Designing a glass house and landscaping inside

[Acromyrmexbob]

I have just got a copy of Pro 10 and wonder if its possible to design a tropical house landscape inside a large greenhouse complete with paths, plants, bridges and rock faces. Also is it possible to design a cave effect within this building. I am a zoo designer and would love to use this product to design these things.

[David J. Potter]

I have just got a copy of Pro 10 and wonder if its possible to design a tropical house landscape inside a large greenhouse complete with paths, plants, bridges and rock faces.

Yes, once you learn its tools and dialogs well.

Also is it possible to design a cave effect within this building. I am a zoo designer and would love to use this product to design these things.

Asymmetric objects are more difficult to model using native tools but such a construct can be done in a more free-hand modeling program like Sketch Up and then imported as a symbol into Home Designer Pro 10 and then integrated with its plan file.

The key to the above is lots of dedicated study and practice with both HD Pro and Sketch Up, high level results are always earned.

DJP

[Acromyrmexbob]

Thanks you very much for this answer. If I use Sketch Up to model such things as caves and then import this into Home Designer as a symbol, will I be able to see this in 3D when I sample various views. For instance will it be possible to position a camera to look through a cave for a presentation to a client?

[David J. Potter]

For instance will it be possible to position a camera to look through a cave for a presentation to a client?

Yes, that is pretty much the point, to be able to do so.

DJP