Review by Software Transit

Home Plan Pro 4.6
"Helping Design Your Home Of The Future"

www.homeplanpro.com

INTRODUCTION

Home Plan Pro will help you design your home with ease and simplicity. With a very nicely layed out system, planning your next home was never so easy.

INSTALLATION

Installation was simple and and went very smooth. The program is a good size, not very big and bulky at all. See fig1.1

fig1.1

CONFIGURATION

When configuring this software at startup it asks you what you would like to do, create new, open new, or open a start up plan. We chose create new and it takes you to a screen were you chose a drawing area size. We left this at default and hit ok. See fig 1.2.

fig1.2

INTERFACE

The whole program is simple to use. Choose your floor size and you get a workspace see [fig1.3] From this workspace we start making our new home.
If you have tried CAD programs, this one looks to be much easier. We have a lot of different buttons to choose from on the main screen. Let's move on and see what these buttons are for...

fig1.3

FUNCTIONALITY

This program is designed to help you design a floor plan of your home with the ease of simple mouse clicks. We started using this program with the default size 30m x 30m. From this point we got our workspace and started designing a home. Once we had started the home, we made 3 rooms. We called those the living room, bedroom, and bathroom. After I had made the rooms I then proceeded to use the figs button to see what was in there I found many useful things in here like bathroom, furniture, outdoor furniture and landscaping. I then placed everything like i wanted it to be. See fig 1.4 We are in the bathroom screen, here we can choose our toilet, sink, tub, even our medicine cabinet. I then proceeded to see what limits the program had.

1.Build Just a floor plan
2. Build the outer part of a home
3. Build the home with landscaping
4. Build a 3d figure of a tent

What I could not do with this program that I would like to see is
1. The ability to render in 3d.
2. Ability to calculate building materials.

fig1.4

With the screen above we can choose from several pre drawn figures what we want to insert into our workspace. We can also choose from several utility figures such as electric panels, wiring and much more.

This screen is of our finished work we created in under 5 minutes. This program is simple and easy to understand.

See fig 1.5 For what we have done from working inside this program after reading the help files that were included, they helped us out a bunch. This program is wonderful for those who want to design doll houses and maybe even a skyscraper floor by floor.

fig 1.5

CONCLUSION

This program ran nicely, very little impact on memory. If you are looking to design your next home I'd say go with Home Plan Pro and build it like a pro! For the price and the easy to understand layout, this is a must have. If you'd like to see what I mean, take a look and try it out for yourself. I gaurentee you'll be building your next home like the pro's do it all the time.

Comparison between Home Plan Pro & Others On The Market

Features MAIN PROGRAM Software Just Like It
Easy To Learn Yes Yes
Inexpensive Yes Yes
A Wise Choice Yes Yes
Ability to use colors Yes-Use Full Colors Yes
Select from 100's of pre drawn figures Yes Yes-limited
Switching from english to metric Yes Yes-some
Easy to understand menus Yes Yes
Multiple layers Yes Yes
Ability to type in work area Yes Yes-limited
Price $ 39.00 $ 1000.00's

 

 
PROS:
a. Easy to use
b. Inexpensive
c. Very Little Memory Usage

CONS:
a. None Found