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    Broderbund 3D Home Architect Design Suite Deluxe 6

    Broderbund 3D Home Architect Design Suite Deluxe 6

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    From: Encore Software
    Category: Software

    List Price: $99.99
    Buy New: $33.33
    You Save: $66.66 (67%)



    New (3) from $33.33

    Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 33 reviews
    Sales Rank: 318

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
    Media: CD-ROM
    Number Of Items: 1
    Batteries Included: No
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
    Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.8 x 3.2

    MPN: 383204
    Model: 383204
    UPC: 772040832049
    EAN: 0772040832049
    ASIN: B0001GU88M

    Release Date: March 22, 2004
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

    Features:
      • Fully integrated home and landscape design tools
      • Ideal for new homes, remodeling projects, and landscape design
      • Create ready-to-build plans; unlimited custom design options
      • Visualize your project in bold 3D; new 2D designer's view
      • Convenient wizards and tutorials; user-friendly tabbed interface

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Product Description
    Whether you're building your dream home from scratch, remodeling or landscaping, 3D Home Architect Design Suite Deluxe 6 delivers just what you need every step of the way. Combining easy-to-use creative tools with professional-grade design capabilities, it's the essential starting point for any serious home project. Combines everything from home design, remodeling, interiors and landscape into one collection!


    Customer Reviews:   Read 28 more reviews...

    3 out of 5 stars 3D Home Architect   May 2, 2008
    Mr. J. J. POPE (U.K.)
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    Have just purchased Bronderbund 3D Home Architect. There is a lot of good things on it, but several things that are wrong. Firstly it was not possible to register. Also they no longer supply email or technical support for it on their website. Certaiin things are missing, for instance part of the staircase dialogue is missing. There is not the setting for stringer waste. Also when in the properties page of any item, if you click on appearance the program crashes. it is ok as a toy for messing around on but without support I would not buy it for serious work. There may be a forum around where one can get solutions to problems.


    2 out of 5 stars General Overview   March 19, 2006
    Al (Santa Rosa Beach, FL United States)
    13 out of 16 found this review helpful

    I completely agree with "Gary Tool Geek" who wrote the review about the program getting corrupted. It took a couple of tries till I realized what was happening. As I added items to the house plan it became harder and harder to work without crashing and finally I could not add walls at all. Turns out that the file gets "corrupted". So I now save files to new file names as I go along. Why doesn't Broderbund explain "corrupting" files??? By the way, they no longer support the software.
    This progam takes hours to design a house - 50+ hours. It's not something you can do quickly.
    It also takes a lot of study. I have not yet learned to use the 3D viewers because I have been concentrating on building the house using the 2D view.
    I earned that the width and depth functions of the lot layout are not as I would define it, so be careful when you define your lot size (I now do it at the beginning).
    I have made 6 designs just learning how this program works. I am starting on the design again and hopefully I will not discover another fault that will stop me from completing one design.



    3 out of 5 stars Cheap & Easy, Sort of...   March 16, 2006
    Melanie Becwar
    6 out of 11 found this review helpful

    I bought this program, honestly, because it was the cheapest one I could find. So I can't complain much - you get what you pay for as they say. The program crashed on me many a time, but if I saved regularly it wasnt really that bad. I live in Alaska and many things that I would look for to build a house here were not included. Also, I have this dream of having a fabulous bathroom. The interior decorating parts of this program didnt include many types of bathtubs and such. All in all, I enjoy making homes in the Sims 2 much more for that reason. However, as far as designing the floor plan, not too bad. Easy to figure out, and fun!


    1 out of 5 stars Broderbund 3D home Architect 6   February 25, 2006
    Engineer (Reston, VA)
    12 out of 18 found this review helpful

    This appeared to a promsing product which I intended for rough designs of a house. However, my experience is that is poorly suited for this task and I would not recommend it.


    4 out of 5 stars Good but not excellent   August 3, 2005
    Rodrigo Gonzalez Vite
    21 out of 26 found this review helpful

    I have tested a lot of programs for house design, and this one is one of the easiest to use, it is remarkable that there a lot of functions missing like copy and paste objects in the usual way , but it have the duplicate option (what im talking here is that some standarization is missing) you canot change the attributes of multiple objects, so you need to change the color of every single piece of wall one by one.

    Apart from theese little interface details, the resulting images in 3d are very nice and realistic, the product is discontinued by the company which is now selling all the components separately, so there must be a limmited quantity of copies of this package remaining.

    To end my review let me say that between all the programs i tested i decided to buy this one and im happy with my choice


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