DKDesigns Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 What is the difference between Home Designer and Chief Architect? Other than a major price difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgardner Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 19 minutes ago, DKDesigns said: What is the difference between Home Designer and Chief Architect? Other than a major price difference. In oversimplified terms: Home Designer products (made by Chief Architect) is a DIY homeowner product. Although the Home Designer Pro has a lot of functions (more than the other two HD products) and can do most basic work it is still made for DIY users. Chief Architect Premier and Interiors is a professional grade product for Architectural Designers, Architects, Engineers, Interior Designers, Kitchen & Bath designers, and are made to be used for professional users. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKDesigns Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 Went on the website and the Home Designer Pro certainly looks and sounds like a prior version on Chief Architect. Am I not seeing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Pro is more like "Chief lite" and there are a lot of differences: https://cloud-hd.chiefarchitect.com/1/pdf//product-info/compare-chief-architect-to-home-designer-pro.pdf The other thing you can do is download the trial version and try it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKDesigns Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 thank you DBCooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdd Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Premier for the win.......spend the extra money, it's worth it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJPotter Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 In HD Pro you have NO layers sets, one layout file for EACH printed layout page and fewer choices and tools (as one should expect). a lot of the fancier, customization tools are left out and are only resident in Chief Premier. DJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 if you are doing construction documents all the time, I think you would spend more time in HD Pro fiddling around than what if would cost for premier, where Premier you can setup the templates predone with elevations, floor plans, details. I do a lot of the same form factor, and can "redo" a new floor plan in a couple hours with a complete layout set Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 If you decide for PRO you can later apply the full price to upgrade to Premier If you are in business I recommend Premier Lew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMMully Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 I started at the low version, quickly realized for full blown construction docs and the like, its a no brainer to Premier. Unless you are doing stuff like kitchen/bath remodels only, then things like Shapes 2020 will have connections to the manufactures for super fast quotes. I learned in that game, its different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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