Configura CET Designer Reviews

I like the Ability to design, render & specify.

The dated layout needs to catch up with other software.

CET designer helps us by providing a platform where I can design & present layouts & bring them to life.

It's an easy tool you can work with, it's intuitive, and at some point, I would recommend it if you are a newbie in the render field. The program has the essential tools that you can work with to generate a good render to show to your clients so they can imagine better how it's going to be their project in the future.

You can easily add your models of products with one click to your project.

If you want a basic, easy-to-create and good-looking render, it's a great tool. However, if you want to create specific details in it, I think it's better to use another tool, for example, some things like changing the type of point of lights, where the direction of them come from to increase the quality of your render it's a little tricky if you compare it to other programs like 3D max, or if you want to create all the scene of your project including the walls or the ceiling you have to be careful with the lights, and I don't know why sometimes some of the products you imported from your library when you tried to render it seems like their burned or something like that, some colors don't look like them too, or when the program has actualizations some of your products appears like blocks, so you have to wait until all the actualizations are done.

Adding some intuitive ways to create or add products to the project, some filters when you are creating a quote, but there do not always show you on a quick or guideway what types of improvements they made; sometimes it's frustrating when there are too many actualizations, and you cannot work well because you have to wait until all the actualizations are finished.

Great for new users who don't know how to spec furniture and need the "culture" to feel connected.

Two screens, simultaneous 2D and 3D experience is very cool. Renderings can be almost photo-realistic.

Not taught in Design schools or used in A & D Firms, dwg & Revit exports not editable by those users, two hand multiple fingers required, SCROLLING!, slow start up, lacks universal tools , Photo Lab interface, settings, controls horrible unpredictable results, spec "rules" change the items in drawing based upon updated rules (good luck opening a drawing from a few years ago and having it be as you left it), automation tools cannot be disabled (reconfig nightmare), no universal part search or part replace, SCROLLING!, when you stop paying it stops working.

This software was designed for furniture manufacturers to control their users, not for designers/specifiers to control their designs. Unclear install drawings, SCROLLING!, Extension sidebar cannot be altered, repositioned or made to fly in/out (takes up a quarter of the screen real estate) and the SCROLLING! Individual manufactures Extensions (catalogs) are inconsistent and haphazard and always expanding when not needed.

As a 25+ year AutoCAD user, I cannot say how much I dislike this software without being censored. I believe it's sets the furniture interior design profession back and limits the potential employee pool to novices and amatures who have little or no design experience. (You can't tell it's doing it wrong if you don't know how to do it yourself!).

If this is the way of the future in commercial furniture specification software, it's a sad day for interior designers. Unfortunately, it's already becoming the manufacturer software of choice (for reasons stated above) and the competition has either been absorbed (ProjectSpce is a CET/Configure company now) or they fail to see the writing on the wall (2020/CAP now Cyncl) hasn't upgraded their software enough to keep up and are now doomed to become obsolete in the next five years or so.

Carrying the cost of two design specification software programs for too long. The transition from CAD to CET has been slow or not feasable.