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System Requirements
- Platform: Mac OS X
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Designing a home, interior or landscape project is easy in our most versatile design software, ever!
- Intelligent Room Detection - Complete automation that changes when you change the size or shape of your design!
- Speed and Performance - Up to 26 times faster rendering speed than our competitors
- RealModel - takes your home design and automatically creates needed templates to build a 3D model
- Going Green – Save energy and money with integrated "Building Green" design tips
- Photo-Realistic Cabinets, Doors, and Outdoor items - Make your designs more realistic than ever before
- PhotoView - add you favourite real-world objects using scanned photos or a digital camera
- Auto Roof Generation - Roofing is now generated automatically and can be easily modified
- New 3D Objects - Expanded library with stunning looks to bring your design to life
- Useful Tools - Deck Tool, Roofing Tool, DXF/DWG Export, DXF/DWG Import, Estimator, PhotoView, Framing Tool
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Designing a home, deck or your own landscape project is easy in the most versatile home-and-landscape design software, ever!
Home and Landscape Design Studio is the all new product from Punch! two years in development and written from the bottom up. However, when you have been number one for eight years, you need to be compatible with your previous products and this package will not disappoint you.
A new code base allows us to offer new features and enhanced performance while maintaining the features you loved in our previous versions. Because of this combination of compatibility with previous versions mated with new features, we have labelled this nexGen technology emphasising our focus on the future as well as differentiating this as a completely new product.
Intelligent Room Detection - Complete automation that changes when you change the size or shape of your design, including the roof!
Speed and Performance - Up to 26 times faster rendering speed than our competitors.
Intelligent Cursor - 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 library with stunning looks to bring your design to life
FEATURES
NexGen Technology – thinks for you, as you draw.
QuickStart – Design your basic floor plan in just seconds!
Going Green – Save energy and money with integrated “Building Green” design tips.
Faster Performance – Faster, smoother rendering technology for more uninterrupted design time.
Video Tutorials – Walk you through every step – over 100 minutes of how to’s, tips and tricks.
Precision drawing with LogiCursor technology - assists with laser-line auto-alignment & snaps for faster, more accurate wall & room creation.
HOME DESIGN
SmartRooms – Automatically updates dimensions as you draw or edit.
Elevation View – dynamically edit with elevation views.
Auto Framing with Framing Editor - View rough-in framing with one mouse click.
Roofing Assistant - Automatically creates roofing for your design including pitch, soffit, trim etc.
RealModel - takes your home design and automatically creates needed templates to build a 3D model.
3D Custom Workshop - CAD-based feature lets you build virtually any object from scratch or modify existing objects.
Estimator – produces a handy report in an editable spreadsheet format.
PhotoView - add you favourite real-world objects using scanned photos or a digital camera.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Brand Name Product Libraries – Faux finishes, interior & exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds etc.
Decorator Palette – includes paint, wallpaper, carpet etc.
Cabinet Designer - creates editable custom cabinetry.
Precision Lighting Planner - creates realistic viewing anytime day or night.
LANDSCAPING & OUTDOOR LIVING
Decks & Patios – to expand your living space!
IntelliDeck - intuitively follows the shape of your house.
Plant Finder - Over 4,000 photo-realistic plants – choose by sunlight, climate, water and soil conditions.
Automatic Growth Tool – See how your garden will look years from now.
Product Description
The best selling home design studio - on a Mac!
Providing powerful home, landscape, interior and deck design tools for the Mac, Punch! Home Design Studio produces serious design results fast. Design in 2D, view in 3D.
This is a complete, stand-alone product that puts all of Home Design Studio's state-of-the-art features in the hands of Mac users. Features Home and Landscape Design Studio is the all new product from Punch! two years in development and written from the bottom up. However, when you have been number one for nine years, you need to be compatible with your previous products and this package will not disappoint you.
A new code base allows us to offer new features and enhanced performance while maintaining the features you loved in our previous versions. Because of this combination of compatibility with previous versions mated with new features, we have labeled this NexGen technology, emphasizing our focus on the future as well as differentiating this as a completely new product.
Feature Highlights Intelligent Room Detection
- Complete automation that changes when you change the size or shape of your design, including the roof! Speed and Performance
- Up to 26 times faster rendering speed than our competitors. Intelligent Cursor - 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.
Providing powerful home, landscape, interior and deck design tools for the Mac, Punch! Home Design Studio produces serious design results fast. Design in 2D, view in 3D.
This is a complete, stand-alone product that puts all of Home Design Studio's state-of-the-art features in the hands of Mac users. Features Home and Landscape Design Studio is the all new product from Punch! two years in development and written from the bottom up. However, when you have been number one for nine years, you need to be compatible with your previous products and this package will not disappoint you.
A new code base allows us to offer new features and enhanced performance while maintaining the features you loved in our previous versions. Because of this combination of compatibility with previous versions mated with new features, we have labeled this NexGen technology, emphasizing our focus on the future as well as differentiating this as a completely new product.
Feature Highlights Intelligent Room Detection
- Complete automation that changes when you change the size or shape of your design, including the roof! Speed and Performance
- Up to 26 times faster rendering speed than our competitors. Intelligent Cursor - 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.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
I'm a competent Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, etc. user so I'd consider myself to be fairly adept at understanding/researching functionality/using quality, professional software. Hopefully that qualifies my view of this software a little. I found Home & Lanscape Design Studio:
* Difficult to use in metric - can't draw anything to exact centimetres...adds a few mm for good measure
* Nearly impossible to draw areas accurately
* Impossible to stop snap to grid/point even though snap was turned off
* Impossible to move walls with accuracy (snap problem again)
* Impossible to stop construction elements, such as wall, marry with other walls accurately
* Impossible to avoid room dimensions being measured from the centre of walls not the surface of walls, which is obscenely frustrating
* Some features seem to be off but are in fact on and vis a versa
* Tools are not easy to select and lack keyboard shortcuts
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I could go on, but having wasted over £100 I don't intend wasting additional time and effort. I just wanted to warn prospective buyers that they will be buying a flawed piece of software that is good for little more that drawing boxes with approximate dimensions.
The Punch Software web site has also disappeared so getting support looks unlikely. The company has been bought by Encore Software and although providing links on their site to support options there is nothing at the end of the links. In addition they don't even list the Mac version.
Avoid unsless you are desperate or have more money than sense.
* Difficult to use in metric - can't draw anything to exact centimetres...adds a few mm for good measure
* Nearly impossible to draw areas accurately
* Impossible to stop snap to grid/point even though snap was turned off
* Impossible to move walls with accuracy (snap problem again)
* Impossible to stop construction elements, such as wall, marry with other walls accurately
* Impossible to avoid room dimensions being measured from the centre of walls not the surface of walls, which is obscenely frustrating
* Some features seem to be off but are in fact on and vis a versa
* Tools are not easy to select and lack keyboard shortcuts
........
I could go on, but having wasted over £100 I don't intend wasting additional time and effort. I just wanted to warn prospective buyers that they will be buying a flawed piece of software that is good for little more that drawing boxes with approximate dimensions.
The Punch Software web site has also disappeared so getting support looks unlikely. The company has been bought by Encore Software and although providing links on their site to support options there is nothing at the end of the links. In addition they don't even list the Mac version.
Avoid unsless you are desperate or have more money than sense.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful
Home Design Studio for Mac
8 Sep 2009
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.
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Horrible, un-Mac-like software.
8 July 2009
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!"
Wish I could recommend another home design package for Mac, but at least I can say, "Stay away from this one, folks!"
47 of 51 people found the following review helpful
buyer beware UPDATED
19 July 2009
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.
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.
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