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Show HN: Cedreo – Home construction drawings and 3D models

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I'm about to move into a new (to me) house, and typically 3D model my place by hand so I can do stuff like this. Definitely interested in taking this for a spin.

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Google SketchUp works really well for me. I've done it for the last 2 apartments I've lived in, and even shared the file with the tenants moving in after me.

Edit: saw the video on the site, ok with SketchUp I just draw the floorplans, but it does have IKEA furniture in its online library which I can import, so I can try layouts on screen instead of in real life.

FYI, Trimble bought SketchUp from Google so it’s technically no longer ‘Google Sketchup’.

Got the same error in Safari, macOS. When I reloaded the site without content blockers the error went away and I was able to sign up.

yeah, tried to signup but got that error as well. After disabling my adblocker i was able to "signup" but my verification email never arrived..

EDIT: Verification email has arrived, it just took time.

I use lego blocks, scale 20 cm (8") / stud, which seems to work quite well.

Sweet Home 3D is my go to tool for home modelling - http://www.sweethome3d.com

I do agree, it's really good.

The only thing a bit difficult is to find objects/models to use: the gallery system in the app doesn't have search/filters and the website does provide a list and third parties, but overall it's a little bit of work to locate one precise item you need for your project.

Since I am in a process of upgrading my house I thought that this could be quite useful. However, I was unable to use this service.

I tried to sign up, but the Sign up page does not work. I entered email (not allowing copy paste is a bit annoying) and then clicking 'Sign up!' button resulted in nothing and clicking more times showed error 'uncaught exception: null' in the console...

Moreover, there is 'Hurry up! 100% free', but no information about any prices. This looks shady for me.

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Would love to try but sign-ups seem dead: "Sorry, there was an error with your subscription, please try again."

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As I understand the market target is the non-professional home builder. Products for this market are not new and never seemed to be successful.

By the other hand, if you try to capture professional (or even semi-professional) market share, the quest is not easy also: Sketchup with a multitude of plugins is hard to beat. Where I see opportunity is on VR software for drones that could make plans/3D models with minor human input.

Disclaimer: I'm an architect and not in the US, I might be biased.

If non pro home builders won't be interested in this, where do you feel the attraction in vr lies? Genuinely interested since i think it's a popular (if not obvious) idea (I. E. For realty agents, real estate brokers etc).

I would highly recommend SketchUp for this kind of simple 3d 'sketching'. It's highly intuitive and well documented.

It was bought from Google a while back by a company called Trimble who made it kind of shit, but there are .exes for Google SketchUp 8 floating around. This lets you export in a wide variety of formats and runs beautifully in an XP VM if you are of the Linux persuasion

Use homeidea3d for free

https://youtu.be/4U7PVCZwxMk

I looks like there's a lot of good code in there, and a lot of hard work so good job thus far. What I want to know is why is it so narrowly focused, as in all it can do is residential homes specifically, residential homes. Wouldn't it be better if it were a generic modeller/CAD program?

The “Easy as 1,2,3 steps” part of the video seemed like it was glossing over a lot of work. “Just add the roof” is a step that I wasn’t convinced by the video is trivial using your software.

If it is easier to use Cedreo you might consider copy like ‘other home building apps make you do x to achieve y but with Cedreo it’s just w and z!’

It depends on the complexity of your roof but we have automatic algorithms to create roofs depending on your needs

What would make this ultra killer is to have a VR component. Imagine being able to walk around a design (obviously you'd have to be in a large enough space—basketball court, warehouse, empty parking lot, etc…). You would be able to experience the design at a human scale.

I just use sweethome3d to create simple models when doing internal positioning system demos.

Any plans to support WebVR or similar? I always thought it would make lots of sense for real estate companies to allow a VR walkthrough of their properties.

Pretty sure most people would be blown away with a HTC Vive setup to walk through your future home!

..actually I think I would add a “order VR Kit” button/landing page and just see if there’s any interest.

Then start shipping a “good-enough” VR headset (possibly branded with your company) and support for your 3D files.

I can for sure say there is interest! 100% percent on board with getting you these kits. Email me andrew@basereality.co

Decided to check it out. The very first thing I drew, and I'm already frustrated!

1) Draw a wall (via the mouse) -- it's off by ~3/4'

2) Try to refine its length exact dimension (via keyboard)

Can't?!?

You can refine the exact length by moving the wall attached to this one with your keyboard arrows :-)

Tried again.

So here's my list of frustrations after just 10 mins of use: I'm unable to refine the dimension of wall by keying it in directly - I must use the mouse or arrow keys. I couldn't get the dimension of the wall to exactly 11 feet. It would inexplicably jump from 10 3/4" to 11 1/4" using the mouse of arrow keys! If I add an extension to an existing wall it immediately merges it. If I accidentally started to add a wall I couldn't just hit ESC to quit/redo. The aspect ratio of the grid surface doesn't seem right e.g. a 12 X 10' room looks almost exactly square on screen.

So... that's all. I won't bother y'all again with my quips. :)

Looks great! Our house is about a month from being finished, but I would have loved mocking up our house as we discussed it.

Does someone know how I can select multiple walls to move a room?

You can't do it for the moment but if you want to resize a room, you have a dedicated tool

does this support importing revit models? I just paid for a 3d laser scan to do as-built conditions.

Unfortunately not for the moment

This has existed for years: https://www.archilogic.com/

It only allows interiors though AFAIK.

So....it hasn't actually existed.

Indeed, no solution exists today to generate high quality renderings of a 3D house from scratch in less than one hour.

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