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Punch! Home & Landscape Design Essentials v21

	Punch! Home & Landscape Design Essentials v21 Platform: PC Rating: Status: Available	$69.95
Overview Features Requirements Overview Design and update your home and landscaping with Punch Home and Landscape Design Essentials, the best version yet! No matter your interior or landscape design project, Punch Home and Landscape Design Essentials provides a complete set of tools to plan, design and visualise your outdoor spaces. Design your landscaping with drop-in landscaping, or create your own with the extensive plant library. Punch! Home & Landscape Design Essentials will help you choose the right plants for your area. Build the perfect deck from the ground up, or remodel and renovate your existing exterior spaces. Easily add pre-made outdoor kitchens, water features, custom fences, pathways and even a pool. Designing that dream home has never been simpler! Whether designing from the ground up; remodeling; or renovating, Punch! Home & Landscape Design Essential will help bring that dream home to life! It's easy to get started with the QuickStart feature that can quickly drag and drop rooms to complete the layout. Need ideas? Use one of the editable professionally designed floor plans for inspiration and a fast start. Utilise the extensive library of products, materials, furnishings and accessories to complete the ultimate design and then visualise the project in 2D, 3D and then print professional plans. DESIGN IT QuickStart: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan. PhotoView™: Take pictures of the outside of an existing house and add design features and details. DETAIL IT Photo View uses a home photo around which landscaping, decks and pools can be designed. Site Planner and Topo Tools automatically draw the property line, per owner coordinates, then exports the lot into the landscape design. Planting Library includes a full selection of flowers, shrubs and trees. PlantFinder™ ensures growing success. Sorting feature helps select sunlight, climate, water and soil conditions around the world. Photo-realistic images of real-world plants can be viewed from any angle. Colour-coded zone maps include over 10,000 plants in 10 zones. Complete plant information is available in the Plant Details dialog. Drag and drop plants includes thousands of trees, shrubs and flowers. Use the Automatic Growth tool to see how the landscape will look in a few years. Personalise the topography with slopes and berms. Add pre-made landscape gardens with a single mouse click. Build dramatic retaining walls in stone, brick, or other materials, and plantings to finish the look. Design fences with custom material, colour, photos or even draw a custom design. VISUALISE IT Save time and money by visualizing your designs in 2D and 3D and estimating costs before you begin. FEATURES & TOOLS DESIGN PHASE TABS Easy tabs organise your project into foundation, floor, electrical, plumbing, roof, etc. creating all the steps needed for your design. NEW AND IMPROVED OBJECT LIBRARY Endless possibilities! Thousands of 2D and 3D objects to choose from! Choose entire furniture groupings with simple drag and drop. Choose from thousands of nationally recognised decorating materials including faux finishes, wood floors, counter tops, blinds and much more! NEW and improved library is easier to use and faster to search. SIMPLE DRAG AND DROP TOOLS ADD ROOMS, PAINT COLOUR, FURNISHINGS, LANDSCAPE PLANTINGS AND MORE! 3D CUSTOM WORKSHOP Build virtually any object or modify existing objects from the library. Use photo-realistic materials including wood, fabric, paint colours, stone, brick, and more. BUILD GREEN Go green in one click; watch your design go green with design tips and objects; recycled glass counter tops, bamboo flooring and more! Make your home more energy efficient with new appliances or update your windows, doors and more! SMARTWAND™ SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room, or your entire house, with one mouse click! COST ESTIMATION AND MOBILE LANDSCAPING QUOTE INSTANT 2D/3D VIEWS PLUS THE ABILITY TO CREATE TEMPLATES FOR A 3D MODEL OF YOUR DESIGN PRINT BLUEPRINTS OF YOUR DESIGNS INTUITIVE INTERACTIVE HELP Do it yourself tips: Includes hundreds of DIY how-to-tips from the experts Symbol editor & section detailer: additional professional architectural annotation tools WHAT'S NEW! ENHANCED PERFORMANCE - 64-BIT VERSION Experience faster performance with new 64-bit processing. Handles large files with ease. Faster graphics rendering. Get the most out of your installed RAM for better memory use with less crashes. 