Punch! 22 Home & Landscape Design Essentials - Mac
Punch!® Home & Landscape Design Essentials provides a flexible solution for home and landscape design, supporting remodeling, renovation, and outdoor projects. It offers tools for creating interior layouts, enhancing exterior spaces, and visualizing designs in 3D. With features designed to simplify planning and execution, the software integrates various design elements, material selections, and rendering capabilities to bring projects to life while ensuring efficient workflow and compatibility with industry-standard formats.
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Punch!® Home & Landscape Design Essentials
Each version of Punch!® Home & Landscape Design offers user-friendly tools, detailed tutorials, and innovative visualization to bring creative ideas to life efficiently.
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Please note that some features listed below may not be available in every variant. For a complete breakdown of which features are supported in each product, check the Product Line and File Format Comparison.
Explore the features of each Punch!® Home & Landscape Design variant to find the perfect fit for your project.
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Note: The availability of features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
Commercial
Remodeling
Start Your Project
QuickStart ™
Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
Professionally Designed Plans
Need inspiration or an instant starting point? Utilize our editable house plans to fast track your design or browse them for room layout ideas.
Floor Plan Trace
Trace a favorite floor plan, or use one you've sketched.
PhotoView™
Take pictures of the inside or outside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.
Gables & Dormers
Windows & Doors
Auto Roof Gable
A gable roof is a traditional roof style with two sloping sides that come together at a ridge, creating end walls with a triangular extension, known as a gable. The Auto Roof Gable feature allows you to instantly add gable roof panels to your designs.
Auto Roof Gable
Auto Framing
Select metal, wood or custom framing options, including custom roofs, walls, and floor joists.
Windows, Doors & Walls
FloorPlan® offers a rich library of door and window styles to choose from, ensuring that you can find the perfect match for your architectural design. You have the flexibility to customize various aspects such as size, grille style, and more to ensure that they fit seamlessly into your plan. For those who require something unique, the window and door designer power tools are available to create custom objects, providing the opportunity to add a personal touch or meet specific design requirements.
Elevation Editor
Dynamically edit within elevation view. Elevations can be viewed as line drawings, shaded line drawings, full color, and more.
Elevation Editor
Room Addition and Decoration
The process of adding rooms and decorating is simplified with drag and drop room creation. SmartWand™ technology applies paint or other materials to a specific wall, room, or the entire house with just one click.
Launcher with Workspace Selection
Launcher with Workspace Selection
SmartWand™technology Before Paint
SmartWand™technology After Paint
Note: The availability of features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
Kitchen
Living Room
Bedroom
Bathroom
Basement
Office
Start Your Project
QuickStart™
Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.
PhotoView™
Take pictures of the inside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.
Objects & Materials
Object Library
Thousands of objects for every part of your design, inside or out. Remodel with new fixtures, lighting, ceiling fans, sinks, appliances and more.
Flooring Carpets & Rugs
Try tile, carpet, wood, stone, and other materials including brand name, real-world products.
Furniture Showcase
Add predesigned furniture groups with simple drag & drop. Easily arrange or edit your selections to suit your design.
Object Library
Brand Name Product Libraries
Thousands of possibilities! Faux finishes, interior and exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds, stone, and much more. Nationally-recognized decorating materials you can try before you buy.
Brand Name Product Libraries
Precision Lighting Planner
Enhance your design with strategic lighting using the Precision Lighting Planner. Suitable for both exterior and interior designs, this tool offers detailed controls for ambient light, shadows, fall off, radius, and more. Add landscape light fixtures with a simple drag and drop, creating the perfect atmosphere for any space.
Lighting Planner Example
Cabinet Designer™
Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances. Also perfect for media centers, bathrooms and garage organization.
Cabinet Designer Example
Storage Design
Gain more closet space by planning an inexpensive wire shelving system or lay out a garage that makes the best use of space, yet keeps things organized and within reach. Drag & drop shelving, workbenches and cabinets are included in the library.
