TurboFloorPlan 3D Home & Landscape Pro 2017 for Mac, English

Start Designing Your Dream Home Today

TurboFloorPlan makes it easy to start designing now! Access professionally designed templates, hundreds of training videos, thousands of drag & drop symbols, and much more.

• Over 100 videos guide you through program features.
• QuickStart™ custom home designer lets users simply select a room, click and drag it to a custom size, then drag more rooms into position.
• Professional designed home plan templates that are completely editable.
• Floor Plan Trace allows you to to scan and trace your own floor plans.
• Dimensions change in real time as you make adjustments to rooms.
• Tips and tricks offer help on-the-fly with the specific tool you’re using.
• Build Green button for eco-friendly advice as you design.

Plan All Phases of your Home

Create blueprints with layers in order to plan all phases of your home design or remodel including:

• Foundation – Specialized tools for slabs with support beams, foundation peers, and more.
• Electrical – Comprehensive indoor/outdoor library
• Plumbing – Extensive library of fixtures including “Smart” objects that attach to walls for easy editing.
• HVAC – Design the ultimate system for comfort and maximum efficiency.
   

Flexible Home Design Tools

Whether you started with one of the predesigned templates, the QuickStart™ tool, or other, TurboFloorPlan makes it easy to customize your home to your exact specifications.

• AutoFraming™ with Framing Editor™ - Customize stud spacing and materials (steel, wood, etc) for roofs, walls and floor joists. Insulate with one mouse click.
• Windows & Doors - Choose from a variety of styles including designer brand name products and simply drop them into self-healing walls.
• Walls - Customize walls with faux finish, paint, wallpaper, and other materials.
• Stairs - Click and drag traditional, curved, or circular styles. Add landings, railings, balusters…all elements can be customized to your spec.
• Roofing - Standard or complex, preset roof tools make any roof style easy to create!

Decorate or Remodel

TurboFloorPlan Pro offers thousands of decorating and remodeling possibilities. Many of the product libraries include nationally-recognized, brand name objects or materials you can try before you buy. TurboFloorPlan even includes “green” objects and materials such as recycled glass counters, bamboo cabinets and flooring.

• Furniture – Adding furniture, cabinets, and appliance is as simple as drag-and-drop.
• Objects – Fixtures, lighting, ceiling fans, sinks, and more for every room in your home.
• Flooring – Try tile, carpet, wood, stone, and more, even area rugs.
• Trim – Add polish to designs including wainscot, baseboards, or crown molding for walls
• Accessories – Dress windows with stylish blinds, draps, or shutter.
• Lighting – Use the Precision Lighting Planner™ to view the effects of ambient light, shadows, falloff, radius, sunlight, and more.
• Materials – Choose from a variety of brand name materials and paint colors, or use the Material Importer™ to photograph and save a material to be added to your design.

Cabinet Designer™

Choose from a wide selection of drag-and-drop cabinets and customize materials, colors, handles and knobs, shelving, drawers, and appliances. This tool is great for kitchen and bathroom remodels, but also for perfect for remodeling offices, hallway storage, media centers and garage organizations.

3D Library Catalog Support

Download and import new objects into your library dynamically.  Update your library with new objects to put the finishing touches on your project.  Also, the  recently re-organization library simplifies searches for plants, materials and objects.  Use view library and preview before choosing a category in the library navigation window.

Estimator - Automatic room cost estimates

Estimator tallies and saves square footage, flooring, paint and other area data about your design in a spreadsheet format, in real–time, as you draw. Add pricing information and you’ll have a budgeting snapshot of your project. Estimate costs for individual rooms, landscape, or your entire house.

More tools for easy designing

Create “colorboards” of your favorite paint colors, wood floors, carpet, wall coverings and apply them instantaneously to any room. Options to define colors and materials. Try different combinations before you commit. Easily replicate your favorites in other rooms. .

QuickPallet™ decorates an entire room in one mouse click!

• Drag the ProjecTape™ precision tool anywhere in your drawing for real-time measuring, indoors or out.
• Save time with MyStyle creating default colors and material choices before you begin designing.
• Use RoomView™ for wide angle 3D viewing making it easier to see inside small spaces.
• Build virtually any object or modify existing objects from a library with the 3D Custom Workshop™
• Use the SmartWand™ technology to see how one individual color or material can change your whole look..
• Build a 3D model of your home design with RealModel®

Deck Templates

Get started FAST! Predesigned, drag & drop, editable designs you can use as-is or customize to your personal style!

IntelliDeck™

Intuitively follows the shape of your house, as you draw. Create simple or complex shapes in seconds.

Auto Edging and Planting Templates

Professionally designed, zone specific plant groupings with simple drag-and-drop placement. A variety of shapes of freestanding, corners, and more.

Rock Your World!

Unlimited design possibilities! Mix plants, rock, mulch, pavers, brick and other realistic materials to created unique shapes, paths and flower gardens. All types of objects are included in the libraries, or photograph your favorites and add them!

Fence Designer™

Versatile tool lets you design fences with any custom material, color, or photo object — even draw your design freehand!

Global Sun Positioning™

Precision tool aligns your property to ANY location you specify, including date and time of day. View the effects of sun angle, positioning, location, and shadows.

Visual Array Tool™

Automatically adds plants or objects along a straight path with user-defined spacing. Perfect for interior shelving, too.

Background Importer™

Import photos of skies or other backgrounds for a real-world effect you can view inside or out.

Hardscapes

Build dramatic retaining walls that define and accent your home. Choose stone, brick, or other materials. Then add your plantings to finish the look.

Growth Tool

See how your plantings will look years from now! Use with Global Sun Positioning™ to view the effects of shade in your design.

Topo Designer™

Add real-world topography to your building site. Automatically cuts or adds fill and building pad to your design.

