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Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology |  | From: Punch! Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $79.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Format: DVD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS X
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 2.8
MPN: 22800
Model: 22800
UPC: 664446228000
EAN: 0664446228000
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Get Started fast - reall! Even a beginner can build a house in 59 seconds! | | • | Video Tutorials launch right from the help menue. We'll help you from start to finish! | | • | Just hit the going green icon and watch your design become updated with energy efficient materials and objects. | | • | Smart Room technology allows you to simply drag & drop rooms, move or resize at will. | | • | Integrated Internet - shop for materials, find a contractor, or import from Google Sketch up, we just made the possibilities endless. |
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Product Description
Want to redo or redesign your home to meet your needs and comforts? Home and Landscape Design Suite is an all new product from Punch! two years in development and written from the bottom up. A new code base offers new features and enhanced performance while maintaining the features you loved in previous versions. Because of this combination of compatibility with previous versions mated with new features Punch has developed nexGen technology emphasizing a focus on the future as well as differentiating this as a completely new product. Speed and Performance - Up to 26 times faster rendering speed than our competitors. LogiCursor - Intelligent cursor helps you quickly snap and align objects and walls Photo-Realistic Cabinets Doors and Outdoor items - Make your designs more realistic than ever before Auto Roof Generation - Roofing is now generated automatically and can be easily modified New 3D Objects - Expanded libraray with stunning looks to bring your design to life -- includes home-theater items Support Services - Quickly locate support information such as our FAQ or contact our US based support professionals by phone or email Integrated Online Shopping - Instantly search for thousands of building related items and even purchase without ever leaving the application. Large Format Prints of Your Design - Done with your design and ready to share with the world? Utilize Punch printing services to easily order floor plan prints Professional Contractors - Utilize our search service to locate contractors in your area who can helpProduct Features:Get Started fast - reall! Even a beginner can build a house in 59 seconds! Video Tutorials launch right from the help menue. We'll help you from start to finish! Just hit the going green icon and watch your design become updated with energy efficient materials and objects. Smart Room technology allows you to simply drag & drop rooms move or resize at will. Integrated Internet - shop for materials find a contractor or
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 A old DOS based drafting software can manage print better than this October 17, 2009
S. CHOU (Southern Illinois)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After you spend two days fine tuning with your drawing, there are only two possible way to print. One is to print an unreadable, small sized print with spaces all over the paper. Or, print to scale with 24 pages. Cannot print partial, cannot size it, cannot do anything about it.
 Laughably bad software, not recommended! October 2, 2009
spinoza (North Shore, MA United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
For some reason I thought that Punch would have learned a thing or two in the past couple of years and so decided to purchase the upgrade to this software. Astonishingly it was as bad as before, and the new features they included are as poorly designed as the existing software. Very little about this software is intuitive, and you must read the manual from cover to cover to even begin making sense of its ridiculously bad interface. The only problem is that the manual itself is almost useless, so getting anywhere with this software becomes an exercise in frustration. After spending the better part of a day attempting to do a simple plan for a sunroom I am building, I finally gave up and did it using a simple drawing app for the Mac (Acorn)... in less than half an hour. It's really criminal that a company can get away with selling software like this.
Home Design Studio for Mac September 8, 2009
D. Snodgrass
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Honestly, I bought this to replace it's bigger brother -- thinking it would be easier and more intuitive and friendly with their new nexGen technology. This product has a steep learning curves and a thick, but useless user guide that explains each tool but not how to use it. I've tried (in vain) to design my upcoming remodel. In both programs, I stopped, just plain overwhelmed and discouraged.
buyer beware UPDATED July 19, 2009
L. Hurley (Arizona)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
It doesn't work. At least not on my MacBook Pro w/Leopard. I had high hopes for the program, but after several calls and e-mails to Punch! support we don't have a solution. Worse, the Punch! techs appear to have given up. On top of that, Punch! is refusing to refund the purchase price.
The good news is that Punch! actually has toll-free tech support and I was actually able to reach them fairly easily. And to a certain extent they've tried to help. Maybe some of you will have better luck than me. Or maybe not. Good luck.
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UPDATE: Somebody at Punch! figured it out. HDS is incompatible with the Mac's "case-sensitive" disk format and that's what I had. Don't know how I got that way or why it matters (Apple didn't know, either), but a complete erase, reformat, and reinstall later and the program is working with all objects and tools available.
so I would give it 3 STARS. It's a decent program - probably best at this price - but this hard drive format thing needs to be fixed.
Horrible, un-Mac-like software. July 8, 2009
D. Eadie (Tifton, GA USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've used professional CAD packages like Cobalt that are far, far less frustrating to use. Very un-Mac-like behavior, very limited ability to edit existing walls, slow 3D performance on my iMac.
Wish I could recommend another home design package for Mac, but at least I can say, "Stay away from this one, folks!"
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