Total 3D Home Deluxe 3.0

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004XQOK
• Item model number: 380650
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,656 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #88 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Home Design
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Save time and money, and have fun with this easy-to-use home-design tool that brings your plans vividly to life with 3-D graphics.

Features include:

• A manufacturers' product catalog of more than 24,000 name brand furnishings and appliances.
• Interactive designer showrooms which make it easy to try on whatever catches your eye.
• Scan colors, textures, and actual materials into your plan to help you make decorating decisions.
• See all of your costs at a glance with the SmartEstimator feature.
• Create custom-shaped windows that complement your home design.
• A free copy of Time-Life Papering and Painting.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too unstable of a product to be useful, May 31, 2002

By 

Tim Mensch "technology enthusiast" (Boulder, CO. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Total 3D Home Deluxe 3.0 (CD-ROM)

I used this product to try to help me redesign my current house. A bit of background: I've used many 3d editing packages in the past, so I know what I'm doing. The user interface isn't the best, but it's workable. The problem is that the software is so unstable as to be useless: Imagine working on a design for a couple of hours and have the program crash. What's that I hear? I should have saved it? I did save it. Frequently. Unfortunately, the save file was corrupted in some way that once I load it, the program crashes almost immediately. If you must use this product, save frequently and to new file names.

And even when this product worked, it didn't work well. I tried several roof lines for a very basic house layout and most failed profoundly. Modifications I did in one view would be lost after switching to another view and back again. I can't adequately commuicate the frustration of using this poorly written software.

By the way, the system I was running on was a very fast (1.1Ghz) system with 512Mb of RAM, so there shouldn't have been a memory or speed problem.

Don't buy this program. It's an embarassment to Broderbund.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst software I've ever purchased, August 10, 2001

By 

Lesley A FitzSimons (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total 3D Home Deluxe 3.0 (CD-ROM)

I would not advise anyone to buy this product. While it is easy to use and has good graphics, I have had countless problems with the software. It now won't allow me to make any changes unless I start completely over, and it causes an illegal operation error to occur each time I run it. I have tried numerous times to get software support. In addition to the worst on-line help system I've seen, the email support has been less than adequate. They have failed to solve a single one of my many problems. I've never written an on-line review for Amazon, but I felt compelled to do so in this instance in case anyone is considering wasting their money.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not great, not terrible, July 8, 2001

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NotBobVila (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total 3D Home Deluxe 3.0 (CD-ROM)

After having used another piece of home design software, I found this product to be much more user-friendly. Simply put, it is a fun program to play around with, to get some rough ideas. After all, look at the price. This is not intended to be professional calibre software. But for dabbling in home design, it would be difficult to find an program that is easier to use. If the day ever comes that I want a house built, I will be using this software to "sketch" my ideas to take to an architect.