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(More customer reviews)I bought both the Punch Pro Platinum and the Broderbund Home Design Suite Deluxe 4.0
Ok, if you are a computard than neither program is for you. If you want features then Punch beats Broderbund Hands Down.
IF you want ease of use, then Buy some paper a ruler and a pencil.
Now I am a software developer, but I know nothing about House design.
I spent 8 hours with Broderbund Deluxe 4.0....end result was that I kept running into one limitation after another. Very weak package.
I spent 4 hours with Punch and I had my entire house built. Another eight hours later and I had four different variations on the additions, on roof layouts even funriture.
Frankly, I want to mail the Broderbund software back to them with a pile of dog doo in the box. Punch on the other hand, while it is a little wierd to get used to at first with its click, double click, two click, right click scheme, once you get used to it is a breeze.
Caveat - I did not read the manual or go through the tutorial on either package, so ease of use has to be Punch. On top of that its got a slew of features and had no problems installing on win XP (something that the Broderbund ...could not do...it kept creating read only directories in the install procedure and then tried to write to them and couldn't....imagine that.)
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Professional Home Design Platinum integrates 16 professional tools, including Cabinet Wizard for automatic cabinet design, Custom Texture Builder, the PlantFinder sortable database, and PhotoView for importing photos into your design. Other new tools for topographic excavation, 3-D cutaway elevations, and more are also included, giving you millions of design combinations.
Use 3D Home Exterior Design to view your home in thousands of subtle paint color choices, or design walk-out basements and split-level designs with the slope tool. The ClearView tool renders your design with a glass-house effect, giving you a wire-frame perspective of your topography without your landscape plantings. A user-definable database helps you find the right plantings for your planting zone based on your search criteria. More than 2,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover, and more are featured.
Design the perfect deck for your home plan with Ultimate Deck. Multilevel or multistory decks with 3-D photorealistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color capabilities give you the ability to design exactly the deck you want. Deck Wizards walk you through railings, baluster options, and more. And make sure everything is planned to perfection with tools for planning foundation, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing. Even create custom cabinet designs with just a few simple mouse clicks with Cabinet Wizard.
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