3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5

by Broderbund

Product Features

• Not sure where to start? Take inspiration from the wide variety of sample plans created by professional landscape designers
• Browse the 7,500 items in the Plant Encyclopedia, for a better look at what plants will survive and bloom in your garden
• Plant photos and care demonstrations with details on common plant diseases and cures
• Watch how your landscape changes over time -- lifelike seasonal changes will occur onscreen, in front of you
• Advanced terrain modelers let you add realistic slopes and grades, for the perfect-looking landscape

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00008IAOP
• Item model number: 385498
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 29, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,780 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #52 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Gardening & Landscape
  • #69 in Software > Outlet
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Landscaping at your desktop is the name of the game in 3d Home Landscape Designer Deluxe, a package that helps you work on your yard without breaking a sweat--or risking costly mistakes. With a massive gallery of over 9,000 plants and yard features from deck chairs to playground equipment, this program gives users a chance to plan every aspect of an outdoor environment in minute detail, trying out as many different concepts as imagination and time permit.

Though 3d Home Landscape allows you to focus on the interior of a home, it puts far more energy into exterior design. Terrain modeling makes it possible to mold the land itself to any specification before features are added, with hills and even lakes adding depth to a given project. Using this feature it is possible, with practice, to closely model your own land and then to analyze its design strengths.

Once time comes to actually lay down foliage, 3d Home Landscape's Plant Encyclopedia is there to help, carrying detailed information on maintaining every plant in a garden. Your finished designs can be previewed with an eye to how the yard will appear in all four seasons.

Like most home and garden design programs, this one will let you move through the three-dimensional model of your house and yard, viewing each creation from all angles. It is a complex program that requires patience in the learning stages. Fortunately, the user's guide is thoughtfully written and easy to use, and there are first-rate animated tutorials available with the program that cover each new stage of the landscaping process.

And once mastered, 3d Home Landscape can help you work out every imaginable garden design, no matter how wild or daring. --Alyx Dellamonica

Product Description

Create your dream landscape and garden!Product InformationAnticipating a landscaping project? Trust the experts at 3D HomeLandscape to guide you every step of the way. Access a host of powerful designtools 7500 plant varieties and an array of valuable plant care resources forlong-term success.  Imagine having a professional landscape designer righton your desktop! Trust 3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5 to help you easilycreate your ideal landscape. Combining powerful design tools with extensivebotanical reference resources – it’s everything you need to bring yourlandscape dreams to life!  Create the landscape you’ve always longed for with 3D Home Landscape DesignerDeluxe 5. Exciting new features like 3D TrueView photo realistic rendering andeasy 3D editing make this program the most powerful landscape software yet! Fromlaying out your design to selecting the perfect plants for your soil andclimate this comprehensive program puts you on the path toward surefiresuccess.New Features Design a landscape around a pre-built home from the program or – even those created with 3D Home Architect 5! See your designs in breathtaking detail with new 3DTrueView photo realistic rendering. Edit your plans in 3D. Use advanced terrain modeling to add realistic slopes and grades. Incorporate decks and patios plus more than 300 decorative and functional garden objects.Includes 3D TrueView Photo Realistic Rendering Extensive build- in tutorials 9500 Plant Photos 3D & 2D Editing 7500 Item Plant Encyclopedia 300+ 3D Garden Objects Landscape Sample Plans Changing Seasonal Views Terrain Modeling Decks & Patios Plant Care Demos Plant Care Calendar Garden Notebook Budget and Materials List Powerful design tools Complete reference resources Ideal landscape solutions and more!Product Features Take inspiration from sample plans created by professional landscape designers. View

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This software is junk, April 13, 2003

By 

David A. Sousa (Centreville, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5 (CD-ROM)

I just installed this software thinking that for $19.99 (a $10 discount) it is worth the risk even given the bad reviews. Unfortunately, this software is not worth 19 cents. The program crashed 4 times with runtime errors just trying to do a simple thing like change the dimensions of a site boundary. Save yourself the frustration, and save your money.

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars worthless without 3D Architect software, May 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: 3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5 (CD-ROM)

There is no way to lay out a landscape design because you can't put in your house dimensions without buying and installing the 3D Architect package.

This software is miserable. The sample house included is a one story box. There are no additional designs. Changing the dimentions on this house is difficult - no instructions included.

Find a copy of version 4. It's the same price and much more accessible.

52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy, difficult to use, not-intuitive, November 15, 2003

By 

Teresa Heinrich (Morgan Hill, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5 (CD-ROM)

I just tried to design a garden for our new house using "3D Landscaping". Despite what the box says, the software contains no templates of gardens that you can modify, just shapes (circles, rectangles, squares) with pre-programmed lot sizes (such as 40' x 110'). I tried to edit the dimensions of the 40' x 110' rectangle to mimic our new lot. Forget it. You cannot edit the sizes even if you follow the steps in the manual.

So, I tried to create a new lot from scratch. Instead of a flat plane to show our new lawn, the program created a cylinder. The cylinder could not be modified no matter how I tried.

I finally decided to accept the incorrect dimensions of the rectangular plot (40 x 110) and just insert sample plants (trees, climbers, etc) from the toolbar, to get an idea of what would look good next to what. The program crashed. When it did allow me to add the plants in outline view, they did not show up in 3D view, which means you can't see what they will look like in your garden (the whole point of the program!) The program crashed again when I toggled from 3D view to outline view. (My system surpasses the system requirements, so that was not the problem).

I am not a software neophyte, and I followed both the manual and the tutorials step-by-step to create a diagram, but the software did not work. I don't believe Broderbund tests this before releasing it to the public.

If anyone has found a quality landscape design software program, please tell me. Right now, I'm ready to turn to Powerpoint.