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Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
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- 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.
Product DescriptionPunch! Home & Landscape Design Studio with NexGen Technology takes home, landscape, and interior designing to a new level–it’s a new way to easier home design for the MAC! With our revolutionary NexGen Technology you can build a new house or replicate your own house in just minutes! New Intelligent Design feature, walls, paint, flooring, and more are moved, changed or updated with a click of the mouse. Building Green–click the feature, scroll over your design and . . . More >>
Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
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April 8, 2010 -
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The software is easy to use and reasonably intuitive to learn for those who postpone using the manual. To date I’ve only designed simple floorplans for a retirement home and found that it is easy to make and change layouts and features. I recommend this for the Mac if you are looking for a low cost design package with excellent features and ease of use.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this thing to design my remodel project.
It is not intuitive. I haven’t had to go to a users manual for anything in 5 years, and I’m constantly in this manual. It doesn’t work intuitively. The manual doesn’t show how – just what. I thought there would be a video tutorial. . . all I’ve found is the short marketing video on their website. No basement. You tell it you want to measure in inches and it only allows you to lay out in feet.
I haven’t figured out how to zoom in.
The cabinets in the kitchen designer are insufficient. . . very limited.
I wish I could return this stupid thing.
I was using Google’s free sketchup, and found it to be a whole lot more precise, powerful, and easy to use.
I thought this would be a step up – providing shopping lists, blueprints, and such. I thought it would be better for submitting plans to the local permitting office, I just expected to have a good usable tool.
Warning: the shopping list is for everything, not just the remodel. Like, buy a slab of concrete, studs, etc.
If there is a way to enter precise measurements in this thing, I haven’t seen it.
I hate it. That said, anybody want to buy a used copy?
If this is #1, then the bar is very low.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve worked with CAD software before, but it was Windows based and I needed a program for my Mac (running Snow Leopard). Buying this was a costly mistake, in terms of both money and time.
It took hours to enter a basic floorplan, due to inadequate help and a less-then-friendly interface, and then my Mac froze and the work was gone. This is the first time in three years my Mac has frozen. When I called tech support, I reached a recording which ensured a return phone call “within 24 hours”. I can’t really stay in one place all day awaiting their phone call.
The second attempt to use the program resulted in a freeze after about five minutes.
Obviously, this program has not been adequately tested. It should never have been put on the market.
Rating: 1 / 5
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.
Rating: 2 / 5
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.
Rating: 1 / 5