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Guide: your first house in five steps

No CAD experience needed. Five steps and you have a complete house, with a render and a plan.

1. Open the architecture editor

Go to the editor and pick architecture mode. Nothing to install; the first load takes a few seconds, then the program stays in the browser cache.

2. Start from a template

Hit Inventory, the Templates category, and choose Family house. A whole scene appears: a two-storey house, fence, trees, a car and a human figure for scale.

3. Change the parameters

Select the house and, in the right-hand panel, change width, depth, number of floors or rooms. The building rebuilds instantly, windows and roof included.

4. Apply materials and light

Alt-click picks only the walls so you can give them brick, then stone for the base course. The time slider moves the sun; shadows and reflections recompute themselves.

5. Take the result out

“High-quality render” gives you a clean 2000 px image. “Plan SVG” exports the vector plan. “Export STL” prepares parts for the printer. And “Share” gives you a link anyone can open.

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