| Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 3000 |  | From: Punch! Software
Category: Software
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $139.99
You Save: $60.00 (30%)
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 8531
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8.1 x 3
MPN: 52100
Model: 52100
UPC: 664446521002
EAN: 0664446521002
ASIN: B0000CFY84
Publication Date: 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Combines 22 integrated home design software programs into one easy-to-use interface | | • | Improvements include more robust editing interface, precise dimensions, better display options | | • | Get professional results regardless of expertise | | • | Video ToolTips tutorials teach you as you draw | | • | Drag and drop windows, doors, furniture, texture, color, and landscaping |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Home Design Architectural Series 3000
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 My house turned out terrible! February 18, 2008
Irving Schwartz (Hogsnout, Kentucky)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK, so I bought the program and designed my house. Then I printed the house plan and proceded to build my house. When I finished construction of the new house I stood back and admired my work. Right away I could tell something wasn't right. The house is really tiny! In fact it measures 11" long x 8 1/2" wide. Great - the house is worthless! I have a wife and 3 kids and it don't take a rocket scientist to see that we all ain't gonna fit in this teeny weeny house. My friend Earl says I shoulda printed the plans on a bigger printer. Now he tells me. That's a great idea but I can't seem to find a printer that uses 40-foot x 60-foot paper. I don't think I would recommend this program. It didn't say anything about this on the box.
 Terrific program April 15, 2006
phoenix (Austin, Tx)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm really surprised by some of the other reviewer's negative comments regarding this product. I was given the Punch! 5-in-1 program as a Christmas present and then purchased the Punch! 3000 program a couple of years later. When I got the Punch! 5-in-1 I had never used a CAD program before and really had very pretty limited experience with using computers in general. I have not run into any of the difficulties or limitations that the other reviewers complained about so I suspect that they just haven't learned to use the program.
Punch! 3000 is pretty complicated but that's because it has a LOT of tools. I'm actually glad I started with the much less "robust" 5-in-1 program because it didn't overwhelm me and 3000 might have.
I am not an architect but am nevertheless currently in the process of actually building my dream home exactly as I designed it using Punch!3000. It is a 2 story, 3 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath, with wraparound porch, backyard decks, and a complex roomline that includes dormers. I designed every piece of it down to the foundation, plumbing, HVAC, and sidewalks. Yes, I did take my Punch!3000 plans to a professional designer and engineer to prepare working blueprints because I wanted a professional to verify that what I had planned was actually buildable...that the "physics" would work.
But, it turned out that the only changes recommended to my design were slight variations (inches) in the lenths of a couple of room so as to take advantage of stock sizes of building materials and some changes to the electrical wiring scheme so as to balance the anticipated electrical loads better (i.e., get all the big appliances OFF the same circuit.) My designer said he'd seen a lot of stock house plans with a whole lot more problems than my design had.
I did get a bit frustrated with how slowly Punch 3000! prepared live view renditions when my design got complicated but I suspect that the slow rendition was more due to limitations in my computer's memory than anything inherent in the program. And, I didn't actually ever use the Animator tool (played around with it a little but didn't really feel the need to "make a movie" of my house plans.)
All in all, I think Punch!3000 is a great program and, while I'm glad to be finally building my dream home, I'm kind of sorry that I will no longer have any excuse for spending hours-on-end playing with this program and tweaking my design! Then again, I haven't done anything yet with the landscaping tools and I'll have almost 3 acres to landscape when we get moved in ... ;)
Not even worth the 1 star. A real ripoff. January 23, 2006
G. W. Powell
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you want to build a very plain house that is 4 walls and a box then this will do the job. Anything else and it will not handle the job. Don't expect it to handle anything like different size of external walls, or external wall types other than standard 8' walls. Major problems with wall and foundation design.
Rather disappointing November 20, 2005
Alan Kramer
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While the program has a lot of features, it is in no way possible to create any sort of drawing that could be submitted to a zoning commision or regulating body. The 3-D view is difficult to control, and the perspective inside a structure is abysmal; it is only good for external views. Drawing a terraced home with rooms at different levels was not possible without having part of the home flying out in space or under ground. The landscape grading feature could not correct this problem.
In all very disappointing.
 It's Good, But. . . October 17, 2005
Fraziercam (Virginia Beach, VA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I like the program, but I really wish that it was available for the Mac. As it is, I had to buy Virtual PC just to run it. I really wish that software companies would be more inclusive, instead of moving some of us to the back of the bus.
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