Compare the Top 3D Architecture Software for Windows as of July 2025

What is 3D Architecture Software for Windows?

3D architecture software is software that helps architects and designers create detailed 3D models of buildings and structures. These tools provide functionalities for designing floor plans, visualizing architectural designs in 3D, and simulating how a structure will look in the real world. Features typically include tools for building information modeling (BIM), material selection, lighting simulation, and rendering. This software allows users to experiment with different design concepts, making it easier to visualize spaces, optimize layouts, and create realistic presentations for clients. It is widely used in architectural design, urban planning, interior design, and construction industries. Compare and read user reviews of the best 3D Architecture software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Coohom

    Coohom

    Coohom

    Coohom is a leading global cloud-based, 3D design platform that provides all-in-one software and services to empower designers and businesses to design a professional project in minutes, and get photo-realistic 3D visualizations in seconds. With a presence spanning the United States, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, Coohom's innovative solutions have garnered the trust of over 10 million customers from 200 countries. With the aim of facilitating the digital transformation of customers in the interior design, furniture & home decor, and Kitchen & Bath industry, Coohom provides a comprehensive suit of software encompassing design, rendering, marketing, production, and construction, helping to streamline their workflows and achieve success.
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    Starting Price: $0 per month
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    AutoCAD

    AutoCAD

    Autodesk

    CAD software to design anything—with time-saving toolsets, web, and mobile apps. AutoCAD® is computer-aided design (CAD) software that architects, engineers, and construction professionals rely on to create precise 2D and 3D drawings. Draft, annotate, and design 2D geometry and 3D models with solids, surfaces, and mesh objects. Automate tasks such as comparing drawings, adding blocks, creating schedules, and more. Customize with add-on apps and APIs. AutoCAD includes industry-specific features and intelligent objects for architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical design, and more. Automate floor plans, sections, and elevations. Draw piping, ducting, and circuiting quickly with parts libraries. Auto-generate annotations, layers, schedules, lists, and tables. Use a rules-driven workflow to accurately enforce industry standards.
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    Starting Price: $1,268 per user per year
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    CAD Cabin Home Designer
    Draw floor plans in minutes, with the easy-to-use in-built 2D drawing tool. With a huge library of objects, including walls, stairs, doors, windows, roofs and much much more, now you can draw your floor plan in literally minutes. You can also import photos / DWG / PDF files into the software from other programs. Or, you can get CAD Cabins architects for design services. CAD Cabin’s software is an excellent home design tool to visualize and design your house project. All of our software allow you to easily draw 2D floor plans and create 3D designs. In just simple steps, you can plan the layout of your home with complete components like doors, windows, staircases and interior furnishing objects. As you draw the plan, the software creates a 3D model that you can view simultaneously. You can change the materials and plan the exterior elements such as terrain, fence and pathways. Our home design software products are suitable for all levels of experience.
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    ARCHLine.XP
    We deliver design software solutions for architects, interior designers and furniture makers. ARCHLine.XP LT - Solid 3D CAD/BIM product at affordable price ARCHLine.XP Professional - Large-scale 3D BIM software for architecture ARCHLine.XP Live - Easy-to-use archviz animation software
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    Edificius

    Edificius

    ACCA Software

    Edificius is the BIM software "all in one" that integrates 2D and 3D architectural design with Rendering, Scene Photomontages and Photo editing, Ray Tracing rendering with AI denoising, Real-Time rendering, Video editing, Immersive Virtual Reality and much more! You can also deal with MEP plant modelling, Job scheduling (BIM 4D), Dynamic Data extraction from the BIM model for cost estimating (BIM 5D). Edificius is an open solution that creates a seamless and interoperable system between other ACCA BIM software or other developers either by means of direct integration or IFC file exchange as certified by buildingSMART International.
    Starting Price: €21/month
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    Revizto

    Revizto

    Revizto

    Revizto unifies BIM intelligence and makes it immediately accessible and actionable for the entire project team. With Revizto’s advanced Issue Tracker predefined workflows project team members can identify and manage model-based issues in the 3D space and 2D sheets, including addressing clash groups. Revizto provides unified access to a project’s data both for 2D and 3D workflows, so anyone can use it depending on project requirements.
    Starting Price: $600.00/year/user
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    VisualARQ
    VisualARQ is a Flexible BIM solution powered by McNeel’s Rhinoceros 3D. VisualARQ enhances Rhino by adding powerful associative object styling and dynamic documentation tools which adapt to fit the professional’s workflow. VisualARQ allows you to with parametric architectural objects, produce 2D drawings from the 3D model, generate dynamic BIM objects driven by Grasshopper, automate many modeling tasks through the VisualARQ components built for Grasshopper, add custom data to geometry and list in schedules and finally deliver BIM models and collaborate with other tools through the IFC import/export capabilities.
    Starting Price: $95-795 one-time payment
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    ArCADia BIM

