Punch! Super Home [Old Version]

by Punch Software

Product Features

• Ultimate Deck deck-design software module also included
• Home-design software integrates 7 powerful programs into 1
• 3D Home Exterior and Interior Home Design; Home Estimator; AutoFraming
• 3D RealModel; 3D Landscape Design; 3D Furniture Workshop; FloorPlan Trace
• Intuitive interface; 3D graphics engine for real-time walk- or fly-throughs

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JO4G
• Item model number: 15800
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,880 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #90 in Software > Graphics > CAD
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Punch! Super Home Suite lives up to its name and then some--as it puts professional architectural home-design power at your fingertips. Seven of Punch! Software's most popular home-design software features are seamlessly integrated into one amazing home design software product. Also bundled in the same interface is our Punch! Software Ultimate Deck deck-design software module. In total, Super Home Suite delivers extensive home-design capabilities that rival competitive offerings.

Punch! Super Home Suite home-design software has an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, that integrates:

• 3D Home Exterior and Interior Home Design
• Ultimate Deck
• 3D Landscape Design
• 3D Furniture Workshop
• FloorPlan Trace
• Home Estimator
• AutoFraming
• 3D RealModel

Bring your home-design visions from concept to stunning 3-D realism with our patented 3D RealModel feature. Our exclusive LiveView window continually previews your work in real-time 3-D as you draw! Best of all, our powerful 3D graphics engine lets you create real-time walk- or fly-throughs--for a Hollywood-style voyage through your new creation!

If you can imagine it, you can design it, with our built-in deck-design software, Ultimate Deck:

Fully integrated deck-design software Ultimate Deck gives you an excellent foundation for designing and building your dream deck. You can quickly and efficiently create multi-level or multi-story deck designs with 3-D photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color capabilities.

Choose a basic deck-design shape or create one from scratch and watch the program draft a beautiful 3-D rendering of your deck concept.

Other features of Super Home Suite:

• Interior texture library
• Exterior texture library--siding, brick, rock, paint, stucco, block, wood, mulch, gravel, concrete, roofing, ground cover, and much more!
• Virtual Ruler
• Landscape topography
• Interior furniture objects
• Exterior furniture objects
• Automatic stair and railing generator
• Automatic curved-stair generator
• Full home estimator
• Automatic framing tool
• Framing schedule
• Window and door schedule
• Roof truss schedule
• FloorPlan Trace
• 3-D landscape growth
• Photo-realistic anti-aliasing
• Definable sun location for shadows
• Automatic floorplan dimensioning
• Definable field of view
• Standard roofs
• Editable 3-D house plans
• 2-D and 3-D CAD furniture design
• English or metric measurements

Punch! Super Home Suite. Superior capabilities in one powerful home-design package.

Product Description

Punch! Super Home Suite - 7 powerful programs in one that launch from the same interface! Punch Super Suite includes: 3D home design 3D Landscaping Estimating AutoFraming™ FloorPlan Trace™ 3D Furniture Design and RealModel™. Punch raises the bar in the retail home design market combining fast 3D graphics and photo-realism like never before.Format: WIN 95982000XPVISTA Genre: PRODUCTIVITY UPC: 664446158000 Manufacturer No: 15800

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Simple and limited, December 7, 2003

By 

R. Devinney (Silver City, NM) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Punch! Super Home [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Punch Super Home Suite loaded easily and it was quick to learn to use. The help menu tells you which items to select but does not tell which pull-down menu to select them from! "Undo" is NEVER available.
The "Fly-around" tool does not work like the instructions say, does not work at all if you draw the house close to the edge of the lot, and works differently each time. If this feature worked, Punch would at least be useful for previewing interior and exterior decorating results and furniture placement.
If you are trying to do anything out of the ordinary (which is probably why you are looking at the software), Punch will just frustrate and annoy you. A "3-D Furniture Workshop" provides only a few basic furnishings and appliances. The library does not include basic fixtures such as toiltes, bathtubs, etc. The "CAD Tool" has an oval which only draws as a circle!
The Home Estimator feature is a VERY basic spreadsheet which misses part of the house when calcualting square footage. It does not do a complete materials takeoff.
The Auto Framer feature just provides a rough 3-D .bmp image to show what the framing will look like. It does not provide any useful drawings or dimensions.
When you print the 2-D floor plan, the first floor and second floor print superimposed... it is not possible to tell which walls are on each floor.
This is not serious software, and is not ready for publishing.
I will go back to the drawing board with an architect's scale and graph paper. There is a small medallion on the package which says "90 Money Back Guarantee" I'm going to try it but am not holding my breath!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Super Home Suite, May 20, 2003

By 

Don Langer (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Punch! Super Home [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Although not difficult to navigate and operate, I was very dissapointed to find that this product does not generate a material list! Also, this product does not have the ability to create any foundation plan.
Some basic "Important Features" somebody didn't think was needed.
Now I'm stuck with software I cant use.
Kind of like buying a car without a steering wheel!!!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This software is terrible!!, August 24, 2004

By 

AABBCC "Frustrated with Home Suite" (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Punch! Super Home [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I do not recommend this software to ANYONE!! I was never able to see the interior of my design. The fly around view would never work properly. Then when I was able to view portions, my screen would start flipping out. I guess the software didn't like me as much as I didn't like it. The drop down menus are very easy to read and understand, but applying them to what I was trying to build was the difficult part. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!