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For professional designers who create built-environment models and images, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and exhibit and production designers — a uniquely fast, easy and creative 3D visualization environment, great rendering quality, and unlimited modeling capabilities — DesignWorkshop Professional, fully cross-platform 3D design software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 and Macintosh Classic.

DesignWorkshop allows you to quickly and creatively sketch spatial ideas in live 3D perspective, then develop and refine them efficiently with simple yet powerful and accurate editing tools. Your design visions will spring to life instantly using real-time rendering with lights and textures built in. And with the LightWorks rendering modules of DesignWorkshop Professional, one menu command produces a professional anti-aliased presentation rendering of your creation.

Compatibility Note: DesignWorkshop® is currently available in old but functional editions for all active versions of Windows except Vista, and for Macintosh Classic (PPC processor only). Special installation instructions are applicable to a few configurations of Windows XP. The current Macintosh version works well in the Classic environment, and is compatible with Mac OS X (PPC processor), but it is not native for Mac OS X, and it is incompatible with Intel processor Macintoshes.

The powerful DesignWorkshop modeling environment is based on the simple, unique concept of the live 3D crosshair, so you can model in real perspective space, using easy click-and-drag direct-manipulation editing to create, resize, and reshape walls, roofs, openings, etc.

DesignWorkshop is the first real 3D design tool for creating form in space. Traditional drafting software only works in two dimensions, like pencil and paper. Most so-called "3D applications" are really just souped-up drafting software, with little or no editing available in the perspective view. The few other powerful 3D solid modeling systems available are complicated to learn and use, and too rigid for creative design work.

With DesignWorkshop, you actually design and build live in three dimensions. MacWEEK called DesignWorkshop "the most direct 3D interface short of a dataglove". MacWorld calls it "an excellent, lower-priced alternative to high-end architectural design packages." David Stovall, the original AOL graphics forum leader, says DesignWorkshop "is the closest thing to intuitive design out there."

Frankly, live 3D design with DesignWorkshop simply blows away other professional modeling tools like form-Z and AutoCAD. Traditional CAD is just too linear and cumbersome for creative 3D sketching of architectural ideas. But DesignWorkshop breaks through the complexity barrier with a different philosophy — just a few perfectly selected, well-balanced, very powerful modeling tools — instead of literally hundreds of hyper-specialized CAD functions.

DesignWorkshop Pro is a new kind of CAD that truly respects and responds to the craft and creative intelligence of the design professional. And with excellent translators included for DXF, DWG, VRML, Radiance, and other industry standards, the DesignWorkshop modeling process integrates smoothly with all of the mainstream production CAD drafting systems.

For affordable power in 3D home design and easy web world building, DesignWorkshop Classic is a quality 3D home design application at a great price price of just $99.95. DesignWorkshop Classic comes complete with 3D furniture and materials, on a 200MB dual platform CD-ROM, available for online ordering with optional immediate downloading.

For people doing 3D with a zero budget, Artifice now also provides DesignWorkshop Lite free for downloading or just $19.95 on CD-ROM. It's a 3D design starter program based on DesignWorkshop that's got plenty of power for home design, remodeling and shop projects, or just for serious tire-kicking.

The live 3D competitive advantage, for design professionals