2D PLAN DETAILING Punch v21 now provides extensive detailing tools suitable for annotating site plans, floor plans, elevation views, and providing other details required for proper construction and permits. These new tools include a Callout tool, Level Lines, Plan, Window and Door labels, and Note Markers. In addition, numerous improvements to line styles and fill patterns provide greater ability to annotate and call out regions and areas of the drawing. All essential in accurately communicating design intent. LEVEL LINES Add labels to drawing to callout important structural elevations when creating construction documentations. LINE STYLES Ability to add labels to line styles. PLAN LABELS Add title lines to display Plan names; customise text alignment and font style. WINDOW AND DOOR LABELS Add custom labels for use, for example, in identifying manufacturer name or model/part number. 2D OBJECT DETAILING FILL PATTERNS Newly added patterns, and a new rotate pattern option. FILL PATTERN LIBRARY Expandable through downloadable content. EVEN MORE FREE CONTENT! 2D HOUSE PLANS Save hours of design time by using professionally drawn single and two-story house plans as 2D tracing layers which can then be automatically viewed as a 3D design. 250 plans to choose from! 360˚ ONLINE VIEWER View or share your Punch! 3D Models in your web browser on any device! A great way to collaborate and share your design ideas with clients or with interior designers/builders. Simply render a room and Export it to the Punch! Online Viewer, to see a 360° view, including the floor and ceiling! Features HOME DESIGN FOUR WAYS TO START YOUR PROJECT QuickStart: Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan. Professionally Designed Plans: Need inspiration or an instant starting point? Utilise our editable house plans to fast track your design or browse them for room layout ideas. Floor Plan Trace: Trace a favourite floor plan, or use one you’ve sketched. PhotoView: Take pictures of the inside or outside of an existing house and easily add design features and details. AUTO ROOF GABLE Instantly add gable roof panels. AUTO FRAMING Select metal, wood or custom framing options, including custom roofs, walls, and floor joists. AUTO ROOF GABLES AND ONE CLICK DORMER TOOL Instantly add gable walls and roof panels. WINDOWS, DOORS & WALLS Select from an extensive library of door and window styles. Customise the size, grille style, and other parameters to fit your plan. Use window and door designer power tools to create custom doors. ADD ROOMS AND DECORATE WITH ONE MOUSE CLICK! Drag and drop room creation. SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room or your entire house with one mouse click. VIEW IN 2D, ELEVATION AND AERIAL 2D 3D AERIAL ESTIMATE COSTS, BUILD A 3D MODEL, CREATE BLUE PRINTS LANDSCAPE DESIGN SITE PLANNER AND TOPO TOOLS Site-planner automatically draws your property line, as you enter the coordinates, then exports your lot into your landscape design. Add real-world topography to your building site. Trace over your topo lines. Automatically cuts or adds fill and building pad to your design. PLANTING LIBRARY Includes a full selection of flowers, shrubs, and trees you can add to your design. You can also add your own favourite plants to the database! PLANTFINDER™ PlantFinder™ searches plants for your area, using parameters you specify, ensuring growing success. Sorting feature lets you select growing parameters, international zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions. Photo-realistic images of real-world plants that can be viewed from any angle. Colour-coded zone maps make plant selection easy and foolproof. PLANT GROWTH Plan smart! Plan your design and see it grow over time. Perfect for previewing shade. HARDSCAPES Build dramatic retaining walls that define and accent your home. Choose stone, brick, or other materials. Then add your plantings to finish the look. FENCE DESIGNER Design fences with custom material, colour, photos or even draw your own design. VIEW IN 2D, ELEVATION AND AERIAL DECK & PATIO DESIGN OUTDOOR LIVING Turn a drab backyard into outdoor entertaining space with included objects for kitchens, fireplaces, furniture, and more. Add pavers, decks, and landscaping to your design. DECK AND PATIO TEMPLATES Predesigned, drag and drop, editable designs you can use as is or customise to your personal style! VIEW IN 2D, ELEVATION AND AERIAL Requirements Windows® 10, 8, or 7 Intel® or compatible 1.0 GHz 64-Bit processor or higher (multi-core processor supported) 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB or more recommended 3 GB of Hard Disk Space VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024x768 with 32-bit colour Mouse with wheel recommended 256 MB Video Card Memory Internet access and Internet Service Provider account required² ¹Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows® 10, 8, or 7. ²User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges.