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

My husband is a Civil Engineer and Im a Software Engineer, so between the two of us weve been able to dig deep into this.

Having used Chief Architect for year (years ago) I figured it would not be hard top convert to this, boy was I wrong, not at all intuitive at all. Big thumbs down, should have bought the more expensive superior Chief Architect.

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.

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.

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

This is same as Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional. When it launches, it displays the Ashampoo Branding. I am using a Surface Pro 6 tablet with the i5 chipset and installation was easy - and the activation code actually has instruction so you can tell the difference between numbers and letters that look similar. That was a really nice perk I wish more software would include.

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.

When I first used AutoCAD 2.5 on a 80286, I lacked an 80287 or Weitek. I also had no idea what I was doing. Sure enough, I was a kid armed with 1.2MB disks, but no real understanding of 2D CAD software. A few years later I actually was pretty proficient with AutoCAD 10 (having a mouse definitely helped). Since then, Ive used a number of CAD packages for Windows and Unix, and use FreeCAD for my personal use. While FreeCAD is fine (as was SketchUp when Google still owned it), I was curious what Ashampoos 3D CAD 7 Professional would bring to the table, as its a commercial product.

GARBAGE!! No volume on videos

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.