


You can then draw the 3D items on top of the plan and hide the original when everything’s in its right place. To do that you’ll need to know (or guess) the dimensions of a wall, line or other feature in the drawing if you can’t provide that, DreamPlan can’t work out what’s going on. One of DreamPlan’s most interesting features is its Trace Wizard, which enables you to import any JPG or PNG file (such as a floor plan) and then trace over the top of it. We found the user interface a little unintuitive, especially when it comes to moving around your design (Image credit: Carrie Marshall) There’s also a useful landscaping brush that you can quickly use to deform the default flat landscape to add realistic hills and dips. That makes creating a new room or structure incredibly quick. Then it’s just a matter of putting it into place for items that tend to repeat, such as walls or fencing, you select your start point and the item is automatically repeated as you move the mouse around. Selecting one of those items displays its properties including its style and color as well as item-specific details such as the slope and size of a roof or the width and tread height of stairs. There are five sets of predefined objects – building, exterior, interior, decks and landscaping – and context-sensitive toolbars for each, so for example tapping on Building gives you walls, windows, doors, floors, ceilings and so on. The navigation may be sluggish but creating is very quick, even in 3D.
DREAMPLAN HOME SOFTWARE
and writes and design software for a living.Unlike many other home design apps, DreamPlan enables you to create your structure while working in 3D view (Image credit: Carrie Marshall) Note that I am a porfessional computer user who uses a lot of different software applications every day: everything from Photoshop, Lightroom, Office suites, VS Studio etc. Stairs vanished from the 2D view with no obvious way to get them back. Very small dimenstions when drawing objects.ĥ. Selection of objects is very hit and miss.Ĥ. A deck object I had drawn suddenly was only recognised as stairs, stairs would not attach to deck objects no what I did to the riser/trad combination (simple geometry showed it should have worked), deck to deck stair transitions would not work no matter what I did.ģ. colors do not work (brown is orange, orange is yellow etc.). The user interface in non intuitive and very difficult to use.Ģ.
DREAMPLAN HOME FULL VERSION
Being somewhat naive, I think, I paid the $39.99 for the full version and there was no improvement and it simply go worse from there.ġ.


DREAMPLAN HOME FREE
I acquired the free version to try it out and found it very difficult to use.
DREAMPLAN HOME DOWNLOAD
