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Product Description
The ultimate easy-to-use home and landscape design solution that incorporates the latest design techniques and technologies to ensure your dream home becomes a reality…. More >>
3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Design Suite v10 SB
Tags: Architect, Design, design solution, dream home, Home, home architect home, home landscape, Landscape, landscape design, Suite
#1 by Hamlin R. Krewson on March 25, 2010 - 4:07 am
This is a case where the old axiom “you get what you pay for” is accurate. The site touts this application as being the “ultimate easy-to-use home and landscape design solution..”, and as having a complete set of tools that “will allow you to modify every detail…” This couldn’t be further from the truth. The tools are simplistic to the point that I would equate this with your average piece of freeware. The available objects in the library are very basic (cabinet doors, for example, are just flat boards with a simple handle) and can only be adjusted with the included texture images. The “Cabinet Wizard” does let you create cabinets to a specific size, but there is no adjustment of the handles or face-styles. You can import objects, but only those saved in Punch’s ‘pob’ format, so if you don’t own Punch Via Cad or something similar you are out of luck. You can’t add your own texture images. They have a set of color palettes, but while you can adjust the included colors you can’t create a palette or add to an existing palette. Worst part of it is that they don’t offer ANY refunds. My recommendation is that you skip this product.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Fredrick J. Parsons on March 25, 2010 - 5:54 am
I have 3D 3.0 but can not run it on vista I got v10 to replace it and found that 3.0 walks all over v10.
upload is a pian you have to do four things just to get one. the 3d view is not that good it will not go above your work so you can look down at it.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by Sarah G. Scott on March 25, 2010 - 7:27 am
I’m so mad that I wasted my money on this thing. When I installed it, my computer crashed. When I started it back up, all of my word files and pictures were gone and I couldn’t even get them back through a system restore. I bought this version thinking that it was an improvement on the older version and it’s definitely not – it’s much more difficult to use.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by C. Joseph Stuessy on March 25, 2010 - 9:47 am
This product is probably fine for many people. For my purposes, I just need an application to design floor plans. In many ways, this product is overkill. Some years ago, I worked with a very early version of this product and it was perfect for my needs. Unfortunately, with the tenth version, they have added lots of bells and whistles (landscaping, 3-D, etc.), but some of the simple-to-use features of the early versions have disappeared. If I could find an early version that works on OSX (no such thing!), I would buy it.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Justin Latimer on March 25, 2010 - 10:05 am
This product will not give dimensions from the outside of a wall surface. It will only dimension from the center of walls. The instruction book says you have that option when in reality you do not. I e-mailed customer support about this issue and it took them over a month to finally respond and tell me that this was not an option. To me, the whole point of having such a program is to eliminate as much as possible having to manually figure dimensions and this product does not do that. It’s obviously a mistake in the software design because they give this option in the instruction book. When I asked customer support if it would be possible to create an update to solve this issue that could be downloaded from their web site all they did was thank me for my feedback which obviously does nothing for me as a user. Who knows what else might be wrong with the software design. Poor product performance+poor customer support= extremely dissatisfied customer!
Rating: 2 / 5