House design

[cosmowe]

Hey Frederik,
some of us already own pay 3d/cad tools like 3Dmax, Cinema4d, Maja, VectorWorks or AutoCAD > So we would take one of these.

We've also renovated a couple of month ago and I used Cinema4D to make a model of our rooms and the interior. I am a Cinema guy....so that was my logical choice. But...I would have choosen Vectorworks over Cinema if my license hadn't expired. Vectorworks - because all those snapping and measure stuff work much better in CAD tools. My opinion.

And there is the free 3D software - Blender. If you never used a 3D software...Blender has a quite steep learning curve but a very big community with lots of tutorials and resources.


Surely there are many more tools out there.....but beside the tools mentioned above + good old google sketchup I've never used them.


Best wishes
cosmowe

[rolandmc]

@Cosmowe, how do you render in Vectorworks? Do you find it comparable to C4D? I love Vectorworks for it's CAD abilities, but with rendering pretty pictures of completed designs I can never get it right. C4D looks to be clearly superior in this sense, but I just don't like using the program and would love to be able to do it in Vectorworks if possible.

Thanks!

Hey Frederik,
some of us already own pay 3d/cad tools like 3Dmax, Cinema4d, Maja, VectorWorks or AutoCAD > So we would take one of these.

We've also renovated a couple of month ago and I used Cinema4D to make a model of our rooms and the interior. I am a Cinema guy....so that was my logical choice. But...I would have choosen Vectorworks over Cinema if my license hadn't expired. Vectorworks - because all those snapping and measure stuff work much better in CAD tools. My opinion.

And there is the free 3D software - Blender. If you never used a 3D software...Blender has a quite steep learning curve but a very big community with lots of tutorials and resources.


Surely there are many more tools out there.....but beside the tools mentioned above + good old google sketchup I've never used them.


Best wishes
cosmowe

[cosmowe]

For me it's harder to get a "nearly" photo-realistic look in vectorworks.... but it's possible Vectorworks/Renderworks. But at the end it's also driven by a maxon renderer.

He just ask for a tool to render the after renovation state...so I don't think he needs it photo-realistic?!
For a fast nice result where exact measures are not required I would always grab trusty Cinema. For complex stuff like for example a convention booth rendering I would start with vectorworks....and import the model to Cinema for texturing and lights. But this is just me....


Best wishes
cosmowe