It works very well, whichever platform you’re using it on. Whichever plan you've chosen, even the free one, should you need more photorealistic renders, they’re only a credit card number away (£7.99 for 20, up to £39.99 for 200). It’s twice as expensive (£10/month, billed yearly at £119.99), and grants you all of the above, but doubles the number of renders and textures. The second subscription is called Commercial.

It even looks like it works with hand drawn plans as well.

This looks like a nifty feature, whereby you import a pre-designed plan, and Planner 5D will transform it into a 3D editable building for you. With it you’re able to use the entire catalog, are granted 60 renders and 60 textures, have access to academy courses, and can make use of Plan Recognition. The first is Personal and will cost you £5 per month (billed yearly at £59.99). The Premium Membership is split into two subscriptions. If you like how Planner 5D works, you might wish to grab yourself a subscription to gain access to additional features. High quality renders of your design are available - at a price (Image credit: Planner 5D) Premium Its length, width, height, even its elevation from the floor. On the software side, this is treated as a premium service, but is somehow available through your web browser.Īt least this allows you to see that pretty much every aspect of an object can be changed. All of this needs to happen in the 2D environment, and when it comes to customising furniture, you’ll find the online version has the advantage, at least when exploring the free side of the service: you’re able to edit the items you’ve added to your project. You won’t be able to add furniture in 3D though, or even alter the position and length of walls, nor the placement of doors and windows. Admittedly, it’s much easier to see what you’re doing when changing the look of the walls, floors and ceilings in 3D. Such alterations can be performed whether you’re working in a top down 2D view (the default) or in 3D. You’ll find doors and windows ‘snap’ to existing walls, and when altering the walls themselves, they’ll automatically ‘snap’ at right angles to other walls.ģD view allows you to explore your virtual world (and also makes it easy to apply materials to the walls, floors and ceilings) (Image credit: Planner 5D) If it’s not exactly right, just select it and drag it to another place. Inserting windows and doors is just a matter of choosing the type you wish to use and dragging it to its desired location. As you’d expect, each platform takes advantage of its respective strengths, but the process is pretty similar for all. Once you grant the app access to your camera, you can use it to create a virtual representation of the room you’re in, simply my moving your phone around, giving the app the data it needs (this is still labelled as a beta, so your mileage may vary).Īdding walls is easy and if you’re familiar with such design services, pretty intuitive. Mobile devices also allow you to ‘Capture Your Room’. Whichever platform you’re using, you have a choice between starting from scratch or a template. Start your design from scratch, or based on an existing template (Image credit: Planner 5D) Building a home

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