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Punch! Professional Home Design Suite Platinum is a special two-for-one package loaded with incredible capabilities. You get all of the features of both industry-acclaimed Punch! Master Landscape & Home Design and Punch! Professional Home Design Suite software, plus more in this easy-to-use home and landscape design package.
This updated home and landscape design software version is built on the same powerful platform as Punch! Architectural Series 4000, allowing you the flexibility to integrate Punch! PowerTools and much, much, more! Version 10 gives you even more features and enhancements: design with Decorator Palette--change your room colors with just one click! Use accessories to easily add art and window treatments. Also includes dormer and skylight tools, supports fractions, and now imports 3DS files. Room Wizard helps you get started fast--just input your room dimensions and the rooms are created for you. Keep your designs up-to-date with brand-name content and Punch! Updater.
Home Design Software that Lets You Design and View Your Home with Incredible 3D Home Design Realism!
Our PhotoView technology lets you import real-world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your home. You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping design or deck design, and then view your work from any angle--with realistic, 3D perspective.
Our LiveView window continually updates your home designs, in real-time 3D, as you draw.
Interior and exterior 2D elevations are available with a single mouse click and the exclusive ClearView tool renders your design with a "glass house" effect. You can actually see through walls to maximize your design space.
You will be amazed at our powerful 3D graphics engine that lets you create real-time walk or fly-throughs--for a Hollywood-style voyage through your new creation!
The Choice for Complete Garden and Landscape design.
This garden and landscape design software allows you to create multi-level or multi-story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color capabilities.
Helpful deck-design wizards walk you through railing, baluster options, and more. Choose a basic shape or create one from scratch and watch the program draft a beautiful 3D rendering of your new deck design.
Your deck-and-landscaping designs come to life with photo-realistic 3D--complete with shadows--giving you a stunning, true-to-life representation of your home design.
Our plant database provides extensive information for a wide plant species including botanical name, soil, and moisture requirements, mature height, and other facts so you choose exactly what you want for your garden and landscape design. Use PlantFinder to easily locate plants that meet your requirements. Tap into information for over 4,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover, and more. The new Plant Inventory Bar helps you keep your favorite plants handy to drag-and-drop into your designs.
PowerTools in Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum Version 10:
- Room Wizard
- .DXF/.DWG Import/Export
- Roofing Wizard
- Deck Designer with Deck Wizard
- Topo Designer
- Cabinet Wizard
- PhotoView
- Material Modifier
- Elevation Editor
- 3D Custom Workshop
- RealModel
- Framing Editor
- Estimator
- 2D/3D exterior home design
- 2D/3D interior home design
- 2D/3D landscape design
- Punch! Master Landscape & Home Design integrated
- Punch! Interior Design Suite integrated
- Skylight and dormer cutout tools
- Deck cutout tool
- Brand-name content
- Decorator palette
- Punch! updater
- Handicapped access and solar symbols
- Compass
- Precision sizing
- Precision Lighting Planner and effects
- Expanded plant library
- 3DS import
- Foundation planner
- Electrical
- Plumbing
- HVAC
- Ultimate Deck deck design
- Wainscoting
- Object Organizer
- 3D Cutaway Slider
- Clear View transparent viewer
- Sprinkler-system design
- Plant Finder
- Detail Creator
- Standard or custom roofs
- Custom door and window styles
- Expanded measurements--supports fractions
- Log home objects
- Video (tool tip) tutorials
- Getting started tutorials
- Convert-2-3D
- Enhanced file import/export support
- Free Punch! developer kit
- AutoFraming
- FloorPlan Trace
- Interior material library
- Exterior material library--siding, brick, rock, paint, stucco, block, wood, mulch, gravel, concrete, roofing, ground cover, and much more
- Virtual Ruler
- Landscape topography
- Fences, gates, and edging
- Interior furniture objects
- Exterior furniture objects
- Automatic stair and railing generator
- Automatic curved stair generator
- Photo-realistic anti-aliasing
- Definable sun location for shadows
- Automatic floorplan dimensioning
- Editable 3D house plans
- Editable 3D deck and room templates--including kitchen, garage, dining, bath, bedroom, closet, and handicap access
- 2D/3D CAD furniture design
- English or metric measurements
- Schedules--including framing, window, door, roofing, and more
Product Description
