Landscape and outdoor design made easy

Punch! Landscape, Deck, and Patio Designer features easy-to-use tools, unsurpassed realism, and over 4,000 plant varieties to provide you with home and landscape software with the shortest, most enjoyable learning curve you'll ever have.  Turn your backyard into a state-of-the-art living area with items designed for today's outdoor space - and save money and energy with the Building Green feature.  Bring your style to the outdoors, adding outdoor kitchens, decks, seating areas, fountains, and more.  Editable pre-drawn designs make it easy to drop in your new features and landscaping - then watch it all grow with Punch! Landscape, Deck, and Patio Designer's automatic growth feature.

• Easy to Use NexGen Technology - NexGen technology with QuickStart and PhotoView gets you started designing more quickly.
• Faster Way to Design - Faster tools and software make designing your outdoors more enjoyable and productive.
• Start with a Photo or from Scratch - Punch! gives you several options to quickly create the "home base" for your landscape.
• PhotoView and Quickstart - Use a photo of your home and design landscaping around it, or drag rooms to automatically create your house in seconds.

Quick Tools to Get Started

• Design Your Backyard - This startup video will show you how to create a basic landscaping project in 59 seconds.
• Start with your House - Drag and drop SmartRooms like building blocks; click and drag to change room size and location.
• SmartRooms - Automatically updates virtually everything, including dimensions, as you draw and edit - and automatically generates a roof as you design.
• Customize Your Landscape - Tools for creating patios, decks, and spas as well as outdoor kitchens and pools, along with trees, shrubs, and flower beds.
• Complete Tool Selection - Includes everything you need to design, indoors and out - including home design, electrical, plumbing, roofing, decks, pools, patios, and landscapes.
• Video Tutorials - Video tutorials walk you through every step with more than 100 minutes of program how-tos, tips and tricks included.
• Use Photos of Your Home - PhotoView Technology lets you add landscaping deck, pools, and other details to your actual home.
• Get Energy-Saving Tips - Click the Going Green button and see items impacted by energy-efficiency - and get energy-saving and green-building tips.
• Streamlined Workspace - A clean interface with collapsible palettes and toolsets makes it easy to work the way you want.
• Precision Drawing - LogiCursor assists with laser-line auto-alignment and snaps for faster, more accurate wall and room creation.
• Instant Web Access - Meet all your needs, including design, support, shop, plot, and contractors via web access to get the tools and resources you need.
• Predrawn Templates - Choose templates for decks, patios, pools, and more, or draw them completely from scratch.

Outdoor Living

• Pools, Spas, and Water Features - Experiment with multi-level patios and decks, then add a pool to give the finishing touch to your backyard.
• Global Sun Positioning - View the effects of sun angle, positioning, location, and shadows on your design before you build.
• Outdoor Kitchens - Design outdoor eating/seating space and move entertaining of your guests outside.
• Decks and Patios - Create useful outdoor living areas that add functionality and value to your home.
• Garden Areas - Enjoy paths, ponds, flower beds, and other outdoor features designed by you.
• Top Down Views - See your design as an aerial view in full color with one mouse click to better visualize your plan.
• Landscape to the Next Level - Photorealistic rendering and shadows let you plan your landscape with confidence.

Landscape

• AutoClick Placement - Place plantings automatically along any line or curve or use AutoClick Placement to place a planting every time you click.
• Automatic Growth Tool - See how your plantings will look years from now - view plant spacing and heights with a single mouse click.
• PlantFinder - Sort from thousands of plants to meet your needs using growing parameters, International zones, sunlight, water, climate, and soil conditions.
• Complete Information - Get complete information about every plant in the database with the Plant Details dialog, and view photo-realistic images of real-world plants.

Deck and Patio Design

• Custom Details - Experiment with stone, pavers, and decorative fencing.  Mix textures like stain and paint on stair railings, balusters, and steps.
• IntelliDeck - Intuitively follows the shape of your house as you draw.  Create simple or complex deck shapes in seconds.
• Decorator Palette - Change all paint colors, siding, roofing, wood stain, anything in your design simultaneously with a single mouse click.
• Precision Lighting Planner - Precision controls for ambient light, shadows, falloff, radius, and more.  Drag and drop landscape light fixtures and more.