PlantFinder™

Design beautiful landscapes with a multitude of trees, shrubs, flowers, and vegetation. PlantFinder makes it easy! Sorting feature lets you select growing parameters, International zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions. Color-coded zone maps make plant selection easy and foolproof. Photo-realistic images of real-world plants can be viewed from any angle. Even get complete information about every plant in the database with the Plant Details dialog.

Plant Importer™

Easily add your favorite plant…from your photograph! Expand plant database to virtually limitless custom choices. Add your favorite plant to your virtual landscape. Custom plants are included in Estimator.

PhotoView™ incorporates your pictures

Just need to add a decorative landscaping to your existing house? Take a picture of your existing home and easily add it with PhotoView™! Definable shadows make your home and new landscape design come to life!

Home Design

New! 64-bit Architecture

TurboFloorPlan Mac has been rewritten to fully support 64-bit operating systems.  This greatly improves the performance speed of the software and improves user productivity.

New! Content Library System

Download and import new objects into your library dynamically.  Update your library with new objects to put the finishing touches on your project

New! Automatic Gables

Automatic gables save time creating the roof panels.  The Dormer tool offers Hip, Gable, Shed, and Eyebrow styles.  Automatically set the rotation angle, pitch, and elevation of dormers to match the roof.

New! Material Editor

Easily edit materials to customize your designs. Edit RGB values, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Shadows, Midtones, Highlights, and Gamma Correction.

New! Shutter Tool

Easily add shutters that automatically size to your windows

New! Double Doors and Mounting Options

Add double doors and mounting elements quickly and easily.

Interior Design

New! 700+ 3D Furnishings

This huge selection of new 3D objects allows users to add realistic dimension and detail to projects.  Add your own personalized touch to every room.  Discover a treasure drove of furniture pieces, fixtures and accessories.

• Interior lighting fixtures, and exterior, floor, hanging, scones and wall lighting fixtures
• Home décor: Baskets, boxes, candles and holders, clocks, mirrors, shelves, frames, vases, bowls, pots, planters, pillows and blankets
• Cabinet and door hardware
• Exercise equipment and exterior furniture
• Game room / music room objects
• Children’s room / nursery room objects
• Kitchen and dining room tables, chairs, buffets, and accessories
• Living room chairs, furniture sets, tables, sofas and loveseats
• Bathroom accessories: bathtubs, mirrors, showers, sinks, faucets, vanities
• Bedroom accessories: beads, dressers, chests of drawers, matching sets, nightstands

New! 1800+ Materials

A reorganized and consolidated material library is easier to use.  High resolution textures give unprecedented realism.  Find just the right look for every part of your project.

• Fabric and upholstery
• Tile patterns: hex, diamond, and hopscotch
• Roofing: barrel, flat and scalloped tile
• Wood patterns: weathered, plank, basket weave, herringbone and plaid
• Landscaping: Grass, mulch, plant cover, rock, water, concrete
• Art collection of miscellaneous pieces
• Sky and more backgrounds
• Over 1,200 modern paint colors

New! 1200 Paint Colors

You’ll have no problem finding exactly the right paint color now for your interior walls.  This new collection of 1,200 paint colors has something for everyone.

New! Wall Heater Tool

TurboFloorPlan Home & Landscape 2017 for Mac now offers an extended wall heater style library in the HVAC planner.

New! Column Tool - Add column element quickly and easily.

Landscape Design

New! Customizable 2D Plant Symbols

Create your own custom drawn 2D plant symbols or customize existing onesNEW Sample Floor Plans - Having trouble deciding on a style for your dream home?  TurboFloorPlan Mac 2017 offers a new selection of sample plans including Caribbean Modern, Chateau, Colonial, Contemporary, Country Farmhouse, French Country, European Cottage, Tudor, Tuscan, Modern and more!

New! Customizable Plant Sizing

Customizable Plant Sizing allow you to set the exact plant size needed for your design
 

New! Plant Inventory Bar to quickly inventory your plants and adjust as needed.

New! Landscape and Patio Grouping

Other Features

New! 3D Cutaway Tool

Cut form any angle, vertically or horizontally, at a specific elevation

New! Import Sketch Up Models

Compatible with new Sketchup formats and easily edit objects within the program

New! Retina Compatible User Interface

TurboFloorPlan Mac now offers a more up-to-date Mac-friendly user interface with retina display compatibility for the sharpest imagery.

New! Enhanced Tool Drawing Methods

Easier and more efficient drawing methods (shapes) and dimensioning along with automatic snapping and alignment all based on the updated 2D Drawing Engine for easier and more efficient designing and editing

New! Dimensioning Options - Editing and annotation tools offer a variety of improvement including:

Improved! Polygon tracking dimensions - Dimension lines and text are positioned to reduce overlapping.

• Tracking dimensions correctly offset by thickness of wall.
• When tracking or an attachment is selected tracking dimensions appear. (light blue dimensions)
• Distance to end point of wall segments are now dimensioned.
• Tracking dimensions are offset correctly to avoid overlapping with wall dimensions.
• Dimension to next attachment is smarter. For example windows dimension only to windows and doors. Attachments on opposite side of wall are ignored.
• Tracking dimensions are now drawn on same side as attachment
• Dim placement takes into account attachment depth.
• Only attachments on this side of wall are detected by dimensions.
• Improvements to tracking dimension placement on non-polygons.
• Laser Line Improvements

New! Redesigned User's Guide

• Macintosh® OS X 10.9 or higher
• Intel® Core™ Solo processor or faster
• 256MB VRAM
• 2.5 GB Hard Disk Space
• 512MB RAM, DVD-ROM
• 1024x768 millions of colors display resolution
• keyboard and mouse