3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5

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Product Features

• Not sure where to start? Take inspiration from the wide variety of sample plans created by professional landscape designers
• Browse the 7,500 items in the Plant Encyclopedia, for a better look at what plants will survive and bloom in your garden
• Plant photos and care demonstrations with details on common plant diseases and cures
• Watch how your landscape changes over time -- lifelike seasonal changes will occur onscreen, in front of you
• Advanced terrain modelers let you add realistic slopes and grades, for the perfect-looking landscape

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B00008IAOP
• Item model number: 385498
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 29, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,031 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
Landscaping at your desktop is the name of the game in 3d Home Landscape Designer Deluxe, a package that helps you work on your yard without breaking a sweat--or risking costly mistakes. With a massive gallery of over 9,000 plants and yard features from deck chairs to playground equipment, this program gives users a chance to plan every aspect of an outdoor environment in minute detail, trying out as many different concepts as imagination and time permit.

Though 3d Home Landscape allows you to focus on the interior of a home, it puts far more energy into exterior design. Terrain modeling makes it possible to mold the land itself to any specification before features are added, with hills and even lakes adding depth to a given project. Using this feature it is possible, with practice, to closely model your own land and then to analyze its design strengths.

Once time comes to actually lay down foliage, 3d Home Landscape's Plant Encyclopedia is there to help, carrying detailed information on maintaining every plant in a garden. Your finished designs can be previewed with an eye to how the yard will appear in all four seasons.

Like most home and garden design programs, this one will let you move through the three-dimensional model of your house and yard, viewing each creation from all angles. It is a complex program that requires patience in the learning stages. Fortunately, the user's guide is thoughtfully written and easy to use, and there are first-rate animated tutorials available with the program that cover each new stage of the landscaping process.

And once mastered, 3d Home Landscape can help you work out every imaginable garden design, no matter how wild or daring. --Alyx Dellamonica

Product Description
With 3D Home Landscape Designer Deluxe 5 gives you the tools you need to create an ideal botanical landscape! Incorporate your own decks and patios, along with over 300 different decorative and functional garden objects Powerful 3D editing tools let you see your creation in progress and enjoy it when it comes to fruition!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This software is junk, April 13, 2003

By	David A. Sousa (Centreville, VA United States) - See all my reviews

I just installed this software thinking that for $19.99 (a $10 discount) it is worth the risk even given the bad reviews. Unfortunately, this software is not worth 19 cents. The program crashed 4 times with runtime errors just trying to do a simple thing like change the dimensions of a site boundary. Save yourself the frustration, and save your money.

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy, difficult to use, not-intuitive, November 15, 2003

By	Teresa Heinrich (Morgan Hill, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just tried to design a garden for our new house using "3D Landscaping". Despite what the box says, the software contains no templates of gardens that you can modify, just shapes (circles, rectangles, squares) with pre-programmed lot sizes (such as 40' x 110'). I tried to edit the dimensions of the 40' x 110' rectangle to mimic our new lot. Forget it. You cannot edit the sizes even if you follow the steps in the manual.

So, I tried to create a new lot from scratch. Instead of a flat plane to show our new lawn, the program created a cylinder. The cylinder could not be modified no matter how I tried.

I finally decided to accept the incorrect dimensions of the rectangular plot (40 x 110) and just insert sample plants (trees, climbers, etc) from the toolbar, to get an idea of what would look good next to what. The program crashed. When it did allow me to add the plants in outline view, they did not show up in 3D view, which means you can't see what they will look like in your garden (the whole point of the program!) The program crashed again when I toggled from 3D view to outline view. (My system surpasses the system requirements, so that was not the problem).

I am not a software neophyte, and I followed both the manual and the tutorials step-by-step to create a diagram, but the software did not work. I don't believe Broderbund tests this before releasing it to the public.

If anyone has found a quality landscape design software program, please tell me. Right now, I'm ready to turn to Powerpoint.

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating, June 17, 2003

By	M. Rowland Hill (Shakopee, MN USA) - See all my reviews

I am about to uninstall, both my wife and myself gve this a try. My lot size is not one of the given ones. Setting up a lot (a 90x180 foot rectangle) is impossible. Did not bother going any further, with it. There is a couple of hours wasted I will never see again.....