Ordinary blueprints can't show you what Punch!
Professional Home Design Suite can!
Software Information
Punch! Professional Home Design Suite offers 12 programs on one easy-to-use
interface to help you design all of the critical components of your home,
including foundations, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, custom windows, custom roofs,
and much more. This package includes 3D Home Exterior & Interior Design, 3D
Landscape, and Ultimate Deck, plus a 3-D scale model creator and an autoframing
feature with a cost estimator.
There's no other software like it! ALL program components work from the
same simple interface, so all design tools and 3D capabilities are always at
your fingertips. The LiveView window continually previews your work, in
real-time 3D, as you draw. Convenient features such as the unique "color
ramp" give you thousands of subtle paint color choices, slope tool allows
easy design flexibility for walk-out basements and split-level designs. Interior
and exterior 2D elevations are available with a single mouse click and the
exclusive ClearView tool renders your design with a "glass house"
effect so you can see through walls and maximize space. Feature for feature, the
easy-yet-powerful tools integrated in Professional Home Design Suite give you
virtually unlimited control over every aspect of your home plan.
Ultimate Deck
This feature includes powerful tools to give you complete control to design
the perfect deck for your home plan. Multi-level or multi-story decks with 3D
photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color
capabilities give you the ability to design exactly the deck you want. Deck
Wizards walk you through railing, baluster options, and more.
3D Landscape
When you're ready to landscape, just add your plantings to your existing
file. Only Punch! lets you landscape without redrawing your house plan unlike
other home design software "suites". You'll see beautiful results
rendered in realistic 3D! Professional Home Design Suite gives you the
flexibility to create retaining walls and other topographic features that
enhance your home design. You can even design a custom sprinkler system for your
property!
Foundation Planner
Excavate foundation and retaining walls into your topography. Split-level
and walk-out basements are a snap. Program Includes specialized tools for slabs with
support beams, exterior wall thickness, foundation piers, post-tension and more.
Heating, Ventilating & Cooling Planner
Lets you design the ultimate system for comfort and maximum efficiency.
Components include custom supply & return air ducts, floor registers,
ceiling & wall registers, return air grills, furnace, condensing unit,
baseboard heating units and more.
Custom Sprinkler Systems
Ensure your green thumb with a custom sprinkler system! . Define both the
radius and arc of your sprinkler with simple click and drag. Design a system for
your entire yard and/or specific planting areas quickly and easily. Use the
Custom Sprinkler Tool to visualize maximum system coverage.
Plumbing Planner
Program Includes and extensive library of fixtures including sinks, toilets, tubs,
spas, shower stalls, water heater, floor drains, gas & water hose bibs and
much more. In addition, many of these objects automatically attach to walls so
fixtures move when walls are edited.
Electrical Planner
A comprehensive component library including indoor and outdoor receptacles,
provision for 110 or 220 volt, single, 3, 4, or 5-way switches, can &
spotlights, TV & phone jacks, smoke detectors, thermostat, ceiling fans,
dimmer switches, GFI receptacles and more.
FloorPlan Trace
Simply scan your favorite home plan and it becomes a traceable template you
can modify to create your own customized plan
Home Estimator
As you design, Home Estimator compiles building materials and landscape
plantings information on the fly, producing a handy report in an editable,
printable, exportable spreadsheet format. Just plug in the labor and material
costs for your locality and Home Estimator does the rest!
AutoFraming
View a 3D rough-in frame view of your home plan with one mouse click! See
complex stairs, roof trusses, headers and more. AutoFraming works with the
integrated Home Estimator program to track expenses and keep you on budget.
3D RealModel
Only Punch! software lets you build a professional-looking 3D scale model of
your home plan. Our RealModel technology takes your home design and creates the
components needed to produce a model...directly from your design file. All of
your chosen colors and textures print to your color printer, for you to mount on
foamboard, trim and assemble.
Ordinary blueprints can't show you what Punch!
Professional Home Design Suite can!
Turn layers on and off for uncluttered viewing, printing and drawing. You can
combine as few or as many layers as you wish AND spot potential, costly design
conflicts. Only Punch! lets you view your plan YOUR way!
Software Computer Requirements
- Pentium or faster processor
- Microsoft Microsoft windows XP 98, NT, 2000, or Me
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