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ARCHITECT 3D 26 Gold
Home and garden design software
ARCHITECT 3D® draws your house to real dimensions and shows it in 3D as you work. Wizards take you through the parts that are fiddly to get right — foundations, walls, roofs, stairs and joinery — and the 2D plan and the 3D view stay in step, so anything you add in one appears in the other. Furnish and finish from a library of 2,044 objects and 7,640 materials, then render the result before anyone picks up a tool.
- 12
- floors
- 2,044
- 3D objects
- 250
- house plans
Features vary by edition. The comparison below shows exactly what each one includes, so you can check before you buy.
Designing the house
- QuickStart
- Drag whole rooms into place to get a floor plan down in minutes.
- Editable house plans
- Start from a professionally drawn plan, or browse them for room layouts.
- Floor plan trace
- Trace a plan you like, or one you have sketched on paper.
- PhotoView
- Photograph a house that already exists and add your changes to the photograph.
- Auto framing
- Metal, wood or custom framing for roofs, walls and floor joists.
- Auto roof gable
- Add gable roof panels in one action instead of drawing them.
- Windows, doors and walls
- A library of styles you can size and detail, with designers for anything the library does not have.
- Elevation editor
- Work directly in elevation view, as a line drawing, shaded, or in full colour.
- SmartWand
- Apply paint or a material to one wall, one room or the whole house with a click.
Fitting out the inside
- Object library
- Fixtures, lighting, ceiling fans, sinks and appliances for every room.
- Flooring, carpets and rugs
- Tile, carpet, wood and stone, including real branded products.
- Furniture showcase
- Predesigned furniture groups placed by drag and drop, then rearranged to suit.
- Brand-name material libraries
- Paints, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds and stone you can try before you buy them.
- Precision lighting planner
- Ambient light, shadows, falloff and radius, indoors and out.
- Cabinet designer
- Shelving, pantries, drawers and appliances — and the same tool for media walls, bathrooms and garages.
- Storage design
- Wire shelving, workbenches and cabinets for wardrobes and garages.
Designing the garden
- Site planner and topography
- Enter the property line coordinates and it draws the plot; add real terrain and it cuts or fills to match.
- Planting library
- Flowers, shrubs and trees, with your own favourites added to the library.
- PlantFinder
- Filters plants by zone, sunlight, climate, water and soil, and shows them photorealistically from any angle.
- Auto edging and planting templates
- Zone-specific plant groupings dropped in as freestanding beds, corners and borders.
- Plant growth
- See how the planting matures year by year, so shade ends up where you meant it.
- Green region tool
- Ground cover with control over the size, density and type of what grows.
- Irrigation tools
- Sprinkler heads, water lines, zone markers, a control panel, backflow valves and rain sensors.
- Hardscapes
- Retaining walls in stone or brick, planted up to finish the space.
- Spray topography
- Sculpt terrain directly in 3D with spray, smooth and erase rather than building contour maps.
Decks, patios and outdoor living
- IntelliDeck
- Reads the contours of the house and builds a deck that fits it.
- Deck and patio templates
- Predesigned layouts dropped in whole, then edited to suit.
- Outdoor living
- Outdoor kitchens, fireplaces and furniture, with paving, decking and planting around them.
- Pool and fence designers
- Pools, fencing, custom edging and bed borders, each with its own designer.
What you can design with it
- Whole houses, from foundations and framing to the roof
- Extensions, loft conversions and garage conversions
- Kitchens and bathrooms, down to the cabinet and the tile
- Interior layouts, colour schemes and lighting
- Gardens, terraces, decking, fencing and swimming pools
- Terrain and site plans with real property lines
- Presentation drawings, walkthroughs and printable paper models
Getting started
The workspace was rebuilt in version 26 to be quieter and easier to read, with a redesigned menu bar and quick access toolbar. QuickStart drops in rooms by drag and drop, and wizards handle the parts most people get stuck on. You can import an existing SketchUp, DWG, DXF, 3DS or PDF drawing and carry on from there rather than starting over.
System requirements
Minimum
- Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit
- 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, 1 GHz or faster
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 GB free disk space
- Graphics card supporting 1024×768 at 32-bit colour
- Mouse with a scroll wheel recommended
- Internet connection for activation, updates and online features
Recommended for rendering and large plans
- 8 GB RAM or more
- SSD storage
- Dedicated graphics card with 4 GB VRAM or more
What you receive
This is a download. Your licence key and download link are emailed to you, usually within minutes of the order. Support is at [email protected].
What it produces
Every image below was made in ARCHITECT 3D — no renders borrowed from another program.
Draw in 2D, check in 3D
Both views stay open and in step. A wall you move on the plan moves in the model at the same moment, so you can see whether the room works instead of imagining it.
- To scale, with dimensions and callouts
- Thousands of objects and 7,500+ materials
- Walk through every room before anything is built
Home Design Copilot
Describe what you want to see in a sentence and your drawing becomes a finished visual. Light, materials and setting change — the building stays put.
See what Copilot does →
Your model
With Copilot
Is this the right edition?
Editions differ on floor count, library size and which planning tools are included. The table sets every line side by side.
Add to your edition
Tick as many as you want and add them all in one go. Every pack works with every edition.