Pools and Cabinets

• Create Your Way - Draw from scratch, use and edit predrawn templates, or let Pool Designer create your pool to your exact specs.
• Varying Pool Styles - Choose in or above-ground styles, vinyl lined or composition, multiple depths, shapes, spa combo and more.
• Outdoor Cabinet Design - Choose preconstructed cabinet and island "modules," then customize size, drawers, knobs, and materials.
• Outside Entertaining - Easy tools add bars, kitchens, grills, and more to your backyard.

Home Design

• Floor Plan and Topo Trace - Add your home and your topography to your drawing fast - simply scan your plan and it becomes a traceable, scalable template you can modify.
• Automatic Roof or Customize - Standard or complex, preset roof tools make any roof style easy to create.
• Door and Window Options - Select a door or window style, customize to fit your plan and choose from hundreds of combinations.
• Go Green as You Design - Save energy and money with integrated "Building Green" design tips and "Green" objects and materials.

Boundaries

• Site Planner - Lay out your lot right from your plot plan or legal description; Site Planner automatically draws your property line and exports to your design.
• Topo Tools - Add real-world topography to your building site and automatically cut or add fill and building pad to your design.
• Fence Designer - Versatile tool lets you design fences with any custom material, color, or photo object-  even draw your design freehand.
• Over 4,000 Plants  - Decide on plants, trees, shrubs - any landscape selection for your design and they are automatically added to the Inventory Bar.
• Plant Editor - Wizard lets you easily add your favorite plant, so you can easily expand the plant database to have virtually limitless custom choices.

Presenting and Editing

• PhotoView - View your landscape from unlimited angles.  Definable shadows make your home and new landscape design come to life.
• PhotoView Editor - Paint over exiting images, add real-world images and materials to selected areas, and add landscaping to your design.
• 3D Custom Workshop - Start from scratch or modify existing objects from the extensive library with materials including wood, fabric, paint, stone, brick, and more.
• Brand Name Product Libraries - From faux finishes, interior and exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds, stone, and more, these libraries features nationally-recognized decorating materials.
• Animator - Take friends and family on a self-running .avi virtual tool of your home design with full controls for lighting, render quality, speed, transition effects, and more.

Overview

• Clean, uncluttered user interface
• Green tips for eco-friendly building and energy savings
• Seamless integration of major tools
• Visual feedback during use
• Collapsible palettes and toolsets
• LogiCursor snaps walls intelligently
• Video tutorials
• Getting Started tutorials
• Snaps: precision drawing with your mouse
• Togged interface to Snap modes
• Content and information organized with tabbed interface
• Organizers allow you to customize content, create your own libraries
• Fit drawing to window
• Open recently accessed projects
• Clear recently accessed project list
• Multiple floor home design
• Open files quickly
• Virtual Ruler for easy measurements
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Tool tips
• Detailed floor plan notations
• Auto-scrolling
• Opens files from previous Punch! products
• Auto-Save, in the event of power failure
• Instant zoom with wheel mouse

2D Capabilities

• Create scaled plans
• 2D geometry creation tools
• Object and point level editing
• Polygon hatch fills
• Line weights
• Modify curves using smooth/unsmooth

 Convert 2-3D

• Convert 2D .dxf and .dwg files to 3D buildings, etc.
• Convert basic 2D entities into unique 3D architectural features
• Draw simple lines, arcs, circles, and rectangles and convert them to walls, stairs, roofs, decks
• 2D symbol library includes exterior elements such as pools and vehicles, directions, and more

Templates

• Editable
• Deck and tile block templates included

QuickStart

• Quickly create home to landscape around
• Fast and easy home layout
• Building block technology
• Place rooms with a simple click
• 2D home plan automatically created
• Auto-labeled rooms
• Multiple floors
• Resize and prioritize individual rooms
• Auto-generate roof for your home design

3D Technology

• Photo-realistic, anti-aliasing
• Real-time walk through and fly around
• Two navigation modes for walk and fly through
• Viewpoint (for walk throughs), user-defined view angle
• Look up and down view controls
• Aerial view (top down)
• Change fly through center at any time
• Walk up and down stairs
• Shadows with user defined light source
• Lighting brightness control
• Night View capability
• Definable field of view
• 12 light styles, including landscape, recessed, and spot lighting
• All lights cast multiple shadows for increased 3D realism
• 3D elevation views
• Print 3D elevation views (includes ClearView and line drawing options)
• Save/Access 3D viewpoints
• 3D view print/export options
• Control object visibility to increase speed
• 3D Cutaway Slider
• View cross sections from front, back, left, right, top
• Fast rendering
• Show/Hide controls

