Home & Landscape Design v17

Designing your home has never been easier!

Enhance your living spaces with drag and drop rooms, drop in rooms of furniture and decorate with a single mouse click using the new SmartWand technology.

Quick and easy design doesn't stop at the door. Drag and drop landscape templates give you a fast start designing your gardens. Home & Landscape Design v17 is the latest technology from the trusted industry leader for 12 years running.

What's New for Version 17:

• 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 making it easy to decorate.
• QuickStart 3D view: Preview your room layouts 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.
• Room Estimating will help you keep track of your remodeling and decorating project costs. Instantly get quantities for your painting, wall coverings, updated flooring and more.
• Share your floor plan designs! Save your plan as a 2D image (bmp, jpeg, png, tiff) with options to set the size and control how large the file will be. You can save the entire plan or just the current view.
• Integration with Punch! Landscape Quote: Take your planting projects to the garden center to estimate. Punch! 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.

Easy - NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Starting your plan with QuickStart gives you the flexibility of moving shapes around to configure your living space. A single mouse click will build walls - even automatically draw a roof.

Start your project by importing a floor plan and tracing it. Get a head start in landscaping by importing a photo of your house and landscaping it in 3D.

Choices for Every Decorating Need

Countless Combinations! Apply paint and materials from name-brand manufacturers for interiors and exteriors. A vast library of materials is provided for walls, floors, countertops, siding, trim, cabinets, furniture, roofing and hardscapes.

Decorate your rooms by adding from complete libraries of furniture and accessories. You can even add a whole room of furniture with a single mouse click from the premade library.

The new SmartWand technology will help you apply materials anywhere needed or the entire house with just a mouse click.

Decorator Palettes let you compare different decorating schemes with a mouse click. Create color and material schemes for one or more rooms. Drag a material into the palette to automatically update your design. Then just switch back and forth between your decorator palettes to choose your favorite combination.

Outdoor Living

Add from a library of over 3,000 plants. Plant finder will choose plants base on criteria you set like growing zones, color, or even water requirements.

Drop in a pre-made landscape template. Drag and drop plants into your design and even save your own landscape groupings to add quickly to other drawings.

The lighting designer lets you add lighting inside and out to visualize the night time view.

Help when you need it

An integrated training center provides over 100 videos to help you get comfortable with the tools in the software and tutorials to guide you in putting them together.