PUNCH SOFTWARE Home Design Complete 2.0

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Summary: Socked in the Eye
Review: Excellent software and good value for the price. I didn't find anything better than this under $50. The good thing about this is custom wall thickness, we in india greatly use 9" & 4.5" wall for constructions and this software very well serves our purpose. I didn't find this feature in any other s/w for this price.

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Summary: Excellent ! easy to handle
Review: Excellent software and good value for the price. I didn't find anything better than this under $50. The good thing about this is custom wall thickness, we in india greatly use 9" & 4.5" wall for constructions and this software very well serves our purpose. I didn't find this feature in any other s/w for this price.

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Summary: I was robbed!
Review: Gasp! If this is an award-winning example of home design software, I'll bet you can't hang the award! The product box promises "thousands of texture and pattern combinations". The truth is closer to a dozen or so drab or gaudy patterns and colors which are not combinable. The furnishings are tiny on the toolbar and barely recognizable in full size. It is not easy to change the texture of wooden furnishings or floors. Using the furniture workshop requires a degree in engineering. The landscape feature has a small variety of plants, and they only come in one size. What I liked: walk-thru, LiveView, and moving with ease both indoors and out. I guess I expected more based on the box!

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Summary: Socked in the Eye
Review: I can't believe what I paid for this .... For starters, the graphics were horrible, the so-called textures and fabrics even worse. Just maneuvering in this thing was a vertigo-ridden nightmare. You'd think a bunch of pre-kindergarteners conspired and put this thing together. On second thought, I think they'd have done a lot better. Then again, the brand name says it all--if you buy this thing you're surely gonna take a PUNCH!

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Summary: Spend your money on the project, not this product
Review: I purchased this product with two goals in mind: to work out a bathroom remodel, and to plan a kitchen redesign. In the furniture section, there is one toilet and no double sink. In the kitchen, there are no sinks shown at all!! This is a joke. What furniture there is tends to "load" onto the page at funny angles rather than 45 degree angles so that it would fit in a square room. The developer is very fond of CD racks, though (the library furniture collection has more of these than anything else). Like another reviewer said, the walk through and 3-d is a neat feature (once you figure out how the heck to use it). But who wants to do a walk through of an empty box??????? Old fashioned graph paper and a pencil would do you much better.

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Summary: NOT SUPPORTED
Review: THIS PRODUCT DOES NOT SUPPORT WIN 2K PLATFORM (EVEN THOUGH THE BOX SAYS WIN-98 OR HIGHER)PLATFORM AND THE COMPANY WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS PRODUCT, THEY TELL YOU TO SPEND MORE MONEY TO UPGRADE TO A MORE EXPENSIVE PRODUCT

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Summary: Try something else
Review: This program isn't too bad for drawing floor plans - as long as it stays running without crashing long enough to get something done. This program crashed a lot on my computer (500mhz athlon w/ 256MB memory and Win 98se) The color chip selection is a joke with only a couple dozen colors. Stairways have to be made in their funiture creation tool (a nightmare). I didn't waist any time replacing this program with something else. Get a program that you can specify RGB colors for walls, a real staircase tool, and doesn't crash every 10 minutes.

Rating:
Summary: Try something else
Review: This program isn't too bad for drawing floor plans - as long as it stays running without crashing long enough to get something done. This program crashed a lot on my computer (500mhz athlon w/ 256MB memory and Win 98se) The color chip selection is a joke with only a couple dozen colors. Stairways have to be made in their funiture creation tool (a nightmare). I didn't waist any time replacing this program with something else. Get a program that you can specify RGB colors for walls, a real staircase tool, and doesn't crash every 10 minutes.