Customer Reviews

3D Home Landscape (Jewel Case)

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I absolutely agree with the previous reviewer from Atlanta. This software was impossible to use. It's complicated and difficult to maneuver. Although I hold an advanced degree I felt totally lost and disappointed. I gave it to my computer savy daughter in law and she came to the same conclusion.She remarked "Basically it would not save what I did, would make my computer crash and was very difficult to use" I plan to write to the product manufacturer TLC Multi Media Inc, to see how well they stand behind their product.

The user interface was very clumsy and difficult to figure out how to use. The online reference manual provided some help but I couldn't even figure out how to slope the grounds and the housing choices were terrible. I spent too much time trying to get the right house, resize it, build a deck - it was very frustrating and time consuming. I never got to do the thing I wanted to do and that was design my landscape!

After two hours I gave up and tossed the software.

The other reviewers have already given their low opinion of these Broderbund landscaping programs, none of which rate high scores and which I definitely tend to agree with. It isn't particularly friendly or intuitive. My concern is more with a program that takes fully 15 minutes to uninstall ( ...what the heck is going on?) and then, after I finally do get rid of it, causes Windows XP to pop up a message telling me that it is unable to restore my computer to the System Restore Point that I had set up prior to the installation. What on earth is it doing to my systems that prevents me from doing a clean uninstall and putting my PC back to where it was? This doesn't just make me want to avoid this series of landscaping programs but makes me now question anything that comes with Broderbund's name on it.

By the time you even learn how to use this software, you'll be too stiff and frail to get out ther and do it! I mean, this software is complicated to use, you just have a hard time getting a feel for it; in the end you just wanna chuck it in the " I'll never use this software" bin and write it up to experience.