Customer Reviews

Floor Plan 3D V11 Remodel & Home Design

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I can't understand why this product is still being pawned off on the public. This is hands down the worst Home design program ever developed. I have tried to use this software since FloorPlan 3. It was trash then and still is. It has an incredible amount of professional features. It's just too bad you can't use them efficiently with all the gliches and slow rendering even on my state of the art Core2 duo, Radeon x1950xt machine. Save your time and money on this garbage. IMSI's tech support will not help in the slightest. It is full of bugs and the slowest rendering program I have ever seen. Their are several other quality home design architectual programs that actually work. A full feature program like Punch Home Design, Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer is great, or even the less expensive Broderbund 3d Home Architect all are a lot better products. You could even use the kids 'Sims' pc game or 'Second Life' online and get a lot better quality and speed remodling and designing homes.

Easy to use for planning layouts but it is a bit buggy. There are several known bugs and the publisher has yet to address them with any kind of update.

For simple layouts, this program is fairly intuitive, but for more complex items, there is quite a bit of a learning curve.

I wanted to design a kitchen in my flat so I decided to try this software. What a mistake! I cannot stress how poor this software is. $30 is not much to pay for a basic product, but it is a lot to pay for nothing.

Due to a raft of bugs it is virtually impossible to achieve anything productive. It's a struggle to even draw a set of walls. As for trying to get the software to show the wall dimensions....forget it! Walls start to mysteriously dissapear, text starts to collide on the design obscuring values, and some of the graphics don't print including the measurements. The design file becomes 'corrupted' preventing any new graphics being added...and I suspect it's .dxf export function doesn't produce valid .dxf files, which means the design/work is stuck in the software. Who ever developed this software needs to consider a career change. I won't mention the software test team because I'm assuming there isn't one. Amazon, dump this product!

A professional software developer.

Do not purchase this program. The testimonials on the website are false. I have spent weeks trying to use it for a simple kitchen design and have been unsuccessful. The refund policy is terrible, 3 days only!!! It took me 3 days just to read how to draw a floor plan!!!! Their marketing tactics should be investigated.
DO NOT PURCHASE

this product is actually very easy to use, unlike so many others that claim to be easy. you just click on the wall and place it and it tells you the size and everything. floorplans with this product are quick, it took me longer to measure my rooms then to make the floorplan so I could remodel, it has furniture appliances etc to make things easy. I was able to make a pretty good floorplan in less then a half hour.
I would recommend this product very highly. I have purchased more expensive ones and they were just hard to use.
This one is awesome, easy and detailed.
Dave

Wanted a software program to help design my kitchen. This software was not the latest, therefore, the price reflected that. Fine print says to make sure your computer is compatible with the software as it is not returnable. I made sure it was compatible based on what the description said on the website. Unfortunately it was NOT compatible. Tried several times unsuccessfully. Even called tech support. They couldn't help me either. Since I can't return it I am throwing it away. At least I didn't spend a fortune on it. Sad when you can't even believe the claim that it will be compatible when they say it will be. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!

Very difficult even to get started. I gave up trying to set up a simple room plan using the wizard after half a dozen attempts, then drew the walls manually. It defaulted to the exterior dimensions (i.e. including a random wall thickness) so all my measurements were off. Then found I had to add a floor (which it doesn't default to the room size!).
I was designing a bathroom and it does not include square or rectangular shower enclosures as options, nor is it possible to put in glass partitions.
Pretty hopeless really. Glad I only paid for a month's subscription.

For some reason I can only do 4" walls, and the help directions are no help trying to understand how to add different wall thickness properties.

Using the furniture insert process is more limited the Version 5.0.

The only thing I did find positive was that it did provide adding decks and driveways.

This software was just what I needed for my design class. It helped so much, my grade wouldn't have been as good without it(A).

Lots of options, pretty easy to use (but I have used another similar program so I had a head start)but it thinks you can put a 36" cabinet, a 30" oven & a 30" refridgerator in a 7' 9" space. My math says 36+30+30 = 8 feet. This is so deceptive as to make the program worse than useless!! The 3-D renerdering is pretty bad too. I'm asking for my money back.