Comment on Home Designer Architectural 2012 [Download] by George C. Targonski.
Better than Punch,
Read other reviews that compare Punch products to Home Designer products and you will see that this software is superior. I had an old version of Punch that, well, wasn’t just right. I blamed myself that while I am very good at learning new software, I simply could not get Punch to behave. Home Designer is clearly a simplified version of the professional Chief Architect products made by the same company (which are simply too expensive) but Home Designer does everything a “designer” would want.
There are several products in the series and you should compare which features you would need. There is a three-hundred dollar difference between Architect (which I have) and Professional. The only feature that Pro has that I wish was included is the ability to press the Control key while clicking on similar items (like kitchen cabinets) to change the features of all of them at once – say to go from oak to a birch finish. That is very time consuming to do one-at-a-time.
I designed my kitchen with opening walls and putting in cabinets and appliances, then I developed 3D views and even a short video walk through. This after 6 hours of watching short training videos and playing with the program.
Don’t think the software will solve all your problems anymore than buying an expensive word processing program will solve the problem of writing a thesis. You need to know the logic of what is possible in moving walls and how best to layout a kitchen. But this software will do exactly what you ask and won’t LET you do something impossible.
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