3D Home Architect Professional 5.0

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Summary: Really poor, too bad I can't give partial star ratings
Review: I have spent hours just trying to figure out how to create an element (aluminum) with its own measurements to design a screen porch. Althougth there are instructions on creating an element (and I am usually good at following them) they were not clear and even included "try this" phrases as if they expected me to be having trouble. One direction suggested importing the item from online but gave no sites to go to and so far I have not been able to find one. This program is definately not designed for blueprinting or those with only ten years experience on computers. Though intriguing to my wife (she can try different ideas and looks) it will certainly take a month for her just to figure out how to get to the point of finishing touches she would be interested in. If anyone can change my mind with some advice, I'll type in a humble retraction, but so far this has been a huge waste of my time.

Rating:
Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I have used 3DHA deluxe 4 for several months. I love it. I thought 3DHA Professional 5 would be dynamite and could hardly wait go get it. What a disapointment. As several other reviewers have stated, this is a completely different interface. I do not fine it friendly at all. It has crashed once on me after I had finaly gotten my floor plan in. I had attempted to save it, but after the crash, my saved copy was not there. It does not calculate sq ft, or lay out the measurements in the plan. I am going back to Version 4. I doubt that Broderbund will give my money back, but I am going to ask.

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Summary: crash city
Review: I have yet to get this program to run; I have tried it on several different computers running windows xp - an hp and a emachines; both have pentium processors and 512 k ram; when the program crashes, it brings down then entire xp operating system! use at your own risk; this is not functional software unless your computer does not used shared memory for video, there are no patches or support updates for this problem, and you have to dig deep into broderbunds site to get a clue as to what's going on; I'm sticking with version 3, as weak as that was

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Summary: i guess i'm the exception...
Review: i love this program. i design houses for a living, and then provide them to an architect for finalization. it does what i need it to do and i think it's wonderfully easy to use. i guess maybe my demands are not as high as others might have.

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Summary: GOOD SERIES
Review: I own a previous version of this program (3.0) and if the series continues as it has, this program should be excellent. I just ordered it and im sure it will be the best yet.

Rating:
Summary: Terrible Disappointment
Review: I purchased this program because I believed it to be a an upgrade
of the previous versions, which were based on the professional software "Chief Architect". The new version is based upon a completey difference program by Cadsoft. I believe this program would be good at rendering a room with furniture but I found it terrible for transferring my design from version 4. I called the company that produces "Chief Architect" and they said they will be offering a consumer level program next year (The professional software is aobut $1000.) I was very disappointed.

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Summary: Don't Buy it!!
Review: I stepped up from the original 3DHA 2.0 to the 3DHA 5.0 Professional. What a disappointment! This thing won't generate the contractor-ready plans as advertised. It fails to create the dimensions for window and door layouts. I don't know of a framer who can build with out these critical dimensions. This program may serve the needs of someone who is just daydreaming not actually building a house.

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Summary: Not Happy with Version 5
Review: I thought I was upgrading to version 5 from version 4 and found to my surprise that this version is not compatible with the pervious version. All the files/plans in version 4 could not be read by the new product. The other disappointment - the product was not to be nearly as easy to use as the previous version. I found that Broderbund used another author for this version as a complete rewrite, so in reality this product is a version 1.0 and not a version 5.0.

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Summary: This version is horse crap. Pitiful and useless....
Review: I used a previous version on my old computer and had no difficulty. Apparently, I've lost intelligence in the past year and a half, as I cannot get this version to cooperate. You draw on the 2nd floor and the walls show up on the 1st. How'd that happen? I'd love to know. I gave up trying to draw from scratch, which I did before on the previous version, and began trying to modify an example model. Bugs are everywhere. I want my money back. I'm not a computer software engineer, but I do have a Mechanical Engineering degree and I can't use this piece of feces.

Rating:
Summary: This version is horse crap. Pitiful and useless....
Review: I used a previous version on my old computer and had no difficulty. Apparently, I've lost intelligence in the past year and a half, as I cannot get this version to cooperate. You draw on the 2nd floor and the walls show up on the 1st. How'd that happen? I'd love to know. I gave up trying to draw from scratch, which I did before on the previous version, and began trying to modify an example model. Bugs are everywhere. I want my money back. I'm not a computer software engineer, but I do have a Mechanical Engineering degree and I can't use this piece of feces.