3D Home Design Suite Professional 5

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008IAOQ
• Item model number: 385497
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 6, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,611 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #77 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Gardening & Landscape
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely worthless software!, May 8, 2003

By 

Jenny (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3D Home Design Suite Professional 5 (CD-ROM)

This is probably the biggest waste of money I've ever spent on software. There are two possible functions it could serve: it could allow for visualization for the consumer with easy drop ins and home designs, or it could allow someone willing to spend more time the ability to customize their home design plans. This software allows neither! It advertises thousands of drag and drop objects, but in reality, it has very, very few. For the exterior of the house, I couldn't even get a wood siding or a stucco siding, and there definitely wasn't a way to combine the two (as I have in my current house)! Windows were also very limited, as were lots of other items that should have been a cinch. No templates or pre-existing home designs that allow you to get off to a quick running start. Be warned, if you want anything out of this program, you're going to have to literally build the house from the ground up with the exact dimensions of each wall in your house, etc.
If you want more professional software, and you are willing to do those things and spend the time, it's still extremely limited, both limited building choices and limited ability to drop/drag and have features automatically adjust...

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Updated but not better, September 3, 2003

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Roy C (Sterling, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3D Home Design Suite Professional 5 (CD-ROM)

I designed a 3700 sf. home in 3.0 and am currently living in it. The vector generated graphics of 3.0 were Spartan, but looked three dimensional. And the interface was intuitive. The new version (5.1) is cute and very detailed but appears to be object based and looks like printed paper cutouts - no true 3-D realism - including the (so-called) photo-realistic renderings. It is EXTREMELY hard to master, frustrating to use, and illogical. Hey people at Broderbund - where did you put the SCROLL BARS? The walk through controls are poorly designed, too sensitive and don't allow you to record - at least I haven't found out how to do it. I never tried to print since I went back to 3.0 before finishing my current design. If you have 3.0 and like it, keep it and skip this one.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What A Piece Of Garbage!, February 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: 3D Home Design Suite Professional 5 (CD-ROM)

Can't add much that hasn't already been said...hard to use, completely counter-intuitive...and the help index and instruction manual are useless. If you type in "soffit," "beam," or "fireplace" there aren't even entries with corresponding instructions! Also, where are commands for crown molding, baseboard, etc? I'll stick with Version 3, which is a much easier-to-use product and offers more features.