Amazon.com Product Description
Professional Home Design offers 12 programs on one easy-to-use interface to help you design all of the critical components of your home, including foundations, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, custom windows, custom roofs, and much more. This package includes 3D Home Exterior & Interior Design, 3D Landscape, and Ultimate Deck, plus a 3-D scale model creator and an autoframing feature with a cost estimator.Use the 3D Home Exterior & Interior Design program to v… More >>
Punch! Professional Home Design
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#1 by Miguel A. Negron on May 4, 2010 - 9:03 pm
Good product…PUNCH
Works as advertised…..
Amazon has the best softwareat the lowest prices
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on May 4, 2010 - 11:48 pm
I would have to agree with the other reviewer about this software. The Punch Professional Home Design suite is one of the most frustrating software applications I have ever used. I have been using the software daily for nearly 3 months. It is difficult to do just about everything in this program. I can’t brag about the technical support I’ve not received from Punch either. They say that it is available to registered users, but I’ve not received a single response to my requests for help. The program itself is quite sofisticated, and powerful. For example, the 3D rendering is awesome. Punch would do well if they would spend the time to improve upon the features the program already has instead of adding new capability. Punch needs to significantly improve this product. Until they do, I will not spend another dime on this software company.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on May 5, 2010 - 2:20 am
Ok, I also bought both 3d home Architect that is marketed by Broderbun and Punch Pro Home Design. The Broderbun product is ok but Punch Pro is horrible. I have read the manual so that is not the problem. While the software is not intuitive, and the documentation is superficial, learning the software is not the problem. It’s just plain bad. Standard features in any package like this – 2d (plan view) zooming in and out, undo, selecting a feature to modify, etc, just don’t work correctly. Advanced features like moving around in the 3d view are a bad joke.
I thought maybe it was just me so I started examining the sample plans they provide. They all look like they are slight modifications of the same three or four plans, are all pretty simplistic, and most have structural problems. If all you want to do is draw a box with a roof on it this software will do it – but you’ll still suffer getting it done. If you want to do anything slightly creative don’t even bother.
If all this isn’t bad enough they suggest that you download and install the “patches” for the program. The “patches” are over 150 megs. This size of the patches isn’t that big a deal for me because I have a fast connection. After 5 days of trying I still can’t download them. They tell you on their site to try at non-peak times. I’ve tried from early in the morning to late at night on weekends and on weekdays. I’ve never even got a download to commence.
My last warning – there is a reason this software does not come with a money back guarantee.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Gene E. Willeke on May 5, 2010 - 4:02 am
One of the more frustrating parts of using Punch is plant selection. One has to select from pictures that are scrolled down the right side of the screen. Down in the lower left hand side of the screen is the name of the plant being displayed. One should be able to type in the name of the plant and have the picture displayed, rather than the other way around. The database of plants, while seemingly large, is quite sparse, and is especially weak on native plants, which are of increasing importance in contemporary landscape architecture.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by fred gluck on May 5, 2010 - 5:30 am
Purchased Professional home design suite from Punch. Overly complex and difficult to use in general. I was fairly satisfied nonetheless until I tried to outfit kitchen and bath space. To my amazement I found out that I would have to purchase an additional program from Punch called Cabinet Wizard (and upgrade to “platinum edition” Professional home design suite for approx. $40. dollars.) That is when I decided to take advantage of the full refund offer, which I will believe when the Punch check clears my account. I have used and been very pleased with my old 3D Home Architect from Broderbund for 5 years and now will purchase a newer edition.
Rating: 1 / 5