Easy, fun, fast and productive home design software

Punch! Home and Landscape Design Suite with NexGen Technology is simple-to-use software that provides superior results for your home design or remodeling projects.  Featuring the shortest, most enjoyable learning curve, you'll ever have, it is fast, easy, and uses superior rendering.  Templates and smart building tools make it easy to design home plans, landscape ideas and more in just minutes, making your design time more enjoyable and more productive.  Take on your next building or remodeling project with the quality, easy-to-use tools of the Punch! Home and Landscape Design Suite with NexGen Technology.

• Easy to Use - QuickStart and NextGen technologies let you automatically create a finished, dimensioned floor plan within minutes.  New home plan, landscape, and furniture groupings make designing easy.
• Fast - Home and Landscape Design Suite is up to 26 times faster than the competition to make designing more enjoyable and productive.
• Superior Rendering - Flexible controls for real-world lighting make Punch! images stand out.  All images on this package are exactly as they appear on the computer screen.

Home Design - Get past the blank page fast with four easy steps, or start your project from scratch.

• QuickStart - Simply select a room, click and drag it to your custom size.  Then use simple and powerful tools for your hands-on approach, including auto-snap alignment, multiple floors, and automatic roof generation as you draw.
• Professionally Designed Home Plan Templates - This easy starting point provides editable house plans that put you on a design fast track.
• Floor Plan Trace - Scan your favorite floor plan or one you've sketched, and trace it into the program then scale with precision controls.
• PhotoView - Just need to add a deck or landscaping to your existing house?  Take a picture and add it easily with PhotoView.

Remodel and Decorate - Smart, easy to use tools provide the easy way to design your home without a learning curve.

• Included Templates - Editable house plans, furniture groupings, and landscape beds all feature drag-and-drop control, letting you jump start your creativity in just a few mouse clicks.  Just open the file and you're designing.  You can easily modify, expand, and embellish to suit your taste.
• Technology Partners with You - QuickStart's superior technology gets you designing immediately while Build Green provides energy-saving and green building tips and advice.  Fast Rending makes designing a breeze and LogiCursor Technology provides laser-line, CAD-based automatic alignment and snaps for precision drawing.
• Service Links - Support provides online help so you get the most from your software while Plot printing service outputs your design as full-size blueprints.  Shop provides integrated online shopping for building products, accessories, and decorating items, and Design brings you right back to your drawing with one click.
• Smart Rooms - All dimensioning and other attributes are automatically contained within SmartRooms, making painting, flooring, and resizing easier and faster.
• Custom Themes - Define the color of the user interface to suit your preferences - choose a favorite color or a neutral shade as your personal workspace.

Landscape and Decks - Design your dream home with tools for creating the perfect deck or enhancing with landscaping.

• One-Click Repainting with Decorator Palette - Try different materials and trim combinations.  Save favorite palettes, then click to automatically change combinations.
• Automatic Roofs or Customize Your Own - Standard or complex, preset roof tools make any roof style easy to create.
• 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.
• AutoFraming with Framing Editor - View rough-in framing with one mouse cluck, including custom stud spacing and size; metal, wood, or custom framing options; custom and standard decks, and even add insulation with one mouse click.
• Fence Designer - Versatile tool lets you design fences with any custom material, color, or photo object - even draw your design freehand.
• Landscape Templates for Instant Curb Appeal - Professional-designed, zone-specific plant groupings with simple drag-and-drop placement provide attractive landscape design in a variety of shapes.
• Plant Finder - Sort from thousands of plants to match your needs.  The sorting feature lets you select growing parameters, International zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions with photo-realistic images of real-world plants.
• Automatic Growth Tool - See how your plantings will look years from now.  View plant spacing and heights with a single mouse click.
• Get a Bird's Eye View - Perfect for assessing your planting design, this view can be combined with the review and inventory of your plants with Estimator to make the best plan.

Outdoor Living - Design it your way to create the perfect outdoor living scene you want for your home.

