Description:
Designing a home, deck, or your own landscape project is easy in our most versatile home-and-landscape design software, ever! With our easy video and audio tutorials, accessible right from your help menu, you never have to leave your project to get your question answered! You are in control with the industry’s most powerful and easy-to-use tools to bring your thoughts and ideas to life!

Home Design

• Integrated video tutorials: Allows you to launch video and audio tutorials straight from the help menu while in your project.
• Precision Lighting Planner: Interior or exterior. Precision lighting controls deliver multiple shadows with new beam direction and glow options. One-click day to night lighting.
• PhotoView: Add your favorite real-world objects using scanned photos or a digital camera. Mask or enhance your photo with Photo View Editor.
• Home Estimator: Produces a handy report in an editable, printable spreadsheet format. Enter the labor and material costs for your locality and Home Estimator does the rest.
• Top-down (aerial) views give you a helpful view of a single room or your entire plan for furniture placement, etc.
• Log homes: Build a log home or deck using the included 80-piece log home object library.
• Professional-plan views: Plumbing, electrical, heating, ventilating, cooling, and foundation plans. View Individual or combine phase layers. Detailed views include slabs and beams, post-tension, air ducts and registers, plumbing fixtures and drains, hip, gable, and custom roofs, multiple elevations, electrical fixtures, receptacles, switches, 110/220v, fans, and much more!
• 3D Custom Workshop: CAD-based feature lets you build virtually any object. Start from scratch or modify existing objects from the library. Use photo-realistic program materials including wood, fabric, paint colors, stone, brick, and more.
  
  

Interior Design

• Ceiling Designer: Autogenerate custom tray and recessed ceilings to your specs. Add custom-designed trim in a snap.
• Mantel Designer: Quick and easy! Choose custom styles and trim to create a unique and fully detailed mantel design.
• Translucency tool: Controllable translucent affect turns opaque fabric into sheer curtains instantly. Visualize how sunlight affects your room with different window treatments and fabrics. Color sampling allows you to easily match walls, and more, to your furniture.
• Decorator Palette: Switch your room’s entire color scheme with one click of the mouse.

Decks and Landscaping

• PhotoView Editor lets you edit your photos right in the program.
• Deck Wizard automatically creates a deck designed to your specs.
• Plant Finder: Over 4,000 plants included vs. the competition with only 2,000.
• Automatic growth tool: See how your plantings will look years from now. Use included tools to create outdoor living designs. Make your backyard a showcase.
• Global Sun Positioning: (Set sun angle by time and location) casts shadows including all trees and plants.
• Decorator Palette: Click to switch the entire color scheme of your design to try different color schemes.
• Integrated video tutorials allows you to launch video and audio tutorials straight from the help menu while in your project.
  
  

Competitive Information/Differences

• Superior speed and performance up to 26 times faster file rendering, reading and writing speeds, allowing you to work faster and smarter.
• Free phone tech support.
• Integrated video tutorials (no need to load separate CDs).
• Animator with special effects, fades, etc. (lets you record walk and fly throughs to share).
• 3DS Import: Import predrawn objects--thousands available on the Web.
• Detail Creator: Convert shapes to Punch! features.
• 3D Custom Workshop lets you modify objects from the library or create custom objects from scratch.
• Aerial views: Top-down views.