Invest in the future
20-20 Design is the design software employers use most and ask for when hiring. Graduates who have mastered it have a competitive advantage.

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.

Limit your learning curve
20-20 Design Educational makes learning quick and easy with new features such as our dynamic and easy-to-use navigation toolbar.  Our highly intuitive user interface is easily customized so you can work the way you want to work.

Make your presentations life-like
Help your audience visualize a new space with accurate detail on items and room design with amazing photo-realistic renderings featuring full lighting effects.

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.

Save time
Use time-saving drawing and positioning tools for a quick layout.

Get round-the-clock support
20-20 Design Educational includes round-the-clock online assistance with user-friendly help tools like YouTube how-to videos.

NEW – Features & Options Electronic catalogs
Items in the new catalogs are now presented with valid features and options, reducing incorrect selections and eliminating the need for manual verification. You can create multiple rooms in one design plan using one catalog. Plus, pricing is automatically calculated.

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
Use the Idea Center to easily import previous work from popular programs such as AutoCAD3 and SketchUp, or create your own templates for popular items.

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 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 support multiple languages. Create custom reports easily with the free Report Designer tool.

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.

2020-LiveORDER
Use 20-20 LiveORDER, a web order entry solution that allows you to submit orders electronically to multiple manufacturers simultaneously and track orders in real time.

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 10 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 10 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 Zip drive or 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.
- 20-20 does not support any external device plugged onto the same LPT port as the security device (i.e. external zip drive or floppy drive).
- Certain printers may require additional RAM and/or disk space.
- We recommend an independent video card. Please avoid built in video card (chipset).