- Draws true 3D wireframe, top, front and side views
- Instantly places posts, beams, joists, decks, handrails and stairs
- Drag and Drop any of the included pre-drawn deck furnishings
- Check out your creation from multiple angles – view your deck from top or side elevations
- Create your own terrace for decks less than 18′ high, with no handrails — set it against a wall, on an inside or outside corner, alcove, wraparound or even freestanding
Product Description
Instant Deck Design 15 is a powerful, easy-to-use CAD tool that lets you design your own deck with some basic keyboard and mouse usage. Choose from 50 pre-drawn decks of the most popular designs which can easily be adapted or scale for use on your own home! Add or remove deck features quickly with our large variety of editing tools – even edit in 3D. Whatever you want to do with a deck can be done with this amazing new applications. Email drawings from your deskto… More >>
#1 by Speleologist on March 26, 2010 - 4:33 am
Instant Deck design is very basic but difficult to learn. Not at all what I expected for a supposedly user-friendly software. No manual, so you have to read directions from disk (and too many pages to print if you go that route). I tried using the Deck Design Wizard, which does well except I didn’t see a construction plan with dimensions, just a nice drawing of the finished project. Worst of all, I can’t get the program to give me a material list. I’ll have to play with this program some more, but as of now, it is worthless to me.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by G. Smith on March 26, 2010 - 5:29 am
This product will give you the basic layout only. Trying to put a stairway on a beveled corner just didn’t happen. Also if you went outside the set perameters it would refuse to do anything. You get what you pay for.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Ea Bartruff on March 26, 2010 - 7:01 am
The program was not as easy as I thought I would be. I was not able to print working drawings only a list of materials in even tht was only general nothing specific. I was a little disappointed in it’s lack of features and difficuty with commands (mostly keyboard and low use of the mouse). For the price fair, but it could have been better.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by John Hanson on March 26, 2010 - 7:26 am
worked as advertised….but i needed more ….somewhat not user friendly i am not a computer wizz
Rating: 3 / 5