Punch! Interior Design Suite [Old Version]

by Punch Software

Product Features

• SUITE SMALL BOX

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• 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: B000BCICV6
• Item model number: 81500
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 9, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,886 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Punch! Interior Design Suite takes the best of all Punch! Software features, adds powerful new technologies, includes top home improvement manufacturer product libraries and combines them all into one easy-to-use interface.

Punch! Interior Design Suite allows you to renew or redo your entire home from kitchen and bath design to basement remodeling, you have the power at your fingertips.

What you can do:

• Design your own storage with the Cabinet Wizard
• Layout your rooms easily with the Room Wizard
• Make moldings and baseboards with the Trim Designer
• Frame your outdoor view with the Window Designer
• Build a hearth for your home with the Fireplace Wizard
• Try new treatments with Decorator Theme Palettes
• Get help when you need it with the Help Tutorials
• Take a view through your roof by designing skylights
• Make your furniture fit with object resizing

Product Description

First Interior Design offering with custom decorating pallets. Includes thousands of color fabrics flooring window treatments.Apply your design in seconds! There are thousands of new furniture objects and accessories. Re-create your own existing furniture by simply entering dimensions. Add any digital picture like a special rug your family portrait or even a pet to your design. The Punch Door and Window designer and the trim wizard for designing intricate trim makes the design possibilities endless.System Requirements:Pentium Celeron Xeon AMD Athlon Duron Opteron Turion Centrino. 64 MB of Ram. Windows 98 or higher. 3.0 GB VGA card capable of displaying at least 800x600 with 16 bit color depth. (24 bit reocmmended) 32MB or higher CD Rom drive Mouse or pointing device. Format: WIN 98MENT2000XP Genre: PRODUCTIVITY Rating: NR UPC: 664446811004 Manufacturer No: 81100

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

72 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Harder to use than I expected -- here are some tips, November 19, 2006

By 

Kira - See all my reviews

This review is from: Punch! Interior Design Suite [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This proved to be a very powerful program, but heed the warnings about how difficult it is to use. I use parts of MS office that no one has seen before and have a background in computer programming, and this suite still drove me very close to tears.

I used this just for an apartment floor plan to think through moving walls around, not for complete house construction or modeling.

Here are some tips that might make things smoother for you:

- For some reason, the default flooring thickness is 12", so my doors were getting lopped off at knee-level. Once I reset all the flooring thickness to 1", I could see the bottoms of my doors again.

- If you have a wide screen and it's set to 120 DPI, the display chops of some of the customization controls on the right side of the screen.

- The distinction between exterior and interior walls matters, and is often at the root of flooring and ceiling problems. (E.g., grass in the living room or tiled front lawn.) The wall types sometimes morph into each other by rules I never figured out. If I had to do this again, I'd do all the exterior walls first, lock them against changes, and then add interior ones.

- My performance with the undirected fly-through is exactly what you'd expect from watching me play speedracer. Better way: Click on the binoculars on the left and you get cursor you can position for a "controlled walkthrough." You can look around using the 3-d display, but no more accidentally falling through the floor.

57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You get what you put into this software., July 25, 2006

By 

Woodshop Man (MINNEAPOLIS, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Punch! Interior Design Suite [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have purchased both the Home & Gardens interior and the Punch interior software. Home & Gardens is much easier to use. You can really start without reading much of the manual. Punch demands that you read the manual (342 pages). It is not intuative. But Punch can do so much more and has so much more creativity. IE: Punch has a library of trees, shrubs and flowers for your yard. Home & Gardens only have potted plants, nothing you can use to landscape. Punch also allows you to make custom doors or windows to your exact specifications. H&G doesn't. You have to choose a set style of door or window and change options.I also could place digital photos of my backyard behind my "house" on Punch to make it more realisitic. I like both software programs, but Punch has more options, but you have to do your homework first.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Versatile Software, January 20, 2006

By 

GardenGnome (Parlin, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Punch! Interior Design Suite [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I recently purchased this software to redesign my bathroom and bedroom. Compared to other products that I have evaluated, Punch! Interior Design Suite wins hands-down in the areas of versatility, stability, and 3D. It includes many precision, dimension, and viewing options that allow you to make both simple and complex designs. Using the split 2D/3D mode also helps with placing components such as windows and doors. After I completed the drawings I showed them to my builder and he was able to remodel the rooms exactly as I had envisioned them. Like most software I have used, this package does contains a learning curve. I by no means consider myself a computer guru and I had to put in a little practice time. You will find, however, a plethora of resources available both on-line and within the manual/tutorials to assist you with your project.