Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0

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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: Clumsy, unstable program. Persistent crashes and lots of run-time errors. No one available at tech support. Not worth the trouble it takes to install.

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Summary: Watch Out! - Inexplicable Double Images
Review: I am seldom moved to complain publicly about a piece of software, but Total 3D Landscape did not work properly on my plain vanilla Dell system running Windows 2000 with plain vanilla video. Working in 2-dimensional mode and placing plants in location, I got unwanteed duplicates of the plants 6 inches to the right on my screen. I'm one of those persons who has been fooling around with computers so long that I can fix almost anything. Not so with Total 3D Landscape. The program was completely unusable and simply not worth the more than two hours I wasted on reinstalling and searching for any possible mistake I might have made.

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Summary: Watch Out! - Inexplicable Double Images
Review: I am seldom moved to complain publicly about a piece of software, but Total 3D Landscape did not work properly on my plain vanilla Dell system running Windows 2000 with plain vanilla video. Working in 2-dimensional mode and placing plants in location, I got unwanteed duplicates of the plants 6 inches to the right on my screen. I'm one of those persons who has been fooling around with computers so long that I can fix almost anything. Not so with Total 3D Landscape. The program was completely unusable and simply not worth the more than two hours I wasted on reinstalling and searching for any possible mistake I might have made.

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Summary: Do not buy the 4.0 version either
Review: I bought the 4.0 version and it is user demonic. Do not buy this item.

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Summary: Do not buy the 4.0 version either
Review: I bought the 4.0 version and it is user demonic. Do not buy this item.

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Summary: Some nice features, however a cumbersome tool
Review: I purchased this software to help visualize basic landscaping ideas for my home. I found the overall usability to be poor. Simple things like grouping several plants and moving them together is not supported, the 'grow' feature didn't work in many cases, and the overall navigation is poor. I did like the 'arial' view that allows you to zoom over and around your plot and view plants in 3-D from all angles. I also liked the plant library to lookup and research basic information on plants. Overall, I'm disappointed with this product.

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Summary: Incompatable with Windows XP Professional
Review: I was eager to purchase this software from Broderbund, because I was so pleased with their 3D Architect, which I highly recommend. But Total Landscape was a total disappointment. It is pretty much useless. It is impossible to draw a 3D terrain to scale. I repeatedly get illegal operation errors, and have to start my design over from scratch. Technical support is only available by a long distance call with a waiting time of over 20 minutes. I've given up on this software, and I'm looking for another landscaping software tool. Don't waste your money.

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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: I was eager to purchase this software from Broderbund, because I was so pleased with their 3D Architect, which I highly recommend. But Total Landscape was a total disappointment. It is pretty much useless. It is impossible to draw a 3D terrain to scale. I repeatedly get illegal operation errors, and have to start my design over from scratch. Technical support is only available by a long distance call with a waiting time of over 20 minutes. I've given up on this software, and I'm looking for another landscaping software tool. Don't waste your money.

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Summary: Poor quality software
Review: I'm running this on a high-end Dell Latitude. 525mb ram, 1ghz processor. It appears that this software was written by hackers. There is no way a professional software company would release a product with this many bugs in it. You have to save your work constantly to multiple backup files, since the program simply crashes and exits without so much as an error message displayed. It does things that are totally weird. I added a single fence section to the yard and it deleted the entire house. There a bugs throughout. It's hard to believe that whoever authorized release of this software at Broderbund actually used the product themselves. They were probably given a demo by a developer or a product manager who was under the gun.

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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM!!!
Review: Landscape and garden designers, whether amateur or professional, are STRONGLY CAUTIONED against buying this product. In addition to being difficult to use, it contains numerous bugs. The program will crash repeatedly, even with the most current computer equipment and video drivers. Worst of all, it has a tendency to crash and produce an irretrievably "corrupt" file when a plan has gotten large and detailed. This then prevents that file from ever being used, and it cannot be reversed. This happened to this review's writer after having invested over two weeks of work on a landscape design. Broderbund software tech support could offer no help other than to state that this apparently happens all the time! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!