#Broderbund 3d home architect deluxe 5.0 pro#

I'm looking forward to being able to add landscape design to my house plan (the old 4.0 only supported rectangular lots).

#Broderbund 3d home architect deluxe 5.0 pro#

I am now assuming that if Home Designer Pro 9 (which is over of my price budget) can open the plans, so can Home Designer Suite. However, all I had to do is open them in 4.0, save them and re-copy to the new PC and they will open now also. You cannot save files in the trial version but if you can read and edit the files, I assume the rest should not be a problem.īTW, I had some old plans from an even earlier version dating back before 1998 that could not be read by release 9. I downloaded the trial copy of Home Designer Pro 9 and copied over my old plan directory.Īs Elovia warned, I received several warning errors when I tried to open the plans - looking for library objects (doors, appliances, etc.) but I can open and view files. The program was created by Advanced Relational Technologies, who also sold their own high-end commercial CAD program called 'Chief Architect'. To run 3D Home Architect Deluxe 4 from the.

If the 3D Home Architect Deluxe 4 startup window does not appear, you can run the program from the Windows desktop. Click the Run button on the 3D Home Architect Deluxe 4 startup window.

It includes a variety of home decor related objects, and can render the results in 3D. After successfully installing the program, insert the 3D Home Architect Deluxe 4 CD-ROM into the CD drive. Since the old Broderbund 4.0 plan files were pl1, I decided to give it a try. Broderbunds 3D Home Architect is a home-design oriented CAD program. I noticed in the on-line demo of Home Designer, the 'Open' command looked for file extensions.