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Punch Super Home Suite 3.0
Although the level is for amateur designers, it is a very good starting point for people interested in building their own home. The FloorPlan Trace feature permits to users to convert a scanning of a floor plan in a traceable template, facilitating the designing tasks. The RealModel feature automatically creates all the components to build a real 3D scale model (using foam paper). The software has also integrated a spreadsheet cost estimator, where you could enter the unit cost of the building components (walls, doors, windows, etc.) to obtain an approximated total cost. Other features are 3D navigation trough the house, 3D landscaping, 3D furniture design to customize your furniture or build new models. The software also has the typical features of other softwares such as a variety of: roofing, doors, windows, stairs, floor, pathways, etc. I'm satisfy with the product and I would recommend it. Drawbacks: It needs to add more designs to doors and windows. It also should have some drawing features needed for design, i.e. drawing reference lines, very useful for walls or objects alignment. These lines would not be part of the design.

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Ceveat Emptor - don't expect the sky
Kudos to the marketing and packaging gurus for Punch! products. As a veteran 3D modeler and animator, I purchased the product to help me do certain home design tasks more quickly. The pictures on the package made it look easy and fun. The reality was a little disappointing. First, the strengths. Laying out floor plans with quick drag and drop windows and doors was a pleasure. The landscape, deck, and furniture workshop features were useful (although the workshop had limitations, of course). Setting up my basic dimensions and floor plans were a treat. I was beginning to marvel at the simplicty of creating a home plan. BUT, only if you are designing a house with no crawl space! In light of the expenses of fixing bad plumbing in slab houses, I believe a crawl space is most sensible way to design any house, so I was a little put off when I realized Punch!'s software doesn't do that. Look at the pictures on the packaging, you won't see a crawl space. You may see a house that looks like it has one, but in fact it is a two-story house with a basement and landscaping. That's the key to "faking it out". Nor does the software allow simple placement of windows in a roof end-cap. The way to get around the crawl space limitation in RealModel would be to print an additional strip of brick (or whatever material) to paste on your foam board model, but you would have to do measuring on your own to figure out how to allow for the extra height of the ground floor wall. A simple remedy would be for Punch! software to allow wall heights to be customizable, just as the door and window sizes are. Then, of course, having a door height selection just like the window height ones would allow realistic placement. To get around the window placement limitations, try creating the desired feature in Furniture Workshop. The .dxf export function will allow me to send the floor plan out to my 3D modeling software, which is helpful to those of us who own them. The lack of .dxf import was somewhat irritating. Am I going to return it? No, because at the cost it is just barely useful enough to outweigh the trouble of returning it. Would I recommend it? I probably would only recommend a more basic Punch! product such as Home Design with none of the other modules, to create floor layout work only.

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too hard!
ok i totally want to be a home desinger/architect when i grow up. So i asked my brother for design stuff and he gave me this. I thought it was easy at first with the walls, windows and doors. But the flooring thing never works and staring at the 12 chapter "help" booklet doesnt "help" very much. they tell you what to do but not how. I'm sure this isnt a kids game but my dad is a genius and he tried it an he cant even figure it out. I wouldnt tell other people to buy it.