Live Interior 3D Standard is a powerful and intuitive home and interior design application that lets you build the house or office you’ve always wanted right on your Mac. It will help you to redesign your home or office and make decisions about materials and furniture before spending money. Professional designers can prepare presentations for clients or create a home plan or layout of new building additions.

Take a glance at the basic features of Live Interior 3D!

✔ Working with 2D plans

● Create plans in any scale (predefined and custom supported);
● Choose needed measurements to work with, including imperial Feet-Inches, Inches (Decimal), Inches (Fractional), Yards;
● Smart guides and object snapping helps precise positioning;
● Automatic/custom floor and ceiling creation;
● Auto/custom dimensioning;
● Custom ceiling height and more.

✔ Content and Import capabilities

● 1200+ objects, including brand name furniture;
● 1500+ materials with an option to create a custom one and drag any image from browser or finder to apply as a texture to a surface;
● Google 3D Warehouse integration gives access to an endless number of objects for import right into your project with one click;
● Manually import objects in Google SketchUp or 3DS format by simple drag ‘n’ drop from Finder;
● Advanced options to customize furniture, doors, windows and more.

✔ Fully-functional 3D environment

● Fully-functional 3D view lets you add & move furniture, apply materials, adjust lighting in real time;
● Perform realistic walk-throughs and view the interior from any angle, saving the views as multiple adjustable user cameras;
● Change the time of day and geographic location, which influences the external lighting, to get a precise idea of what the interior will look like at any given moment.

✔ Roofs, Dormers, and Multiple Stories

● Putting a roof over your head is as simple as choosing one of 12 roof templates in the Live Interior 3D Roof Assistant;
● Add custom segments, change the soffit type, adjust angles, add one of 16 dormer types;
● 200+ roofing materials will help you to get the desired result.

✔ Share Results

● Export 3D views to JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and BMP (up to 1024 x 768);
● Create a panorama view using QuickTime VR technology (up to 640 x 480);
● Create a video track and export to a QuickTime video file (up to 640 x 480).

✔ Video Tutorials and In-Depth Manual

You won’t feel lost inside of Live Interior 3D thanks to the video tutorial course and the in-depth user manual. While both are available on www.belightsoft.com, video tutorials can also be launched from inside of the program.

★ Live Interior 3D is also available in Pro Edition! ★

Pro-only Features:

● Unlimited number of stories (2 stories with a loft in Standard Edition).
● Export movies in HDTV quality (up to 1920 x 1080 at 60 FPS).
● Export interior views in very high quality (up to 3360 x 2400 with custom sizes).
● QTVR panorama views with high density (up to 1024 x 768).
● Pro Edition features a Light Editor, Wall Designer, Advanced Material Editor and Edit in Google SketchUp ™ feature.

Cons

1. This app is complex enough that you need to watch all the tutorials in order to know how to use this app but of course it’s necessary
2. Google 3D Warehouse search may be limited to popular 3D model, where’s ikea’s 3D model? 😀

There’s a pro version too at $129.99 for the pro-only features!

This is a dream come true for architect, interior designers & home owners to design their dream home! If I am moving to a new home, I wish to create my own dream home too using this software.

I got a feeling that the property agents of tomorrow will also love to get hold of the pro version & create a HDTV quality video of the properties they are selling and show off to their potential customers on iPad or television in their show room.

It may be slightly complex to work with it but it’s powerful enough to create any interior designs you like, I wondered if you can use this to create a 3D game materials (pro version)

For a start, the standard version is sufficient for most interior designers students!

For more information & resources about Live Interior 3D visit their website!