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New version 17 Features:
- Tackle your home projects with How-To tips included in the Training Center. Hundreds included from industry experts.
- Virtually look into the smallest spaces with RoomView. Instantly gives you a top-down view of any room, outdoor shed, or garage making it easy to decorate and organize.
- QuickStart 3D view: Preview your floor plan as you drag and drop rooms together to create the perfect floor plan.
- Room Addition: Add a sunroom with a single mouse click. Choose the size and shape of your room and customize with window and door options. The easy way to add a porch or sunroom for indoor/outdoor living.
- New Room Estimating will help you keep track of your remodeling and decorating project costs. Instantly get furniture and fixture counts and requirements for your painting, wall coverings, updated flooring and more.
- Share your landscape and patio designs! Save your floor plan as a PDF to share with family, friends or your contractor/designer.
- Integration with Punch! Landscape Quote: Take your planting projects to the garden center to estimate. Punch! mobile Landscape Quote will import plant names and quantities from your Punch! drawing as well as mulch planting bed sizes. Just add prices as you shop at the garden center to see a real-time estimate of plant and mulch costs. The perfect tool to help you stay under budget for your small or large planting projects.
Powerful but easy landscaping
· Drag and drop plants into your design from a library of over 4000 flowers, shrubs, and trees.
· Plant Finder lets you select plants by growing region, water requirement, or sunlight needs.
· Start with pre-made garden beds for quick landscapes.
· Create plant bed areas and fill with rock or mulch.
· Add custom edging around flower beds, vegetable gardens, and walkways.
· Use the Grow feature to see how your landscape will look over time.
Customize your outdoor spaces
· Choose from a wide range of building and decorating materials like roofing, stucco, siding, brick, and wood.
· Customize patios, walkways, and driveways with pavers, concrete stains, and stone.
· Materials from nationally-recognized brands that you can try out in your design.
· Detail your outdoor living spaces with thousands of outdoor furniture pieces and accessories. Add a kitchen to your patio with pre-made outdoor kitchen islands or create your own with outdoor cabinets, appliances, smokers, and grills.
· Experiment with material combinations using Decorator Palettes. Try out different looks for the exterior of your house, switch between deck materials, even check out how different mulches look in your plant beds.
· Precision Lighting Planner™ provides complete control for outdoor lighting. Add path lights and up/down accent lights. The lighting designer and sun direction helps you plan how much light you want and where.
· Extend your outdoor entertaining season by adding a hot tub, fire pit or outdoor fireplace.
· Add seating and entertaining areas with a wide selection of outdoor furniture.
· Use roofing options to cover the patio or add a pergola.
· Design a custom swimming pool using the Pool Designer. Add a patio or sun deck and a privacy fence.
· Estimator will keep track of what you do and provide schedules of paver areas, plant lists and more.
Deck tools to expand your living space
· Drag and drop deck templates provide quick single or multi-tier decks.
· Intellideck™ makes it easy to build a custom deck in 2 clicks of a mouse. Intellideck intuitively knows the shape of your house as you draw so you can build a custom deck in seconds.
· Automatically insert decks and railings. Custom railings and stairs can be drawn either straight or curved.
· Customize your deck with drag and drop materials.
Landscape Design Project Ideas!
· Outdoor kitchen: Create an island for dining or cooking. Add a bar top to add serving space. Try out different materials for the cabinets and appliances. Add a grill or smoker to complete the perfect outdoor cooking space.
· Outdoor lighting: Add path lights to illuminate pathways and driveways. Use accent up and down spots to create exciting lighting effects.
· Create outdoor rooms: Use the extensive furniture selection to create outdoor entertaining areas. Add lighting to extend your outdoor parties into the evenings.
· Add a privacy fence: Create customizable fencing around your property or pool. Add a living fence with easy plant spacing using the visual array tool.
Mulch bed around tree: Choose the right edging for the desired look. Drop in the mulch or rock of your choice. Finally add a garden or accent light.
Product Features
- A complete set of tools to plan, design, and visualize your landscape and outdoor living spaces.You can try different plants in a landscape bed, create the perfect outdoor kitchen, even add a pool or entertaining area!
- You can try different plants, create the perfect outdoor kitchen, even add a pool or entertainment area!
- Tutorials help you get started quickly! The Training Center guides you through visualizing your projects and gives you real tips on accomplishing them.
Good Design for Price I really haven’t had time to learn the program yet. It’s going to take some time. I was hesitant to download the program vs. purchasing disk, but process was pretty seamless. This is not a install and start using program. There is a learning curve to it. Tutorials are included. After I have had time to work with program I will update my review.
Really like it after one day I only just downloaded it yesterday and was a little wary at first due to many of the poor reviews from previous versions. So far V17 is working exactly as advertised. All the videos play, installation was as simple as a drag and drop from the mounted disk image.The 3D rendering appears to be very fast on my i7 macbook pro. Between the user manual, quick start guide, and the tutorial videos, I expect to be up and running in no time. Don’t expect it to be a fast process though just because the software works well. It simply takes a lot of time to set up your house, property contours, etc. So far it is fun to do though.I’ll repost more comments once I have worked with it for a while. If it continues to work as expected I’ll likely change my review to 5 stars.
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