Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 3000 v12

Work smarter and faster.  Simple, yet precise, tools for professional, accurate, realistic views of your plan.

Product Information

Designing a home, deck, or your own landscape project is easy in the most versatile home-and-landscape design software, ever!  See for yourself why there are over two million users worldwide!

Novice or pro, designing with Punch! lets you experiment with a full palette or color, building materials, brand-name designer products, and more.  Wizards and templates get you on track with your project immediately, and let you add your own personal touches.  Faster program performance and professional tools give you more options, and a more enjoyable design experience.

Now with even faster performance, Punch! Architectural Series 3000 v12 adds more detail, objects, and rendering speed.  New options for automatically designing mantels, custom ceilings, plus more brand name designer libraries for creating stunning realism to any home, landscape, deck, or remodeling project!  With the easy video and audio tutorials, accessible right from your help menu, you never have to leave your project to get your question answered! You are in control with the industry’s most powerful and easy-to-use tools to bring your thoughts and ideas to life!

Product Highlights

• Integrated video tutorials:  Allows you to launch video and audio tutorials straight from the help menu while in your project.
  
• Precision Lighting Planner:  Interior or exterior. Precision lighting controls deliver multiple shadows with new beam direction and glow options. One-click day to night lighting.
  
• PhotoView:  Add your favorite real-world objects using scanned photos or a digital camera. Mask or enhance your photo with Photo View Editor. 
  
• Home Estimator:  Produces a handy report in an editable, printable spreadsheet format. Enter the labor and material costs for your locality and Home Estimator does the rest.
  
• Top-down (aerial) views:  Gives you a helpful view of a single room or the entire plan for furniture placement, etc.
  
• Log homes: Build a log home or deck using the included 80-piece log home object library.
  
• Professional-plan views: Plumbing, electrical, heating, ventilating, cooling, and foundation plans. View Individual or combine phase layers. Detailed views include slabs and beams, post-tension, air ducts and registers, plumbing fixtures and drains, hip, gable, and custom roofs, multiple elevations, electrical fixtures, receptacles, switches, 110/220v, fans, and much more!
  
• 3D Custom Workshop: CAD-based feature lets you build virtually any object. Start from scratch or modify existing objects from the library. Use photo-realistic program materials including wood, fabric, paint colors, stone, brick, and more.

Product Features

• 2D/3D Exterior Home Design
• 2D/3D Interior Home Design
• 2D/3D Landscape Design
• Punch! Master Landscape integrated
• Punch! Interior Design Suite integrated
• One-click day to night lighting
• Aerial views: this new viewing option provides a helpful overview of your design to assist with interior planning, etc.
• Auto Elevation control
• Plant inventory bar
• Skylight and dormer cutout tools
• Deck cutout tool
• Brand-name content
• Decorator Palette
• Accessories
• Compass
• Precision sizing
• Precision lighting planner and effects
• Expanded plant library
• 3DS import
• Foundation planner
• Electrical
• Plumbing
• HVAC
• Ultimate deck
• Wainscoting
• Object organizers
• 3D cutaway tool
• ClearView
• Sprinkler system design
• Plant finder
• Detail creator
• Standard or custom roofs
• Custom door and window styles
• Floor plan trace
• Expanded measurements--supports fractions
• Log home objects
• 2D elevations
• Convert-2-3D
• Enhanced file import/export support

Power Tools:

• Animator
• Cabinet Wizard, Deck Designer
• Door Designer
• DXF/DWG Export, DXF/DWG Import
• Elevation Editor
• Estimator
• Fireplace Wizard
• Framing Editor
• Layout Manager
• Material Workshop
• PhotoView, PhotoView Editor
• Plant Editor
• RealModel (patented)
• Roofing Wizard
• Room Wizard
• Topography Designer
• Trim Wizard
• Window Designer
• Ceiling Designer
• Mantel Designer

Windows Requirements

• Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP
• Intel, Pentium, Celeron or compatible 1.0 GHz processor or higher (dual core processors and those with Hyper-Threading Technology supported
• 64 MB of RAM
• 4.5 GB of Hard Disk space
• VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024x768 with 24-bit color (32-bit, if available)
• DVD-ROM Drive
• Mouse or other pointing device
• 64 MB minimum Video Card memory
• Optional:  Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above to use Punch! Updater
• Optional:  Speakers and sound card to hear audio of Tutorial Videos