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Punch! Home & Landscape Design Professional v21

Punch! Home & Landscape Design Professional v21

Punch! Home & Landscape Design Professional v21


Platform: PC
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Status: Available


$399.95

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Overview

DESIGN BEAUTIFUL SPACES INSIDE AND OUT!

 

This complete home and landscape design software suite combine all the materials, tools, textures, furnishings and accessories to help make building and landscaping projects a stunning reality. Use Punch! Home & Landscape Design Professional to quickly update or design entire homes and commercial buildings; plan kitchen renovations, bathroom renovations, basement remodels, landscape; create outdoor living spaces, decks, patios, pools and get fast results for professional-level or serious DIY home projects.

  • Create new home designs, kitchen renovations, bathroom updates and landscapes or use professional designer quality layouts that you can drop into your projects.
  • The Professional Series contains a wealth of tools and top features, perfect for the Designer, Contractor and serious DIY person who wants to design a new home, landscaping, renovate, remodel and more.
  • New tools, improved drawing methods, easy-to-use interface, and dynamic search tool makes it easy to design your project and find the materials you need.
  • Choose from contemporary to modern style home plans from coast to coast, as well as thousands of materials textures, furnishing, and accessories to complete your 2D and 3D designs. Tips for "Building Green" are included with a selection of green objects and materials.
  • Includes how-to video tutorials, user forum and technical support to provide help when needed.
 
 FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO PROFESSIONAL AND ARCHITECTURAL VERSIONS
  • Window Designer
  • Door Designer
  • Trim Designer
  • Custom Edging and Bed Borders
  • Outdoor Kitchen Custom Cabinets
  • Site Planner (Property Line Coordinates)
  • Pool Designer
  • Automatic Gables
  • Fence Designer
  • Dormer Tool
  • Framing
  • PhotoView Editor
  • Animation
  • Symbol Editor
  • Section Detailer
  • Reflections


HELPFUL HELP FEATURES

Punch! Home & Landscape Design Professional helps to quickly create 3D home plans and 2D home plans for kitchens, baths, and landscapes with professional designer quality layouts that quickly drop into projects. Feature-packed v21 offers thousands of materials, textures, furnishings, and accessories and makes it's even easier to find those materials with a dynamic search tool that quickly searches for the perfect furnishing, paint, texture or accessory with ease. V21 goes the extra environmental mile with tips for “Building Green” that includes a selection of green objects and materials. To help with all this designing power, v21 also comes with an Integrated Interactive Help System to make finding and using the right tool easier than ever.

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FEATURES & TOOLS

 
DESIGN PHASE TABS
Easy tabs organise your project into foundation, floor, electrical, plumbing, roof, etc. creating all the steps needed for your design.

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NEW AND IMPROVED OBJECT LIBRARY
 
  • Endless possibilities! Thousands of 2D and 3D objects to choose from! Choose entire furniture groupings with simple drag and drop.
  • Choose from thousands of nationally recognised decorating materials including faux finishes, wood floors, counter tops, blinds and much more!
  • NEW and improved library is easier to use and faster to search.
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SIMPLE DRAG AND DROP TOOLS
 
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ADD ROOMS, PAINT COLOUR, FURNISHINGS, LANDSCAPE PLANTINGS AND MORE!


3D CUSTOM WORKSHOP
Build virtually any object or modify existing objects from the library. Use photo-realistic materials including wood, fabric, paint colours, stone, brick, and more.

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BUILD GREEN
Go green in one click; watch your design go green with design tips and objects; recycled glass counter tops, bamboo flooring and more! Make your home more energy efficient with new appliances or update your windows, doors and more!

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SMARTWAND™
SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room, or your entire house, with one mouse click!

 
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COST ESTIMATION AND MOBILE LANDSCAPING QUOTE
 
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INSTANT 2D/3D VIEWS PLUS THE ABILITY TO CREATE TEMPLATES FOR A 3D MODEL OF YOUR DESIGN
 
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PRINT BLUEPRINTS OF YOUR DESIGNS
 
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INTUITIVE INTERACTIVE HELP

  • Do it yourself tips:  Includes hundreds of DIY how-to-tips from the experts
  • Symbol editor & section detailer:  additional professional architectural annotation tools
 
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WHAT'S NEW!


ENHANCED PERFORMANCE - 64-BIT VERSION
Experience faster performance with new 64-bit processing. Handles large files with ease. Faster graphics rendering. Get the most out of your installed RAM for better memory use with less crashes.

