Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
- Get Started fast – reall! Even a beginner can build a house in 59 seconds!
- Video Tutorials launch right from the help menue. We’ll help you from start to finish!
- Just hit the going green icon and watch your design become updated with energy efficient materials and objects.
- Smart Room technology allows you to simply drag & drop rooms, move or resize at will.
- Integrated Internet – shop for materials, find a contractor, or import from Google Sketch up, we just made the possibilities endless.
Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio with NexGen Technology takes home, landscape, and interior designing to a new level–it’s a new way to easier home design for the MAC! With our revolutionary NexGen Technology you can build a new house or replicate your own house in just minutes! New Intelligent Design feature, walls, paint, flooring, and more are moved, changed or updated with a click of the mouse. Building Green–click the feature, scroll over your design and the screen will highlight area
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(out of 11 reviews)
List Price: $ 149.99
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Review by D. Snodgrass for Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
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Honestly, I bought this to replace it’s bigger brother — thinking it would be easier and more intuitive and friendly with their new nexGen technology. This product has a steep learning curves and a thick, but useless user guide that explains each tool but not how to use it. I’ve tried (in vain) to design my upcoming remodel. In both programs, I stopped, just plain overwhelmed and discouraged.
Review by D. Eadie for Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
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I’ve used professional CAD packages like Cobalt that are far, far less frustrating to use. Very un-Mac-like behavior, very limited ability to edit existing walls, slow 3D performance on my iMac.
Wish I could recommend another home design package for Mac, but at least I can say, “Stay away from this one, folks!”
Review by L. Hurley for Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
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It doesn’t work. At least not on my MacBook Pro w/Leopard. I had high hopes for the program, but after several calls and e-mails to Punch! support we don’t have a solution. Worse, the Punch! techs appear to have given up. On top of that, Punch! is refusing to refund the purchase price.
The good news is that Punch! actually has toll-free tech support and I was actually able to reach them fairly easily. And to a certain extent they’ve tried to help. Maybe some of you will have better luck than me. Or maybe not. Good luck.
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UPDATE: Somebody at Punch! figured it out. HDS is incompatible with the Mac’s “case-sensitive” disk format and that’s what I had. Don’t know how I got that way or why it matters (Apple didn’t know, either), but a complete erase, reformat, and reinstall later and the program is working with all objects and tools available.
so I would give it 3 STARS. It’s a decent program – probably best at this price – but this hard drive format thing needs to be fixed.
Review by spinoza for Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
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For some reason I thought that Punch would have learned a thing or two in the past couple of years and so decided to purchase the upgrade to this software. Astonishingly it was as bad as before, and the new features they included are as poorly designed as the existing software. Very little about this software is intuitive, and you must read the manual from cover to cover to even begin making sense of its ridiculously bad interface. The only problem is that the manual itself is almost useless, so getting anywhere with this software becomes an exercise in frustration. After spending the better part of a day attempting to do a simple plan for a sunroom I am building, I finally gave up and did it using a simple drawing app for the Mac (Acorn)… in less than half an hour. It’s really criminal that a company can get away with selling software like this.
Review by S. CHOU for Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio for the Mac with NexGen Technology
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After you spend two days fine tuning with your drawing, there are only two possible way to print. One is to print an unreadable, small sized print with spaces all over the paper. Or, print to scale with 24 pages. Cannot print partial, cannot size it, cannot do anything about it.