Total 3D Home & Landscape 7.0 (Old Version) | 
 enlarge | From: Individual Software
Category: Software
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 7886
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows NT
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 3
MPN: PRM-HL7
Model: PRM-HL7
UPC: 018527106822
EAN: 0018527106822
ASIN: B0001VNO2Y
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| Features:
| • | Total 3D Home and Landscape Design Suite has 35 fully integrated programs, including 3D Home Design, 3D Landscape Design, sample home/room plans and Real-Photo Dynamic Imaging | | • | Pentium PC or faster Windows 98, 2000, Me, or XP 32MB RAM; 64MB recommended 1.3GB free hard-disk space (M" Install) 4X CD-ROM drive or faster | | • | SVGA 800x600 and higher display, high color (16-bit) required; True Color (24- or 32-bit) supported DirectX 8 compatible video and sound card | | • | Works with most black-and-white and color printers supported by Windows | | • | For PC |
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Product Description
Total 3D Home & Landscape Suite provides all the tools and inspiration you need for your next home and garden design project. This suite combines powerful 3D design tools with dynamic imaging, designer showrooms and gardens, brand name products, pre-designed home and garden plans, and digital photo importing - all together in one package! Whether you are remodeling your house, decorating a room, or creating an enchanting water garden, everything is included.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
Garbage May 6, 2006
Kim Spiess (Seattle, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Do not buy this program! It is a waste of time and money! By the time you figure out how to build a house, create terrain, etc, you will not have any time to landscape. I bought it, and threw it in the trash four days later!
I will never buy any software from this company!
NO! Don't do it! It looks too good to be true huh...read below! March 30, 2006
Kerby Family (Lakewood, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ok so my friend lets me install this program on my computer in hopes that I can teach HER how to use the program. I've been using it for ONE room and it works great! The rendering is amazing as it let's you adjust time of day and such (very cool feature).
However, now I am doing her house for her (as she does not have time to do it herself and this program is annoying to her!). I've placed lawns, walkways, driveways (which does not let you FLIP triangles or truly alter the rectangles to a trapezpoid), the lot she lives on is quite large and when I go to the Design Center tab, the system CRASHES! If you want to add "steps" to your porch (yeah...CONCRETE "HARDSCAPE") you have to go to the design center. You can only add landscape and hardscape and terrain in Space Plan view! Silly feature!
I am now trying to put a driveway down and I now get this message "Boundary paths for the feature cross over each other". WHAT? There is NOTHING there! What is overlapping? So, another bug in system.
Now, onto the "accessories". Now, we all know most people are VISUAL people. I tried to place items on the countertops (breadbox in this case)....what the heck is it doing hanging out 12" above the counter? It wont snap to the counter! So I e-mailed tech support...and like so many others commenting on Total 3d Home, they don't answer. Sad thing is, they have a contract with Microsoft! Go to their site and see for yourself! I guess Microsoft wants to certify this piece of poo of a product....sad! Shame on Bill Gates! So unless you plan on doing ONE room and only one room, (not the entire LOT) don't get this program. If you have patience, get AutoCAD and MAYA and do your rendering in Maya....(which is a program with MORE bells and whistles than you can ever imagine!).
Also I e-mailed tech support asking why they didn't throw in a tab where you can CREATE or DESIGN your own furniture. I e-mailed it 2 weeks ago....the furniture in the program are...can we all repeat after me "Brady's Bunch"...yeah...sad!
So I hope I have SWAYED people from purchasing this piece of FRUSTRATION from their lives. I don't care that they now have Version 8 which gives you "Colored items" and "Colored layout" and "Colored symbols" all I read is "pretty" and "useless" in the same sentence.
Did I mention you CANNOT type the length of the walls in? You are forced to click and drag and click "info" for the information on the wall....really this program is as useful as pee pot these days! Sorry....but we have toilets now! To Individual...SHAME ON YOU! Taking money and never giving support! Really....SHAME! Tsk tsk...
