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Whether you are a seasoned professional or a just getting started with creating your own custom architectural and landscape designs, Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 offers the total solution you've been looking for.
 Design your interior trim... |
 ...And your doors. |
 See your dream home in detailed 3D. |
The software packs all the features of the industry-acclaimed Punch! Architectural Series 3000, plus fully integrated landscape software, Master Landscape Pro. The result is the most powerful and comprehensive Punch! Architectural suite of products ever assembled into one package.
 All the design tools you need are in one place. |
Architectural Series 4000 offers 400 applications and 32 programs all in one easy-to-use interface. The built-in video tutorials are great for beginners -- it's like an architectural designer by your side. Simple drag and drop functions for windows, doors, furniture, texture, color, and landscaping make producing top-notch designs a snap. Meanwhile, professionals will appreciate the more complex features such as extensive framing and estimating, mechanical design, and CAD functions to name a few. Architectural Series 4000 was designed to grow with you as you become more proficient with the program.
Regardless of your level of expertise, Architectural Series 4000 produces professional results. You'll be amazed at the realism of this extraordinary home design software. Precision interior design lighting controls deliver multiple shadows. Custom fireplace designs are only limited by your imagination. New design wizards and a deep reservoir of design elements let you drag and drop over 30,000 design combinations with just a click. And when you're done, show off your creation with a recordable Hollywood-style fly-through video.
Creating wonderful new spaces outside your home is just as easy as creating the interiors. The garden and landscape design tools that are part of Master Landscape Pro allow you to create multi-level or multi-story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color capabilities. A single, easy-to-use garden and landscape design interface puts powerful tools at your fingertips; you can use as many or as few of the built-in tools as you choose -- and always achieve professional results. Garden and landscape design professionals will appreciate the more complex features of Master Landscape Pro such as estimating and the ability to place landscaping along a custom shape. You can also combine real-world photos with your own landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your design. You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping or a deck, then view it from any angle -- with realistic, 3D perspective.
A few of the other tools bundled with Architectural Series 4000 include:
- Fireplace Wizard
- Enhanced file import/export support
- Elevation Editor
- Convert 2D to 3D
- Cabinet Wizard
- HVAC, electrical, foundation and plumbing planners
- Custom sprinkler systems
- Roofing wizard
- Plant editor with custom plant categories
- Fence designer and workshop
- Trim designer
Product Description
Punch Home Design Architectural Series 4000 adds new pro design options including a customizable interior accessory library, custom fences, topography and additional powerful features to the consumer. New design wizards for custom trim, decks and roofing make visualizing your dream home even faster and easer.
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Big Hype...little show,
By Thomas Masters "Thomas Masters" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 (CD-ROM)
I bought this software to design a garage blueprint to be submitted to the local building inspection department hoping to get a permit to build this garage. It takes about 20 hours with many restarts to completly master the basics of this program enough be ready to print out an asthetically acceptable rendering, proportionatly drawn to the specifications just to find out that when the drawing is printed that the foundation can not be printed at all and that 25% of the drawing which is on the computer screen is to lightly printed to be seen with no options to make the program print bolder lines. Needless to say the county rejected my blueprints and sent me back to the drawing board. Now heres the kicker...I contact Punch to return the software within about 10 days of purchase and they send me an e-mail stating that it can not be returned. This is not the first punch program or designing program I have ever used, nor is it the worst I have ever used...but I think that the ad hype for this program is deceptive and that their tactic maybe illegal in the USA. This remains to be seen. My only hope is that you will read this review and make a better choice than I did.
29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Engineer's Review,
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This review is from: Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 (CD-ROM)
Program does exceptionally well with roofs, but drawing walls is tough, unless you're satisfied with being "just close". Auto dimensioning is rounded to the nearest inch - just not good enough for most good drawings. Manual is nearly worthless and was clearly written with lots of cannon fodder and very little real information. Can't find a way to butt a 4" wall to the end of a 6" wall - program changes them all to 4" or 6". Can't draw a 8" foundation with 6" walls for the house - changes them too.
Attendant programs (tools) seem to be good, but lacks a lot of objects that would be usable (shttters, skylights, etc). You can, however, draw them yourself if you have the time and patience. Very powerful program with lots of features, but no real text on what the heck is going on. In general it's pretty good but very difficult to do things with any precision. Colors and graphics are good, so a drawing can be produced that conveys your intentions, but probably wouldn't be useable for real construction. Maybe with time I'll get better at this, but right now I'm struggling.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Home "design" with caveats,
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This review is from: Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 (CD-ROM)
After reading the previous reviews and being an engineer, I can see why just about everyone wrote what they did. This program is very good at providing 3D versions of exterior/interior views of house plans as well as great renderings of landscaping including multitudes of trees, flowers, outdoor furniture, etc. This program is not, however a substitute for actual engineering/architectural house plans. It's just not accurate enough. It is not an engineering AutoCad type program.
I had previous versions of this software (Home Design AS18) and was therefore able to get this one at a good upgrade price. For the typical house owner, the full non-upgrade price for this program is probably not worth it. I use it as an addition to a CAD program to see (in virtual reality) what the proposed structure will look like as I walk around and through (virtually) the structure. The 3D views are quite impressive and realistic once you have the plans completed. Once you realize what this program can and cannot do, then you shouldn't be disappointed.
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