Planner 5D - Interior Design 4+

Fun however some features don't work for me

I am really enjoying designing our new home before we move in. However, I am working on a macbook pro with touchpad and find the camera navigation sometimes difficult. Also, I cannot copy projects so that I can try out different versions without having to re-do everything up to the point (the duplicate project button is greyed out even though I am using the paid version). I contacted the developers about this a few days ago and never got a response. The copying of items sometimes glitches as well with them appearing at a certain y coordinate in the floorplan from which they are impossible to drag away. That slows down the whole process a lot. I also would love it if whole floors could be copied and pasted to another floor which at least in my setup does not work. Another helpful feature would be little descriptions of items when hovering over them with the mouse.
Overall fun but also a bit glitchy.

Developer Response ,

We apologize for the inconvenience you've experienced. To copy projects, please try signing out and back into your account. This should resolve the issue with the duplicate project button. For a smoother experience, we recommend using a mouse for easier navigation. Thank you for your feedback.

Room for improvements

The app is pretty good to try out some basic designs, but it lacks a number of important features.

It still does not supporting grouping of elements which is essential for any larger piece of work.
It also seems to mosly lack support for keyboard shortcuts to increase productivity, such as navigation, deleting items etc.

It is also very hard to place and align items as there doesn't seem to be support for any snap to grid or alignment feature, so you have to be pixel perfect with the mouse which is near impossible.

Otherwise it is a very convenient app for quickly prototyping some ideas. I wish there was better integration with the online 5dplanner so that you could save a piece of work and continue online and vice versa.

I sincerely hope a lot of of these improvements and coming next year, then this app could be top class.

3d view is dissapointing

Lighitng is broken using metal (too dark), and needs an option to reduce the 3d real time rendering resoltuion. It nly gives the option to adjust rendering quality, but would be more logical to offer a reduction in real time rendering resolution to increase FPS, as retina resolution is overkill and kill performance. 1/4 resolution would be sufficient.

Also depseratley needs a walk around mode for 3d as a seconary option as the curent camera system just isnt as useful for me to appreciate a design compared to being able to walk aound like it were a video game level.

U.I is great but overall I won't be using the app due to inabilty to adjust real time rendering resolution and no walk around camera option.

Developer Response ,

Hello. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHiFhBDoz7Q; 2) Restart the app; 3) Interesting and worthy ideas, we'' take them into consideration.