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Why designers love Arcadium

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1. Faster iterations makes better designs

Fast and easy 3D model creation enables designers to experiment more. Less time is spent wrestling with slow software and more is spent focussed on the creative process.

2. Better client collaboration

Users can invite clients to experience their designs in Arcadium's online home design app. Making for better presentations, accelerated feedback and better design concensus building.

3. Immersive virtual walkthroughs

Virtual walkthroughs in Arcadium offer a realistic experience of the designed space. Far better than 2D floor plans, users can experience a design's ambiance, lighting, space, and aesthetics firsthand.

"Arcadium is a joy to use. I've tried other 3D modeling tools before but they always took more time than they were worth."

Suzie Boyd, Interior Designer

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A fast, user-friendly 3D house design process

A 3D house design is a 3D visualization of how a house will look and function, including structures, interior design and landscape design. Traditional 3D modeling software used to create 3D house designs demands high technical skills and extensive training. Creating a house design takes hours, or days. User tests have shown that over 60% of new users find them too complex to use effectively. Designers and architects want user-friendly 3D design tools, and short turnaround times.

Arcadium is the simplified alternative to complicated 3D modeling software. It has a user-friendly and intuitive drag-and-drop interface, which makes it as fun to use as playing Minecraft, or arranging a doll's house. The interface reduces the 3D design process to 5 to 10 minutes. Arcadium's browser-based functionality give users immediate access to their designs from any computer and mobile device. Users can create, edit, and share their designs online.

Learn how to create a 3D model of a house in 2 minutes

Create the floor plan: Create a basic floor plan with walls, doors and windows.
Add interior design features: Style the room with colors, textures and materials.
Add and adjust furniture: Add pre-built 3D models from our furniture library. Easily position, rotate and scale.
Switch between views: Adjusting the views, top down, elevations, orthographic and first person. Take a virtual walking tour of the 3D space
Adding and adjusting lighting: Select a range of lighting sources. Adjust the brightness and hue of the lights inidividually. Set the background environment sun light.
Use parametric objects: Speed up the design process with dynamic parametric objects that auto adjust to fit your space.
Labelling your model: Add labels and mark out dimensions, both vertically and horizontally.
Share online: Instantly share your 3D model with friends, family and clients online via a URL.

Getting started with Arcadium's 3D home design is a cinch

You don't need to install software to use Arcadium. You don't need 3D-modeling experience. And you don't even need to pay as it's free. This combo of speed and ease makes Arcadium perfect for interior designers needing quick mock-ups, garden designers experimenting with landscaping options, DIY enthusiasts preparing home renovations, kitchen designers planning spaces, and architects visualizing preliminary concepts.

Arcadium has a large 3D model library that includes furniture, garden plants, kitchen cabinets, and smart objects like stairs, doors, and windows. The models fit standard sizes and design patterns. Saving you the hassle of standardising everything. It has adjustable lighting effects and the ability to view designs in multiple perspectives, including a top-down floor plan or a first-person walkthrough.

Arcadium is available for non-professionals too. Use it to design your own house online, 3D-decorate your room, or rearrange your furniture. Arcadium's blend of simplicity, comprehensive resources, and effective design capabilities makes it one of the best tools for beginners in home design.

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Multiple Views

Switch between top-down, floor plan view, isometric and first- person gamer views. Get an aerial perspective or an immersive feel for the space.

3D model library

A doll's house worth of model furniture, lighting, flooring and flora. All built to scale. Drag, drop and snap it into place.

Smart objects

Auto generated stairs, windows and doors with smart resizing and cutouts. Playing with new ideas is a cinch.

Lighting

Use realistic lighting. Add and adjust the brightness of lamps, pendants, spots and chandeliers.

Client tours

Give your clients a virtual tour. Share the URL and they'll be able to take a walking tour from the comfort of their own browser.

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FAQs

What is the best free floor plan creator?

There are many tools for creating floor plans but the fastest and easiest for interior designers and DIY enthusiasts is Arcadium 3D. Other options include SketchUp and Autocad but these are typically much more complicated to get started with. Arcadium works in the browser - you don't need to download software. It has an intuitive drag and drop interface and has a huge library of furniture to choose from. It's easy to switch between 2D and 3D views allowing you to create 2D flor plans or do a virtual walking tour of the space. You can even add lighting and furniture to get a feel for how the space would look in real life.

Do I need an architect to draw house plans?

You don't typically need an architect to draw house plans (2D plans or 3D models). If you are looking to get a feel for the space and try different layout options then you can easily do this yourself with a free app like Arcadium 3D. If you wanted something that's manually verfied, you may want to get a Measured Survery done. This again doesn't require an architect and has the benefit that a surveyor will come and take all the house measurements for you.

How do I draw my own floor plans?

Drawing floor plans yourself is easy to do with free software like Arcadium 3D. Once you've got the dimensions of your house, you can add the walls, windows and doors with a drag and drop interface. Walls can be adjusted to the right length and thinckness. Doors and windows can be automatically cut out from the walls.

How do I calculate how many lights I need?

While you can use approximate rules of thumb (such as 15 lumens per square foot) this doesn't tell you where to locate the lights and how they will feel in a space. Modern room layout and 3D modelling apps such as Arcadium 3D let you add lights straight into your 3D floor plans. This way you can see if there are any dark corners or overly bright zones. Arcadium lets you choose the type of light you want from a wide selection of table lamps, wall lights, floor lamps or pendant lights. It's also possible to adjust the brightness of each light individually.

Is Arcadium free to use?

Yes! You can sign up and use the free account. This lets you create a project entirely for free and gives you access to a wide variety of Arcadium's features.

How can I create kitchen layout plans online?

You can use Arcadium 3D's free layout app to experiment with the design of a kitchen very quickly. You can add walls, doors and windows. There's lots of 3D models of furntiure drawn to scale and even lots of different lighting options making it easy to get a feel for the flow of the kitchen

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