Once you've got everything just-so, clicking on the 3D button lets you see your design in three dimensions. Whether you add items from the catalog or have them included in a template, you can easily reposition, rotate and adjust their sizes: unlike some apps you're not limited to the pre-defined sizes for furniture, units and other key items.
That latter category includes decorative items, kids' toys, plants, kitchenware and anything else you might want to put into your design, but you'll find that whichever type of item you want to use almost all of them are locked: as with the 3D renders, they're behind a paywall. The catalog of items is organized into three sections: furniture, electrical appliances and miscellaneous. We love the cartoonish 2D mode, which makes it easy to see what you're putting where (Image credit: UAB) There are also windows, pot plants and floor tiles. For example, the open plan dining space has kitchen units and overhead lights, a dining table and chairs, a sofa, coffee table and TV. Each template comes pre-populated with appropriate fixtures and furnishings. When you run Planner 5D, you'll be asked whether you want to start from scratch or work from a template the templates are for a bathroom, a bedroom, an open plan living room/kitchen, an office, a loft and two kinds of house. This is way too confusing, and seems designed to trick money out of customers. Those prices are for personal use commercial use is twice the price and educational users will pay $9.99 per user per year.
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To gain full access to the catalog you'll need to pay $6.99 for 30 days (which also includes three HD renders), $15.99 for a year or $24.99 for a premium account.
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It's free to use but you'll have to pay for high-quality 3D renders they're sold in bundles ranging from $9.99 for 20 HD images to $49.99 for 200. Check out Planner 5D direct (opens in new tab).Our top pick is Virtual Architect Ultimate (opens in new tab), which has a far simpler pricing structure.
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For other options, see our rundown of the best interior design software (opens in new tab) 2020. Things do slow down slightly when you switch to 3D, but not dramatically so. So let your imagination fly with the magic cube.Planner 5D runs in your browser (there are also mobile apps for your tablet or phone that have augmented reality features and sync with the online one - so it'll work on any of the best laptops (opens in new tab) or home computers (opens in new tab)), and in 2D mode it feels much faster than other browser-based design apps: it remains fast and smooth even when you're handling plans with lots of items and bits of furniture. You can change the material on each side of the box. Once you've dragged the cube into your plan you can change the material of the cube and create tables, or outcrops on the roof, walls and so on. So back to that cube thingy we mentioned at the beginning of this Planner 5D review. I guess you could include a 5m x 5m room to the right of your design to provide a sort of scale but there's no way to print to 1:50 or 1:100 or other standard scale. This means that there's no way to print to scale. So the only option is to save something as a snapshot and then print it out. Surprisingly I couldn't find any way to print out a floor plan or shap shot. Planner 5D only saves in planner 5D format so there's no way of exporting the designs into a format that could be used by other floor plan software. I couldn't find any way to import a drawing to act as a template to trace or to import files of any standard drawing plan format into 5D Planner.