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design­PH has 3 li­cences types

design­PH v3 PRO

Buy now from the PHI shop!

  • After mak­ing a pur­chase of design­PH you will get ac­cess to the soft­ware down­load, on­line manu­al and oth­er sup­port re­sources via your Pass­ive House Portal ac­count.

  • Dis­counts are avail­able for:

    • iPHA mem­bers [1]

    • Cus­tom­ers up­grad­ing from designPH 2 [2]

    1. This in­cludes af­fil­i­ate mem­bers of the In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House As­so­ci­ation and also IG Passivhaus Ger­many and Passivhaus Aus­tria.
    2. One-time dis­count, with fur­ther spe­cial dis­counts for re­cent design­PH cus­tom­ers avail­able un­til 31.03.2027. Dis­count amount de­pends on design­PH 2 pur­chase date, see shop for de­tails.

Got ques­tions be­fore you de­cide to buy?

  • Check out the FAQs in the Sup­port sec­tion

design­PH v2 EDU

Stu­dents re­gistered on an ap­pro­pri­ate course can re­quest a FREE 1 year in­di­vidu­al EDU li­cence for designPH, for non-com­mer­cial use by com­plet­ing the design­PH EDU re­quest form. You will need to up­load a doc­u­ment as proof of your stu­dent status.

You will first be dir­ec­ted to cre­ate an ac­count on the PH Portal if you don't have one already.

design­PH v2 DEMO

Try out designPH for 30 days be­fore you de­cide to buy by down­load­ing the design­PH DEMO.

The li­cence starts from when you ac­tiv­ate it, so there is no reas­on not to re­quest a down­load now!

You will first be dir­ec­ted to cre­ate an ac­count on the PH Portal if you don't have one already.

Ex­ist­ing design­PH own­ers

If you have already pur­chased design­PH PRO, please be­ware if you down­load and in­stall design­PH DEMO, you can­not have 2 dif­fer­ent ver­sions of design­PH in­stalled with­in the same ver­sion of Sketch­Up.

Com­par­is­on

v3 PRO

v2 EDU

v2 DEMO

Dur­a­tion:

1 year, 2 years or Per­petu­al

1 year

30 days

Fea­tures:

All designPH 2 fea­tures +

  • monthly meth­od for heat­ing and cool­ing

  • over­lays

  • im­prove­ment to shad­ing ana­lys­is speed

Lim­it on shad­ing res­ol­u­tion

Sim­pli­fied vent­il­a­tion in­puts

No TFA cal­cu­lat­or

Re­stric­ted num­ber of com­pon­ents

No se­lect­ive ex­port

Non-com­mer­cial use only

Lim­it on shad­ing res­ol­u­tion

Lim­it on the size of mod­el

Lim­ited set of cli­mate data

No ex­port to PHPP

Sketch­Up com­pat­ib­il­ity

design­PH v3 is com­pat­ible with Sketch­Up 2019 - 2026 desktop ver­sions (Win­dows or Mac).

design­PH v2 is com­pat­ible with Sketch­Up 2017 - 2026 desktop ver­sions (Win­dows or Mac).

See the FAQs page for fur­ther de­tails.

If you do not already have Sketch­Up in­stalled, first down­load and in­stall Sketch­Up from the of­fi­cial web­site or a re­seller. The web-based "Sketch­Up Free" does not sup­port third-party ex­ten­sions so can­not be used for any design­PH ver­sion.