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FloorPlan 2024 Express

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FloorPlan 2024 Express

Original price was: R899.00.Current price is: R769.00.

Design and Decorate with Ease

FloorPlan 2024 Express is an accessible 3D home design application that enables you to furnish and decorate your home and garden with ease. Progress through your design project step by step, from the foundational basement to the topmost loft, each room becoming a manifestation of your personal aesthetic.

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The Budget-Friendly Home Design Solution

Creating your ideal home is now more straightforward than ever with FloorPlan® Express. Whether you’re starting from scratch, undertaking a remodel, or engaging in a renovation, this software is your ally in breathing life into your dream home.

Craft Your Dream Home with Ease

The QuickStart™ feature in FloorPlan® Express is a breeze to use, allowing you to drag and drop rooms into place swiftly. Looking for inspiration? Tap into the editable, professionally-designed floor plans to jumpstart your project. The comprehensive library is at your disposal, filled with brand name products, materials, and furnishings to add those finishing touches to your design. Once complete, you can bring your vision into reality by visualizing it in 2D and 3D, and then printing out professional-grade plans. With FloorPlan® Express, your dream home is just a few clicks away.

Affordable Home Design

FloorPlan® Express pays for itself by saving you a lot in time, money, and frustration. By visualizing your living spaces, you can avoid costly mistakes before you commit to a design, plus discover energy saving alternatives, and more.

  • Easily create 2D/3D floor plans with auto-dimensioned walls
  • Choose from a variety of window & door styles
  • Add flooring, roofing, cabinets, stairs, lighting and more
  • Incorporate electrical and plumbing
  • Save energy and money with “Building Green” tips and tools

Easy Interior Design

Get your home ready to sell with fresh paint, carpet, and staged furniture. See it first before you pick up a paint brush!

  • Brand name product libraries
  • SmartWand technology to add color or materials in one click
  • Cabinet Designer – Great for Kitchen or Bathroom Remodels
  • Furniture, appliances, light fixtures, and more for every room
  • Wallpaper, tile, carpet, wood, stone, and other materials
  • Lighting controls for exterior and interior designs

Deck and Landscape for Outdoor Living

Turn a drab backyard into outdoor entertaining space. Add pavers, decks, and landscaping to complete your design.

  • Deck Layout Tools
  • A full selection of flowers, shrubs, trees, rocks, pavers and more
  • Growth tool to see how plants will look years from now

NEW FEATURES

SHRINK/EXPAND

This feature enables quick adjustments to the size of selected elements by a specific distance. Use keyboard shortcuts or editing toolbar buttons to change the width, height, and depth of any object effortlessly.

QUICK ELEVATION CHANGE BUTTONS

Elevation control buttons have been added to the elevation bar controls. Instead of manually entering elevation values, users can now make adjustments visually using the buttons or shortcut keys.

QUICK EDIT KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

An array of keyboard shortcuts has been introduced to modify selected elements. Instantly edit an element’s elevation, shrink or expand it, adjust width, depth, height, or rotation. Changes appear in both 2D and 3D views, saving users the hassle of manual data entry.

Additionally, the backspace key allows you to step back from misplaced point locations while drawing elements.

FILLET/CHAMFER DIALOG

The Fillet/Chamfer dialog now lets you enter precise distances for filleting or chamfering corners of selected elements.

HELP

A shortcuts PDF cheat sheet displays all available application shortcuts.

Guide images have been added to dialogs related to rotation, movement, moving the entire plan, and plan rotation.

DEFAULT DESIGN SETTINGS TEMPLATES

Users can tailor their design options, including font choices, lighting preferences, lot sizes, and more. Once customized, these settings can be saved as a template. Whenever users create new design files, their chosen template will automatically be applied, ensuring a personalized, consistent and efficient design experience.

3D INNOVATIONS UNLEASHED!

*Availability of certain features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, kindly consult the Comparison Chart for feature availability per variant. This will help you identify which features are included in the model you are interested in.

