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Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum V12 |
With Professional Home Design 12 Platinum integrates 16 different professional tools, to give you millions of design combinations. You'll have the simple, step-by-step tools you need for building a realistic dream home, from picking the right color to making the perfect deck. Create walk-out basements and split-level designs, import the fanciest and newest cabinet designs and furniture, even topographic excavation & your own 3D cutaway elevations. Make your backyard look gorgeous with a searchable database of plants and flowers. Plan to perfection with the planning foundation, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing tools. Your dream home is just a few mouse clicks away. LiveView window continually updates your home designs, in real-time 3D, as you draw 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 Also includes dormer & skylight tools Supports fractions and now imports 3DS files
Punch! Professional Home Design Suite Platinum Version 12 continues to expand its already incredible capabilities. This special two-for-one package is loaded with an incredible feature set. You get all of the features of both industry-acclaimed Punch! Master Landscape & Home Design and Punch! Professional Home Design Suite software, and more, in this easy-to-use home and landscape design package.The Power of Professional Home Design Software and Master Landscape Software Is Fully Integrated into Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum v12
This updated home and landscape design software is built on the same powerful platform as Punch! Architectural Series 4000, allowing you the flexibility to integrate Punch! PowerTools and much, much more! Version 12 gives you even more features and enhancements. Use new Aerial views to see how your overall design fits together; Color Sampling ensures that all of your colors fit your interior plan perfectly. Auto-elevation makes it easy for you to place objects on your floors or ceilings. Other enhanced components include lighting, editing, rendering, and advanced stair texturing options. Combine these with existing features for boundless home and landscape possibilities. Design with Decorator Palette--change your room colors with just one click! Use Accessories to easily add art and window treatments. Also includes dormer & skylight tools, supports fractions and imports 3DS files. Room Wizard helps you get started fast--just input your room dimensions and the rooms are created for you. Keep your designs up-to-date with brand name content and Punch! Updater.  | PowerTools in Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum Version 12:
Room Wizard
.DXF/.DWG Import/Export
Roofing Wizard
Deck Designer w/Deck Wizard
Topo Designer
Cabinet Wizard
PhotoView
Material Modifier
Elevation Editor
3D Custom Workshop
RealModel
Framing Editor
Estimator
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Home Design Software that Lets You Design and View Your Home with Incredible 3D Home Design Realism!
PhotoView technology lets you import real-world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your home. You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping design or deck design, and then view your work from any angle--with realistic, 3D perspective. The LiveView window continually updates your home designs, in real-time 3D, as you draw. 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. You can actually see through walls to maximize your design space. You will be amazed at our powerful 3D graphics engine that lets you create real-time walk or fly-throughs--for a Hollywood-style voyage through your new creation! The Choice for Complete Garden and Landscape design.
This garden and landscape design software allows 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. Our plant database provides extensive information for a wide 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. Use PlantFinder to easily locate plants that meet your requirements. Tap into information for over 4,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover, and more. The Plant Inventory Bar helps you keep your favorite plants handy to drag & drop into your designs.
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Punch! Software
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ISBN/EAN: 0664446941008
New Price: $61.99 /
Used Price: $90.46 /
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Average Rating: 3.0
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| Home Design Platinum V12.0 | Rating:  | Although there is a learning curve in using this software, it comes with all the "bells & whistles"
Should one need further info, there are numerous forums, and manufacturers support.
I am on the way to designing my home
Frank | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-06-19 | | | | Looking elsewhere | Rating:  | I give up. I don't know if it is me, or the program, but I have had it. Clunky user interface, features that simply don't work (try adjusting the viewer elevation with mouse clicks--as described--doesn't work). I cannot figure out how to group objects. You can group them, and cut and paste, but a reasonable approach would be to group and move. Help says you can, but I cannot make it work. Etc.
Last straw--I finally got a decent layout. Saved it; exited the progam. Program asks you if you want to save, even if you just did. I didn't (mistake?). Reopen--half my work is gone.
