Digital Blueprints: The Essential Interior Design Software for Modern Professionals

In today’s working environment of Interior Designers & Architects – interior design software plays an
important & vital role to get realistic, professional, mind – boggling & outstanding results. There are
so many interior design software applications available in the market. Some of them are totally free
& some of them are paid. Some interior design software is totally/fully workable in offline mode, but
few requires online platform for fully functionality.

Interiors Designers & Architects always required software’s to make their work easy & fast. They
always look for that software which are easy to use, user friendly UI & get quick results/output.
Nowadays, AI offers very quick & accurate results in less time for Interior Designers & Architects.
If we are talking about top Interior Design Software & which one is right for you. Trimble SketchUp is
a best available tool to transform your creative vision into reality. This is previously Google
SketchUp. This is fully workable in offline mode. Some other tools or Interior Design Software are
also useful like Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk 3DSMax, Autodesk Revit, Adobe Photoshop. These
applications/tools are widely used by the Architects & Interior Designers.

Trimble SketchUp 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. There are so many
external plugins useful for highly detailed 3D model like 1001bit tool, mirror, cloth, etc. Some
external plugins useful to get final output/render with color/texture/material, reflection/refraction,
bump/displacement, opacity/translucent, self-illumination, lots of different light setup, camera
setup. Some of them external plugins which are associated with SketchUp are Enscape, Chaos Vray,
Chaos Vantage, corona, D5 render, etc.

Enscape is a best plugin for real time renders. Real time means whatever changes you have made in
the scene, it will reflect in the Enscape render window instantly. For example if You are changing the
materials of any object in SketchUp, it will directly updated in Enscape window.

Vantage is also good to get real time results. You can import/call your SketchUp scene directly in
Vantage. In that case you don’t need to open SketchUp scene separately. Whatever changes you
made in the Vantage window, like sun & sky corrections, camera settings, render settings, you can
update/save these settings in the same SketchUp file or you can save the separate file. Vantage
takes very less time for still render as well as animation/walkthrough.

If we are talking about online best available tool or interior design software. Again there are so many
applications/software/tools which is fully functioned in online mode. They always required medium
to run like browser & cloud app. Some useful online software are HomeByMe, Planyourroom,
Planner 5D, Coohom, Roomstyler, Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Homestyler, etc.
Coohom is a best available online interior design software. 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. After placing models you can
place textures over the 3D surfaces with the help of in-house library. You don’t require any other
external plugin with interior design software (Coohom), which is a very good thing.

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.