  • Curved Railing Excellence: Experience smoother, more realistic curved railings that elevate your designs.
  • Guided Aerial Views: Snap assistance at 45-degree angles makes rotating 3D views a breeze. Achieve perfect alignment effortlessly.
  • High-Resolution Flora and Materials: Plants and materials import at up to 2048 pixels, ensuring stunning visual fidelity. Seamless options remain crisp at 512 pixels.
  • Customize with Precision: The 3D Custom Workshop now identifies applied effects using the space bar and eyedropper.
  • Effortless Navigation: Hold down the middle mouse button (wheel) to explore 3D views seamlessly, regardless of your active tool.
  • Stay Informed: Progress update messages during photo rendering keep you in the loop.
  • Selective Visibility: Hide the lot in 3D with ease using Design Options. Focus on what matters most.
  • Instant Effects: Drag an effect onto a palette entry, and watch it transform all surfaces. Perfect for fine-tuning lighting effects and more.

KEY FEATURES

Design Phase Tabs:

Design Phase Tabs
Easy tabs organize your project into the foundation, floor, electrical, plumbing, roof, etc. creating all the steps needed for your design.
Object Library

Object Library

Unlock a world of design potential with an expansive selection of 2D and 3D objects, offering endless possibilities to enhance your space. With a user-friendly interface, you can select and place entire furniture groupings through a simple drag-and-drop mechanism. Dive into a vast array of nationally recognized decorating materials, including stylish faux finishes, elegant wood flooring, sleek countertops, and versatile blinds, among others. Experience the ease and efficiency of our intuitively designed library, crafted for quick and straightforward searches, ensuring you find the perfect design elements in no time.

Simple Drag and Drop Tools!

Add rooms, paint color, furnishings, landscape plantings and more!


Drag and Drop Before

Drag and Drop After
Build Green

Build Green

Go green in one click; watch your design go green with design tips and objects; recycled glass counter tops, bamboo flooring and more! Make your home more energy efficient with new appliances or update your windows, doors and more!

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SmartWand

SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room, or your entire house, with one mouse click!

Instant 2D/3D Views plus the ability to create templates for a 3D model of your design

Instantly switch between 2D and 3D views with ease to bring your floor plans to life. This capability allows for a quick assessment of both the spatial and aesthetic qualities of a design. Additionally, you can create templates for a 3D model of your design for future projects or variations.

2D Engine

High performance and high-quality rendering for 2D geometry and text. Support for customizable line, fill, and pattern colors.

Home Design Example
Landscape Design Example


Design in Greyscale

Draw Style Profiles

Pick and apply a profile to an object.Save your profile, then quickly and easily apply to selected objects.

Drawing Styles

Customize and apply drawing styles for any objects or group of objects.

Format Painter

Easily copy the same style to other objects.

 

Line and Pattern Styles

Customize lines and patterns to your design.

 
Sample Lines

Sample Patterns

Detailed View with Custom Applications

Antialiasing

Smooth lines and curves

Line Cap Styles

Choose from Miter, Bevel, and Round

Annotate Remodeling Details

Easily and Clearly Show Before and After Changes

Transparency

Options for Lines, Fills, Patterns & Text.

Railing, Decks and Staircases

Explore an array of railing styles, from offset spindles to glass and wire, and craft custom 3D posts for unlimited design possibilities. With detailed deck construction tools, you can define fascia heights and post dimensions, and ensure stability with support posts that extend to the ground. Fine-tune staircase post heights and achieve a continuous handrail flow over posts for a polished finish.

Windows, Doors Skylights

Windows, doors, and skylights now feature glass panes for enhanced realism in standard renderings. The photo rendering capability mimics the authentic qualities of double-pane window glass for a lifelike visual effect.

Modify Tool Bar

Align, edit, and distribute elements with ease.

Alignment Tools – Quickly align a selected set of design elements.
Distribution Tools – Spaces selected design elements evenly.
Size Match – Make selected elements the same width, height or both.
Duplicate – Creates specified number of copies, customizable spacing between copies.
Flip and Mirror – objects horizontally and vertically.
2D View Tools – Reset View, Fit To Window, Fit To Selected.

Rich Text

More custom text options.
Choose multiple fonts and attributes.

Rich Text

Rich Text

High-Quality Resolution and Printing

Cost Estimation Tool

Cost Estimation and Mobile Landscaping

Instant 2D/3D Views plus the ability to create templates for a 3D model of your design

Instant 2D Views Instant 3D Views

Print Blueprints of Your Designs

Floorplan Blueprints

DWG/DXF Import and Export

Import Export

Intuitive Interactive Help

Intuitive Interactive Help & Do it Yourself Tips

Includes hundreds of DIY how-to-tips from the experts.

