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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Punch Software
EAN: 0664446141002
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Punch! Software
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Punch! Software
Model: 14100
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Punch! Software
Sales Rank: 10967
Studio: Punch! Software

Features:

3D Home Exterior&Interior Design and 3D FurnitureWorkshop Help create the exterior&interior looks you want for your house
Ultimate Deck&3D Landscape help you create the right porch, deck, or patio -- and help you design a beautiful view to gaze upon from it
Plan out your foundation, heating/cooling systems, and plumbing using the Planner tools included here
Use the ClearView transparent viewer to see any part of an image you want -- turn layers on&off for that uncluttered look
Your dream house is just a couple of mouse clicks away!

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Professional Home Design Suite is a full suite of 14 home design&improvement -- it's a total package for the creation of your dream home!

Amazon.com Review:
Punch Professional Home Design Suite does something very few home planning applications achieve: it brings together designing both the interior and the exterior--including the garden--of your home on one CD-ROM. While the software is perhaps a bit complex to learn at first, the huge range of features offered make this forgivable. You can start with a blank screen, work with a pre-drawn plan from the software's library, or import scans of the existing floor plans of your home. Whichever option you choose, simply clicking the onscreen tabs allows you to switch between working on the floor plans, electrical plans, the plumbing system, roofing arrangements, heating and air conditioning, external decking, or landscaping.

Getting objects such as furniture into position on a plan is mostly a matter of drag and drop, while you can also use a Computer Aided Design feature to draw curves, arcs, and other standard shapes. It is useful to be able to see a flat plan and a 3-D view side by side, and to walk through the 3-D view or do a flyover. You can even change the light direction, intensity, and brightness on the 3-D views to get as close to the real world as possible.

With several useful tools above and beyond the designer, Punch Professional Home Design Suite is a rounded application. The 3-D Furniture Workshop lets you edit the library of furniture objects or design your own from scratch. RealModel lets you turn a home plan into a template for making a scale model--you can even print textures onto paper for pasting to the building materials. HomeEstimator works out how much it will cost to build your project life-size and how much of each type of material you need. --Sandra Vogel

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Professional what?
I am very unhappy with the product. The word "professional" means something different to me that to Punch!. This is nothing but a Barbie house design tool; something to play a game called "design a house". The fixtures are trivial; there is no item for an electrical circuit breaker box, although I would bet all houses have one. "Flying around in 3D is horribly too fast unless you have an ancient and slow computer. None of the controls act like a normal Windows program; delete key does not delete ... Read More

Rating:

- Worth the money.
I loaded the software in the afternoon. By 2 in the morning, I had a floorplan I was happy with, a 3d rendering, and even was able to render a 'neighborhood' of homes. Many, many years of computer experience behind me. I'm also very good with Visio. But Visio won't render 3D and it doesn't 'know' architecture.

Having said all of that, most of the quirks noted are valid. The 3D movements are hugely frustrating (THAT programmer should be strapped to the helicopter!). It's wall selection, ... Read More

Rating:

- Don't believe the hype!
As a mechanical engineer, I've used all kinds of CAD programs as well as other types of software. This has to be one of the worst software packages I've ever used. The interface is maddeningly archaic. It makes one wonder about the caliber of programmer that Broderbund is hiring. It also makes one wonder who's writing these reviews, some hardly seems believable after actually experiencing the software.

PLEASE, do yourself a favor, don't believe the positive reviews, and save your money. ... Read More

Rating:

- Not bad, mild learning curve
I use 3-d CAD software in work so I have had some experience in this type of software. I have used a older version of the 3-d broderbund software and found it somewhat intuitive but the graphics were disappointing. I was ready to get a newer version figuring the graphics would be better when I came across this software.
We are modifying an older home and I was looking to get a feel for the flow of the house before we moved some walls and get a visual feel for what the rooms are going to look ... Read More

Rating:

- Not Good.....Don't Buy
I am a professional interior designer, ASID member.I upgraded to Punch Professional thinking it had to be better than the other Punch software I had. WRONG. It is impossible to draw interiors walls with exact measures as it always deducts the wall thickness. The " Ruler" in useless as it is huge and cumbersome and hard to keep in a straight line. The furniture templates are a joke.You have no idea what they look like( and they certainly aren't pretty)or their size until you drag them into place.Stick to ... Read More

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