Home & Landscape Design Architectural Series v17

Home and Landscape Design Architectural Series is the flagship product combining powerful design tools and how-to tips to complete your projects. Tackle any remodeling, refreshing, or new construction design for both indoors and out.

Create architectural level designs. Add realism to your projects and visualize every detail.

Architectural Series’ exclusive LightWorks™ technology lets you visualize your work immediately with the most photo-realistic rendering.

• Instant room additions
• QuickPalette
• Room view
• Estimate by rooms
• Integrated ‘How-To' tips
• Smart leader call-out tool
• Integrates with mobile Landscape Quote

QuickStart Preview
Open up a 3d view of the QuickStart layout and see inside your plan and adjust your rooms before building the walls and roof.

RoomView
With this new 3D navigation tool, select a room in 2D and get an instant aerial view looking down in to the selected room or rooms. Useful for working in confined spaces like bathrooms and closets.

Room Addition
New tool that will add a room addition on the perimeter of the house. Perfect to extend your living space, add a solarium or sun room, or perhaps a screened in porch.

QuickPalette
Customizable sets of materials and colors that can be applied to a room instantly. Create a tropical color scheme, a light and bright color scheme, a bold in reds color scheme, etc. When you drag a QuickPalette in to a room, it will apply all of the colors to the appropriate surfaces in the room instantly.

Room Estimating
A new extension to the Estimating tool, estimator now estimates by room to help with your remodeling or decorating projects.

Leader Dimension Tool
When you click on an object in the drawing, it will automatically insert a call out label which you can customize.

Save 2D Plan to Image
Share your 2D plan easily by exporting it to a 2D image (bmp, jpeg, png, tiff) with options to set the size and control how large the file will be.

Export to Landscape Quote
Export data for use in the new mobile Landscape Quote app.

LightWorks^TM Photo-realistic Rendering
Architectural Series includes photo-realistic rendering to add stunning realism to your designs. Spectacular lighting and shadow effects, combined with reflections, will make your 3D renderings come to life.

Use special effects options to create art from your designs!

Elevation Editor
Dynamically edit within elevation views. Elevations can be viewed as line drawings, shaded line drawings, full color, and more. Edit Smart Object positioning and easily place or stack windows in 3D. Top down viewpoint allows you to view walls, furniture or plant placement for a unique perspective of your design.

Professional Home Plan Layers
Electrical Plan, Foundation Plan, Plumbing Plan, Heating/Ventilating/Cooling

Estimator
Estimator produces a handy report in an editable, printable spreadsheet format, tabulating and updating as you draw!

ProjecTape™ Precision Measuring
Instantly measure distances anywhere from within your drawing. Ideal for quick reference or planning furniture placement.

Doors, Walls, Windows, and Fixtures
Custom sizing to fit your plan, create custom grills, includes cased door openings.

Storage Designer
Transform cluttered space into the ideal storage space. Our library also includes storage systems for closets and garages.

Design Defaults
Choose default materials and colors for doors, windows, and more, before you start designing. A real time-saver!

Decorator Palette
Try different paint and trim color combinations. Save favorite palettes, then click to automatically change and view combinations.

Fireplace Designer
Automatically creates your fireplace to spec.

Mantel Designer
Quick and easy! Choose custom styles and trim to create a unique and fully detailed mantel design.

Ceiling Designer
Auto-generate custom tray and recessed ceilings to your specs. You can even add customizable trim to your design.

Kitchen & Bath Design
Turn your drab bathroom and dull kitchen into a sparkling new space with helpful decorating ideas. You can shop from a vast catalog of interior design elements to determine the best choices for your kitchen and bathroom.

Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances. Also perfect for media centers and garage organization.

Growth Tool
See how your plantings will look years from now! Add even more detail...Use the grow tool with global sun positioning to view how shade affects your landscaping as it grows

Site Planner
Lay out your lot from a plot plan or legal description. Automatically draws your property line, as you enter the coordinates, then exports your lot into your landscape design.

Plant Finder
PlantFinder™ searches plants for your area, using parameters YOU specify, ensuring growing success.

Design Custom Pools
Pool Designer™ can auto-generate a pool to your specs or you can create your own design from scratch. Pool shape library includes over 30 styles. Choose in or above ground, vinyl lined or composition, multiple depths, shapes, spa combo & more.

Pool Accessories
Use the included accessories library to help plan for pumps & filters, slides, ladders, railings, and pool games...adds even more realism to your design.

Deck Templates
Get started FAST! Editable designs you can use as-is or customize!

Intelli Deck
Intuitively follows the shape of your house, as you draw. Create simple or complex shapes in seconds.