Punch! Home & Landscape Design Suite

Design a home, deck, or landscape project...bring your ideas to life!



Punch! Home and Landscape Design Suite is the all new product from Punch! two years in development and written from the bottom up.  A new code base allows Punch! to offer new features and enhanced performance while maintaining the features you enjoyed in their previous versions. Because of this combination of compatibility with previous versions mated with new features, they have labeled this nexGen technology emphasizing their focus on the future as well as differentiating this as a completely new product.

• QuickStart - The fastest way to get your design project moving quickly
• Building Green - Green feature includes eco-friendly tips and ideas that save energy and money
• Google 3D Support - Access to millions of objects for your design

Smart Rooms - Intelligent room detection gives you complete automation that changes when you change the size or shape of your design, including the roof!

Video Tutorials - Over 100 minutes of live video directly in the software to help you be productive right out of the box

3D Custom Workshop - Professional CAD capabilities bring real power to customization and replication

Speed and Performance - Up to 26 times faster rendering speed than our competitors.

LogiCursor - Intelligent cursor helps you quickly snap and align objects and walls

Photo-Realistic Cabinets, Doors, and Outdoor items - Make your designs more realistic than ever before

Auto Roof Generation - Roofing is now generated automatically and can be easily modified

New 3D Objects - Expanded library with stunning looks to bring your design to life -- includes home theatre items

Support Services - Quickly locate support information such as the FAQ or contact their US based support professionals by phone or email

Integrated Online Shopping - Instantly search for thousands of building related items and even purchase without ever leaving the application.

Large Format Prints of Your Design - Done with your design and ready to share with the world? Utilize Punch printing services to easily order floor plan prints

Professional Contractors - Utilize our search service to locate contractors in your area who can help make your design a reality

Included Tools:

• 3D Custom Workshop
• Estimator
• PhotoView
• Framing Editor

• QuickStart - fast and easy home layout
• Building Green design tips
• Building Green objects and materials
• NexGen user interface
• SmartRooms
• Custom library of smart objects - includes sinks, toilets, etc.
• Integrated service links such as large format printing/plotting, contractor searched, etc.
• Expanded, updated object library - includes home theater items
• LogiCursor snaps walls to midpoints, endpoints, intersections
• Punch! Interior Design Suite integrated
• Color Sampling
• Brand name content
• Getting started tutorials
• Video (Tool tip) tutorials
• 3D PhotoView
• 2D and 3D elevation views
• Elevation editing tools
• Real-time walk and fly through
• Exterior material library - Siding, brick, rock, paint, stucco, block, wood, mulch, gravel, concrete, roofing, ground cover and more
• Interior materal library - Carpet, paint, wallpaper and more
• Landscape topography
• Property slope tools
• Excavation tool
• Deck design tools including multi-level decks
• Automatic curved stair and railing generator
• Automatic framing tool
• Estimator
• Framing roof truss, windows and door schedules
• Floor Plan Trace
• 3D landscape growth
• Photo realistic anti-aliasing technology
• Definable sun location for shadows
• RealModel
• Automatic floor plan dimensioning
• Custom complete roof tool
• Auto roof generation and synchronization
• International plant zone maps
• Editable home and deck plans
• 2D and 3D object designer
• English or metric measurements
• Definable lot size and shape
• Customizable interior/exterior objects
• Construction phase overlays
• Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing, Foundation planners
• Lawn Sprinkler Designer
• Irregular shaped Wall Wizard
• Curved wall tool
• Custom door and window styles
• Skylight and Dormer cutout tools
• 3D Cutaway slider
• All colors customizable
• Undo/redo - up to 50 levels
• Keyboard entry for wall, roof, floor and other segments
• Exterior wainscot tool
• Cabinet Wizard
• PlantFinder
• Plant fill multi-plant insertion
• BMP, JPG, DXF and DWG import/export
• Google SketchUp and 3DS import
• Full Punch! file compatibility

• Windows XP, Vista
• Intel Pentium 3, Celeron, or compatible 1.0 GHz processor or higher (dual-core processors and those with Hyper-Threading Technology supported)
• 512 MB of RAM
• 4.5 GB of Hard Disk Space
• VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024 x 768 with 24-bit color (32-bit, if available)
• DVD-ROM drive
• Mouse or other pointing device
• 64 MB Video Card Memory
• Optional:  Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above to use Punch! Updater