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Summary: Not great, not terrible
Review: After having used another piece of home design software, I found this product to be much more user-friendly. Simply put, it is a fun program to play around with, to get some rough ideas. After all, look at the price. This is not intended to be professional calibre software. But for dabbling in home design, it would be difficult to find an program that is easier to use. If the day ever comes that I want a house built, I will be using this software to "sketch" my ideas to take to an architect.
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Summary: Yes, there are worse products out there.......
Review: But there are also far better ones! I bought it because it now has "Broderbund" on the package and I liked the design product in their "3D Home Design Suite Deluxe 3.0" Well, this is not the same home architect progam. It's a lot harder to use if you want to do anything more than drop standard room blocks. It is also very anoying to have to click on a different menu tab to get to the scrolling, zooming and panning options. Those should be available buttons in any mode! Trying to arrange furniture in any less than traditional method is also frustrating. It just doesn't want to let you angle a chair in a corner. It also doesn't show room dimensions except in the room block view, and sometimes those are two small to read. You often don't have a feel for the real size of your room until you start putting in furniture. Also, I looked everywhere and could not find a shelf or bar to put in my closets. I did not have any system hangups or crashes, but maybe I just haven't used it enough. But then, I do have a new 1.3 GHz Athalon with 256Mb RAM and 64Mb video.
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Summary: Horrible Product
Review: Don't buy this. Impossible to install more than the garden cd. The rest won't install. My son bought one, and he can't get it installed, and I bought one, and I can only get the garden cd to install. I only found this site, trying to get tech help to install this miserable product. Tech help, isn't at the address given in the support guide. I have been trying to install it for 3 hours, and no luck yet. DON'T BUY IT. Installation, should be a snap, not with this product.
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Summary: A truly 3rd rate product. save your money.
Review: Good idea but not executed very well. There is no way to enter actual lengths of walls, the walls have to be stretched back and forth to the right length.
Im not sure how you could ever make a 3 sided room with this program; or anything else out of the extremely ordinary.
None of it matters because the program will crash after you create about 4 or 5 rooms.
After several failed attempts, I uninstalled the software. Save your money.
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Summary: Good software features, but horrible testing and support
Review: I actually managed to use this software to design my (now 2+ year old) house, but I never got the 3D rendering feature to work without crashing *on several different computers running different OSes (98, ME, W2K, XP)*. In fact, once I got beyond one floor in a custom floor plan (my house has 3 floors), I would save after each minor change, as the software crashed and corrupted the plan data file *very frequently.* Tech support claimed again and again that they'd never seen these issues reported before, which seems to be utter bullcrap, given the number of similar reviews here.Oh, and I'm not a computing neophyte. I've been working with computers (Windows, UN*X, Novell, you name it) on all sorts of hardware for 10+ years. I've been MCSE certified for the last 7+ years (and still current) and have worked in a variety of technical roles for the top software company in the world for the past 8+ years. I know how to use computers inside and out, so the previous reviewer who suggested that, if you can't use this product, you have no business using computers. I think that comment is utterly ludicrous, as Total 3D Home Deluxe 3.0 is probably the worst software package I've ever had to suffer through. Please, don't buy this software...it is complete and utter crap.
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Summary: What are the other people talking about.
Review: I am really glad I listened to the 1 positive review and tried this software package. This program is about as easy as it could be made, and still have the flexibility to design something intricate, particularly in the kitchen and bath. It also tries to estimate costs based on materials used, but I have found this feature to be a little bit inaccurate. The 3D engine is incredibly useful for figuring out how different ideas will look. Based on reviews of other programs it appears that this one is fairly speedy as it works in REAL TIME. The speed is fairly good on my PII 400 MHz with a decent (2 year old) video card TNT Nvidia. High quality renders with ray tracing and light shadows are pretty cool. Well worth the [money], I don't think I would want a more simplified interface and lack flexibility, and I don't think I would benefit from any of the features in more [spendy]packages.
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Summary: Awesome Software
Review: I am somewhat surprised after reading some of the reviews on this product. I have used this program for about two years now and about six months ago, my husband and I finally created our dream home. It is really easy to use. My computer is about five years old and I've never had a problem with the program. I do suggest, though, that before you purchase this program/software, be sure it's compatible with your computer.
Needless to say, I would definitely recommend this product... ENJOY!!!
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Summary: A Complete Waste of Money
Review: I bought this program with the hopes to be able to take my hobby of home design, etc from paper to computer. I thought that I would try this program, especially since it was inexpensive. I was very pleased the first time or two that I used the program, but after that, the program began to freeze, give me illegal operations and shut down my computer. I have a relatively new computer with a very good video card, so I know that it is not the hardware. It has to be the program. At this point, I cannot even run the program on my computer. As soon as I open the program and go to begin a project, my computer freezes up. At least before I could get half my project done before it froze up on me. I do not recommend this product to anyone. If you want to purchase a similar program, spend the extra few dollars and get one that you can use.
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Summary: This program is cool!
Review: I don't know why some people are having problems. I installed this version and had a blast designing the layout of our new house and placing the furniture/appliances throughout the it. Then you can see it in 3D and that really makes the program worthwhile. I give it a four star because version 4.0 is out and I'll try that one too. I have a PIII 500 with 256ram, ATIragePro video card, running windows 2000. No problem with the program. One thing, remember to click "open above" over the staircase area to connect the second floor. I had a lot of trouble with that until customer service helped me out.
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Summary: This program is cool!
Review: I don't know why some people are having problems. I installed this version and had a blast designing the layout of our new house and placing the furniture/appliances throughout the it. Then you can see it in 3D and that really makes the program worthwhile. I give it a four star because version 4.0 is out and I'll try that one too. I have a PIII 500 with 256ram, ATIragePro video card, running windows 2000. No problem with the program. One thing, remember to click "open above" over the staircase area to connect the second floor. I had a lot of trouble with that until customer service helped me out.
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