From Classroom to Career: Interior Design Software for Students Explained

Nowadays everybody wants to make a professional career in unique, creative, different &
appealing fields. Some most searched courses of students are Interior Designers, Vastu Experts,
Digital Marketers, etc. Interior designing is a good option to start your career. It requires less
theoretical & more practical knowledge. In today’s competitive working environment – interior design
software for students plays an important & vital role to get realistic, professional, mind – boggling &
outstanding results. Clients can also easily relate / analyze / visualize their designs through interior
design software.

There are so many Interiors Design software for students to make their work easy & fast.
They always looking for that interior design software which are easy to use, user friendly UI & get
quick results /output.

There are so many interior design software applications for students available in the market.
Some of them are totally free & some of them are paid. Few interior design software for students are
totally / fully workable in offline mode, but few interior design software for students requires online
platform for fully functionality.

Some interior design software for students are very helpful to design 2D & 3D Layout plans,
elevations, sections, unique materials, etc. Autodesk & Adobe is a very reliable platform to help out
interior design students, professional Interior Designers & Architects from last 3-4 decades.

If we are talking about important Interior Design Software for students, then you need to
explore these software – Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk 3DSMax, Autodesk Revit, Trimble Sketchup,
Chaos Enscape, Chaos V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, etc. These Software’s are widely used by the
students & professionals of Architects & Interior Designers in day to day tasks. There are so many
online Interior Design software for students & for professionals also available in the market like
Planner 5D, Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Floor planner, Roomstyler, Homestyler, Foyr Neo or HomeByMe
etc. Most of them are cloud/online/browser based software’s, which is useful to make designs faster &
accurate in less time.

Autodesk AutoCAD is a 2D & 3D Computer Aided Interior Design software for students, which
is useful to make /design Residential & Commercial drawings at accurate dimensions.

Autodesk 3DSMax (3 Dimension Studio Max) is a professional 3D Computer Graphics
program widely used from Interior Design students & professionals. It gives you a virtual 3D output to
the students & professionals to get fair idea about their real sites. Some of the useful features of
3dsmax is to make 3D interior & exterior models along with the material specifications, light effects
with light fixtures, camera positioning/ placement with multiple cam setup, Photo-realistic results with
the help of rendering techniques, 360 views & walkthrough’s with the help of animation techniques.

Autodesk Revit is also the same manufacturing unit Autodesk, it is basically a Building
Information Modeling (BIM) software. It is really useful/helpful interior design softwarefor students &
professionals. This software feature is useful to create 3 dimensional models of building & other
structures.

One of the mostly used interior design software for students is Trimble SketchUp, which is a very
useful 2D cum 3D tool to get quick results in no time. You can create any 2D design in SketchUp
along with dimensions. 3D is also not so difficult to design.

Coohom is best available online interior design software for students. Everything is available in the
software itself like model library/asset library, material library, lights library, camera & render
settings. Whatever you have created in 2D, it is automatically converted in 3D.

Mr. Sourabh Tomar

Senior Faculty at IVS from last 10 years.

M.Com, B.Sc (IT) from Sikkim Manipal University, B.Com, 2 yr AD3D+(Advance Diploma in 3D Animation & Visual Effects) from MAAC South-Ex, Soft. Testing. 14+ yrs working exp. Commercial & Residential 2D/3D freelance projects of firms like Livspace, etc.