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Download a trial and see why Chief Architect is the best residential home design software for architects, home builders, and remodeling professionals. Chief Architect software is the professional tool of choice for architects, home builders, remodelers, and interior designers.

Smart building technology makes it easy to create construction drawings, floor plans, elevations, 3D renderings , and panoramic renderings. As you draw walls, windows, and doors, the program simultaneously creates a 3D model. These 3D models can be shared with homeowners, structural engineers or subcontractors using the 3D Viewer app. Chief Architect Software offers two professional design products—Premier and Interiors.

Chief Architect Premier is the best software product for full residential or light commercial design—everything inside and outside the house. Powerful building and drafting tools help professionals quickly create plans according to standard building practices. Every element placed in the plan has commonly used defaults to make the design process efficient and productive.

As you draw walls, the program automatically creates a 3D model and generates a Materials List. Finally, Chief Architect includes design tools for photo-realistic Renderings, Artistic Renderings and Virtual Tours to help clients visualize your designs.

With the manual roof tools, create any style including curved roofs. Define hand Framed or Truss framed roofs and floors. See more Building Design features. Chief Architect uses smart design objects, such as cabinets, to quickly and easily create various styles, shapes and sizes. Chief Architect partners with specific manufacturers cabinets, appliances, doors, windows, countertops and flooring so that styles, finishes and other product-specific design details can be accurately drawn and rendered.

As you draw walls, the program automatically creates a 3D model and supports full 3D editing. An extensive 3D Library of architectural objects and tools make it easy to detail and accessorize your designs so that styles, finishes and other product-specific design details can be accurately rendered. See our Samples Gallery. View Gallery. Create professional residential construction drawings for permits, subcontractors and clients. Instant materials lists and schedules give you the information you need to quickly cost out your jobs.

Chief Architect has a powerful CAD software engine that includes tools for lines, polylines, splines, arcs and solids to produce objects that range from custom entry columns to a deck ledger detail. Quickly manipulate objects with multiple copy, align, reflect and replicate at specific intervals. All views in your project - Floor Plans, Framing, Electrical, Section Details and Elevations have a user defined scale and link to a specific drawing that updates as your design changes.

Layers control what displays for each of the drawing pages to help create professional detailed construction drawings.