Looks are deceiving January 3, 2006
Kelly (Rhode Island)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I got the software as a present. I was happy (For A Bit) until I tried to install it. I started with the DVD version to install, but it froze at 96% complete and allow me to uninstall. I installed the CD version, cool. I tried to use it and created a plan and saved it and could not reopen the plan. I created another and the computer froze up. Everything else would work but the plans would not. I spoke to some other techs and checked my system. My computer exceeded all requirements and I located a patch for the program at the companies site. I thought I was ok. Guess again. Same problems again. I tried to uninstall the program but received errors stating missing install logs. The only way to get it off my computer was to do a full system restore. Needless to say I Am Upset. This product is not worth any price they put on it
Total Disaster--and a meaningless "100% Satisfaction Guarantee" August 12, 2005
Run Kodoz! (Eastern Washington Desert)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
You want 3D? Popsicle stick models would be more accurate, easier, and you'll have fun eating the popsicles. I could go on (and on and on) about my grievances with this software, but I'll just say these 5 things, which only represent a subset of the pain you can expect if you choose to ignore the warnings here. 1) What you will be able to acheive will most likely fall short your expectations based on the package; as their tech support says, "it's a $40 product...". 2) Welcome to the nonsensical and unresolvable error generator function of this program: "An exterior wall is missing" is my favorite, because a minute ago it was fine, all the same walls are there, I haven't changed any of them and I was adding a bush in the back yard when the error occurred, and the only way to correct the error is to delete all the walls and start over. 3) The manual is no better for mulch or nuclear fusion than it is for using this program (it's the equivalent of "remove foil lid, stir, enjoy!" on pudding cups). They do offer free technical support, but the multiplicity of problems, lack of even basic direction from the manual, and the randomness of problems and errors renders useless anything short of their tech support team on-call 24/7. 4) Setting defaults and batch operations is a feature overlooked by the programmers. For example, the default plant age is 25 years--to change that, you have to individually select every plant. 5) I spent hours working on the house plan to produce something that to basically just fill space so I could work on the landscape. For inexplicable reasons, drawing in a fence caused the windows to float 19 feet, 4 inches above the house. Outside walls became transparent, and the roof disappears. Why should there be problems with things you aren't changing...? Furthermore, saving drafts everytime I got some component of the design to work doesn't help, as the same problems presented in previous drafts!
So I've gone back and forth with technical support. First, be aware that their "100% satisfaction guarantee" is effectively a guarantee of nothing. For companies that stand behind their products, 100% satisfaction means you don't like it, they take it back--no worries about losing money, because their product is good enough that the vast majority of users will be happy and will keep the product. Individual Software is not that: they've produced and abyssmal package, sold it anyway, and recognize that if they honored their 100% satisfaction guarantee, they'd be in trouble. Their tech support guy said they sold these to retailers for $12, and if they gave refunds they'd lose money--well...if this product was good enough that only 1 in 100 customers wanted a refund you wouldn't. To lose money, more than 1 in 4 customers must be frustrated enough with this product to ask for a refund--do you want to be one of those?
So after several emails and phone calls, their only solution for me was to upgrade to v8. Forget that--losing $49 on v7 is a relative value to going through the hoops to satisfy the stipulations for a refund or starting from scratch with v8. Am I really to believe that v8 is designed any better and is a stable, functional program? I wonder what problems v7 was supposed to fix....
Don't make the same mistake. If you pick up a box from Individual Software, put it down and keep looking.
Read these other user's comments and listen as I did not! August 3, 2005
J. Wood (Indianapolis, In United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Everything BAD that has been said already is accurate and I wish I would have reviewed the comments before purchasing.
BAD (1 star is too much)!!
- It has near-child-like renderings
- Slow to perform most tasks
- Hard to work with as you progress in your design
- Great for square home/rooms but forget anything else
- Once you get 4+ rooms the programs lags
- Some objects take 12 tries to delete if at all
- Error messages are useless and vague (easier to start over)
- CRASHES for no reason and at random times with no warning
- No helpdesk to help
- NOTHING on the box is as it depicts
- Llacks critical objects (electrical, HVAC, etc.) but has 2 million tile colors
- Roof design is poor and not flexible
- Plan will not open once it reaches certain size (9+ rooms)
- Training video is weak, no manual, left to play to learn
Save yourself time, money, and frustration, buy another product or nice pencil/paper set.
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