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Design Your Dream Home in Minutes [VIDEO]

Brian — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:43:06 +0000

Ever wanted to re-design your home or yard, but didn’t want to deal with a costly consultant. Well now you can design your dream home or yard easily with Punch Home and Landscape Design. Featuring QuickStart the program allows you to start dragging and dropping rooms into place in seconds. This is truly one of the easiest programs to see what your dream home looks like. One of my favorite features is the “Building Green” tips; these are awesome suggestions for saving energy and money by going green. By choosing Go Green you can find out which energy efficient materials and objects will help you accomplish your eco-friendly goals. With tons of 3D objects built in, and even more available with built in support for Google 3D it’s never been easier to see your plans as if it were designed professionally in an advanced CAD program. When you’re done designing you can even print out a large format plan of your design, just like you would get from an architect! Think this program can’t get any cooler? …Well maybe not, but in July you can receive an additional $5 off from SoftwareMedia.com.

Check out this video we made a little while ago highlighting the features of Punch Home and Landscape Design.

A Brief History On – Punch! (the software company, not the delicious beverage)

Justin — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:27:05 +0000

This week for “A Brief History On,” we button up the plaid shirt and strap on the tool belt for some Bob Vila-style home improvement. This topic is really exciting for me to talk about as it hits close to home (no pun intended [and, yes, clichéd phrases are welcome]).

Punch! Software was founded in 1998 by Gary Jenkins, Pete Pierce, and Steve Davis with the idea that 3D design shouldn’t be a tedious task used as a means to an end, but rather a fun tool to help express one’s creative side. Based out of Kansas City, Missouri, Punch! delivers the one-two knockout of home and landscape design so ftware.

Since 2000, Punch! has been the #1 selling H&L design retail software brand in the U.S. and they do it with such great products as Home and Landscape Design Suite, Weekend Project, and more. As Computer Aided Design (CAD) is standard in engineering and architecture, CAD is becoming more and more common around the household, and with good reason. Why spend an entire weekend shuffling furniture, testing paint samples, and second-guessing yourself, when you can simply re-create your bedroom or kitchen in no-time? With easy-to-use tools, your virtual house becomes a blank canvas to create your masterpiece. Wanna see how that accent wall looks in lime? How about sky blue? A couple clicks and you’ll know.

My wife and I just bought our first house, and this program will come in very handy for our various updating and remodeling projects. With Home & Landscape Design Suite, those home-improvement projects don’t seem near as daunting. What’s even better; no exhausting manuals nor 4-year degree in Structural Engineering necessary!

Today, Punch! boasts a rather impressive, albeit similar, line of home-improvement CAD programs. They ship tens of thousands of units monthly all over the U.S., in addition to Canada, Europe, and even Australia. Whether you need to do some major backyard landscaping, or a simple bathroom touch-up, Punch! has already thought of your project and has a tool designed just for you. Summer’s right around the corner, and now’s the time to be planning those major projects. Follow our links to see what Punch! can do for you. I even think we’ve got some Punch! software deals going on right now, so don’t wait! Until next time.

enjoy.

See it in Action – Home & Landscape Design Suite

Kevin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:41:20 +0000

In my last post about the new Punch! Home and Landscape Design Suite I gave you a basic run-down of getting started and some of the new features in this year’s release. For this installment, I thought I would give you a visual presentation of just how easy this software is to use. It’s also pretty fun to play around with the QuickStart feature to come up with cool home designs.

Check it out in HD!

Where this product really shines is in its ease of use for the novice CAD user. Literally anyone can create their dream house or model their own home in a matter of minutes. The software gets a little more technical when it comes to creating the details of a house, but Punch still keeps things simple with intuitive and easy to use controls. After about 30 minutes with the software I was totally comfortable with most of the advanced tasks.

Punch Home & Landscape Design Suite – First Impressions

Kevin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:45:09 +0000

Today I had the opportunity to try out the new Home & Landscape Design Suite by Punch! Software. I am an experienced CAD user with a background in many technical, engineering based software platforms, so I know how much time it takes to learn a new modeling software. I was definitely curious and a little skeptical about the Home Design Suite and its claim that you can model the basics of a house in 59 seconds.

The newest version of this award-winning series features a completely new way to get your project started quickly. Its called QuickStart, and it’s designed to get your dream home ideas from your head to your computer in a few easy steps. QuickStart launches as soon as you start a new file, and it’s basically a blank grid, ready for your room shapes.

To start my newest home creation, I just clicked on a room type and dragged the rectangle to the grid. The room types are color coded and sized appropriately, making it even easier to start. Once my blue 12′x14′ dining room was in place, I dragged in a green Kitchen box and resized it to 15′x14′. The color-coded boxes automatically snap to adjoining rooms and resize with a click of your mouse.

About 3 minutes later I had my floorplan completely done. I then hit the “Continue” button and the rudimentary floorplan was transformed into a 3D rendering, complete with a stylish roof! It took about 2 more minutes to add custom windows and doors all over the house, and my basic home was done in under 5 minutes. Not too bad.

Once your basic house is ready, it is super easy to modify, delete, or reshape walls. Then the fun begins: adding wall textures, flooring, furnishings, and landscaping. I will be experimenting more with the Home & Landscape Design Suite later this week (including its new “Going Green” features), so stay tuned for a more in-depth review.