Cheap Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum 8.0 (Software) (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 95, Windows Me) Price
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 Build the kitchen of your dreams. |
 Make detailed landscaping decisions. |
Punch! Professional Home Design Suite lets you design and view all of your home's rooms in photo-realistic 3D. Punch!'s PhotoView technology lets you import real-world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your home.
 Fly through your design and see it from all angles. |
You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping design or deck design, and then view your work from any angle -- all in realistic, 3D perspective. What's more, the software's LiveView window continually updates your home designs, in real-time and in 3D, as you draw. Meanwhile, 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, allowing you to see through walls to maximize your design space. The powerful 3D graphics engine also lets you create real-time walk or fly-throughs of your designs.
Creating wonderful new spaces outside your home is just as easy as creating the interiors. The garden and landscape design tools allow 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. Plus, the integrated PlantFinder provides extensive information for a wide variety of 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. Tap into information for over 2,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover, and more.
Other features built into the Home Design Suite are designed to give you incredibly detailed control over your design decisions. Features like Cabinet Wizard for your kitchen designs, as well as modules for plumbing HVAC, electrical wiring, and even your house foundation are included. There's even a Home Estimator module for estimating your construction costs.
| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 95, Windows Me |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Punch! Software |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, Sixteen powerful programs in one, Includes Roofing Wizard, Topo designer, advanced lighting capabilities, and Deck Wizard, Also includes Cabinet Wizard, Custom Texture Builder, and PlantFinder, Enhanced user interface with 3D cut-away viewing tools |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 664446751003 |
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Customer Reviews of Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum 8.0
Takes some getting used to but overall, i think this program does exactly what it is supposed to if you have the correct expectations in mind beforehand. like all drafting programs (autocad, microstation, etc), it takes a long time to learn how to use it properly. anyone with experience in those programs knows that they are not intuitive in the way microsoft programs are, for example. the directions are not very good at all, but within about 2 hours of opening the box, i had my entire house drawn fairly accurately. roof elements are the hardest, in my opinion, to get correct, and the directions regarding roofing are lacking to say the least. however, with some tinkering, i was able to get a couple of dormers in that looked basically how i wanted. as far as true software bugs in the program, i have not found any and have probably spent 20 hours or more on it. you need a farily good sized computer to run this program because it is a memory beast. <
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>if you are using this to design a brand new house, keep in mind that residential building plans are more of a guide than the letter of the law. there is always a lot of onsite tweaking when it comes to framing and dimensioning. this program does an excellent job of getting you close enough to the level of plans needed to build a house. also remember, normal building plans don't have 3D drawings on them, they are merely plans and elevations, both of which this program can generate (even though the elevations are renderings, not dimensioned plans). overall, i think this program is best suited for remodel applications so that you can get a good idea of what the new space would look like. major remodels should involve an architect anyway. <
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>bottom line, if you are expecting this program to do most of the work for you, you can forget it. there isn't a program out there that can do that. a person inexperienced in design software and building construction should shy away from a program this complicated and use something simpler - but don't expect a contractor to be able to build from it. for those with experience in design and construction, i think this program is great, though expect to spend some time figuring things out on your own because the directions are almost useless.
Difficult to use
A couple of years ago I bought a similar product from Punch software and gave up on it after a few days of trying to figure out how to use it. (And I'm very technical and generally good with new software). i would not recommend this software unless you have the time and patience to learn to use it properly.
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>Google recently released a FREE home design software. Much like other Google products, this one is very easy to use - although not as powerful as one you might purchase. Before buying, I strongly recommend you check out Google's offering. Visit sketchup.google.com to take a look.
Does not live up to expectations
Specifically I have these problems with this software:
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>1. Very very slow to "undo" last edit.
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>2. Very difficult to select an item for edit in an area with multiple objects.
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>3. Poor "memory" for previous customized object when adding multiple.
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>4. Bugginess when editing materials. Programmers attempted to build software that takes some of the decisions out of an edit, but poorly implemented them so that interior surfaces of walls get siding and cannot be edited without deleting entire wall including outlets, tubs, windows, etc. This is an example of the bugs that PERMEATE this software.
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>This is NOT a good package for anyone wanting to design a house to the blueprint level of detail. It has good visual features allowing one to "visualize" the design aspect of remodeling, but the structural power tools are weak and missing vital edit abilities. I can't figure out how to add a simple stairwell opening and get the lumber to work out right. I had to hand generate a bill of materials because I didn't trust the software and found many calculations were based on square footage rather than specific needs of load, headers, etc.
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>Doing a drawing by hand is easier than using this software, especially with joists and roofs. FYI I have 15 years of software development experience and have used many different software packages, and this falls below the 50% mark of all software I have ever used. I don't have experience with other "architect" software, so take my review at whatever value you wish based on my experience(s). I would NEVER call this architect software, but rather more of an "interior design" software package.