Notice:
Unfortunately the following website came & went, as is bound to happen with Internet obsolescence -- but thanks to caligari.us for trying!
For the rest of us, it's back to the Internet Archive.

If anyone wants to try theatre "real world" perspective, the 3rd party link (on page 2) for now-freeware trueSpace 7.61 has since died. However, the long gone Caligari trueSpace website is now resurrected at a new location by some enterprising enthusiast.

The recovery and publication of this website is based on files saved by archive.org, and is intended to be used for educational and academic research, non-commercial purposes on mind for for the 3D graphics community, and the trueSpace users community who supported, bought and promoted the development of this great set of tools through the years.

Architects, just like designers or illustrators, often prefer to use an artistic tool rather than a CAD tool to stay creative and be able to present their concepts to customers with clarity and elegance.

The trueSpace award-winning direct manipulation user interface allows you to work directly in 3D space from concept to final result, maintaining the same precision a CAD program would while saving a lot of time learning more difficult CAD-style UI.

trueSpace is also compatible with the majority of CAD data formats so you can bring your buildings into and out of traditional architectural CAD programs.

Interiors can benefit from the ease of use and expressive power of trueSpace's modeling and surfacing tools. As you see from the images below above, the advanced lighting capabilities will let you create exactly the mood and atmosphere you need for any given space.

Not all the navigational links work, but just click around -- there's more there than just a program download. Remember, it's a phantom of a 2008 defunct website. Ignore things like $$ and the shopping cart. :)