2D PLAN DETAILING
Punch v21 now provides extensive detailing tools suitable for annotating site plans, floor plans, elevation views, and providing other details required for proper construction and permits. These new tools include a Callout tool, Level Lines, Plan, Window and Door labels, and Note Markers. In addition, numerous improvements to line styles and fill patterns provide greater ability to annotate and call out regions and areas of the drawing. All essential in accurately communicating design intent.


NEW CALLOUT TOOLS
Define portions of the building model as details, sections, and elevations. 

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LEVEL LINES
Add labels to drawing to callout important structural elevations when creating construction documentations.


LINE STYLES
Ability to add labels to line styles. 

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NOTE MARKERS
Identify building specifications such as framing requirements, pier locations, etc. 

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PLAN LABELS

Add title lines to display Plan names; customise text alignment and font style.

WINDOW AND DOOR LABELS
Add custom labels for use, for example, in identifying manufacturer name or model/part number.

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2D OBJECT DETAILING


FILL PATTERNS
Newly added patterns, and a new rotate pattern option. 

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FILL PATTERN LIBRARY
Expandable through downloadable content.

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3D EDITING WITH ALL NEW PROFESSIONAL CAD TOOLS

 

3D CUSTOM WORKSHOP PRO
This new Punch! PowerTool adds over 90 professional CAD tools to Punch! Home Design. Its diverse feature set, consisting of 2D drafting, 3D modeling, editing, and data sharing tools allow the user to create virtually any object to complement their home design project. Objects created can be saved to your library and used with any of your home and landscape designs.  Custom Workshop Pro can bring in popular CAD file formats such as SketchUp®, 3D Studio®, 3MF, STL, DAE, PLY, as well as Adobe® Illustrator®, PDF, SVG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, and JPG.

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Some of the features included in Custom Workshop Pro:


2D Drafting Features

  • Line Tools (8 methods)
  • Arc Tools (5 methods)
  • Circle Tools (7 methods)
  • Ellipse Tools (5 methods)
  • Polygon Tools (7 methods)
  • Bezier Spline Tool Fillet/Chamfer (5 methods)
  • Spline Fill

3D Modeling Features
  • Primitives (6 types)
  • Extrude, Lathe, Skin, Cover
  • Booleans (Add, Subtract, Intersect)
  • Subdivision (Add Loop, Fill, Bridge, Inset)
  • Split & Slice

Modification and Editing
  • Align, Group, Ungroup, Copy, Paste
  • Transformations (Translate, rotate, scale, mirror, along path)
  • Arrays (Polar and Rectangular)
  • Magnet Tool


Data Sharing
DWG/DXF, SketchUp®, 3D Studio®, 3MF, STL, DAE, Ply Adobe® Illustrator®, PDF, SVG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPG.


Usability Improvements

LogiCursor anticipates your moves with visual feedback Gripper anticipates your moves with visual feedback View Navigator, Zooming, Panning, Orbits Inspector for parameter edits Keyboard shortcuts Layer Manager, Select Mask, Show/Hide (7) Verify Distances, Perimeters, Areas, Volumes, and Angles Drag and drop texture library.

EVEN MORE FREE CONTENT!


2D HOUSE PLANS
Save hours of design time by using professionally drawn single and two-story house plans as 2D tracing layers which can then be automatically viewed as a 3D design. 1000 plans from which to choose!


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POWERFUL VISUALISATION & RENDERING


Create even more stunning renderings with new LightWorks® Skylight, Area and Custom Object lighting options. These enhancements are ideal for creating dynamic, photorealistic Interior Designs, allowing you to more effectively communicate your design ideas to your client, or your interior designer, builder or contractor.


360˚ ONLINE VIEWER
View or share your Punch! 3D Models in your web browser on any device! A great way to collaborate and share your design ideas with clients or with interior designers/builders. Simply render a room and Export it to the Punch! Online Viewer, to see a 360° view, including the floor and ceiling!

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NEW LIGHTING AND RENDERING OPTIONS
Create even more stunning photorealistic renderings with new LightWorks® Custom Object, Area and Skylight lighting options.


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INTEROPERABILITY SUPPORT FOR POPULAR 3D FORMATS


3D EXPORT SUPPORT
OBJ with Textures and STL are now available as file export options.


