Punch! Home Design Studio Pro for the MAC

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Manufacturer: Punch! Software
Model: 91100
Binding: CD-ROM
Publisher: Punch! Software
Label: Punch! Software
Platform: Macintosh
Platform: Macintosh

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Features for Punch! Home Design Studio Pro for the MAC:

All the tools you need to design your house inside and out, right out of the box
Draw your design in 2D; take a 3D Hollywood-style walk through as your 2D creative changes auto-update in the 3D view
Assistants for cabinets, roofs, etc., editable room & deck templates, plus an extensive drag & drop library
PhotoView lets you personalize your design with imported photos; add ambient realism with Precision Lighting Planner
Includes a massive plant library along with our popular automatic growth tool, so you can plan spacing and see what your landscape will look like a few years down the road

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Editorial Review
Start designing the perfect home right out of the box with Home Design Studio Pro. With assistants, editable room templates, plus the extensive drag & drop library and an easy-to use interface, you've got all the tools you need and more! You can add ambient realism with Precision Lighting Planner. PhotoView lets you personalize your design with imported photos. Design your house inside and out - this edition also includes plant library and automatic growth tool, so you can plan plant spacing with future growth in mind or just see what your landscape will look like a few years down the road. Additional enhancements include Content Panel, visual aspects, faster performance, editable planting details, onscreen detailing of lights, windows, doors, cabinets, & crown trim and export option for compatibility with older versions of Punch! Home Design products. 2D DXF/DWG importing and exporting Estimator for creating BOMs and estimates for various schedules Global Sun Positioning (GSP) to set scientifically-precise lighting angles based on your position on earth, date, time, and daylight savings time Room Assistant for space planning and instant wall creation Fireplace Assistant for creating custom fireplaces Custom Workshop Pro for creating complex 3D models Site Planner for transforming survey coordinates into an actual property line Window and Door Designers for creating custom window and door content Improved several visual aspects (artwork, control placement, etc) to make HDS Pro more aesthetically pleasing and easier to use
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Customer Reviews

Decent Program

2008-06-15
Decent program...Definately worth the price as there is little to choose from in this low end price range. Fairly easy to learn. Not the greatest library of furniture. I emailed them asking if there were other libraries available & they never responded. Can export 3D view but found no way to export or print plan view!! Emailed them with no response.

The best thing about this software is the 90 day money back guarantee

2008-03-29
I am sorely disappointed. Let me first say that I am a graphics professional, with image, video, and 3D modeling and animation background. So I did not expect incredible quality or even an easy to use program. But this thing is ridiculous.

First off YOU CANNOT IMPORT YOUR OWN TEXTURES. We are doing our kitchen and I was hoping to visualize materials, but even with a pretty extensive library of materials (I found the granite we wanted to use for counters), I could not import our tile options for the backsplash, and other things. Don't get me wrong you can import image files...as image planes, but not as textures!

Object library is stupid. 3 types of cabinets, categorized under lt cabinets and dk cabinets. Funny though not all cabinet shapes and sizes are there in all 3 colors. For example there may be a dark raised panel base cabinet, but not a light colored one. So then I use the custom workshop pro, where you can place any material on any object, and I think cool I can just texture each size and shape I need as needed. Yeah if you want to manually drag the texture to each shape (about 30) that make up each cabinet. Then I try the cabinet assistant, this should work for me right...wrong. The assistant has 4 steps, 1 pick cabinet type, 2 pick the direction the cabinet should face, 3 pick sizes and door style (shaker or raised panel) and your done! What about wood type and color? What about the other 10-20 styles of cabinet doors? Sure I can manually "paint" each cabinet but it seems to me that you should be able to layout the basic cabinets in your layout, and then globally choose a style/color for the entire kitchen.

moving in 3d "live view" is difficult at best.

you cannot move objects in a 3d view, only over head

measuring is by default done by measuring to the center of walls, not how I would measure my real space (wall to wall)

lighting and shadowing in rendered scenes is not even close to accurate (based on how objects are drawn from what I can tell)

I haven't even began to try and use any of the other "features" but I'm sure most of the program is as obtuse as the features I did try.

perhaps the pc version is better but overall this product sucks

Good all around!

2008-03-22
The ease of use is phenomenal! It is incredibly easy to get started, design, and see the final product. I wish the Pro Series had more features and tools. It does take a little longer to learn more intricate functions, but all around it's very simple.
The CAD tools that come with it are BS. If they added a few more features this would be a slam dunk!!

Complex - Big learning curve

2008-02-11
Home Design Studio Pro is a very complex design package. It has a steep up-front learning curve that will take hours and hours to get over. Once you're past that curve, you can create some really good designs. However, be aware that the curve for novices might be too steep. Even for the seasoned computer user, the learning curve to create your first design will be tough. I still have not gotten to the vast majority of the features but I have confidence that once I learn how to do some of the more complex steps, the package will be everything I wanted. Check back in several months to see if I made it over the curve!