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I'm hoping to be moving into a new house in the next few weeks, and I fancy doing a bit of proper design and layout rather than chucking furniture into rooms as I did in my first house :p

Accordingly, I was wondering if the good folk of OcUK had any recommendations for 3D home planning software and related tools? I remember playing with Google SketchUp years ago, but I have no idea if that's still around. Do AutoDesk have some more beginner-friendly stuff too?

I was also wondering if you can use mobile phones / tablets to do 3D scanning of rooms. Does anyone have any experience of this? I have a fairly modern iPad which I think comes with some sort of depth camera / sensor thingy.

Ta for any ideas! :)
 
I quite like https://home.by.me but it might be limited if you want to hand craft everything 100% accurately. It's pretty quick to get to this point though and I only use the free tier, my house:







If you end up going with it I can ping you a code which gives us both some free extra renders.
 
I'm hoping to be moving into a new house in the next few weeks, and I fancy doing a bit of proper design and layout rather than chucking furniture into rooms as I did in my first house :p

Accordingly, I was wondering if the good folk of OcUK had any recommendations for 3D home planning software and related tools? I remember playing with Google SketchUp years ago, but I have no idea if that's still around. Do AutoDesk have some more beginner-friendly stuff too?

I was also wondering if you can use mobile phones / tablets to do 3D scanning of rooms. Does anyone have any experience of this? I have a fairly modern iPad which I think comes with some sort of depth camera / sensor thingy.

Ta for any ideas! :)


Its owned by Trimble now but Sketchup is still around. Free online trail version available.
 
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