Chief Architect or Home Designer Pro?

[David J. Potter]

HDP has no materials lists or material takeoff abilities

Joe,

Actually all Home Designer titles and versions have the same "Materials List" tools as does Chief Premiere.

What is mainly missing are some of the tools to customize and edit the Materials List but Home Designer Pro and Chief Premiere are quite similar in terms of Materials List abilities, options and tools.

I recently finished a large Apartment complex project where my client has Home Designer Pro and I worked the file in Chief Premiere and the Materials List was vital for this client to use.
I exhaustively checked and double-checked the plan file in both Pro and Chief and got precisely the same results in both (client very happy!).

It was one of the few times that I have had a client who wanted a "perfect" model so as to have an accurate Materials List ( I really did not know what to expect since a model that is an exact duplicate of how the structure will be built in the field in every detail relative to its foundation Engineering, Framing, electrical, cabinets-I mean everything is quite a horse of a different color from something you whip together for CD's or renderings alone).

Chief Inc (and me) came through with flying colors!

DJP