Computer-aided design systems and related methods

A system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions;
• and
• a processing device communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the instructions and thereby perform operations comprising:
• generating a graphical user interface comprising an environment layout;
• accessing, for a particular user, a set of available objects for use in the environment layout, the set of available objects comprising a set of objects for which each respective object in the set of objects has a real-world equivalent that is acquirable for placement in a real-world location that corresponds to the environment layout through respective network communication with or processing operations on a respective third party computing system;
• providing the graphical user interface for a computing device of the particular user;
• receiving a selection of at least a first portion of the set of available objects;
• modifying the environment layout to include the first portion of the set of available objects based on user input on the computing device;
• receiving a request to initiate acquisition of the first portion of the set of available objects, the request to initiate acquisition comprising a request to acquire a real-world version of each object in the first portion of the set of available objects for placement in the real-world location that corresponds to the environment layout;
• identifying a set of respective sources for the first portion of the set of available objects, each respective source of the set of respective sources having a different respective set of acquisition instructions;
• and
• in response to the request, initiating respective network communication with or respective processing operations on each of a plurality of third party computing systems to facilitate the acquisition, each of the plurality of third party computing systems being associated with a respective source of the set of respective sources and the respective network communication with or respective processing operation on each of the plurality of third party computing systems being defined by the different respective set of acquisition instructions.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code that is stored thereon, the program code executable by one or more processing devices for performing operations comprising:

• generating a graphical user interface comprising a virtual environment;
• providing the graphical user interface for display on a computing device;
• generating a user-specific customized set of objects by interfacing with a plurality of third party computing systems to identify a set of acquirable objects, each object in the set of acquirable objects being available via a respective third party computing system of the plurality of third party computing systems;
• providing the user-specific customized set of objects for placement and positioning within the virtual environment;
• receiving from a user via the computing device, selection of a subset of the user-specific customized set of objects for placement and positioning within the virtual environment;
• modifying the virtual environment to include each respective object from the user-specific customized set of objects such that each respective object is placed and positioned based on input from the user;
• receiving an acquisition request for the subset of the user-specific customized set of objects, the acquisition request comprising a request to initiate a purchase order process to acquire a real-world version of each object of the subset of user-specific customized set of objects;
• identifying, for each respective object from the subset of user-specific customized set of object, the respective third party computing system and a respective unique set of instructions for facilitating the real-world acquisition;
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• responsive to the acquisition request, facilitating communication with each respective third party computing system according to the respective unique set of instructions in order to initiate the order process.