Cheap Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 v10 (Software) (Windows XP) Price
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| PLATFORM: | Windows XP |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Punch! Software |
| ESRB RATING: | Rating Pending |
| FEATURES: | CD, Includes fully integrated landscape software, Master Landscape Pro, Architectural design software for home remodeling projects, Built-in video tutorials; roofing wizard; deck wizard and deck templates, Drag-and-drop over 30,000 design combinations with just a click, Extensive framing, estimating, mechanical design, and CAD functions |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| MPN: | 84100 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 664446841001 |
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Customer Reviews of Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 v10
Not Windows Vista Compatible I love this product. I am living in a house I designed with it. I also use it to plot survey coordinates at work. So why one star? My XP computer died and the program will not load on Vista. I think it is because of the program load being based on Adobe Acrobat 5, which Vista cannot recognize. I would need a patch to install before I load it. Punch site says it's Vista compatible. Not.
Home design software
This product is great if you are only interested in 3-D modeling. It is NOT recommended by me for serious home design. There is no provision for setting exact dimensions in the planning mode and they resist being set with a mouse. Without a provision for entering precise measurments even the length of a wall cannot be set with any degree of accuracy. Without accuracy the software is just a large, memory grabbing, disk hogging, toy. All the fancy product and finish tie-ins in the world cannot overcome this deficiency. I am profifient with a CAD program and this software can't touch it for producing buildable plans.
They still have work to do
I found this product did not meet my expectations. Most of the problem was in defining slab flooring and short cement foundation walls . I submitted many problems via email to the tech group however they were sluggish most of the time with a reply back. On the more difficult questions they just did not reply at all. Maybe there strength was in landscaping, but that was not why I bought the software. Having said that, it was fairly easy to learn and did about 90% of what I wanted it to do with a little work on my part. However, there is not much out there for the low cost of this software. Guess it's better than nothing. I also had troubles getting a printer like Staples or Kinko to handle the output print files so I could print to 1/4" scale to obtain a building permit. There were no allowances for trusses instead of stick building roof support in the materials list. Also several other little problems that they have work arounds for but added to the difficulty.