• Elevation View - Dynamically edit within elevation views.  Elevations can be viewed as line drawings, shaded line drawings, full color, and more. Edit Smart Object positioning and easily place or stack windows in 3D.
• Create a 3D Model - Punch! RealModel takes your home design and automatically creates needed templates to build a 3D model.  Choose a scale, print out, and assemble the numbered sections.
• Window Treatments - A full library of drapes, blinds, shades, and more, to add the decorator touch to your design.
• Doors and Windows - Select a door or window style and customize to fit your plan.  Choose from hundreds of combinations.
• Add Functionality for Outdoor Space - Add sitting or entertainment areas, design outdoor storage, grow plants over time, and view the effects of shade. Use custom edging, fencing, paths, outdoor furniture, and more.
• Global Sun Positioning - Precision tool aligns your property to any location your specify, including time of day. View the effects of sun angle, positioning, location, and shadows on your design before you build.

Storage and Media Rooms - Design every detail for a home that is just right for you.

• New Storage Design Options - Turn storage areas into functional, organized spaces. Design custom closets and garage spaces with included brand-name materials.
• Plan Views - Work with various plan views including Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Foundation.  The plan layer views show any or all elements of your design.
• Entertainment Centers and Media Rooms - Showcase your media area with cabinetry easily designed with Cabinet Designer, or design your entire media room with furniture and components from the library.
• Furniture Showroom Templates - Add furniture groups with simple drag and drop. Easily arrange or edit your selections to suit your design.
• Brand Name Product Libraries - Thousands of possibilities are featured in the Product Libraries, including faux finishes, interior and exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds, stone, and much more.  Brand Name Product Libraries include nationally recognized decorating materials you can try out in your design.
• Remodel for more usable space - Transform cluttered space into a home office, media, or rec room. Plan all phases of your remodel including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and more.

Interior Design - From kitchen and baths to all areas of the house, Home and Landscape Design lets you customize the perfect look.

• Dream Kitchens - Try out your best ideas for kitchen design and vie them instantly.
• Wall Trim and Coverings - Choose from headboard, library paneling, faux finish, paint, wallpaper, and other materials.
• Fixture Library - The Fixture Library includes a complete library of styles for your new kitchen or bathroom.
• Elegant Baths - Easy tools plus drag-and-drop functionality let you explore design ideas and combinations of color and materials.
• Automatic Cabinet Designer - Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances.  Also perfect for designing your entertainment center or garage organization.
• Decorator Palette - Try different pain and trim combinations.  Save favorite palettes, then click to automatically change and view combinations.
• 3D Custom Workshop - Build virtually any object or modify existing objects from the library.  Use photo-realistic materials including wood, fabric, paint colors, stone, brick, and more.

Overview

• Clean, uncluttered user interface
• Themed UI - customize color scheme
• Green tips for eco-friendly building and energy savings
• Seamless integration of major tools
• Visual feedback during use
• Collapsible palettes and toolsets
• Video tutorials
• Training Center
• LogiCursor
• Snap tools - snap on segment, center, and endpoints
• 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 3D, see photo-realistic 3D
• Open files from previous Punch! products
• Auto-Save, in the event of power failure
• Mouse options for 3D navigation, viewpoint, and zoom
• Windows 7 certified

2D Capabilities

• Create scaled plans
• 2D elevation views
• 2D sliced elevation views
• 2D geometry creation views
• 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 features

Templates

• Editable templates
• Drop in pre-created standard rooms
• Kitchen, bedroom, living room, dining, nursery, desk, landscape, and more
• Sample home plans

QuickStart

• 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 technology
• Real-time walk through and fly around
• Viewpoint - user defined angle
• Look up and down view controls
• Aerial view
• 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
• All lights cast multiple shadows for increased 3D realism
• 3D elevation views
• Save/access 3D viewpoints from 3D views
• 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 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
• Export to .BMP file format
• VRML export

Editing Tools

• Extensive Properties Sheet
• Undo/redo up to 50 levels
• Precision tools
• Controlled selection tool
• Object sizing
• Flip and mirror tools
• Easily move, rotate, or flip entire plan
• Change wall, roof, floor, and other segment lengths with keyboard entry
• Paste
• Arrow key nudge option
• Rotate objects
• Crosshair cursor
• Grid

Material Importer

• Customizable Materials (scale) including carpet, flooring, roofing, wood, siding, stucco, grass, clouds, stone, block, tile and fabric
• Blends to make image tileable
• Tile or stretch, when applying
• Stackable/Customizable

