3D CAD 7 Professional - Plan & design buildings from initial rough sketches to the finished blueprints - CAD and architecture software

You need to already be expert level with this software prior to ordering. My husband has experience with three other builder type programs and we wanted a better one to finalize building plans on our planned gut/remodel of our home. Neither of us can get this thing to work... and what instructions there are do not match this program. Do not order this unless you already are using it at work and know how to run it.

This was very easy to install and download on a Windows 10 OS. It runs well.

I installed this on my workstation to work on building my dream home. I have started building this home in multiple softwares but havent found one that does EVERYTHING yet. Most of them only allow sketches or only let you put in finishing touches.

This is a very full featured CAD program for a very low price. In my brief time playing with it, there was not much it couldn’t do, and with one exception that may not matter to you it works just fine. But I would never recommend it.

This tools is good for working out an initial house layout. It is not a professional drafting program. Do not expect to produce working drawings for building a house. It is also very buggy. If you are easily frustrated by buggy software you should probably stay away.

I actually got this for someone who works with AutoCAD, has drafting experience, and hes usually building something, whether its his own 3D printer, cabinets, a robot, a car, or music from software. While this isnt AutoCAD brand, it is a less expensive alternative, which is a major selling point when it comes to software. It is feature-rich and geared more toward the technical/engineering minds and professionals.

If you have any interest in architecture or designing buildings, this is the way to go. The program is simple and easy to use, yet detailed and full of lots of awesome features. The 3D objects and the ability to export models to Maxon Cinema 4D put this program above its competitors.

This professional architectures software should have been left exactly to those pros. I ordered this software expecting to use it to help me in a project to remodel my home. It turned out to be far too complex for an amateur like me. A professional well versed in architectural design and other program used in that field could probably get great benefit from this software, but I found the program confusing and not intuitive for a beginner. Id didnt make too much headway after some video tutorials I found, though I can say that these tutorials did show that this software has many features. I hope that the producers of this program give consideration to putting out tutorials and guides targeted more toward the non-specialist, if only to generate a wider market for what they must have put considerable resources into developing.

Reading the box, I was excited that it mentioned that it could use things saved in .dae files. This sparked my interest since I am making mesh objects for use in a virtual world. Other reviews mentioned the program being difficult to use for those not experienced in other DAD programs. I felt confident since I have used CAD programs for a long time. The program installed easily from the CD. Then I went to the file menu expecting to see import as one of the options. It wasn’t there. I did a help search for import and found a reference to importing DXF files in which it indicated that I should go to the file menu and select the import DXF option. No mention of other formats and that option wasn’t on the file menu anyway. I did find over in the 3D drop down a place where I could pick up objects that I had with the .dae format and that did work as I could see the object I was expecting. It could be that if one is very persistent this program may have benefits over other solutions.

The program has the potential to be incredible. But there is ZERO support for the program. The only documents you can find from the manufacture are not in English, they are Russian I think. Makes it incredibly difficult to work through. I spent the better part of 5 hours attempting to create a simple shed structure with no luck. Even following along with their videos online in a different language yielded no results as the videos are of a different version of this program.