    ArCADia BIM

    ArCADiasoft

    ArCADia is attractively priced, specialized software for the construction industry (ArCADia BIM system) – our programs support the work of construction and installation engineers (AEC) as well as architects and contractors. It allows for the creation of an almost complete digital model of the building with all the installations (water, sewage, electricity, gas, etc) as well as its surroundings. The programs offer collision analysis, calculations, merging of documents, .dwg, IFC, in program libraries and rendering, Support BIM technology, object-oriented architectural design. Ready-made architectural elements: multilayer walls, stairs, bases, columns, chimneys, windows and doors. Comparing and merging documents. Automatic floor entry, support for Teriva ceiling design. Drawing of flat and spatial technical documentation and its writing to the native DWG format characteristic of most CAD applications.
    Starting Price: $1060/one-time
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    IDEA Architecture
    IDEA Architecture offers advanced 3D BIM modeling within an AutoCAD-like look and feel. You only need to master very simple 2D commands like polylines, entity snaps, copy... and you will soon be drawing in 3D using our libraries of 3D BIM objects. You just need to draw the floor plans using the intelligent and parametric objects of our AutoBLD menu and IDEA Architecture will build the 3D from it. A simple double-click on any of our objects will display its properties for an easy modification. Unlike other BIM Architectural Software, IDEA Architecture uses DWG as its native file format and includes features to convert the 3D BIM objects into simple vectors that can be further viewed and modified in AutoCAD®. You can therefore freely share 2D or 3D files with most of CAD users. Our Architectural Software includes all the features of 4MCAD , our alternative to AutoCAD®.
    Starting Price: $1,395 one-time payment
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    Enscape

    Enscape

    Enscape

    Enscape™ is a real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, and Vectorworks. It plugs directly into your modeling software, giving you an integrated visualization and design workflow. As an intuitive design tool, it requires no prior specialized knowledge to use. You can design, document, and visualize simultaneously from one model. It is the easiest and fastest way to turn your building models into immersive 3D experiences. Bring your designs to life and give your clients a design experience like never before. Used by 85 of the top 100 architecture firms worldwide, Enscape empowers your design workflow.
    Starting Price: $39.90 per month
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    V-Ray

    V-Ray

    Chaos

    Chaos® V-Ray® is a 3D rendering plugin available for SketchUp, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Revit, and more. It is widely used in architectural visualization, advertising, and visual effects for film and television. With V-Ray, artists and designers can explore and share their projects with real-time ray tracing and render high-quality visualizations. V-Ray has a large community of users and is recognized for its incredible versatility. V-Ray has been honored with a Sci-Tech Academy Award® and an Engineering Emmy Award® for bringing fully ray-traced photorealistic CGI to the film and television industries. For more information, please visit chaos.com
    Starting Price: $60 per month
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    DataCAD

    DataCAD

    DATACAD LLC

    DataCAD is a professional-level Architectural CADD program for design, presentation, and documentation. DataCAD is one of the few software applications that are developed specifically for Architects, and it is the only CADD software ever to be endorsed by the American Institute of Architects (ca. 1987). Originally developed by an architectural firm more than 30 years ago, DataCAD is one of the stalwarts of the CAD industry.
    Starting Price: $1295
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    Lumion

    Lumion

    Act-3D

    A building doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The setting, its environment, the subtle details — they all matter to bring your design to life. To create atmosphere. To give spaces a sense of scale and possibility. Lumion makes it refreshingly easy to transform any CAD model into an experience you can feel. You can shape entire landscapes and add a world of context to your designs. Make spaces feel real with fine-detailed nature, detailed skies and high-quality materials. Convey atmosphere and emotion with stunning lighting, weather and animation effects. Lumion is architectural rendering software that makes it easy to convey how your projects will translate into real-life experiences and emotions. Fast, intuitive and reliable, Lumion fits seamlessly in any design workflow, making rendering a more satisfying and enjoyable experience. Atmospheric spotlights. Realism-inducing decals. A scene-building experience that’s faster than ever.
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    Trezi

    Trezi

    Trezi

    Trezi is a Virtual Reality platform for the Architect, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry. Trezi Lens is a software that dramatically transforms Revit, SketchUp, Rhino and FBX design models into Virtual Reality. It also offers a seamless way of design presentation and collaboration with its hero feature Trezi Teleport. Trezi showcase offers building product manufacturers a completely fresh platform to showcase their products with the power of digit twins, a centralized cataloging system and many more exciting features. Trezi offers immersive collaboration without any boundation of the number of people in the meeting or the size of the design model. Trezi's third offering Trezi Academy trains the students of architecture and Interior design with VR skills to upskill them and help them start their digital journey.
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    Architect 3D Ultimate 20

