Features
3D Interior & Exterior Home
Design
There's no other software like it! ALL program
components work from the same simple interface, so all design
tools and 3D capabilities are always at your fingertips. The
LiveViewTM window continually previews your work, in real-time
3D, as you draw. Convenient features such as the unique "colour
ramp" give you thousands of subtle paint colour choices, slope
tool allows easy design flexibility for walk-out basements and
split-level designs.
Interior and exterior 2D elevations are available
with a single mouse click and the exclusive ClearViewTM tool
renders your design with a "glass house" effect so you can see
through walls and maximize space. Feature for feature, the
easy-yet-powerful tools integrated in Professional Home Design
Suite give you virtually unlimited control over every aspect of
your home plan.
Ultimate
Deck
This feature includes powerful tools to give you complete control
to design the perfect deck for your home plan. Multi-level or
multi-story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures, stairs,
railings, object placement, and colour capabilities give you the
ability to design exactly the deck you want. Deck Wizards walk
you through railing, baluster options, and
more.
3D
Landscape
When you're ready to landscape, just add your
plantings to your existing file. Only Punch! lets you landscape
without redrawing your house plan unlike other home design
software "suites". You'll see beautiful results rendered in
realistic 3D! Professional Home Design Suite gives you the
flexibility to create retaining walls and other topographic
features that enhance your home design. You can even design a
custom sprinkler system for your
property!
Foundation
Planner
Excavate foundation and retaining walls into your topography.
Split-level and walk-out basements are a snap. Includes
specialized tools for slabs with support beams, exterior wall
thickness, foundation piers, post-tension and
more.
Heating, Ventilating & Cooling
Planner
Lets you design the ultimate system for
comfort and maximum efficiency. Components include custom supply
& return air ducts, floor registers, ceiling & wall
registers, return air grills, furnace, condensing unit, baseboard
heating units and more.
Plumbing Planner
Includes and extensive library of fixtures including sinks,
toilets, tubs, spas, shower stalls, water heater, floor drains,
gas & water hose bibs and much more. In addition, many of
these objects automatically attach to walls so fixtures move when
walls are
edited.
Electrical
Planner
A comprehensive component library including indoor and outdoor
receptacles, provision for 220 volt, single, 3, 4, or 5-way
switches, can & spotlights, tv & phone jacks, smoke
detectors, thermostat, ceiling fans, dimmer switches, GFI
receptacles and
more.
FloorPlan Trace
Simply scan your favorite home plan and it becomes
a traceable template you can modify to create your own customised
plan.
Home Estimator
As you design, Home Estimator compiles building
materials and landscape plantings information on the fly,
producing a handy report in an editable, printable, exportable
spreadsheet format. Just plug in the labor and material costs for
your locality and Home Estimator does the
rest!
3D Custom
Workshop
High powered 3D CAD tool - Exceptional 3D design power that lets
you create virtually anything! Powerful editing tools include
mirror, flip, nudge, duplicate, group, rotate, skew, extrude,
smooth and more. Extensive furniture and object library includes
sofas, tables, chairs, built-in cabinets and fireplaces.
Customise any detail - change colours, textures, patterns or
sizes of furnishings from our library... or create your own
objects.
AutoFraming
View a 3D rough-in frame view of your home plan with one mouse
click! See complex stairs, roof trusses, headers and more.
AutoFraming works with the integrated Home Estimator program to
track expenses and keep you on
budget.
ClearView™ Transparent
Viewer
Instant elevation views in 2D and 3D with just a mouse click!
unlimited viweing angles in 3D, with our without colour or
shading. 3D shaded elevations even create wireframe topography!
ClearView™ "Glass House" effect lets you see through walls
with a user definable opacity slider and lighting
effects.
3D
RealModel
Only Punch! software lets you build a professional-looking 3D
scale model of your homeplan. Our RealModel technology takes your
home design and creates the components needed to produce a
model...directly from your design file. All of your chosen
colours and textures print to your colour printer, for you to
mount on foamboard, trim and
assemble.
Ordinary blueprints can't show you what Punch!
Professional Home Design Suite
can!
Turn layers on and off for uncluttered viewing, printing and
drawing. You can combine as few or as many layers as you wish AND
spot potential, costly design conflicts. Only Punch! lets you
view your plan YOUR way!
Punch! Image
Gallery
Click a thumbnail image below
to see a full-size, 16 bit screen capture created in Punch!
Professional Home Design
Suite.
Punch! Professional Home Design Suite...the most
comprehensive features for total control of your home
design.
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