Light settings
Use the submenu Light to adjust lighting in your project. Sometimes you will want to make your project or part of it brighter or darker. Besides that you can simulate ambient light effects. By using sunlight lighting mode you may show how portal light is entering through windows. You can also simulate sunrise and sunset. […]
Module Assistant (tile patterns)
In the menu Tile | Place | Tiles press the module-assistant button to create your own tile patterns. If you want to know more about patterns with non-rectangular tiles, read more here. Select the tiles you want to use and drag & drop them to the right. While dragging, use the right mouse button to […]
Change materials
In menu View| Material you can easily edit the materials of walls, murals, objects and other surfaces. Select the surface or object you want to change. A preview appears in the right menu. Open the Material library to select and place material. It’s also a possibility to import custom material based on an image, use for […]
Built-in Bathtubs
In this article is explained how to build in straight and round bathtubs, using the sanitary mural function or doing it manually using murals. Built-in bath using the sanitary mural function Manually build-in bath with block Built-in round shaped bath using the sanitary mural function Round freestanding bath built in a block NOTE THAT: Not […]
Customize sanitary with murals
Use murals to make your own customized sanitary objects, like marble fontains, built-in baths or sinks. First, place the sanitary object. Second, place a free mural. Set the height of the mural a couple of centimetres lower as the sanitary object. It is possible to edit the mural to make an arc e.g. If you […]
Edit objects
In ViSoft you can adjust the object however you like. It is not possible to modify an object in the database of the manufacturer (protected), but you CAN copy the object to .custom objects and make changes to the object or tile there. Copy the object you would like to change, and paste it in […]
Tile Borders
This article shows two examples to explain how border tiles are laid in ViSoft. Tiles of the manufacturer Original style are used. You can download the Original style database in the update manager. Example one tile border Step 1 Open the tile browser in menu Tile. In the example tiles 8021V, 8022V, and 8023V from the Odyssey […]
Creating a mansard or french roof
Draw a mansard roof or similar roof using a free mural. Step 1 Set up the room. Select the wall where you want to place the mural in the navigation panel, and switch to wall view. Step 2 Select in menu Room | Mural the free mural function. Draw a closing triangle. Doubleclick on the […]
Ceiling skylight
It is possible to create a skylight. The ceiling of a room is automatically created in ViSoft premium and not editable…but you can turn it off and on in the navigation panel (in 3D view). Create a new ‘ceiling’ by placing a mural with a mounting height set on the height of the walls (for […]
Creating Roofs
Go to slanted roof Go to roof corner Go to complex roof Learn how to create roof corners, slanted and more complex rooms in ViSoft Premium. 1 | Slanted/ sloped roofs Open the menu Room | Roof. Note that you can only place a roof in floor view, the function is not available in the […]
Adding custom objects
ViSoft is a open software, which means you can create all the objects and textures you desire. It’s possible to import any object of the following file formats: Autodesk 3Dstudio (*.3ds) WaveFront Object (*.obj) Collada (*.dae, *.xml, *.zip) DirectX (*.x) Blitz3D (*.b3d) WRML97 (*.wrl; *.wrz) *.dwg Use drag & drop to import objects and textures; […]
