc.

Photovoltaic installations - rooftop arrays and flat roofs

No good project design should be without photovoltaic installations. For roof-mounted system, you can already specify their layout, select modules from the object catalog and their placement during the setup phase. For flat roofs, you can simply specify which parts will be or will not be used for photovoltaic elements during the design phase. When you're done, you can place the entire installation in just two clicks and adjust distances between rows of panels or rotate and realign them - it's the perfect approach to preliminary planning!

Powerful area analysis

Due to popular demand, we have added additional area analysis and calculation features plus suitable output templates. Aside from living space you can now also process floor space, walls, ceilings, facades and many other areas. Facade areas can also be easily exported to PDF, RTF or Excel files! Position lists for windows are also no longer a problem.

Mirror objects with ease

Two powerful tools will help you mirror 3D and 2D objects and symbols either across any axis or their center points. This also works with multi-selections of the same element type which can save you a lot of time! CAD software doesn't get any more flexible than this!

Unmatched efficiency

The clean, thematically structured user interface gives you 1-click access to all features. Everything is logically arranged and easily accessible. You decide whether you'll use classic toolbars or the modern ribbons you know from Microsoft Office products.

Input aids and wizards for straightforward handling

From roof designs to terrain modeling - Ashampoo 3D CAD provides useful input aids and wizards for all complex operations. You focus on the contents and the software does the rest - as it should be.

Exterior and interior design elements included

The built-in object catalog gives you access to various building components, textures, materials and symbols. It takes only a single click to place doors, windows, balconies, carports as well as sanitary and electrical installations in your designs. You can import additional objects from SketchUp and Collada. This gives you a detailed view of the finished project already in the planning phase - down to the last details!

Building material hub with "informed" CAD textures

mtextur.com provides architects, designers and planners with details on building materials and their manufacturers for free. Found materials are downloadable as high resolution CAD and BIM textures for immediate use with your planning software of choice. You may also search for specific building materials based on material group, color, use case, manufacturer or product line. Links to additional details, reference examples and PDFs with details on various materials are also available. With over 10k informed materials, mtextur is the biggest hub for real CAD textures (online since 2006) world-wide. This will truly simplify all of your planning in the age of BIM (Building Information Modeling).

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