If you are like I was--ignorant of this class of program and don't know which to buy--try one of the others.
I don't know if the alternatives are better, but this program is a mess. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-03-28 | | | | Sucks! | Rating:  | | This program just sucks! It's exceedingly slow (and I have a fast system), it has numerous bugs and it's a pain to use once you get past the basics. I could never get the material/color selection to work with my Nvidia graphics card and after swapping to an ATI card which it was supposed to work with it still didn't work properly. After suffering with Punch! for a week I wanted to punch the developers! I then went out and bought Home Designer Pro 7.0 which cost over 4X the price. Guess what? It was worth every penny. It is far more accurate (for instance incorporates sheetrock and siding into walls and lets you change these as desired), has more features, is easier to use and doesn't have laundry list of bugs. Trust me; don't buy this software if you intend to use it to design a house that will actually be built. Spend the extra money it will save you a lot of heartache. | | Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2008-03-13 | | | | Decent program | Rating:  | | This is a good program for the money -- not a professional program - but also not for beginners. It does give you a good sense of what the finished house will look like. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-02-08 | | | | Punch | Rating: | Takes a long time to load software. Very difficult to learn & use & looks like a steep learning curve ahead. Perhaps easier for those familar with earlier versions or similar product. Just not intuitive. Tutorials not really useful & software lacks a working example. Must pay extra for training and demo of training isn't for this software.
If you don't have a basic design in mind, you will have problems. Making adjustments (wall resizing, movement of doors or windows, etc.) very "touchy" & difficult to implement.
Better Homes & Garden Home design much easier. | | Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2008-01-22 | | | | Home Design Platinum V12.0 | Rating: | Although there is a learning curve in using this software, it comes with all the "bells & whistles"
Should one need further info, there are numerous forums, and manufacturers support.
I am on the way to designing my home
Frank | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-06-19 | | | | Looking elsewhere | Rating: | I give up. I don't know if it is me, or the program, but I have had it. Clunky user interface, features that simply don't work (try adjusting the viewer elevation with mouse clicks--as described--doesn't work). I cannot figure out how to group objects. You can group them, and cut and paste, but a reasonable approach would be to group and move. Help says you can, but I cannot make it work. Etc.
Last straw--I finally got a decent layout. Saved it; exited the progam. Program asks you if you want to save, even if you just did. I didn't (mistake?). Reopen--half my work is gone.
If you are like I was--ignorant of this class of program and don't know which to buy--try one of the others.
I don't know if the alternatives are better, but this program is a mess. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-03-28 | | | | Sucks! | Rating: | | This program just sucks! It's exceedingly slow (and I have a fast system), it has numerous bugs and it's a pain to use once you get past the basics. I could never get the material/color selection to work with my Nvidia graphics card and after swapping to an ATI card which it was supposed to work with it still didn't work properly. After suffering with Punch! for a week I wanted to punch the developers! I then went out and bought Home Designer Pro 7.0 which cost over 4X the price. Guess what? It was worth every penny. It is far more accurate (for instance incorporates sheetrock and siding into walls and lets you change these as desired), has more features, is easier to use and doesn't have laundry list of bugs. Trust me; don't buy this software if you intend to use it to design a house that will actually be built. Spend the extra money it will save you a lot of heartache. | | Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2008-03-13 | | | | Decent program | Rating: | | This is a good program for the money -- not a professional program - but also not for beginners. It does give you a good sense of what the finished house will look like. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-02-08 | | | | Punch | Rating: | Takes a long time to load software. Very difficult to learn & use & looks like a steep learning curve ahead. Perhaps easier for those familar with earlier versions or similar product. Just not intuitive. Tutorials not really useful & software lacks a working example. Must pay extra for training and demo of training isn't for this software.
If you don't have a basic design in mind, you will have problems. Making adjustments (wall resizing, movement of doors or windows, etc.) very "touchy" & difficult to implement.
Better Homes & Garden Home design much easier. | | Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2008-01-22 | | |
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