ProArchitect - Architectural Design Software

From small renovations to custom homes and light commercial buildings, ProArchitect is the perfect solution for any design job or project – even if you’re not a professional architect! It is the easiest to learn and use home and building design software available, making it possible to complete projects of any size with unparalleled speed and accuracy.

Intelligent Object Oriented Design

Point and click to create highly accurate, intelligent building models in record time. Convey true design intent and make changes on the fly while maintaining model connectivity and associativity. Design using intelligent objects like walls, doors, and windows that carry vital information such as materials and finishes, and behavior. ProArchitect is more than just a design and drafting system, it’s an intuitive program that works with your creativity!

Create Complex Roof Geometry with Ease

When it comes to complex residential roof designs, ProArchitect emerges as the undisputed leader. Intelligent roofing tools eliminate the challenge of multiple pitches and plate heights, multi-story configurations, and unique situations such as curved roofs. Add dormers, skylights and solar panels with the click of a mouse.

Traditional BIM software is cumbersome to customize and the learning curve can be long. ProArchitect was developed specifically for users who want the benefits of a BIM platform but need to get up and running fast and be productive right out of the box.

Far Beyond 2D Drawing

ProArchitect has been developed as a 3D modeling tool right from the start. Users spend more time designing, analyzing and making good decisions and less time creating and replicating data. ProArchitect intuitively enhances your creativity by streamlining your workflow, increasing productivity and improving the quality of your work.

Working Drawings are a Snap

Create industry standard construction documents quickly and easily that can be used by builders and contractors to bring your project to life. Automatically generate working drawing components directly from the 3D BIM project, simplifying the production of:

• Floor plan layouts
• Exterior and interior elevations
• Cross-sections and details
• Site, landscape & deck design
• Roof calculation and design
• Floor and ceiling joist layout
• Kitchen cabinet layout
• Electrical and plumbing plans

             

The Fast and Easy Way to create Construction Documents

With the easiest-to-use toolset in the industry, ProArchitect offers the fastest way to create working drawings. SmartView™ technology ensures that you can make drawing views from the 3D model instantly and use the detailed drafting features to completed detailed sets of permit drawings in record time.

Automatic Elevations, Sections, and Details

Complete projects quickly by generating elevations, sections and details automatically. ProArchitect accelerates your drawing process at every step, saving you valuable time and money.

Complete Production CAD Drafting Toolset

ProArchitect provides all the tools you need to create highly accurate, detailed construction documents that will get you to the permit stage faster. Extract details directly from your model, choose from a customizable built-in library, or create your own from scratch.

Design professionals know how important it is to express a vision with clarity. ProArchitect not only improves design productivity, it also provides the simple tools needed to show exactly what you’re getting and bring projects to life, before construction ever begins.

Create stunning 3D presentations using ProArchitect’s 3D RealView™ technology. This state-of-the-art ray tracing and radiosity solution combined with the power to control lighting intensity, reflectivity and transparency help you achieve the ultimate in realism.

Real Time Walk Throughs

Interactively walk through or fly around your model and get a virtual tour of the project before construction begins. Open doors and turn lights on and off as you navigate through the scene.

 

Animated Movies

Easily create lifelike animated movies that can be played with Windows® Media Player or on the Web. Add a voiceover to create a virtual tour that is sure to impress.

Whether you are developing a lot survey for permit or illustrating a proposed landscape design, you can develop complete and accurate site plans, incredible landscapes and complete terrain modeling.

Our site design module range from simple, easy to use landscaping features such as paths, driveways and plants objects to the creation of detailed 3D terrain. In addition, our comprehensive plant encyclopedia is populated with thousands of plant, tree and shrub options that illustrate seasonal change and growth over time. Combine this with complete deck design and lot layout and you have a powerful but simple method to illustrate and document your complete site.

Sketchup SKP

Sketchup is an excellent companion product for use with Cadsoft products. Sketchup is ideal for the creation of additional catalog content such as furniture, fixtures, and fittings. In addition, the wealth of content available in the SKP format worldwide if unparalleled. Cadsoft imports and exports the SKP file format providing Sketchup users with additional functionality to create an intelligent building information modeling (BIM) to enhance their designs and provide additional services to their clients.

3DS Files

3DS is a popular legacy file that has been used for years as a vehicle for content around the world. 3DS files can be imported and exported along with associated materials for adding rich content to your catalogs.

VRM Files

Exporting to VRML files allows you to take advantage of VRML web viewers for displaying and navigating your 3D models through your favorite web browser. Using VRML viewers such as Cortona, you can display your projects in a rich format that can be viewed by others for project approval.

With ProArchitect you get cutting edge design and modeling capabilities plus these additional fast, productive and powerful features: