When making a design plan for a new house, a simple sketch on a piece of paper rarely shows the detail needed to get the project going. Even for something as simple as replacing furniture in a room, ...

I’m standing over a table, looking at a 3D architectural model of a room. Then I hit a button, and suddenly I’m inside the model itself. I can walk around, get a feel for the space, see how the ...

It’s time for the profession to prepare. New software and hardware platforms are emerging that allow immersive environment representation—aka virtual reality, or VR—along with gestural modeling, or ...

Virtual reality, or VR, has had many lives. Expensive and clunky, VR, whose goal is creating an immersive spatial experience from data, never gained a foothold outside of academia, the military, or ...

Architizer A+Awards: 2020 Jury Winner, Design & Build Software, Architosh: Vectorworks Architect 2023: Best in Show in the BIM Category & Economic Prize category, International Business Awards: Bronze ...

Sweet Home 3D is among the popular free architecture software. It includes a vast library of objects you can place in your design. The Sweet Home 3D interface is divided into four sections. The ...