I hope that this may help others who are on older versions who upgrading to PC's running Vista or Wondows 7. I'm looking forward to being able to add landscape design to my house plan (the old 4.0 only supported rectangular lots). This License Agreement permits you to use one copy of RIVERDEEP software (the. These pagesprovide help using the software package '3D Home Architect'.We are suggesting you use the older version 3 deluxe.Until a superior low-cost home design program comes along, this is the program we are using for our PlanHelp template files.The program can be purchased inexpensively from Ebay.You can also do a Google search if the offer in the link is gone.
BRODERBUND 3D HOME ARCHITECT SOFTWARE PRO
I am now assuming that if Home Designer Pro 9 (which is over of my price budget) can open the plans, so can Home Designer Suite. Broderbund, 3D Home Architect and 3DTrueView are trademarks or registered. However, all I had to do is open them in 4.0, save them and re-copy to the new PC and they will open now also. You cannot save files in the trial version but if you can read and edit the files, I assume the rest should not be a problem.īTW, I had some old plans from an even earlier version dating back before 1998 that could not be read by release 9.
I downloaded the trial copy of Home Designer Pro 9 and copied over my old plan directory.Īs Elovia warned, I received several warning errors when I tried to open the plans - looking for library objects (doors, appliances, etc.) but I can open and view files. Since the old Broderbund 4.0 plan files were pl1, I decided to give it a try.
I noticed in the on-line demo of Home Designer, the "Open" command looked for file extensions.