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I wanna try to design my dream house. It's just for fun though, but I'm looking for a decent program that's made for designing houses and is pretty easy to use.
And not like Sims, although I haven't played Sims 3 so idk if that's actually any good, but I doubt it.

lego cad

I know Auto Cad is used for like the blueprint for houses and crap, but then you have to apply it to like 3D Max or some shit

Auto CaD.
CaD-CaM Pro.

Those are 2 programs we use in our design suites on Campus.

mm Google had such a thing right?
http://sketchup.google.com/

Sims 3 has gone a long way from the original one. It still keeps the blocked/grid placement of objects but it should be enough for whatever you are planning to do. Check out some of the building videos on YouTube:

You can always just use

The Sims 1


and

The Sims 2





if you want to go cheaper than the Sims 3

AutoCAD as previous posters said. But you might have to take a class to actually know how to use it.

I did this at school last year, and used Google Sketchup. Its not that hard to use. This term, we can use Autocad if we want, I think I will, so yeah, either Autocad or Sketchup. If you wanna do like blueprints and shit, you can use Microstation V8 aswell.

Paint

Alright thanks for your replies guys. AutoCAD isn't really easy to use, and wasn't really made to design houses. I'm actually gonna give the Sims 3 a go. The video really made it look like I can do a lot of customization. Especially elevation, I want to build a house on the side of a mountain.

Ok thanks guys. (I'll also check out google sketch)

There are a lot of Interior Design house designs out there, not just AutoCAD, that are cheap and easy to use.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideal-Home-3D-D ... 915&sr=1-1

I have this one, it is pretty easy to use as well.

Is that just for interior design or also building a house?

Btw does anyone know how I stop the normal mode Sims and just buy a piece of land and start building? Cheats or whatever? I don't want to play the game until I have money or something.

I think you can build houses as well.

Sims 3 is very complicated, but you'll get used to it. But......that's why i recommended sims1 and sims 2, you can also use cheats to do elevations, or use the SHOVEL.

I think there's a lack of in depth explanation for Sims.

I started entering cheats for money and just started building, but it gave me no pointers whatsoever. I also can't really do what I want to do so I'm not sure if I should keep on using Sims. Maybe I should bite the bullet and start learning AutoCAD

This is what I got so far:



Obviously it still needs a lot of work, but I was focusing on the general parts of the building. Like the glass 2 story living room. I don't want there to be so much beams, I don't want there to be anything between the beams if I need to use beams, I want to use glass all around and all the way up to the roof. Can I do that? I think the program is just not built for this type of customization. I'm always stuck in grids and preset stuff.
Also, the location is shit. I want to have a better location. How do I do that?

Thanks for your help

try Maya :]

looks complicated
Maybe I should just accept my limitations when it comes to these kind of programs, and then accept the limitations I face in the programs that I actually can use.

Thats 3000$ +