Instant Architect

by UPPERSPACE CORP

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000059PD8
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 21, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,993 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Instant Architect gives you full-featured CAD at an amazing low price. With 150 FREE pre-drawn floor plans to customize, and a 1000-piece symbol library, you'll be creating incredible drawings in no time -- even if you've never used a CAD program before. You can create floor plans, elevations, landscape plans and more with ease using the intuitive and extensive array of drafting tools.

Instant Architect is based on the award-winning DesignCAD platform, for guaranteed quality.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Other Easy Cadd Program - Punch Professional Home Design, September 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Instant Architect (CD-ROM)

I read a one star response about Instant Architect. Here's my 2 cents. I picked up Professional Home Design by Punch Software. If you want somthing quick and fun to use, this is the program. Once you lay out your floor plan you can click to view it in 3D. The other thing that you can do is click to view the house as it would be framed. This software includes furniture, landscaping, appliances, etc. It also keeps a material list as you design. As an architect, I use AutoCad and Microstation. I bought this for fun and found it to be a pretty good program for the money and a hoot to use. I would highly recommend it. Thanks!!

61 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Instant Architect isn't so instant., July 25, 2001

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Scott (Boise, ID United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Architect (CD-ROM)

I was looking for a product that would help me get some ideas for a new cabin project down on paper. I wanted something that would help me with maintaining scale, automate some of the mundane drawing activites, and perhaps inspire me with ideas. I really didn't want or need all the features of the more expensively priced offerings out there. Given the price of this product my expectations were fairly low regardless what the packaging promised. After experimenting with Instant Architect for a few days it failed to meet even the lowest of my expectations. Here are the list of problems as I perceive them. The product looks like a beefed up version of Microsoft paint and it is slow, slow, slow (running on a P3 600 with 392MB RAM). The rendering is buggy especially when scrolling, often hanging, splitting the image or failing to render it completely. The interface is very rudamentary and clunky. Using the "image gallery" is especially unpleasant. The image library leaves much to be desired. Nearly all of the "150 free pre-drawn floorplans" are absolutley pathetic. Don't go looking for inspiration or ideas there! All in all I really think that this application is a comlete waste of money and time. When it came down to it I found myself struggling more the drawing. If you are looking for the kind of product I am looking for don't waste your time or money on Instant Architect. Stick to pen and paper!

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Instant Architect, March 24, 2003

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"alenquailweim" (Pittsburgh, Pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Architect (CD-ROM)

I have this program and it was not at all what I expected. It's difficult to use. I still haven't figured out to use it even with a printed manual. I mostly wanted a program that I could easily design a spiral staircase with and that would print out a material list for me. I should have saved my money. I think you would have to be an architect for this to be instant.