Sunday, May 17, 2015

Anyone Using Autodesk®Homestyler® ?



This is not so much of a rant but more of a question….
Has there been any major changes to how “Autodesk®Homestyler®” handles or creates floor plans?   The reason I ask is that at one time, if you needed a couple of “Quick” floor plans for space planning Autodesk®Homestyler® was the program to use. If you had no drafting experience no problem. The program was intuitive enough so you could set-up a couple of rooms or an entire floor plan for you  to review. If you needed to “Share your files” you could export the files to a “CAD” drafter like myself, an engineer or architect as a DWG file, or Revit (*.RVT), if you were lucky enough to fine someone that knew about BIM.

Lately it seems as if the program doesn’t work at all. I’ve tried the new “Beta” which doesn’t seem to work well at all and even if you do get a something to work, you can only get a screen view, or screen shot. Forget about file sharing now…. L   Going back the regular  Autodesk®Homestyler® and now it seems as if you can’t even get doors, or windows to place on the floor plans so what good is a couple of rectangular boxes? If you look at some of the older Autodesk®Homestyler® files that I have saved in the Autodesk®Homestyler® public folder (Milt-Fitz FloorPlans) and on my regular website (Fitz Digital CAD Service), you can tell the files are much better and to me the program seem more streamlined or organized.


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