Decorator Palette

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

Accessories

• Create window treatments
• Stackable/Customizable
• Auto size to window
• Artwork
• Translucency tool

Wall Coverings

• Choose paint and wall covering options
• 1124 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. Maxwell (wallcoverings)
• Faux Effects International (faux finishing)
• Warner Wall Coverings (wallpaper)
• Kahrs 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)
• Bali Blinds (window treatments)
• BBQ pits by Klose
• Tourlinks (personal putting greens)
• Oriental Outpost/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
• Auto-elevate objects to floors/ceilings
• Prearranged furniture groupings
• Smart elevation intuitively places objects at logical heights

Cabinet Tools

• 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
• Custom surface textures for doors
• Outdoor cabinets

Dimensioning

• Perimeter dimensioning
• Continuous object insertion
• 3D Elevation Slider
• Auto dimensioning
• Metric or English 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 between libraries

Walls

• Wall Properties Edit Sheet
• LogiCursor technology
• Laser alignment with other walls
• Snap to segment, center, and endpoint
• Auto wall generator
• Optionally enter wall lengths with keyboard
• Angle lock for custom wall creation
• Copy walls between floors
• Walls lock to 5 degree increments
• Angle measurement displayed
• Dimensions show real-time wall position during editing
• Smart Rooms intelligently recognize room space, auto-update changes
• Specify floor thickness for each room
• Curved wall tool
• Horizontal/Vertical lock on/off
• Variable stud spacing
• Custom wall shapes, angles, and sizes
• Custom wall elevations
• Window/Door call-outs
• Automatic base trim
• Library paneling
• Floor Cut out tool with depth/area calculations

Floor Plan Trace

• 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
• Single click changes window header size
• Change framing features to meet codes
•  Automatically add floor joists and concrete slabs
• Edit joist angle and spacing
• Define rim joists
• Custom beams
• User-definable beam and joist types
• Add insulation with one mouse click
• Support columns include steel, wood, and custom material
• 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 fit
• Railing tool
• Change railing elevation for ramps
• Customize baluster spacing
• Circular (spiral) staircase

Windows

• Settings become defaults for drawing
• 19 customizable window styles: round, hex, triangle, arch, etc.
• Width, height, and elevation settings
• Trim width adjustments
• Stackable windows and doors
• Custom window pane/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

• 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 tool
• Custom edging
• Gazebos and yard furnishings
• Sprinkler system layout
• Irrigation tools including zone, control, lines, and flow valves
• 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 library
• Plant inventory bar
• 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
• Predesigned landscape beds

Fence Designer

• Specific 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

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
• Walls, driveways, paths, plants and fences follow topo
• Hills and ponds of any size, ht, or depth
• Custom Property Line tool
• Custom paths: one click toggles between straight/curved
• Create open-ended topography designs
• Up to 1000' by 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, cut-aways, dimensioning, textures and accessories
• Edit doors and windows in elevation view
• View plan elevations in ClearView line-rendered or shaded rendering
• 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
• Windows and Door schedules
• HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical schedules
• Variable-sized stud schedule
• Area calc for floor and foundations
• Landscape plantings schedule
• Deck schedule
• Create master price lists

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 included in Estimator
• Works with active Decorator Palette
• Paint library
• Color ramps

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
• Day/night views
• Control lights with on/off switch, dimmer, fall off, ambient on/off, beam and direction
• Shadows rendered on multiple surfaces from multiple light sources
• Gang switches-2,3,4, or 5

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 spa 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)

RealModel

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

3D 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

Global Sun Positioning

• Sun angle
• Select specific time of day and year
• Set location anywhere in the world
• Automatically adjust sun brightness and sunlight shadows
• Use astronomically correct angles
• Based on geographical locations

Compass

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

Service Links

• Links to third-party services
• Shopping, design advice, and blueprints

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• Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
• Intel Pentium 3, Celeron, or compatible 1.0 GHz processor or higher (multi-core processors supported)
• 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
• Two button mouse, three-button mouse with wheel recommended
• 64 MB of video card memory
• Internet access required to use some features

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