Interoperability

FloorPlan® is equipped with robust import and export capabilities, ensuring smooth integration with a wide range of design and modeling tools. This flexibility allows you to bring in various types of data and materials to enrich your designs and to share your projects in versatile formats.

  • PDF 2D (Import)
  • SketchUp (Import)
  • 3DS (Import)
  • Material Import

HOME DESIGN

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Four ways to start your project

  • QuickStart – Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
  • Professionally Designed Plans – Need inspiration or an instant starting point? Utilize our editable house plans to fast track your design or browse them for room layout ideas.
  • Floor Plan Trace – Trace a favorite floor plan, or use one you’ve sketched.
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Windows, Doors & Walls

FloorPlan® offers a rich library of door and window styles to choose from, ensuring that you can find the perfect match for your architectural design. You have the flexibility to customize various aspects such as size, grille style, and more to ensure that they fit seamlessly into your plan. For those who require something unique, the window and door designer power tools are available to create custom objects, providing the opportunity to add a personal touch or meet specific design requirements.


2D View

3D View

INTERIOR

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Start your project

  • QuickStart: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
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Object Library

Thousands of objects for every part of your design, inside or out. Remodel with new fixtures, lighting, ceiling fans, sinks, appliances and more.

Flooring Carpets & Rugs

Try tile, carpet, wood, stone, and other materials including brand name, real-world products.

Furniture Showcase

Add predesigned furniture groups with simple drag & drop. Easily arrange or edit your selections to suit your design.

Brand Name Product Libraries

Thousands of possibilities! Faux finishes, interior and exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds, stone, and much more. Nationally-recognized decorating materials you can try before you buy.

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Precision Lighting Planner

Enhance your design with strategic lighting using the Precision Lighting Planner. Suitable for both exterior and interior designs, this tool offers detailed controls for ambient light, shadows, fall off, radius, and more. Add landscape light fixtures with a simple drag and drop, creating the perfect atmosphere for any space.

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Cabinet Designer

Cabinet Designer

Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances. Also perfect for media centers, bathrooms and garage organization.

Storage Design

Gain more closet space by planning an inexpensive wire shelving system or layout a garage that makes the best use of space, yet keeps things organized and within reach. Drag & drop shelving, workbenches and cabinets are included in the library.

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2D View

3D View

LANDSCAPE

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Start Your Project

  • QuickStart: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan and begin designing your landscaping.

Planting Library

The Planting Library is a comprehensive feature that enriches your design with a variety of botanical elements. It offers an extensive selection of flowers, shrubs, and trees that can be seamlessly integrated into your design. The library is not just limited to the existing database; it also allows the personalization of the collection by adding your favorite plants.

PlantFinder

The PlantFinder is an intelligent tool designed to ensure the success of your planting strategy.  It searches for plants suitable for your specific area based on a range of parameters that you set, such as international zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions. It provides photo-realistic images of real-world plants, viewable from any angle, enhancing the realism of your design. Additionally, the color-coded zone maps simplify the plant selection process, making it both easy and reliable.

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Plant Growth

Plant Growth visualization is a forward-thinking feature that lets you plan your design with the future in mind. It allows you to see how your plantings will evolve over time, which is particularly useful for planning the placement of trees and shrubs that will provide shade as they mature.

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Hardscapes

The Hardscapes feature enables you to create dramatic and functional retaining walls that not only define the space but also enhance the aesthetic appeal of your home. It offers a variety of materials like stone and brick, and once the structure is in place, you can add plantings to complete and complement the overall look of your outdoor space. These features collectively provide a robust toolkit for designing both the green and structural elements of your property with precision and artistic flair.

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VISUALIZE IT

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2D View
3D
3D View

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum System Requirements

  • Windows® 7 / 8 / 10 / 11  64-bit¹
  • Intel® or compatible 1.0 GHz 64-Bit processor or higher (multi-core processor supported)
  • Memory: 4 GB of RAM (8 GB or more recommended)
  • Hard Disk Space: 4 GB available hard disk space
  • Video Card: VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024×768 with 32-bit color. (Dedicated video card with 4 GB or more RAM recommended)
  • DVD-ROM drive for media installations only
  • Mouse with wheel recommended
  • Internet access and Internet Service Provider account required²

¹ Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows® 10, Windows® 8, Windows® 7.

² User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges.