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Home Design Studio Pro NexGen v2

Home Design Studio Pro NexGen v2

Easy-to-use. New Features. More Power. The Next Generation of Home Design Software!

Product Information

Punch! Home Design Studio Pro, for the Mac, makes your home design experience more powerful than ever! Written from the ground-up, for Mac users by Mac users.

All the tools you need! Work smarter and faster with simple tools that make designing as fun as it is powerful!

Start designing right out of the box with the intuitive interface, assistants for cabinets, roofs, etc., editable room & deck templates, plus the extensive drag & drop library. Add ambient realism with Precision Lighting Planner™. PhotoView™ lets you personalize your design with imported photos. Design your house inside and out. Includes a massive plant library along with our popular automatic growth tool, so you can plan spacing and see what your landscape will look like a few years down the road. Draw your design in 2D; take a 3D Hollywood-style walk through as your 2D creative changes auto-update in the 3D view.

Building on our solid Mac debut product, Punch! Home Design Studio Pro™ is a robust release, which also brings to the design table the following new features:

Estimator™ – Track costs, as you draw, then view your estimate schedules in a handy, spreadsheet format.

Fireplace Assistant™ – Create a custom, editable fireplace, based on criteria you select—includes style, mantel, hearth, firebox, building material, & chimney options.

Door & Window Designers – Customize doors and windows for your projects—
custom panels, and grids—all to your specs!

Global Sun Positioning™ – Set scientifically precise lighting angles, based on your position on earth, date, time, and daylight savings time.

Room Assistant – Plan your space, input dimensions, and walls are auto-generated to create your rooms.

Site Planner™ – Enter coordinates from your plot plan, legal description, or measurements and your property line is drawn for you.

Fillet, Inverse Fillet, & Chamfer tools – Use these powerful editing tools to easily customize your designs.

Object Organizer™ – Create custom categories, then move objects from library to library, so you can quickly locate your favorites or organize them the way you use them.

DXF/DWG Import & Export – Convert existing drawings to Punch! files or use the export option to share a drawing file with a friend or architect.

Video Tutorials – Watch and learn with video tutorials.

3D Custom Workshop™ Pro – Edit existing objects and design, download, or insert your own CAD objects to expand your library.

Google SketchUp™ Import (3D Custom Workshop™ Pro) – Import predrawn objects—thousands available on the web—to convert and use in your Punch! drawings.

Other enhancements include—Content Panel, visual aspects, faster performance, editable planting details, onscreen detailing of lights, windows, doors, cabinets, & crown trim; export option for compatibility with older versions of Punch! Home Design products & file compatibility with our new line of PC products. Get the professional results you've come to expect from Punch! Software—along with a fun, easy-to-use interface.

Interior Design

Extensive drag and drop libraries to design every corner of your dream home

Design Kitches, Bathrooms, Bedrooms and more

Fireplace Assistant

Automatically generate a fireplace to your custom specification

It is now easier to generate a fireplace

Window and Door Designer

Create custom windows and doors with detailing options and precision measurements

Customize windows and doors to fit your design

Plan Layers

Plan layer views show any or all elements of your design.

Electrical | Foundation | Plumbing

Roof Design

Draw your own or use Roofind Assistant to create standard or complex roofs that fit your design

Punch! Home Design Studio Pro makes any roof style easy to create

3D Custom Workshop Pro

Include Booleans for adding or substracting objects, blends and chamfers for custom edgin, complex entrudes and more!

New! Professional CAD tools and functions.

Global Sun Positioning

Create sun angles for any time, date, and location in the world.

Easy to understand interface

Automatic Grow Tool

Shows plants growth over time. View plat spacing and height with a simple mouse click.

One Year | Three Years | Six Years

Site Planner

Lay out your lot from your plot plan on legal description. Enter coordinates and dimensions, site planner automatically draws your propertyline, Site Planner automatically exports your lot into your landscape design

Site planning in three easy steps

Plant Finder

The sorting feature lets you select growing parameters and choose from plants to match your needs and area.

Plant finder helps you ensure growing success

Deck Design

Simple yet powerful tools and features to add detail to your design. Precisely control your deck's details.

Design multi-story or multi-level deck

PhotoView

Add real-world objects to your design. Add any scanned or photographed object to your design. Choose your favorites or experiment with something new.

Easily add new landscaping to your home using a real world photo

Read Model

Punch Real Model takes your home design and automatically creates the components needed to build a 3D model

Patented hands on 3D modeling

Home and Lanscape Estimator

Home Estimator produces handy report in an editable, printable spreadsheet format. Enter the labor and material cost for your locality and Home Estimator does the rest.

Create master price lists

3D Elevation Views and Topography Tools

Add real-world topography to your building site.

Global Sun Positioning

Include date and time of day to view the effects of sun angle, positioning, location, and shadows before you build

Precision Light Planner

Precision controls for ambient light, shadows, falloff, radius, and more.

Decorator Palette

Save favorite palettes, then click to automatically change and view combinations

Room Templates

Predrwan, editable room templates to get you started

Wireframe and Translucent views

See a topography grid with your home design or use ClearView for a transparent look at walls and objects

Cabinet Assistant

Start with a cabinet style and customize it to fit your design

.DWG Import/Export

Now convert existing drawings to Punch 3D files with .DWG and .DFX import/export

And Many More:

PowerTools | Compass | Dimensioning | Brand Name Content | 2D Capabilities | PDF Export | 3D Elevation Slider

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

OS: Macintosh® OS X 10.5.8 or higher CPU: Intel® Core™ Solo or higher Memory: 256MB Video Memory: 32MB Hard Drive Space: 2.9GB Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Display: Millions of colors Display Resolution: 1024x768 Peripherals: Mouse Note: Multi-Touch gesture functionality requires Macintosh® OS X 10.6 or higher.