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Punch! Professional Home Design Suite | 
 enlarge | From: Punch! Software
Category: Software
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $9.40
You Save: $60.59 (87%)
New (7) Used (8) from $7.74
Rating:  7 reviews
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows NT
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 3
MPN: 911388
Model: 35100
UPC: 664446351005
EAN: 0664446351005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Total home design software package | | • | Check it all out before you get started | | • | Pro-level design with easy-to-use wizards | | • | From foundation to plumbing to electrical systems | | • | Easily calculate costs in time and money |
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Product Description
- Marketing Information: 12 Programs in one intuitive easy-to-use interface... POWERFUL, PROFESSIONAL TOOLS to help you design all of the critical components of your home including foundations, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, custom windows, custom roofs, and much, much more! Product Information - Software Sub Type: Architectural - Software Name: Home Design Suite Professional - Complete Product - Features and Benefits: 3D Interior and Exterior Home Design: Thereandquot;s no other software like it! ALL program components work from the same simple interface, so all design tools and 3D capabilities are always at your fingertips. The LiveView window continually previews your work, in real-time 3D, as you draw. Convenient features such as the unique "color ramp" give you thousands of subtle paint color choices, slope tool allows easy design flexibility for walk-out basements and split-level designs. 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 so you can see through walls and maximize space. Feature for feature, the easy-yet-powerful tools integrated in Professional Home Design Suite give you virtually unlimited control over every aspect of your home plan. - 3D Landscape - Foundation Planner - Heating, Ventilating and Cooling Planner - Custom Sprinkler Systems - Plumbing Planner - 3D Custom Workshop: - Fully-integrated 3D CAD program - Furniture design to mechanical - Edi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Difficult to use May 7, 2006
G. Royster (Atlanta, GA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 hours to learn to use it properly.
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.
Extremely complicated for a beginner! March 21, 2006
milig
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In preparation to remodel our master bathroom, I thought it would be fun and interesting to find a software package that was simple but effecient. I was expecting this program to possibly ask for a few measurements and then piece my project together for me. Sadly, I was very wrong.
It offers above and beyond what I need. The software itself seems fabulous if you know how to use it right away, but unless you have experience with this type of program, or you are highly motivated to delve into the 200 plus page manual that comes with it, my suggestion would be to look for something a lot less technical.
Honestly, I'm just finishing up my fourth hour on it and I still haven't gotten anywhere.... except to Amazon.com, looking for a different program.
 Design your home September 25, 2005
Art Jenkinson (Leonardo, NJ USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Application offers many features, however it must be studied to be used effectivily. Not for the impatient or get up and go user.
 WARNING - This seller has FALSE information! March 3, 2005
Michael B. Melone
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The description on this AMAZON.com post says that the software is Mac compatible -- I work for Punch! Software and most assuredly can tell you that it is NOT compatible with Mac.
Not ready for prime-time March 16, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Very, very limited. Decides arbitrarily to link walls together so that an interior wall becomes an exterior wall, and changing the interior back changes all the walls in the group. No way to break a wall once you've put a window or door in it unless you first remove the window or door. Selection of textures is very, very limited and there is no documented way to import more. Selection of objects the same--the 3d designer does allow new objects to be defined but compared to any kind of real 3-d CAD program, including the freeware version of Intellicad (no longer available alas), it's horribly weak, and no way to import from a real CAD program unless maybe you spring for one of the more expensive versions. No doorknobs. No way to specify where lights are located, at least none that I can find--there are lamp objects but they don't provide light, they just sit there.It's a cheap program that acts like a cheap program.
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