Import/Export Options

• Import and export to most popular file formats (jpg, bmp, psd, png, tga, wmf)
• Import 3DS files
• Import Google SketchUp object files
• Import/Export AutoCAD DXF/DWG files
• VRML export

Editing Tools

• Extensive Properties sheet
• Snap tools
• Undo/redo up to 50 levels
• Controlled selection tool
• Precision tools
• Easily move, rotate or flip entire plan
• Change wall, roof, floor, and other segment lengths with keyboard entry
• Arrow key move (nudge) option
• Rotate objects
• Crosshair cursor
• Grid
• Paste
• Flip, mirror, chamfer, fillet and inverted fillet tools
• Selection filter

Materials and Colors

• Material Workshop
• Import custom materials
• Wall covers
• 1125 color hues to choose from or customizable to 16 million total colors
• Material Finder

Color Sampling

• Click on a material in your drawing to easily identify it
• Select any item in your drawing to match its color
• Coordinate colors in a room
• Match walls with furnishings, etc.
• Exterior wainscot options
• Color ramps

Decorator Palette

• Organize and save your design choices
• Editable, custom palettes
• Create unlimited numbers of palettes
• Label palettes for different rooms or family member's favorites
• Import/export palette options to share ideas
• Change colors/materials in your design, simultaneously, with one click

Accessories

• Create window treatments
• Stackable/customizable
• Auto-size to window
• Translucency tool
• Art

Brand Name Content

• Sherwin-Williams (paint)
• Warner-Wallcovers (wallpaper)
• S.A. Maxwell (wallcoverings)
• Faux Effects International (faux finishing)
• Kahrs hardwood floors (hardwood floors)
• Daltile (tile for flooring and walls)
• Nova Distinctive Flooring (cork flooring)
• Kemiko Concrete Stains (Concrete stain/faux finishing for floors)
• Buechel Stone (natural stone)
• Southwest Stone (natural stone)
• Samsung Staron (solid surfaces)
• GAF (roofing)
• BBQ Pits by Klose
• Bali Blinds (window treatments)
• TourLinks (personal putting greens)
• Oriental Outpost/Artist: Want Chang-Ming (oriental art/charcoals)
• FauxWood Beams
• Bamboo Hardwoods
• EnviroGLAS (recycled glass countertops)

Furnishing and Exterior Objects

• Object categories include: Kitchen, Bath, Living Room, Dining Room, Bedroom, Game and Music Room, Library, Office, Exterior, Fireplaces, Floor Rugs, Exterior Lighting, Electronics, Exercise, Garage, Handicap Access, Household Appliances, Lighting, Structural, Title block frames, Log Home Components and more
• Expanded Object library includes: concrete, pool, Adirondack and patio furniture, outdoor kitchen islands, outdoor serving bars, fire pits, grills, and smokers, fountains, bird baths, mailboxes, post lights, gazebos, pergolas and trellises, garden statuary, and bridges
• Content library subcategories
• Auto-elevate objects to floors/ceilings/cabinets
• AutoClick Placement
• Continuous object insertion

Cabinet Tools

• Create custom outdoor cabinets
• Variety of face styles
• Custom surface textures
• Add custom knobs, pulls, etc. to drawers
• 2, 4, or 5 burner grills
• Countertop cutouts for kitchen and vanity sinks
• Optional backsplash and bar top overhang
• Fridge, ice chest, buffet, and sink options
• 45-degree corner piece for custom turns

Dimensioning

• 3D Elevation Slider
• Auto dimensioning
• Expanded metric capability
• Metric or standard measurement option
• Expanded measurements
• Fraction capability for all measurements
• Turn off/on dimensioning
• Inside/center/outside wall dimensions
• Leader dimension options
• Offset dimensions
• Diameter dimensions
• Dimensions with/without extension lines

Text

• TrueType font support
• Multi-line text
• Aligned text
• Rotate text to any angle

Object Organizer

• Create custom Object categories for custom collections of furniture, etc.
• Move furniture objects from library to library

Walls

• Wall Properties Edit Sheet
• Create individual exterior wall sections
• Auto wall generator
• Optionally enter interior and exterior wall lengths with keyboard
• Angle lock for custom wall creation
• Copy walls between floors
• Walls lock to 5 degree increments
• Angle measurement displayed
• Auto Ceiling/floor/soffit option
• Dimensions show real-time wall position during editing
• Wall break tool
• Curved wall tool
• Horizontal/Vertical lock on/off
• Variable wall thickness and heights
• Automatic flooring on/off
• Variable stud spacing
• Custom wall shapes, angles, and sizes
• Custom wall elevations
• Window/Door callouts
• Automatic base trim
• Library paneling
• Floor cut out tool w/depth/area calculations

Floor Plan Trace

• Scan and import existing designs
• Traced plan is fully editable
• Scanned images are fully scalable

Windows

• Settings become defaults for drawing
• 19 customizable window styles: Round, hex, triangle, arch, etc.
• Width, height, elevation settings
• Trim width adjustment
• Stackable windows and doors
• Custom window panel/grill wizard
• Click and drag placement
• Auto-insert in wall
• Auto-dimension read out
• Stain, paint or add any material
• Flip horizontally or vertically

Doors

• 12 Customizable door styles: Cased, Arched, Elliptical Openings, Hinged, Elliptical Arched, French, 9-Light, Wooden Glass Panel, Pocket, Bi-Fold, Sliding Glass, Garage Doors
• Set width, height, elevation
• Trim width adjustment
• Stackable doors and windows
• Hide for easy 3D viewing
• Click and Drag placement
• Auto-insert in wall
• Reverse Hinge option
• Double doors
• Custom door hardware

Foundation Planner

• Slab, pier, support beams
• Automatically excavates into lot
• Elevation slider basement tool
• Retaining walls
• Automatically draws footings
• Automatic first floor generation

Landscaping

• Landscape light fixtures
• Automatic Plant Fill
• User-definable spacing for plants
• Drag and Drop trees, shrubs, grass, etc.
• Grow plants individually or in groups
• Set planting age from seedling to 20 years
• Botanical guide for each planting
• Area calculator
• Custom pathway designer
• Gazebos and yard furnishings
• Sprinkler system layout
• Click and Drag water radius and coverage
• Mulch, gravel, paver brick
• Fence - Privacy, Picket, Ranch, Split-Rail
• Click a plant on your plan to find it in the library
• Plant Inventory Bar
• Expanded PlantFinder database
• Plant categories include: Trees, Annuals, Shrubs, Hedges, Cacti, Bulbs, Perennials, Wildflowers, Ground Cover, Ornamental Grass, Tropicals, Edibles, container and potted
• Add ponds, pools, fill regions
• Landscape Estimator
• Import photos of plants
• Excavation tool
• Landscape lighting
• Template overlay in one drawing
• Turn on/off for easy viewing
• Draw in 2D, see photo-realistic 3D
• "Smart" objects attach to walls
• Precision Lighting Planner adds photo-realistic light rendering
• Add glowing illuminated light bulbs to fixtures
• Exterior accessories include: buildings, furniture, planters, playground equipment, pools, and more
• AutoClick Placement

Fence Designer

• Specify span, length, height, post, etc.
• Create custom fences

PlantFinder

• Locate a specific plant by its name
• Specify plant category to search
• Save search for later use
• International plant zone maps

PlantEditor

• Add plants to library
• Import photos
• Create custom libraries

Topography

• Curved or straight
• Define multiple slopes
• Combine multiple slopes at different angles
• Apply lot slopes in sections that level out on each end
• Retaining walls
• House and exterior walls automatically cut into slope
• Walk and driveways follow topography
• Plants, paths, and fences follow topography
• Hills and ponds of any size, height, or depth
• Custom paths: one click toggles between straight/curved
• Float object above topography
• Create open-ended topographic designs
• Expanded lot size (up to 1000' x 1000')
• Building pad tool
• Import topographical or aerial map of your lot as a trace image
• Trace with topo tools to replicate your lot

Site Planner

• Enter lot coordinates
• Use survey plot to create property lines
• Custom property line tool
• 3 methods to enter data (azimuth, bearing, relative)
• Line dimensions show point ID, direction and length

Custom Roof Tools

• Click and Drag roof placement
• Customize standard roofs to any pitch
• Three point freehand roof tool
• Auto-generate roof for your home design
• Create freehand style roofs from existing wall segments
• Complex roof design
• Multiple elevation control points
• Pitch angle
• Dormers
• Roof Cutout Tool
• Skylight Tool

