Home and Landscape Design Architectural Series NexGen 3

The NEW Home and Landscape Design Architectural Series NexGen 3 – our most sophisticated Home Design software ever.

A suite of new, cutting-edge NexGen 3 features enables you to create fully realized design in no time.

PLUS, Architectural Series’ exclusive LightWorks^TM technology works with NexGen 3 to let you visualize your work immediately with the most photo-realistic rendering Punch! has ever known.

• Quickstart™ with render speeds up to 99% faster for faster design.
• Editable templates for homes, interiors, and landscape get you up and running immediately.
• Tools work intuitively and precisely, as you draw.
• 3D photo-realistic reflections
• Building green design tips
• SmartRooms™
• Training Center

SmartWand™ Technology
Apply paint, carpet or other materials to a surface, room, or your entire house with a mouse click

Design Defaults
Choose default materials and colors for doors, windows, and more before you start designing. A real time saver!

ProjectTape™ Measuring
Instanly measure distances anywhere from within your drawing. Ideal for quick reference or planning furniture placement.

Visual Array Tool™
Quickly create perfect rows with user-defined spacing for plants and outdoor lighting.

Background Importer™
Import photos of skies or other background for a real world effect. It's easy and adds a custom look to your designs.

LightWorks™ Photo-Realistic Rendering
Accurate, true to life imaging allows you to make real-world design decisions. User-controlled sun angles and shadows add spectacular detailing just like a photograph.

LightWorks^TM Photorealistic Rendering
Architectural Series now includes photorealistic rendering to add stunning realism to your designs. Spectacular lighting and shadow effects, combined with reflections, will make your 3d renderings come to life.

Use special effects options to create art from your designs!

Elevation Editor
Dynamically edit within elevation views. Elevations can be viewed as line drawings, shaded line drawings, full color, and more. Edit Smart Object positioning and easily place or stack windows in 3D. Top down viewpoint allows you to view walls, furniture or plant placement for a unique perspective of your design.

Professional Home Plan Layers
Electrical Plan, Foundation Plan, Plumbing Plan, Heating/Ventilating/Cooling

Estimator
Estimator produces a handy report in an editable, printable spreadsheet format, tabulating and updating as you draw!

ProjecTape™ Precision Measuring
Instantly measure distances anywhere from within your drawing. Ideal for quick reference or planning furniture placement.

Doors, Walls, Windows, and Fixtures
Custom sizing to fit your plan, Create custom grills, Includes cased door openings.

Storage Designer
Transform cluttered space the ideal storage space. Our library also includes storage systems for closets and garages

Design Defaults
Choose default materials and colors for doors, windows, and more, before you start designing. A real timesaver!

Decorator Palette
Try different paint and trim color combinations. Save favorite palettes, then click to automatically change and view combinations.

Fireplace Designer
Automatically creates your fireplace to spec.

Mantel Designer
Quick and easy! Choose custom styles and trim to create a unique and fully detailed mantel design.

Ceiling Designer
Autogenerate custom tray and recessed ceilings to your specs. You can even add customizable trim to your design.

Kitchen & Bath Design
Turn your drab bathroom and dull kitchen into a sparkling new space with helpful decorating ideas. You can shop from a vast catalog of interior design elements to determine the best choices for your kitchen and bathroom. Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances. Also perfect for media centers and garage organization.

Growth Tool
See how your plantings will look years from now!

Add even more detail...Use the grow tool with global sun positioning to view how shade affects your landscaping as it grows

Site Planner
Lay out your lot from a plot plan or legal description. Automatically draws your property line, as you enter the coordinates, then exports your lot into your landscape design.

Plant Finder
PlantFinder™ searches plants for your area, using parameters YOU specify, ensuring growing success.

Design Custom Pools
Pool Designer™ can autogenerate a pool to your specs or you can create your own design from scratch. Pool shape library includes over 30 styles. Choose in or above ground, vinyl lined or composition, multiple depths, shapes, spa combo & more.

Pool Accessories
Use the included accessories library to help plan for pumps & filters, slides, ladders, railings, and pool games...adds even more realism to your design.

Deck Templates
Get started FAST! Editable designs you can use as-is or customize!

Intelli Deck
Intuitively follows the shape of your house, as you draw. Create simple or complex shapes in seconds.