Kitchen
Living Room
Bedroom
Bathroom
Basement
Office
Note: Feature availability varies by model variant. Please refer to the Product Line Comparison Chart for a detailed breakdown.
Landscaping
Patios & Pathways
Hardscaping
Start Your Project
QuickStart™
Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan and begin designing your landscaping.
PhotoView™
Take pictures of the outside of an existing house and easily add outdoor design features and 3D elements.
Original Photo
Photo View Edit
Site Planner and Topo Tools
Site Planner automatically draws your property line as you enter the coordinates, then exports your lot into your landscape design. Add real-world topography to your building site. Trace over your topo lines. Automatically cuts or adds fill and building pad to your design.
Site Planner and Topo Tools
Auto Edging & Planting Templates
Zone-specific plant groupings with simple drag & drop placement. A variety of shapes for freestanding, corners, and more.
Auto Edging & Planting Templates
Planting Library
The Planting Library enriches your design with a diverse range of flowers, shrubs, and trees. Easily drag and drop botanical elements into your landscape. You can even personalize your library by adding your favorite plants.
Planting Library Preview
PlantFinder™
The PlantFinder ™ is an intelligent tool designed to ensure the success of your planting strategy. It searches for plants suitable for your area based on parameters such as international zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil. Featuring photo-realistic images of real-world plants viewable from any angle, PlantFinder™ enhances the realism of your landscape. Color-coded zone maps make selecting appropriate plants easy and reliable.
Plant Finder
Hardiness Zones
Plant Information
Irrigation Tools
The irrigation toolkit includes a variety of tools to design a comprehensive watering system. Sprinkler heads can be placed to achieve full coverage, visible only in 2D. Water lines represent the system’s connections, and zone markers delineate different watering areas—also in 2D. An irrigation control panel can be added to walls and adjusted in position and elevation. Backflow valves—essential for integrity and sometimes required by law—are shown in both 2D and 3D. Rain sensors enhance system efficiency by conserving water and energy and should be installed in unobstructed areas for accurate readings. Together, these tools allow for the creation of an effective and efficient irrigation layout.
Sprinkler Head
Irrigation Water Line
Plant Growth
Plant Growth visualization is a forward-thinking feature that lets you plan your design with the future in mind. It allows you to see how your plantings will evolve over time, which is particularly useful for planning the placement of trees and shrubs that will provide shade as they mature.
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Hardscapes
The Hardscapes feature enables you to create dramatic and functional retaining walls that not only define the space but also enhance the aesthetic appeal of your home. It offers a variety of materials like stone and brick, and once the structure is in place, you can add plantings to complete and complement the overall look of your outdoor space. These features collectively provide a robust toolkit for designing both the green and structural elements of your property with precision and artistic flair.
Hardscapes
Spray Topography
Click and drag to sculpt the landscape using our intuitive Spray, Smooth, and Erase tools. No need to create complex contour maps from topographical data—our software lets you make rapid terrain changes directly in 3D!
Before
After
VISUALIZE IT
3D View
Aerial View
2D View
Note: The availability of features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
Decks
Patios
Outdoor Living
Start Your Project
QuickStart™
Drag & drop plants, flowers, shrubs and trees from the library and begin designing your landscaping.
PhotoView™
Take pictures of the outside of an existing house and easily add outdoor design features and 3D elements.
Intellideck™
This function smartly recognizes your home’s contours during the design process, enabling you to swiftly create a personalized deck in mere moments.
Auto Edging & Planting Templates
Zone specific plant groupings with simple drag & drop placement. A variety of shapes for freestanding, corners, and more.
Plants
Deck and Patio
The Deck and Patio templates provide a selection of predesigned layouts that are ready to use with a simple drag-and-drop action. These templates are fully editable, so you can either adopt them as they are or customize them to fit your unique style.
Deck and Patio Templates
Outdoor Living
Transform any ordinary backyard into a vibrant space perfect for entertainment. FloorPlan® includes a variety of objects such as outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, and furniture, allowing you to create a cozy and inviting atmosphere. Additionally, you can enhance your design with pavers, decks, and landscaping elements, tailoring the outdoor area to your preferences and needs.