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Features

HOME DESIGN

FOUR WAYS TO START YOUR PROJECT

  • QuickStart:  Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
  • Professionally Designed Plans: Need inspiration or an instant starting point? Utilise our editable house plans to fast track your design or browse them for room layout ideas.
  • Floor Plan Trace: Trace a favourite floor plan, or use one you’ve sketched.
  • PhotoView:  Take pictures of the inside or outside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.

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AUTO ROOF GABLE
Instantly add gable roof panels.

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AUTO FRAMING
Select metal, wood or custom framing options, including custom roofs, walls, and floor joists.

AUTO ROOF GABLES AND ONE CLICK DORMER TOOL
Instantly add gable walls and roof panels.

WINDOWS, DOORS & WALLS

  • Select from an extensive library of door and window styles. Customise the size, grille style, and other parameters to fit your plan.
  • Use window and door designer power tools to create custom doors.

ADD ROOMS AND DECORATE WITH ONE MOUSE CLICK!
  • Drag and drop room creation.
  • SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room or your entire house with one mouse click.

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VIEW IN 2D, ELEVATION AND AERIAL

2D

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3D

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AERIAL


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ESTIMATE COSTS, BUILD A 3D MODEL, CREATE BLUE PRINTS


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INTERIOR DESIGN

START YOUR PROJECT

  • QuickStart: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan. 
  • PhotoView™: Take pictures of the inside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.

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OBJECT LIBRARY
Thousands of objects for every part of your design, inside or out. Remodel with new fixtures, lighting, ceiling fans, sinks, appliances and more.

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FLOORING CARPETS & RUGS
Try tile, carpet, wood, stone, and other materials including brand name, real-world products.

FURNITURE SHOWCASE
Add predesigned furniture groups with simple drag & drop. Easily arrange or edit your selections to suit your design.

BRAND NAME PRODUCT LIBRARIES
Thousands of possibilities! Faux finishes, interior and exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds, stone, and much more.Nationally-recognised decorating materials you can try before you buy.

PRECISION LIGHTING PLANNER
Add functionality and drama to your design. Works with exterior and interior designs. Precision controls for ambient light, shadows, fall off, radius, and more. Drag & Drop landscape light fixtures.

 

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LANDSCAPE DESIGN

 

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SITE PLANNER AND TOPO TOOLS
Site-planner automatically draws your property line, as you enter the coordinates, then exports your lot into your landscape design. Add real-world topography to your building site. Trace over your topo lines. Automatically cuts or adds fill and building pad to your design.

 

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PLANTING LIBRARY
Includes a full selection of flowers, shrubs, and trees you can add to your design. You can also add your own favourite plants to the database!

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PLANTFINDER™

  • PlantFinder™ searches plants for your area, using parameters you specify, ensuring growing success.
  • Sorting feature lets you select growing parameters, international zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions.
  • Photo-realistic images of real-world plants that can be viewed from any angle.
  • Colour-coded zone maps make plant selection easy and foolproof.

 

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PLANT GROWTH
Plan smart! Plan your design and see it grow over time. Perfect for previewing shade.

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HARDSCAPES

Build dramatic retaining walls that define and accent your home. Choose stone, brick, or other materials. Then add your plantings to finish the look.

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FENCE DESIGNER
Design fences with custom material, colour, photos or even draw your own design.

VIEW IN 2D, ELEVATION AND AERIAL

 

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DECK & PATIO DESIGN

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OUTDOOR LIVING
Turn a drab backyard into outdoor entertaining space with included objects for kitchens, fireplaces, furniture, and more. Add pavers, decks, and landscaping to your design.

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DECK AND PATIO TEMPLATES

Predesigned, drag and drop, editable designs you can use as is or customise to your personal style!

 

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POOL DESIGNER
Draw from scratch, use and edit pre-drawn templates or let Pool Designer create your pool to your exact specs.

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VIEW IN 2D, ELEVATION AND AERIAL

 

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Requirements

  • Windows® 10, 8, or 7
  • Intel® or compatible 1.0 GHz 64-Bit processor or higher (multi-core processor supported)
  • 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB or more recommended
  • 3 GB of Hard Disk Space
  • VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024x768 with 32-bit colour
  • Mouse with wheel recommended
  • 256 MB Video Card Memory
  • Internet access and Internet Service Provider account required²
¹Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows® 10, 8, or 7.

²User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges.