Home and landscape design made easy

Punch! Home and Landscape Design Studio for Mac features easy-to-use design tools with QuickStart and NexGen technologies that let you finish a floor plan within minutes.  Try QuickStart with your own design - simply add rooms, move, or resize at will, and virtually everything automatically updates - even your roof.  With the shortest, most enjoyable learning curve you'll ever have, Punch! Home and Landscape Design Studio for Mac makes it easy to create a floorplan like building blocks, then add materials, landscaping, and other details to beautify your home design in 3D.  Plus, Building Green tips are integrated to help you every step of the way with "green" objects and more to fine tune your design.


Automatic, Intuitive Home Design

• Streamlined Workspace - Clean, new Mac interface with collapsible palettes and toolsets
• QuickStart - Design your basic home plan in just seconds, including the roof
• Energy-Saving Tips - Click the Going Green button to activate; mouse over green highlighted items for energy-saving and green-building tips and advice
• Faster Performance - Faster, smoother rendering technology for more uninterrupted design time
• Precision Drawing with LogiCursor - LogiCursor assists with laser-line auto-align and snaps for faster, more accurate wall and room creation
• SmartRooms - Automatically update dimensions as you draw or edit
• Video Tutorials - Walk through every step with over 100 minutes of program "how to's," tips, and tricks included
• Instant Web Access for Services and Support - Get online help, shop for building accessories, print blueprints, and locate building and contracting services
• More Tools at Your Fingertips - Control foundation, walls, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, deck, and landscape from a single interface
• Toggle 2D Views - View any or all plan layers; find design conflicts and more usual space
• Dimensioning - Choose feet/inches, fractional, or metric
• 3D View Window - Shows your design in real-time 3D, as you draw
• Content Library - Contains thousands of drag and drop plants, paint colors, siding, roofing, furniture, and flooring options
• Elevation View - Dynamically edit within elevation views - elevations can be viewed as line drawings, shaded line drawings, full color, and more

Home Embellishments

• Automatic Roofs or Customize Your Own - Standard or complex, preset roof tools make any roof style easy to draw and create on your own
• Door and Window Options - Select a door or window style and customize it to fit your plan
• Roofing Assistant - Automatically creates roofing for your design, including pitch, soffit, trim, etc. - even multi-story and irregular shaped designs
• Estimator - Estimator produces a handy report in an editable, printable spreadsheet format.  Enter the labor and material costs for your locality and Estimator does the rest
• Custom Door and Cabinet Hardware - Choose new hardware selections from the library.  You can even edit styles for a custom look
• 3D Cutaway Slider - Creates a "dollhouse" effect in seconds, for cross-section views that include all objects and furnishings in your design
• Precision Lighting Planner - Provides a realistic viewing of your lighting anytime, day or night
• Choose Your Views - From electrical to mechanical to plumbing to foundation, plan layer views show any or all elements of your design
• PhotoView - Add your favorite real-world objects using scanned photos or a digital camera
• Floor Plan/Topo Trace - Precision control sets actual size of tracing image for a perfectly scaled template
• Advanced Stair Options - Mix textures like stain and paint on stair railings, balusters, and steps
• RealModel - Punch! Real Model takes your home design and automatically creates needed templates to build a 3D model.
• Color Sampling - Sample the color of any object and match to paint walls, trim, complement carpeting, or other room furnishings

Landscape and Outdoor Living

• Topo Tools - Power tools sculpt your property to perfection, adding real-world topography to your building site.
• PlantFinder - Sort from thousands of plants to match your needs based on growing parameters, International zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions
• Over 4,000 Plant Varieties - Extensive plant library for virtually any climate or location
• Automatic Growth Tool - See how your plantings will look years from now
• Unique Outdoor Spaces - Easily add outdoor kitchens and living spaces to your home
• Automatic Planting Tool - Makes multiple plantings a snap as plantings automatically follow lines or curves you draw in your design

Decks and Patios

• Automatic Deck Framing - View all the framing details of your deck design in one mouse click
• Start Fast - When you need inspiration, predrawn, editable designs get you creating and designing quickly
• IntelliDeck - Intuitively follows the shape of your house, as you draw.
• Change Paint to Stain in Seconds - Quickly view the same deck in different color combinations
• No Limits Deck Design - Design multi-story or multi-level decks, add exterior paint, siding, brick, or other materials and more

Interior Design

• Paint Without a Brush - Millions of decorator colors and variations are available at your fingertips
• Cabinet Designer - New intuitive tools for easy custom cabinets including new cabinet face, drawer, and hardware options
• Easy Cabinets and Options - Enter exact dimensions for every type of cabinet, drawer, or shelving - even backsplashes
• Brand Name Product Libraries - Faux finishes, interior and exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, stone, and much more from nationally-recognized brands

Overview

• Clean, uncluttered, exclusive Mac user interface
• Green tips for eco-friendly building and energy savings
• Seamless integration of major tools
• Visual feedback during use
• Adjustable palettes and toolsets
• Video tutorials
• Open/Clear recently accessed project list
• Multiple floor home design
• Virtual Ruler for easy measurements
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Tool tips
• Detailed floor plan notations
• Draw in 2D, see photo-realistic 3D
• Opens files from previous Punch! products
• Mouse options for 3D navigation, viewpoint and zoom

2D Capabilities

• Create scaled plans
• 2D elevation views
• 2D sliced elevation views
• 2D geometry creation tools
• Object and point level editing
• Line weights
• Rules and Fills
• Modify curves using smooth/unsmooth
• Convert 2D .DXF and .DWG files to 3D buildings and landscape
• Draw simple shapes and convert to program featuers

Templates

• Editable
• Drop in pre-created standard rooms
• Room templates (kitchen, dining, bath, bedroom, closet)
• Includes fixtures, lighting, and furniture
• Deck, garage, and tile block templates

QuickStart

• Fast and easy home layout
• Building block technology
• SmartRooms
• 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 technology
• Real-time walk through and fly around
• Viewpoint - user defined view area
• Look up and down view controls
• Aerial View
• Change fly through center at any time
• Shadows with user defined light source
• Lighting brightness control
• Night View capability
• Definable field of view
• All lights cast multiple shadows for increased 3D realism
• 3D elevation views
• Save/access 3D viewpoints from 3D View
• 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

Import/Export Option

• Import and export to most popular file formats (jpg, bmp, png)
• Import Google SketchUp object files
• Import/Export AutoCAD DXF/DWG files
• Export to .EPS, .PDF file formts
• VRML export

Editing Tools

• Extensive Properties Sheet
• Undo/redo up to 500 levels
• Precision tools
• Object sizing
• Flip and Mirror tools
• Easily move, rotate, or flip entire plan
• Change wall, roof, floor and other segment lengths with keyboard entry
• Arrow key nudge option
• Rotate objects
• Grid
• Paste

Material Importer

• Customizable Materials (scale) including Carpet, Flooring, Roofing, Wood Siding, Stucco, Grass, Clouds, stone, Block, Tile and Fabric
• Tile or stretch, when applying
• Stackable/Customizable

Accessories

• Create window treatments
• Stackable/Customizable
• Artwork
• Translucency tool

Wall Coverings

• Choose paint and wall covering options
• 1125 color hues to choose from, with color ramps, or customizable to 16 million total colors
• Room spaces are intelligently recognized for easy decorating
• Exterior wainscot options

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.

Brand Name Content

•  Sherwin-Williams (paint)
• Warner Wallcoverings
• S.A. Maxell (wall coverings)
• Faux Effects International (faux finishing)
• Warner Wall Coverings (wallpaper)
• Khars hardwood floors
• Daltitle (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)
• Bali Blinds (window treatments)
• Tourlinks (personal putting greens)
• Oriental Outposts/Artist: Wang Chang-Ming (oriental art and charcoals)
• FauxWood Beams
• Bamboo Hardwoods
• EnviroGLAS (recycled glass countertops)

Furnishing and Landscape Objects

• Updated object library
• Wide variety of styles
• Object categories include: Kitchen, Bath, Living Room, Dining Room, Bedroom, Game Room, Home Theater, Nursery, Library, Office, Exterior, Fireplaces, Floor Rugs, Exterior Lighting, Log Home components, Going Green, and more

Cabinet Designer

• Create custom cabinets
• Cabinets become "smart" objects
• Auto-track to walls
• Variety of face styles
• Custom surface textures
• Add knobs, pulls, etc. to drawers
• Countertop cutouts for kitchen and vanity sinks

Dimensioning

• Perimeter dimensioning
• Continuous object insertion
• 3D Elevation Slider
• Auto dimensioning
• Metric or Standard measurement option
• Fraction capability for all measurements
• Turn off/on dimensioning
• Inside/center/outside wall dimensions
• Sq footage auto-labeled for each room

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 objects from library to library

Walls

• Wall Properties Edit Sheet
• LogiCursor technology
• Laser alignment with other walls
• Snapping for endpoint, center point and intersections
• Auto wall generator
• Optionally enter wall lengths with keyboard
• Angle lock for custom wall creations
• Copy walls between floors
• Walls lock to 5 degree increments
• Angle measurements displayed
• Dimensions show real-time wall position during editing
• Smart Rooms intelligently recognize room spaces, auto-update changes
• Specify floor thickness for each room
• 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 call-outs
• Automatic base trim
• Library paneling
• Floor Cutout tool w/depth/area calc

Floor Trace Plan

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

Framing Editor

• Metal or wood framing option
• One mouse click frames your house
• Frames custom walls
• Define load-bearing/non load-bearing walls
• Change framing features to meet codes
• Automatically add floor joists and concrete slabs
• Edit joist angle and spacing
• Define rim joists
• Multiple beam types
• Add insulation with one mouse click
• Support columns include steel and wood
• Change wall material to concrete for walkout basement and foundation extensions
• Frames custom roofs
• Customize rafter size and spacing
• Frames custom decks
• Custom stud spacing and size
• Framing schedule

Stair Design Tools

• Straight or curved stairs
• Open staircase option
• Removable side skirt wall
• Click and Drag curved stair radius
• Click and Drag stair rotation
• Custom ht/wt, riser ht, tread wt
• Hand rails left/right, on/off, custom ht
• Combine different colors on posts, railings, and steps
• Railing tool
• Change railing elevation for ramps
• Customize baluster spacing
• Circular (spiral) staircases

Windows

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

Doors

• Settings become defaults for drawing
• 12 customizable door styles: Cased, Arched, Elliptical, Openings, Hinged, Elliptical Arched, French, 9-Light, Wooden Glass Panel, Pocket, Bi-Fold, Sliding Glass, and Garage Doors
• Set width, height, and elevation
• Trim width adjustment
• Stackable doors and windows
• Hide for easy 3D viewing
• Click and Drag placement
• Auto-dimension read out
• Click and Drag door swing angle
• Auto-insert in wall
• Reverse Hinge option

Foundation Planner

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

Landscaping

• Automatic Plant Fill in or around a shape
• User-definable spacing for plants
• Drag and Drop trees, shrubs, grass, etc.
• Grow plants - entire landscape or individually
• Set planting age from seedling to 20 years
• Botanical guide for each planting
• Area calculator
• Custom pathway designer and edging
• Gazebos and yard furnishings
• Sprinkler system layout
• Click and Drag water radius and coverage
• Mulch, gravel, paver brick
• Fence - Privacy, Picket, Ranch, Split-Rail
• Plant categories include: Trees, Annuals, Shrubs, Hedges, Cacti, Bulbs, Perennials, Wildflowers, Ground Cover, Ornamental Grass, Tropicals, Edibles, container and potted
• Click a plant on your plan to find it in a library
• Add ponds, pools, fill regions
• Landscape Estimator
• Excavation tool
• Precision landscape lighting 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

PlantFinder

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

Topography

• Define and combine multiple slopes at different angles
• Apply lot slopes in sections that level out on each end
• Slope lot section
• Curved or straight topography
• Retaining Walls
• Automatically excavates into lot
• Walls automatically cut into slope
• Walks, driveways, paths, plants, and fences follow topography
• Hills and ponds of any size, ht, or depth
• Custom Property Line tool
• Custom paths: one click toggles between straight/curved
• Create open-ended topo designs
• Up to 1000' x 1000' lot size
• Building Pad capability
• Import topographical or aerial map of your lot, as a trace image
• Trace imported map with topo tools to replicate your lot

Custom Roof Tools

• Click and drag roof placement
• Customize standard roofs to any pitch
• 3 and 4-point Freehand Roof tools
• Create freehand style roofs from existing wall segments
• Complex roof design
• Multiple elevation control points
• Pitch angle
• Dormers
• Roof cutout tool
• Skylight tool
• Auto-generate roof for your home design

Elevation View

• Add text and dimensions to annotate elevation views
• Add windows, doors, cutaways dimensioning, textures and accessories
• Edit doors and windows in elevation view
• View plan elevations in ClearView, line-rendered or shaded rendered
• Present elevations with show/hide control of materials and landscaping
• Create custom 3D view from elevation with full editing capabilities
• Save bitmaps of all elevation views
• Print elevation views
• Automatic dimensioning of doors and windows
• Cut away any side of home and edit the house inside

Estimator

• Standard spreadsheet interface
• Exports to .XLS spreadsheet format
• Roof truss schedule
• Window and Door schedules
• HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical schedules
• Variable-size stud schedule
• Area calc for floor and foundations
• Landscape plantings schedule
• Deck schedule
• Create master price lists

Electrical/HVAC/Plumbing

• Template 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
• 12 light styles, including landscape, recessed, and spot lighting, can and flood lights, heat vent and vent lights
• 3, 4, or 5-way wall switches
• Dimmer wall switches
• Wall switch/Ceiling fixtures
• Wall fixtures
• Cable TV, phone jacks
• Smoke detector, thermostats
• Ceiling fans
• Precision lighting adds photo-realistic light rendering
• Add glowing illuminated light bulbs to fixtures
• Control lights with on/off switch, dimmer, fall off, ambient on/off, beam and direction
• Shadows rendered on multiple surfaces from multiple light sources

HVAC Items

• Various-sized ducts
• Floor and wall registers
• Furnace/Return air grill
• AC condensing unit
• Heat pump
• Baseboard heaters

Plumbing Items

• Toilet
• Single/double/triple bowl sinks
• Faucet fixtures
• Showers, basin sinks
• Water heater, floor drains
• Gas and water hose bibs
• Bath and sap tubs
• Tub/Shower Combinations

Deck Tools

• Auto-track decks to exterior walls
• Open or closed style steps
• Multi-level and multi-story design
• Free-form or included standard sizes
• Automatic railing and stair generator
• Apply same material or colors
• Skirt toggle on/off
• Freestanding or next to house
• Square footage calculator
• Custom handrail height
• Custom baluster spacing
• View framing
• Change direction of boards
• Deck Cutout tool
• Deck templates

ClearView

• Glass House effect
• Translucency Slider (opaque to clear)
• 2D elevation views (4-sides)
• 3D elevation views (4-sides)
• 3D wireframe views (unlimited)

RealMode

• Build a scale model
• Creates labeled templates
• Auto-adjusts to construction material
• Photo-realistic material printouts
• 2D floor plan building template

PhotoView

• Import photos into 3D
• View image from virtually any angle
• Realistic perspective
• Embellish your design
• Combine real world with virtual design
• Add family members and art to your plan

Compass

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

Service Links

• Links to third-party services
• Contractor locator, shopping, design advice and blueprints

• Macintosh OS X 10.4.11 to 10.6
• G4 or higher processor; Intel Core Solo or higher
• 256 MB of RAM
• 32  MB of video memory
• 5.3 GB of available hard disk space
• Millions of colors display
• 1024 x 768 display resolution
• Mouse
• Internet access required to use some features

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