3D View
Aerial View (higher-tier variants only)
Design Phase Tabs
Design Phase Tab
Easy tabs organize your project into the foundation, floor, electrical, plumbing, roof, etc. creating all the steps needed for your design.
Note: The availability of Tabs (e.g., Foundation, Floor, Electrical, Plumbing, Roof) may vary depending on the product variant you are using. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult the Product Line Comparison Chart. This will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
Object Library
Unlock a world of design potential with an expansive selection of 2D and 3D objects, offering endless possibilities to enhance your space. With a user-friendly interface, you can select and place entire furniture groupings through a simple drag-and-drop mechanism. Dive into a vast array of nationally recognized decorating materials, including stylish faux finishes, elegant wood flooring, sleek countertops, and versatile blinds, among others. Experience the ease and efficiency of our intuitively designed library, crafted for quick and straightforward searches, ensuring you find the perfect design elements in no time.
Object Library
2D House Plans
Save hours of design time by using professionally drawn single and two-story house plans as 2D tracing layers which can then be automatically viewed as a 3D design. 500 plans from which to choose!
Simple Drag and Drop Tools!
Add rooms, paint color, furnishings, landscape plantings and more!
Drag and Drop Before
Drag and Drop After
Build Green
Go green in one click; watch your design go green with design tips and objects; recycled glass counter tops, bamboo flooring and more! Make your home more energy efficient with new appliances or update your windows, doors and more!
SmartWand ™
SmartWand™technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room, or your entire house, with one mouse click!
SmartWand™technology Before Paint
SmartWand™technology After Paint
Instant 2D/3D Views plus the ability to create templates for a 3D model of your design
Instantly switch between 2D and 3D views with ease to bring your floor plans to life. This capability allows for a quick assessment of both the spatial and aesthetic qualities of a design. Additionally, you can create templates for a 3D model of your design for future projects or variations.
2D View
3D View
2D Engine
High performance and high-quality rendering for 2D geometry and text.
Support for customizable line, fill, and pattern colors.
Home Design Example
2D Object Detailing
2D Object Detailing
Drawing Styles
Customize and apply drawing styles for any objects or group of objects.
Drawing Styles
Draw Style Profiles
Pick and apply a profile to an object.
Save your profile, then quickly and easily apply to selected objects.
Draw Style Profiles
Format Painter
Easily copy the same style to other objects.
Format Painter 1
Format Painter 2
Line and Pattern Styles
Customize lines and patterns to your design.
Sample Lines
Sample Patterns
Detailed View with Custom Applications
Drawing Styles
Antialiasing
Smooth lines and curves.
Line Cap Styles
Choose from Miter, Bevel, and Round.
Annotate Remodeling Details
Easily and Clearly Show Before and After Changes.
Annotate Remodeling Details
Transparency
Options for Lines, Fills, Patterns & Text.
Transparency
Callout Tool
The Callout Tool enables you to identify specific portions of the building model, such as details, sections, and elevations. It automatically adjusts the callout size to fit the text, ensuring clear and precise annotations.
Callout Tool
Railing, Decks and Staircases
Explore an array of railing styles, from offset spindles to glass and wire, and craft custom 3D posts for unlimited design possibilities. With detailed deck construction tools (only available in FloorPlan® Pro), you can define fascia heights and post dimensions, and ensure stability with support posts that extend to the ground. Fine-tune staircase post heights and achieve a continuous handrail flow over posts for a polished finish.
Railing, Decks and Staircases
LuxCore™ Photorealistic Rendering
The LuxCore™ rendering engine creates stunning presentations. Render management of materials, luminances, environments, and advanced render styles give you truly photorealistic results. Additional lighting options including Sky, Area, and Custom Object Lights help create stunning indoor renderings.
