Instant Shed & Shop Design

by IMSI Design

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005YTYS
• Item model number: 6011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 18, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,812 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #15 in Software > Graphics > CAD
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Software for designing sheds and shopsProduct InformationInstant Shed & Shop Design gives you the ability to design your own shedor shop with ease. It's easy to start with a basic design and modify it to fityour needs. Your design is precisely created to scale and can be customized byadding pre-drawn doors windows and roof styles. The simple to learn easy touse software with powerful features with over 20 detailed drawings 2D and 3Ddrawing wizards an export bill of materials lists and a full selection of CADtools!Product Features3D Shed WizardChoose from popular shed designs scaled to fit your needs. Add or removefeatures with our large variety of editing tools.Check the AnglesWork out the details of your design and view it from all sides as well as floorplan view.Automatic ShedsJust plug in numbers for depth height and width and the program generates your3D shed right before your eyes!Check The AnglesObserve your layout view from top or side elevation.Customize Your ShedDrag and Drop any of our pre-drawn shop and shed furnishings.Windows System Requirements Windows 95 98 Me NT 4.0 2000 XP Vista Windows 7 (32-bit) Pentium (or equivalent) processor 16MB of RAM CD-ROM Drive SuperVGA monitor capable of at least 800x600 resolution SuperVGA graphics card capable of 256 or more colors

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A great product for simple things but..., October 3, 2007

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Val (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Instant Shed & Shop Design (CD-ROM)

I bought this software with the following in my mind: "I need a program that asks me some simple question about the shed I want to build and will do the design for me". And in that respect, the program worked just great. It has a shed wizard that does just that and the result is spectacular.
BUT...
I wanted to add a window to my shed (do I ask for too much?). Well... It was not easy and after doing this the window did not show up in my list of material. I wanted to put dimensions on my drawing and they all look... odd and out of place. You also can't have a mix of dimensions between feet and inches...
Now please take all these comments with a grain of salt. I never used a DesignCAD product in my entire life.

2.0 out of 5 stars Instant Shed & Shop Design - Rip Off, October 9, 2011

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Allan Bankston - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Instant Shed & Shop Design (CD-ROM)

This program was not worth the money I spent on it. It is very limited in what you can do with the program.

1.0 out of 5 stars a waste of money, August 31, 2010

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robertolini - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Shed & Shop Design (CD-ROM)

this software hasn't been updated in 5 years. it has bugs that are immediately apparent when trying to use the shed wizard (you tell it you don't want a rear door and it adds one anyway). it is seriously limited in that you can only add 1 window per wall.

the list of issues is long. the CAD program it's built with is 5 major releases behind the current version. the company's online 'support' is what you'd have expected of an online presence 10 years ago. trying to send an email for support is next to useless and requesting a refund is worse.

save yourself some aggravation and don't bother.