In the furniture & home design arena, more and more companies are rolling out product to allow you to “virtually design” the space before you buy.  Now it seems Autodesk is joining the fray with their “Project Dragonfly“.

Use our sample room shapes to quickly lay out your floor plan. Simply drag and drop additional rooms, closets, walls, doors, windows, openings, and other items from our Build catalog into your floor plan to rapidly create your design. Project Dragonfly makes it easy to match your existing space or create your dream home.

It has some neat features, and a huge catalog of furniture and items to fill your space with.  The most impressive feature tho, is that once you’ve laid out the space you can switch to a 3D mode and see the plan in full 3D.  You can see that Autodesk is tapping into some of their more advanced technologies for this, because you get basic shadow and animation effects, and the entire thing is in Flash.

Autodesk Labs Technologies Project Dragonfly.