LuxCore™ Photorealistic Rendering
LuxCore™ Photorealistic Night View Rendering
Windows, Doors Skylights
Windows, doors, and skylights now feature glass panes for enhanced realism in standard renderings. The photo rendering capability mimics the authentic qualities of double-pane window glass for a lifelike visual effect.
Windows, Doors Skylights
Level Lines
Add labels to drawing to callout important structural elevations when creating construction documentations.
Level Lines
2D Plan Detailing
FloorPlan provides extensive detailing tools suitable for annotating site plans, floor plans, elevation views, and providing other details required for proper construction and permits. These tools include a Callout tool, Plan, Window and Door labels, and Note Markers. In addition, numerous line styles and fill patterns provide greater ability to annotate and call out regions and areas of the drawing. All essential in accurately communicating design intent.
2D Plan Detailing
Modify Toolbar
Align, edit, and distribute elements with ease.
Alignment Tools– Quickly align a selected set of design elements.
Distribution Tools – Spaces selected design elements evenly.
Size Match – Make selected elements the same width, height or both.
Duplicate – Creates specified number of copies, customizable spacing between copies.
Flip and Mirror – Flip objects horizontally and vertically.
2D View Tools – Reset View, Fit To Window, Fit To Selected.
Original Layout
Size Match Applied
Vertical Alignment Applied
Horizontal Distribution Applied
Rich Text
More custom text options.
Choose multiple fonts and attributes.
Rich Text
High-Quality Resolution and Printing
High-Quality Resolution and Printing
Powerful Visualization & Rendering
The LightWorks®rendering engine creates stunning presentations. Render management of materials, luminance, environments, and advanced render styles give you truly photorealistic results. You can create even more stunning renderings with LightWorks®Skylight, Area, and Custom Object lighting options. These features are ideal for creating dynamic, photorealistic Interior Designs, allowing you to more effectively communicate your design ideas to your client, or your interior designer, builder, or contractor.
Cost Estimation Tool
Cost Estimation Tool
Instant 2D/3D Views plus the ability to create templates for a 3D model of your design
2D Model Design
3D Model Design
Print Blueprints of Your Designs
Blueprint of Design
DWG/DXF Import and Export
Import
Export
Intuitive Interactive Help & Do it Yourself Tips
Includes hundreds of DIY how-to-tips from the experts.
Intuitive Interactive Help & Do it Yourself Tips
Interoperability
Punch!® Home & Landscape Design is equipped with robust import and export capabilities, ensuring smooth integration with a wide range of design and modeling tools. This flexibility allows you to bring in various types of data and materials to enrich your designs and to share your projects in versatile formats.
- 3MF (Export)
- OBJ (Import & Export)
- STL (Export)
- DXF/DWG 2D (Import)
- DXF/DWG (Export)
- PDF 2D (Import)
- SketchUp (Import)
- 3DS (Import)
- Material Import
- 360° CubeMap Export: Export view in 360 CubeMap and view it online via a web portal.
Note: The availability of features may vary across different model variants. For a detailed overview of feature distribution, please consult below comparison charts. These will help you identify which features are included in the variant you are interested in.
Minimum System Requirements
- Computer: Apple Mac
- Operating System: macOS® 11 (Big Sur) through 26 (Tahoe)¹
- Processor: Intel® (x64 architecture) or Apple Silicon (ARM-based M1, M2, M3, or newer)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM or higher
- Hard Disk Space: 4 GB of free disk space for installation
- Graphics: OpenGL-compliant video card with at least 256 MB VRAM
- Display: Minimum resolution of 1024×768 with support for millions of colors
- Input Device: Keyboard, Mouse (wheel button recommended)
- Internet Connection: Required for activation, updates, and subscription-based features (if applicable) ²
Additional Notes
- macOS Compatibility: ¹ Program compatibility is not guaranteed for earlier operating systems (pre-macOS 11) or future unreleased macOS versions. Administrator privileges may be required for installation.
- Internet Requirements: ² User responsible for all associated ISP fees and charges.