Economize by sticking to what you need
Buy only what you need with 20-20 Design Essentials, the generic catalog edition of our industry standard software.
Make your presentations life-like
Help customers visualize a new space with accurate detail on room design with amazing photo-realistic renderings featuring full lighting effects.
Take advantage of new design flexibility
You can now create multiple rooms in one design plan while using one catalog. This makes designing easier and allows for more flexibility in the design process.
Increase accuracy
Improve precision by entering exact placement values. Finish plans faster and ensure they are correct with instant feedback on design issues, thanks to built-in NKBA rules, guidelines and design assistants.
NEW - Electronic catalogs with Flexibility
Add cabinets and appliances from 20-20 Technologies generic catalogs. You can create multiple rooms in one design plan while using one catalog. This makes designing easier and allows for more flexibility in the design process.
NEW – More photo-realistic renderings
Produce renderings of your designs in much less time and with dramatically improved photo-realism. Renderings now offer improved lighting effects, better smoothing for rounded shapes, realistic textures and more ― all with less memory consumption.
NEW – Intuitive user interface
Work in a more natural and intuitive way using the modern, customizable user interface. The toolbar allows you to easily add or remove functions according to your work preferences.
NEW – Import features
Import 3D models from Google SketchUp or AutoCAD and then add them to your Idea Center or to your design.
NEW – Navigation toolbar
Choose your rendering settings easily according to your preferences or the usage. With all settings accessible from the navigation toolbar, grouped in a single location, producing your rendering is simpler.
NEW – Ceiling design
Create designs with cathedral or sloped ceilings with ease using new design capabilities.
NEW – New lighting controls
Change the placement of lighting, sunlight or ceiling lights and your rendering is updated in real time. Insert glass doors or windows and a natural source lighting is automatically created.
NEW – Item browser for ideas
Save all your designs or just your favorite elements in the Idea Center Libraries. Browse for your ideas in the same way you browse for items in the catalogs. Then import them simply and easily using the drag and drop feature and get a preview of your new idea.
NEW – Improved reporting
Access reports easily with one click from the menu using improved Active Reports reporting technology that also supports multiple languages. Create custom reports easily with the free Report Designer tool.
Pricing, report and installation lists
Use the product list price, cost price and retail price information to provide customers with accurate project estimates. Create an itemized installation list report.
Drawing layouts
Prepare convincing, attractive presentations and proposals. Extend your drawing layouts across several pages or place a viewable item, list, rendering, or floor plan in any available layout window. Customize the layouts of any drawing tab.
Assisted design features
Choose an item or select multiple items to move within the layout. Automatic collision detection prevents items from being placed on top of existing items. Features NKBA rules-based design guidelines.
Desktop
Operating System
Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista & Windows 7 (32bit or 64 bit)
Processor Dual Core or Quad Core Processor at 2.16GHz or above
System Memory 3 GB RAM (for 32 bit OS) or 6 GB RAM (for 64 bit OS)
Graphic Card NVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon with 512 MB or more dedicated memory (3D accelerator)
Resolution 1280 x 1024
Security Device USB port
Hard Drive 7200 RPM drive with 4 GB or more free disk space (80 GB hard drive or above)
DVD-Rom Drive 8X DVD or higher
Laptop
Operating System
Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista & Windows 7 (32bit or 64 bit)
Dual Core or Quad Core Processor at 2.16GHz or above
System Memory 3 GB RAM (for 32 bit OS) or 6 GB RAM (for 64 bit OS)
Graphic Card NVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon with 512 MB or more dedicated memory (3D accelerator)
Resolution 1280 x 1024
Security Device USB port
Hard Drive 7200 RPM drive with 4 GB or more free disk space (80 GB hard drive or above)
DVD-Rom Drive 8X DVD or higher
Suggested Accessories
- Backup device such as DVD/CD-Writer
- High speed internet connection
- 3 button scroll mouse
Notes
- Ensure with hardware supplier the RAM and hard drive can be easily upgraded if required.
- Certain printers may require additional RAM and/or disk space.
- We recommend an independent video card. Please avoid built in video card (chipset).