3D interior design, modeling and animation program.
Microspot interiors Professional is a powerful yet easy to use 3D interior design, modeling and animation program that allows you to quickly visualize interiors and create animations which can be recorded as movies and viewed by anyone with QuickTime. Interiors Professional makes it simple to draw walls and then add furniture and accessories from the library of almost 2000 items or import 3DS or Google SketchUp 6 files which are readily available from many 3rd parties. These items can be resized and the colors and textures customized. With a comprehensive set of 3D modeling tools it is also possible to create any furniture item or accessory yourself if required. Finally you can add lighting and render with shadows and reflections to create realistic 3D scenes which you can use to create stunning pictures, posters and animations for use in presentations and proposals.This version of Interiors Professional has new tools for wall editing, vertex editing and creating chamfered and rounded cuboids. The Edit Wall tool enables you to create room layouts by modifying existing models or drawing a rough layout of the correct shape and adjusting it. This makes it easy to trace a room layout from an imported floor plan offering an easy route from 2D plan to 3D model. The edit vertex tool allows you to create shapes that would have been virtually impossible in previous versions and with the new cuboid tools you can create commonly used objects with more realistic edges with much less work.Interiors Professional appeals to professional and amateur interior designers but because of its easy to use modeling and animation tools it also appeals to product designers who wish to model and present their designs in realistic looking settings. Furniture and appliance designers, office designers, shop fitters, stage set designers and many others will find this an invaluable tool for conceptual design.
Realism, lighting, ability to create QTVR movies, walk thrus, import 3rd party 3D objects
Cons
Difficult to use. Demo Tutorial deceptively easy. User guide limited to describing menu items. Forum, website lack troubleshooting info. Tech support email not answered for 2 days. UK publisher, support limited for USA.
Summary
I completed the demo tutorial, then purchased the product. It turned out the tutorial only showed how easy it was to put the finishing touches on a room. Building the room is another story. I have used Punch Arch. 4000 with no problems that I couldn't find answers for on the forum. So I'm not a novice. Tech response was that maybe a future update will solve the problem I had with 2 of 4 walls in my model. Be aware that you're on your own with this software. My request for a refund of my hard earned $225 was denied because I bought the download version rather than spending $50+ for the boxed version.