    Architect 3D Ultimate 20

    Avanquest Software

    Architect 3D is a Home Design application that allows you to design, equip and decorate your home and garden in 3D. Design your creative project step by step and room by room, from the basement to the loft space. Draw up plans of your house, equip your interior and exterior areas and add your own personal touch to your living space. A virtual tour and extremely realistic 3D allow you to review the results. Architect 3D Ultimate 20 brings you all the professional tools you need to design your home and garden.
    Starting Price: £159.99 one-time payment
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    VR-Design Studio
    FORUM8’s interactive VR-Design Studio* software is deployed by hundreds of research organizations, urban planners, transportation authorities and vehicle manufacturers across all four continents to create fully immersive, realistic models of the built environment. Interactive 3D VR simulation and modeling software VR-Design Studio enables users to dynamically manipulate 3D space, run unlimited drive simulation scenarios, import and edit CAD data, build and texture models, and automatically add roads, tunnels and bridges to create multiple design alternatives in real time, both off and online. The completed models provide users with the ability to visualize and intelligently interact with the virtual world they have created, enabling analysis of the potential environmental impact of the proposed development, including on pedestrian and vehicular traffic flows, to facilitate the widest possible stakeholder collaboration during the planning process.
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    Shapespark

    Shapespark

    Shapespark

    Shapespark turns architectural 3D models into realistic and interactive online walkthroughs and allows to host 3D video meetings inside them. 3D walkthroughs and 3D meetings can be easily shared via links, opened directly in web browsers, and enriched with interactive elements like material and color pickers, HTML content, and more.
    Starting Price: $19/month/user
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    Arc+

    Arc+

    Space Tech International

    ARC+ a software created by architects, for architects. For over 30 years ARC+ develops software solutions serving architects, designers and building professionals. ARC + offers architects and other building professionals a simple and ergonomic way to move from idea to reality while respecting everyone creative spirit, "The Freedom of Design." With an interactive and efficient 2D / 3D modeller it is possible to model any geometry or to use the existing architectural modules for creating stairs, walls, windows etc. ARC + does not stop there as it offers a range of fully integrated add-ons. A 3D rendering engine allows you to sell your project by generating, among others, photorealistic images. An editing and project’s structure management module allows you to display areas, perimeters and other quantitative data in order to communicate them to the client directly from your production documents.The construction industry is changing, ARC + too.
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    Chief Architect

    Chief Architect

    Chief Architect

    Chief Architect software brings home design projects to life. Automated building tools for home design, interior design, and kitchen & bath design make it easy to create construction drawings, elevations, CAD details, and 3D models. Download a trial and see why Chief Architect is the best residential home design software for architects, home builders, and remodeling professionals. Chief Architect software is the professional tool of choice for architects, home builders, remodelers, and interior designers. Smart building technology makes it easy to create construction drawings, floor plans, elevations, 3D renderings, and 360 panoramic renderings. Chief Architect's software is purpose‑built for residential design with building tools that can automatically generate roofs, foundations, framing, and dimensions. As you draw walls, windows, and doors, the program simultaneously creates a 3D model.
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    CR-8000 Design Force
    Break down the boundaries of your electrical design process with Design Force, a true innovation in system-level IC package and PCB design and analysis. As the process for designing a complete product continues to increase in complexity, it often includes technologies that have become difficult and sometimes impossible for most ECAD tools to manage and address. Design Force provides the ability for design teams to take system-level design information from as early as the conceptual and planning phase and layout each board in the product, simultaneously considering the entire system view. Design Force fully leverages the latest industry hardware and software capabilities, allowing users to design in a native 3D environment, obtaining optimal performance by utilizing native 64-bit, multi-threading, multi-core processors. Design Force supports multiple client-server implementations and includes the ability to work from your corporate cloud.
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    ArcGIS CityEngine
    CityEngine is advanced 3D modeling software for creating huge, interactive and immersive urban environments in less time than traditional modeling techniques. The cities you create using CityEngine can be based on real-world GIS data or showcase a fictional city of the past, present, or future. Create a massive city all at once instead of modeling each building individually. CityEngine powers rapid adjustments to the architectural style or other features of your city so you can easily create multiple design scenarios. Make 3D models to show planned changes and alternate designs. Inform your designs with 3D representations of regulatory and land use conditions. Share multiple design alternatives with your team or stakeholders to gather feedback. CityEngine integrates smoothly with your current creation pipeline. Bring in your hero buildings or other assets to build 3D context around them. Export work back into your high-end visualization software or game engines.
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    DIRTT

    DIRTT

    DIRTT

    Build the perfect interior space for what you need now, and whatever the future brings. Designed to respond to your needs for any place, from healthcare to school or office to home life. This is digital construction at its best. Ready to start your project? Join thousands of happy clients who love their space. Need more time? Sign up below to get news and updates until you’re ready for a better way to build. DIRTT is a global leader in industrialized construction. Its integrated system of physical products and digital tools empowers organizations, together with construction and design leaders, to build high-performing, adaptable, interior environments. Operating in the workplace, healthcare, education and public sector markets, DIRTT’s system offers total design freedom, and greater certainty in cost, schedule, and outcomes. DIRTT is a global leader in industrialized construction. Its system of physical products and digital tools empowers organizations.
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