Others say...

"Disappointed"
I was disappointed in the architecture program I purchased because it apparently is an outdated program that does not allow for furniture placement in a room. There were no downloads that I could find to insert furniture and what was in the program was limited to windows, doors and types of walls and flooring.

"3D Home Artchitect"
We could not get the program to work as advertised. It seemed to only do very minor things and the screen never appeared on our computer as it looked on the advertisement on the internet and on the cd case. In the ad, it showed that there were about four tabs to choose from (ie: interior, exterior, etc.) and the when the cd opened and loaded onto our computer, it only showed one tab and thus, we could not really do what we wanted to do with it.

"Hey; it's 10 bucks! What it's good for; what it's not"
This program is useful if you have an idea for a building and want to do a floor plan to get an idea of what it might look like. That's what it's good for: walls, windows, doors, etc, simply a layout. Forget furniture or fixtures. Forget landscaping. Want construction details? Forget it. This program is strictly layout for idea purposes. The 3D rendering is cartoonish as people say, but it's fast. There's no five minute rendering process. 2D to 3D takes a second or two because it's low resolution, but if you make a change and want a quick 3D look then poof! It's done. Why one would want photo quality rendering is beyond me, and for 10 bucks how could you expect that? My program never crashed once. I found placing walls down and having them snap together was easy. There are easy handles on walls and such so that you can move a wall and all attached walls move as well. Very easy. Definitely turn off the auto-save feature -- it won't work; use SAVE or SAVEAS on the menu for different versions of your project. The only big gripe I have is that there is no furniture/fixtures at all, not even generic ones ... like a toilet or a bed or a generic cabinet. When designing a bathroom, say, it's nice to know how much room is left after basic fixtures are introduced. Another smaller gripe is that the default roof style is not a gable -- the type that almost ALL simple structures use. You can change the offered roof style into a gable but it does take a few steps; read the help carefully; it's there. Overall this is not a bad product for 10 dollars.

"Misleading"
Add me to the list of people who were disappointed by the lack of kitchen, bathroom, and furniture symbols in this version--after wasting hours trying to figure out how to get them to show up. No where on the packaging does it indicate that these items are absent. In fact, it mentions its "complete selection of tools" several times on the box. What a waste.

"Very disabled and clunky"
I had exactly the same problem as the viewer before me. Many of the items in the catalog are disabled for some reason, with no warning. I found that while trying to place a cabinet. There were other problems as well. Skip this product and look for another. I haven't found one yet that won't cost me hundreds of dollars.