Top 5 Interior Design Software Tools to Transform Your Creative Vision into Reality
Nowadays, everybody wants to make a professional career in different, unique, creative & appealing fields. Some students’ favorite courses are Interior Designers, Vastu Experts, etc. Everyone wants to have an aesthetically good & appealing look in their own houses. In that scenario, they hire Professional Interior Designers & Architects. So the Interior Designer role is important. Software plays a handy, helpful & vital role for Interior Designers. So the Interior Designers give excellent virtual output before executing projects over the sites.
Some software is beneficial to design creative 2D & 3D virtual Layout plans, elevations, unique materials, etc. Autodesk & Adobe is a very reliable platform to help out Interior Designers & Architects from the last 3-4 decades. There are so many other trusted platforms like Trimble Inc., Graphisoft, etc. Some online cloud-based powerful interior design tools are also there to deliver fast & accurate results for beginners to expert Interior Designers. Nowadays AI (Artificial Intelligence) design tools also help designers to get excellent results in no time (Most of the time AI tools give inaccurate results).
If we are talking about the top 5 Interior Design Software tools to transform your creative vision into reality are Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk 3DS Max, Autodesk Revit, Trimble Sketchup, and Adobe Photoshop. These Software’s are widely used by the Architects & Interior Designers. There are so many other software’s also available in the market for the designers like Planner 5D, HomeByMe, Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Roomstyler, Homestyler, etc. Most of them are cloud/online/browser-based software’s, which is useful to make designs faster & accurate in less time.
1. Autodesk AutoCAD:- is a 2D & 3D computer-aided design software, which is useful for making/designing Residential & Commercial drawings at accurate dimensions. They released their first version in 1982. The version was upgraded yearly as per the feedback/inputs given by the community/user. It is very helpful, easy-to-use UI (User Interface) friendly software.
2. Autodesk 3DSMax (3 Dimension Studio Max):- is a professional 3D Computer Graphics program or design software. It gives you a virtual 3D output so the User to get a fair idea about their real sites. It is useful 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 & walkthroughs with the help of animation techniques.
3. Autodesk Revit:- is a Building Information Modeling software, which is useful/helpful for Architects, Structural Engineers, Contractors, and Electrical & Plumbing Engineers. This software is useful to create 3-dimensional models of buildings & other structures.
4. SketchUp:- again is a 3D modeling software introduced by the Trimble Inc. company. It is useful to make faster & accurate results with less & unique tool setup, helpful for beginners as well. Its interface is UI-friendly, which gives you realistic 3D output.
5. Adobe Photoshop:- is a 2D Raster/Pixel-based graphic editor software, which is essential for editing & enhancing images to help designers like multimedia artists, interior designers, architects, etc..
IVS School of Art & Design is a well-established Interior Architecture & Design Centre/Institute since 2007-08 with multiple branches in different locations in Delhi. They have already focused to teach all of these above given essential software. They have also introduced/aware students about cloud/browser-based software/apps as well as AI-based apps.
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.