Punch! Professional Home Design Suite Platinum™ is a special two-for-one package loaded with incredible capabilities. You get all of the features of both industry-acclaimed Punch! Master Landscape & Home Design™ and Punch! Professional Home Design Suite™ software, and more, in this easy-to-use home and landscape design package. This updated home and landscape design software version is built on the same powerful platform as Punch! Architectural Series® 4000, allowing you the flexibility to integrate Punch! PowerTools and much, much, more! Version 10 gives you even more features and enhancements: design with Decorator Palette—change your room colors with just one click! Use Accessories to easily add art and window treatments. Also includes dormer & skylight tools, supports fractions and now imports 3DS files. Room Wizard helps you get started fast—just input your room dimensions and the rooms are created for you. Keep your designs up-to-date with brand name content and Punch! Updater. Home Design Software that Lets You Design and View Your Home with Incredible 3D Home Design Realism! Our PhotoView technology lets you import real-world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your home. You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping design or deck design, and then view your work from any angle -- with realistic, 3D perspective.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Buggy,
This review is from: Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum v10 (CD-ROM)
This is a really fun program - if you're just playing with imaginary floorplans. However, if you're trying to work on an actual house, forget it! I've tried various amateur CAD programs over the last two decades for landscaping and renovation plans. The underlying Punch! program is decent, but this version is very buggy.
Pros - "trace" option is nice, if you can get your compy's video card to work with the program, and if you've got the patience to do repeated iterations of the zoom feature to match the program grid to your image. - lots of options for sizes, etc. - no wait time for tech support - fairly generic format; easy to learn for anyone used to CAD programs except when bizarre hiccups occur (i.e., see note below about staircase) Cons - it takes over 1/2 hour to load this program as there are tons of graphics of brand name items; would have preferred to have downloadable packets for items that are actually needed. - objects don't move, even though they should be repositionable; this occurs sporadically and very unpredictably - your entire plan disappears from the file, no clue as to why this happens, but it's gone and isn't recoverable - third party applications (PowerTool PlugIns) aren't all compatible yet - using the 3D feature will often crash the program - no way to preview the print output; sometimes it prints what you want, sometimes, it doesn't - absolutely not for newbies - steep learning curve for the uninitiated and the tutorials don't explain everything (like why your staircase, drawn as per directions, looks like an Esher nightmare) I'm running this program on a brand new VAIO with maximum memory, graphics card memory, etc. I can't imagine what a horror this would be on an older, slower computer. This program goes back tomorrow. I'll give it another try in 9-12 months, AFTER they've debugged.
26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This program has no "Off" button for Idiot-mode,
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This review is from: Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum v10 (CD-ROM)
Congratulations to the designers of this product. They have officially created the worst program, in every category, that I have EVER used. Not only can you not delete a wall you don't want, you cannot set any relationships while drafting the layout, changing thickness of one selected wall randomly propagates through half of the connected walls, and changing the size of a wall resizes the entire chain of walls connected to it rather than MOVING THEM.
This program is designed for the "computer savvy"; those who do not know what Ctrl-X does. If you have any experience with any real CAD, 3D modeling, or solid modeling software, you will tear your hair out trying to get this program to draw an outline of a house with more than four walls. This programs assumes the user is not smart enough to set inside walls as inside, outside walls as outside, all while only HALF of the floor plan has been drawn. News to the developers: we draw one room at a time, not the entire house outline. And if you through angles in there, you will never get them exact. Punch! decides that, if a wall is angled, that it can change the angle to accommodate the dimension change of another wall. Wow... brilliant! As to the 3D rendering view, A-S-D-F and mouse-look is how you control motion in a 3D environment; not turning the mouse into a joystick where you loose your 0-reference and go spinning off into a wall. IN SUMMARY: Do not buy this program. You will get better results from drawing on a napkin.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst software ever,
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This review is from: Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum v10 (CD-ROM)
I tried to install this software 6 times. Each attempt resulted in an install hang over random files not found. Finally i got it to partially install by installing in safe mode.
Some features work, some don't. This is the most user hostile install program, i have ever used. I will never buy from this company again.
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