3D home modelling software? (free)

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April 15, 2017 at 7:58 pm #6281
tadka
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I am struggling to come up with any ideas to furnish my bedroom. Whatever I think of it just doesn’t seem to work well.

Is there a simple easy to use and free software I could use go get some visual help? Something that would allow me to enter the measurements of my room and desired furniture and then move it about and see it from different angles.

Taaaa
April 15, 2017 at 9:04 pm #6283
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Free normally means very limited.Scaled textures are likely to be very simple options, and furniture will be just representative.

Search for free interior decorating software. Your best bet for a simple (easy) approachis to go with an on-line option. Alternately use Sketchup – more work required by you to make it functional.
April 15, 2017 at 9:08 pm #6284
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Ikea’s Home Planner software is OK.
April 16, 2017 at 8:23 am #6300
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Blender has an architectural plugin that makes building a room very easy, and will work to real world scale (in fact, it’s recommended to use real world scale as it makes lighting easier).

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April 16, 2017 at 11:06 am #6305
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Looks like there are loads of online versions of this tool. All pretty bad though. All furniture shops seem to have them but only let you use their furniture they currently have for sale which is not good if you want to see how it will fit in a room with different furniture. And none allow you to take a generic piece of furniture and resize it to achieve precise duplication.

Will try Blender later and see how that goes.
April 16, 2017 at 11:58 am #6306
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Good luck with Blender – it is not ‘simple’, you may need to stick at it. Custom furniture could be quite a hard task.

You may be better off making a cardboard model of your room from a shoebox and then use lumps of playdoh to model your furniture.
April 16, 2017 at 12:10 pm #6307
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Is this any good for you ?

http://opunplanner.com/interior-design-software.php

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April 16, 2017 at 1:23 pm #6308
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Boris wrote:

Is this any good for you ? http://opunplanner.com/interior-design-software.php

I tried that one, doesn’t allow to resize furniture. And they don’t even have a super kingsize bed.
April 16, 2017 at 1:25 pm #6309
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Ed P wrote:

Good luck with Blender – it is not ‘simple’, you may need to stick at it. Custom furniture could be quite a hard task. You may be better off making a cardboard model of your room from a shoebox and then use lumps of playdoh to model your furniture.

You might be right, just doing my own sketches might be a lot easier.
April 17, 2017 at 1:02 am #6322
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Haven’t posted a list of freeware for a long time ……

ffpu = free for personal use

Room/Garden Planners

Arrange A Room (Better Homes & Gardens – online) – http://www.bhg.com/decorating/arrange-a-room/
Autodesk Homestyler (was Project Dragonfly – online) – http://www.homestyler.com/home
Blophome – http://www.blophome.com/EN/
ColorJive – http://colorjive.com/home.action
Color Scheme Designer – http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Colors Pallette Generator – http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/index.php
Design Your Garden (BBC) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/
– Virtual Garden – http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/htbg2/virtual_garden/
Design Your Room (online) – http://www.designyourdorm.com/
DreamPlan Home Design Software – http://www.nchsoftware.com/design/index.html
Envisioneer Express – http://www.envisioneerexpress.com/
Exhibit Core Floor Planner (online) – http://www.exhibitcore.net/e_manager/floorplanner/exhibitcoreplanner.aspx
Garden Design Tool (online – reg req) – http://www.plantify.co.uk/garden-design-tool/about
Floorplan 3D –
Floorplanner (2d/3d – ffpu) – http://www.floorplanner.com/
Floorplanner (online) – http://www.smallblueprinter.com/floorplan/floorplan.html
Gliffy – http://www.gliffy.com/floor-plan-software/
Ikea Room Planners – http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/splashplanners_new.html
– http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB/customer_service/ikea_services/kitchen_planner.html
Master-Design Art-Shop X-lite – http://www.tips.it/eng/master_design_negoziante.htm
MyVirtualHome – http://mvh.com.au/portal/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
OpunPlanner (online) – http://opunplanner.com/interior-design-software.php
PCon Planner – http://pcon-planner.com/
Project Dragonfly – now Autodesk Homestyler
Room Arranger 3.26 (LFV) – http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page31.html
Roomeon 3D Planner (ffpu) – http://en.roomeon.com/features
Roomful Express (online) – http://roomfulexpress.icovia.com/
Room Sketcher – http://www.roomsketcher.com/en/
Showoff Home & Landscape Design (reg req – online) – http://www.showoff.com/
Sweet Home 3D – http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/
Workshop Planner (online) – http://cdn0.grizzly.com/shopplanner/v1-4/1/shopplanner.html

If anyone wishes to access & save any of my freeware lists they are available to view or download

– http://www.box.net/wasbitlists

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April 18, 2017 at 2:28 am #6358
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tadka wrote:

Ed P wrote:

Good luck with Blender – it is not ‘simple’, you may need to stick at it. Custom furniture could be quite a hard task. You may be better off making a cardboard model of your room from a shoebox and then use lumps of playdoh to model your furniture.

You might be right, just doing my own sketches might be a lot easier.

Getting some graph paper and a pencil is probably the way forward :good:
April 18, 2017 at 7:33 am #6363
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Getting some graph paper and a pencil is probably the way forward

Isometric paper used to be the old skool way of doing such things, as you can do two walls+floor+ceiling on each page.

I’d forgotten how many different forms of graph paper existed. Print your own! link
April 18, 2017 at 9:58 am #6367
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It looks like the old fashioned way is the way for me here. I tried a couple randomly selected websites from wasbit’s list but they all lack one feature I thought was going to be fundamental to them all – resizing a piece of furniture. My goal is to find a way to cram all pieces of furniture I need into a smallish bedroom. I think I’ll draw my room on a graph paper and then do cut-outs of paper to represent furniture of various sizes and see what I can make fit.
April 18, 2017 at 9:23 pm #6409
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Ed P wrote:

Getting some graph paper and a pencil is probably the way forward

Isometric paper used to be the old skool way of doing such things, as you can do two walls+floor+ceiling on each page. I’d forgotten how many different forms of graph paper existed. Print your own! link

Turn the graph paper by 45 degrees? B-) 😀

EDIT: I got my angles confused :wacko:
April 18, 2017 at 9:55 pm #6412
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Take a look at the isometric paper option in the print link and you will see just how useful it can be for scaled 3d sketches..
April 18, 2017 at 10:08 pm #6415
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To be fair, I like that. That would have come in handy a few times over the years. Thanks Ed 🙂
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