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Summary: Illogical!!
Review: A particularly illogical piece of CAD software! In my opinion a fundamentally flawed program which will do nothing other than waste your time!
Rating:
Summary: Illogical!!
Review: A particularly illogical piece of CAD software! In my opinion a fundamentally flawed program which will do nothing other than waste your time!
Rating:
Summary: Worthless
Review: Afer 12 hours and about 35 crashes, I have a cartoon-like "landscape" that only vaguely resembles my property and isn't even useful for proportions. I was hard pressed to find a single feature that behaved as advertized.THis software was worse than useless because it took the whole day to figure out how badly I was cheated.
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Summary: No Sale
Review: After reading the reviews of this product (and they were overwhelmingly bad), I would not buy it.
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Summary: Very hard to use, 3D view not usable, Photoview not usable
Review: Don't waste your money....I should have paid attention to the other reviews! I have 18 years experience building and marketing business and GIS software. I am also an accomplished landscape hobbyist. This company has put all their money into marketing a product and not into building a user friendly product. A few of the problems:
1. 3D rendering has many "flyaway" lines....that is stray lines projecting outwards from the house making the image unusable.
2. 3D Photoview is difficult to use. I was also unable to integrate my 2D layout with the photo.
3. The 3D flyover and walkthrough features are impossible to control and therefore not usable.
4. The plant library is useless. All it gives you is a list of pictures with NO descriptions or titles. Therefore, you have NO idea of what plant you are placing into your landscape. You only know what plant you have chosen AFTER it is placed by right clicking on the image and checking properties. Useless and SLOW!!!
5. The manual is poorly written (I read it!) and does not explain the process (from start to finish) of how to put together a typical plan. For example, it tells you how to import a photo but NOT how to use it in your plan...
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Summary: Not recommended
Review: First off, I would comment that if your computer is not current you may be more frustrated than anything else. I am running an AMD Athlon 1600+, 512MB of 266DDR RAM, and just bought a new 3D video card (MSI GeForce 440MX 128MB DDR) specifically for this application. I am amazed at how fast the 3D rendering is processed and how easily I can build a basic house. The one point I am having some trouble with is in using the landscape elevation tool. (I haven't looked at the manual yet other than for the initial installation.) I have tried other 3D CAD programs on an older system with a basic video card and the experience was dreadful! I believe that with a little more practice and even looking to the manual I will be able to do most anything within the products limits...
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Summary: Takes time to figure out but very impressive!
Review: First off, I would comment that if your computer is not current you may be more frustrated than anything else. I am running an AMD Athlon 1600+, 512MB of 266DDR RAM, and just bought a new 3D video card (MSI GeForce 440MX 128MB DDR) specifically for this application. I am amazed at how fast the 3D rendering is processed and how easily I can build a basic house. The one point I am having some trouble with is in using the landscape elevation tool. (I haven't looked at the manual yet other than for the initial installation.) I have tried other 3D CAD programs on an older system with a basic video card and the experience was dreadful! I believe that with a little more practice and even looking to the manual I will be able to do most anything within the products limits...
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Summary: Good graphics but...
Review: I bought this software for designing landscape and my deck. The landscape tools have a large library of plants, shrubs and trees all nicely depicted (and you can make them grow) but you have to drag and drop them into your design and then double click on each one to get a description. Makes it hard to find what your looking for. The deck tool is very poor. It doesn't calculate materials except for railing material! (Why bother?) Any good design program should include a library of standard materials. This one doesn't.
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Summary: Not recommended
Review: I bought this software for my husband a year ago because we wanted to be able to put a photo of our house into the landscape plan. We have yet to figure it out. The manual is the size of a text book. The software is not user friendly. If you have lots of free time to learn how to use it, this software might be a good tool. I am not impressed.
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Summary: Not recommended to gardeners...
Review: I do not recommend this program for garden design. It has a vast number of plants to choose from and although they are broken down into catagories you will not be able to search for a specific plant and the pictures are small and hard to recognize. I spent 3 hours looking through the perenials hoping to find that I wanted for my bed only to have the program lock-up on me. Oh well...I do like the home design and floorplan trace.
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