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SpexWorld! House

 

What is it?

With SpexWorld! House you can design and furnish a single room or a floor plan of a house. Set the room sizes and a budget to spend and display furniture and fittings on simple graphs and a spreadsheet.

Download for PC!

 

Download for Mac!

 

 

Curriculum Design & Technology 

 

Design a house floor plan, choose the shape and size of the rooms and add furniture.
Mathematics  Budget & Graphs. Manage Money. Great introduction to Spreadsheet modelling. Set room dimensions with metric and imperial measurements.

 

ICT Graphical Modelling

  

Ideal for Graphical Modelling; drag items into the plan, select, move, copy, paste and rotate to see how the different ‘graphical elements’ fit together.
Age

  

6 to 99 yrs! For all ages but designed for primary school use and lower secondary school.
Ease of use Intuitive and simple. SpexWorld! House is powerful but very easy to use and any school who uses Spex+ or SpexV2 will find the program particularly easy to integrate into their curriculum.

 

How does it work?
1. Choose from a selection of rooms and set the sizes, or design your own floor plan.

 

Choose from a selection of single rooms.

 

Choose from a selection of multiple room layouts.

 

Design your own floor plan.

There are eight single room shapes

to choose from.

 

There are five multiple room shapes

 to choose from.

 

 

Use the room planner to design a floor plan with any number of rooms with

different shapes and sizes.

 

 

2. Choose items of furniture and drag these in to your floor plan.
     

Drag furniture into the room

 

Items of furniture are dragged

in to the room, rotated and

moved into place.

 

3D view of the room.

 

There are lots of different views,

here is a 3D view of the room.

Side view of the room.

 

The whole room can be rotated to see different views, here is a side view.

 

3. Display the content of the design as a bar graph, pie chart, pictogram or spreadsheet.
     

A bar graph showing items in the room.

 

A bar graph showing items

in the room

A pie chart showing items in the room.

 

A pie chart showing

items in the room.

A  great introduction to spreadsheet modelling!

 

This simple spreadsheet display is a great introduction to spreadsheet modelling.

 

Other stuff!
4. Here is a brief summary of some of things SpexWorld! House will do for you:

 

    Display

     Display the plan view, 3D view and side views.

     Display all the views in either perspective or orthographic modes.

     Zoom in close or zoom out.

     Rotate the room(s) clockwise or anticlockwise.

     Go inside of the room and walk around it using the arrow keys.

     Show or don't show internal walls.

     Show or don't show external walls. (the walls at the back of the view will always show)

     Display the design with day or night lighting.

    

    Furniture

     Drag items of furniture in to the room(s).

     Rotate and move individual items of furniture.

     Cut/Copy/Paste items of furniture in the room.

     Open the doors with the mouse to walk into the next room.

     Right click mouse over an item of furniture to investigate close-up.

 

    Dimensions
     Decide the dimensions of the room(s)
     Show dimension between items, and item to wall.
     Change units of measurement, including metric and imperial measurements.

    Prices

     Change the prices of the items.

     Use different currencies and exchange rates.

     Set a budget.
     Display the budget, amount spent and amount of last item.

     Display the furniture in a spreadsheet showing individual prices and totals. (export CSV)

     Display the furniture on a simple bar graph, pie chart or pictogram.

     Choose to exclude doors, windows and people from the spreadsheet.

 

    Export

     Export whole room(s) as a bitmap image.

     Export selected item as a bitmap image.

     Export spreadsheet as a CSV file. (will load into excel etc)

 

 

 

What teachers have said about SpexWorld! programs.

 

 

"There is massive learning potential with SpexWorlds!"

 

 

"They were really excited when they found that they could create their own floor plan"

 

 

"From the moment I fired up the main editing screen I could see that SpexWorlds! was

something exciting! Exciting in that it will serve as a fantastic catalyst for helping children

with their design ideas and communication"

 

 

"Sounds a cliché but I wish that you could have seen

the class’s reaction. An absolute buzz!"

 

 

 

 


 

 

    

      PC Windows XP / Vista 

      Minimum recommended Processor:  1Ghz

      Minumum recommended RAM: 512Mb

 

  

MacOS X  (Power PC and Intel)

Minimum recommended Processor:  1Ghz

Minumum recommended RAM: 512Mb

 

 

 

 

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"From the moment

I fired up the main screen I could see

 that SpexWorlds! was

something exciting!

 

Mr Keith Teacher

Hampshire Sch

 

 
  

 

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