The key features...

Design your creative project step by step and room by room, from the basement to the loft space. Draw up plans of your house, equip your interior and exterior areas and add your own personal touch to your living space.

A virtual tour and extremely realistic 3D rendering allow you to review the results.

Tools to get your project off to a good start

Quickstart™ wizard: Add rooms by dragging and dropping to easily create your floor plan.

Standard ready-to-use house plans: In search of inspiration or a simple starting point? Use our editable house plans to speed up your design or browse for room planning ideas.

Tracing of scanned plans: Trace your favourite plans or use one you have designed.

Sheet Layout Mode: This mode allows you to build a presentation of your design into construction documents.

PhotoView™:Take photos of the inside or outside of an existing house and add them easily to complement your designs.

Tutorial videos: View our tutorial videos to learn how to master the many features of the software program.

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Designing has never been easier

Partitions and openings: Easily edit your walls, ceilings, doors, windows, and much more besides (stairwells, mezzanines, staircases, etc.).

Automatic roofing: Automatic generation and customisation of roofs (skylights, gables, velux roof windows, dormer windows, etc.).

Drag your objects into the 3D view directly for immediate display of the result!

Pool designer: Customise your pool as you see fit.

Site Planner™: Use the Site Planner™ tool to design your land by registering the ground coordinates.

Import SketchUp: Compatible with new Sketchup formats, allowing you to easily change the size of objects and materials within the program.

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Indoor and outdoor layouts

Object library: Infinite possibilities with thousands of 2D and 3D objects to choose from to furnish your rooms!

Material library: Choose from thousands of flooring materials or decorative textures from wooden floors to PVC fencing, and much more besides. Easily edit materials to customise your designs using the material editor.

Workshop to create customised 3D objects: Build any object virtually or modify existing objects from the library. Use photorealistic materials such as wood, fabric, paint colours, stone, brick, etc.

Symbol Editor: Create a symbol library for construction details and annotate your designs. Then insert by simply dragging and dropping them into your design.

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View and move from dream to reality

3D Rendering: Generation of high-quality 3D renderings in real time. Immediately view your project in 3D as you draw up your plans in 2D.

Advanced viewing tools: View your project from a variety of angles and renderings – 3D aerial view, cut-out view, 3D Clear View rendering, Sun Direction module, and much more besides.

Virtual tour: Save virtual tours of your 3D project as if you were already visiting your house. Then share the house of your dreams on video.

Estimator: Generate an exhaustive list of materials and their costs. Automatically calculates your expenses.

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*Some of the features shown are only available in certain versions. Refer to the comparative table for more information on all the features available by version.

ARCHITECT 3D® 26: Discover the New Features

Home Design Copilot
Home Design Copilot — Transforms your ideas into precise floor plans and breathtaking, photorealistic visuals. Fast. Effortless. Inspiring.

Style‑Driven Reference Images
Reference Image Matching — Bring in drawings, renderings or photos. The AI captures your style, colours and materials with remarkable accuracy.

Texture & Plant Generation
Textures & Plants — Produces premium textures and lifelike, fully customisable plants from text prompts or reference images. More depth. More atmosphere. More creative power.

Design Support & General Questions
Design Support — AI‑powered guidance for layout challenges, creative concepts and product‑related questions. Clear, clever and instantly helpful.

Adaptive Light & Dark Workspace
Adaptive Workspace — The interface shifts seamlessly between light and dark modes, always tuned for comfort, focus and flow.

Enhanced SketchUp Import
SketchUp Import — Improved accuracy, stronger compatibility and a smoother workflow. Your models, perfectly integrated.

Smarter Windows & Subplans
Windows & Subplans — New centred and flush window options. Subplans can be viewed and edited directly within your projects. Smarter. Faster. More intuitive.

Improvements You Feel Immediately

These refinements make the application feel smoother and more predictable. Texture mapping locks in more reliably across stacked objects and between floors. LuxCore™ texturing on trim matches default rendering more closely. Angled geometry renders with improved scaling for cleaner detail. Lighting control reduces reflective glare from lot surfaces. Libraries travel better across projects with automatic texture reassignment. Together, these improvements help the application feel more polished and more enjoyable to use.

ARCHITECT 3D® – Where Vision Meets Reality

Note: Availability of certain features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, kindly consult the Comparison Chart for feature availability per variant. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.

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