Canfield Research Group LLC

I have chosen Chief Architect as my design tool for my Father’s remodeling business. It beat out the other major competor VectorWorks. Chief Architect can do residential and interior design far faster and easier than VectorWorks can and residential design is what this evaluation was based on.

I personally prefer VectorWorks because it is a more of a platform. Eventually I, or others, could fill in all the holes I mention in my VectorWork review and it would be far supior to anything I have found on the market today. ... Click to read more

Chief Architect version 10 Findings

I have purchased a copy of Chief Architect 10.0 Enterprise. This version costs about $2,300 and comes with the CAD, renderor and a huge number of video training guides. My goal is to learn enough about home design to assist my father who is a general contractor specializing in small remodels.

Currently the remodel plans are done by hand and he would like to make the process easier and provide more capabilities such as 3D views for design purposes. Unfortunatly I am not a draftsman or architect. ... Click to read more

Kathy and I want to make some changes to our new house. I decided to try the various home design CAD systems to see how well they could handle my split level. I choose to look at 2 major packages.

• FloorPlan by IMSI. I had some experience with version 8.2 and now its at version 10.

• Punch by Punch Software. I had also tried this some time ago ut at that time it was too slow and cumbersome.

I purchased FloorPlan ($50) 10.0 and tried it out. While better than 8.2 it still requires strange workarounds for what I think are simple things. ... Click to read more