Estimator

• Standard spreadsheet interface
• Exports to .XLS spreadsheet format
• Roof truss schedule
• Window and Door Schedule
• Plumbing, Electrical schedules
• Accessories schedule
• Variable-size stud schedule
• Area calculations for floor
• Landscape plantings schedule
• Deck schedule

3D Custom Workshop

• Fully-integrated 3D CAD program
• Furniture design to mechanical
• Edit existing objects
• Spline-based geometry
• Auto-inserts into home design
• Create your own object library
• Translucency effect for objects
• Surface mapping to apply new material
• Auto Preview creator for custom objects
• 3 Material application modes: single, group, texture replace
• Custom objects are counted in the estimator
• Object sizing

Electrical/Plumbing

• Templates overlay in one drawing
• Turn on/off for easy viewing
• Draw in 2D, see photo-realistic 3D
• "Smart" objects attach to walls
• Electrical items
• Duplex wall outlets
• GFI wall outlets
• Switched wall outlets
• Weatherproof wall outlets
• Floor and Ceiling Outlets
• 3, 4, or 5-way wall switches
• Dimmer wall switches
• Wall switch/Ceiling fixtures
• Wall fixtures
• Can light, flood lights
• Heat vent lights
• Vent lights
• Ceiling fans
• Precision lighting adds photo-realistic light rendering
• Add glowing illuminated light bulbs to fixtures
• One click day to night
• Control lights with on/off switch, dimmer, fall off, ambient on/off, beam and direction
• Shadows rendered on multiple surfaces
• Shadows created with multiple light sources
• Plumbing items
• Single/double/triple sinks
• Basin sinks
• Floor drains
• Gas and water hose bibs
• Spa tubs

Ultimate Deck

• Open or closed style steps
• Multi-level and multi-story design
• Free-form or included standard sizes
• Automatic railing and stair generator
• Apply material or colors
• Skirt toggle on/off
• Freestanding or next to house
• Square footage calculator
• Custom handrail height
• Custom baluster spacing
• Expanded estimating
• Change direction of boards
• Deck cutout tool

Deck Designer

• Deck Templates (editable)
• Auto-track decks to exterior walls
• Automatically creates a deck to your specs

Patio Tool

• Define patio area
• Paver material is applied automatically
• Optionally apply materials from included library

ClearView

• Glass House effect
• Translucency Slider (opaque to clear)
• 3D elevation views (4-sides)
• 3D wireframe views (unlimited)

3D Photoview

• PhotoView Editor
• Customize photos for use in Punch! Drawings
• 4 draw modes for broad editing options
• Color Editing allows user to "Paint" a surface
• "Color" painting retains shadows
• Create custom color lists
• Masks to allow for painting a large area and removing the paint from small areas
• Solid color fills
• Replicate tool
• Material tool for adding materials
• Add horizontal and vertical perspective to materials to show depth and add realism
• Mask areas can be saved
• Import photos into 3D
• View image from virtually any angle
• Realistic perspective
• Embellish your design
• Combine real world with your virtual design
• Place your family in your backyard or a picture on a wall

Animator

• Record a video walk through of your design
• Save as an .avi file and share with friends or clients
• Create multiple paths for a single animation
• Change elevation for paths
• Completely customizable viewing angles
• Add/remove segments from your paths
• Previews
• User-definable preview playback speed
• Define number of seconds per segment
• Option to see through walls during animation
• Add transitions between segments
• Fade In/Fade Out transitions
• Look Up/Down
• Select viewing mode: textured, shaded, or ClearView in one animation
• Define sunlight direction, angle, and brightness
• Curved or straight customizable path segments with "point tension"
• User-Definable video output size and quality
• Animation settings are saved in the drawing

Pool Designer

• Wizard interface
• Create above or in-ground pools
• Define depth areas
• Custom shapes and sizes
• Ladders
• Rails
• Steps
• Volume calculation
• Pool accessories
• Spas

GSP

• Global Sun Positioning
• Select specific time of day and year
• Set location anywhere in the world

Compass

• True North
• Depict direction of shadows and sun's position
• Accurate design placement on lot

• Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
• Intel Pentium 3, Celeron, or compatible 1.0 GHz processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 5.25 GB of available hard disk space
• VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024 x 768 with 32-bit color
• DVD-ROM Drive
• Mouse with mouse wheel required
• 65 MB Video Card memory
• Internet access required to use some features

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