Punch! Home & Landscape Design Architectural Series is a powerful home and landscape design program developed for the architect or designer who wants professional-level features, tools, and presentation capabilities. This complete home update and landscape design software suite combines the most materials, tools, textures, furnishings, accessories, and photorealistic visualization that make architectural design projects a stunning reality. Quickly update or design entire homes and commercial buildings; renovate, redecorate, remodel, landscape; create outdoor living spaces, decks, patios, pools and get fast, professional results with the user-friendly interface. This Architectural Series includes thousands of kitchen and bathroom accessories, paints, lighting, objects, and tips for "Building Green" with green objects and materials for eco-friendly construction.
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Design, remodel and renovate homes, commercial buildings, landscaping, outdoor living spaces, decks, patios, and pools with Punch! Home & Landscape Design software.
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Easy to use interface, design tools, and drawing methods, along with professionally designed 3D Home Plans and thousands of materials, paints, objects, furniture, and accessories provide a better home designing experience.
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Create kitchen, baths, and landscapes with professional designer-quality layouts, materials, paint, and furnishings that you can drop into your home design projects.
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Includes how-to video tutorials, a user forum, and technical support to provide help when needed.
EXCLUSIVE ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES:
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Window & Door Glass
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Home Automation Tools
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Home Theater
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Misc Improvements
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Punch! Home & Landscape Design Architectural Series includes an integrated interactive help system to make finding and using the right tool fast and easy for professional or serious DIY home projects. It also comes with helpful training center video tutorials and free technical support to ensure the process is as enjoyable as it is efficient.
SHEET LAYOUT MODE
- Layout mode allows you to build a presentation of your design into construction documents.
- Set up multiple design views each using different scales and options.
- Create a custom sheet set. Easily add or reorder pages.
- Annotate layout sheet using variety of 2D cad tools, labels, schedules and dimensions.
- Dimensions will automatically detect scale of a view and display correct measurement.
- Title block page allows you to create a title block displaying borders, company and customer information, etc. The elements on the title block sheet will automatically be displayed on all sheets of your layout.
- Print to scale on any paper size.
- Wide range of print scales for individual views.
- Print individual sheet or entire layout at once to large format, home printer or pdf.
NEW OPTIONS FOR RAILING, DECKS AND STAIRCASES
- 16 new railing styles. Offset spindles, glass, wire, composite, and custom material sections.
- Create your own custom 3D post.
- Unlimited railing styles.
- Improved control over deck construction methods. Can now specify fascia height on decks, post width and height.
- Option to set individual deck posts as support post that extend to ground.
- Set post height for staircases.
- Continuous hand rail flush over posts.
- Additional material application options.
2D CAD SYMBOLS
- 1146 new 2D CAD symbols added to library.
- Enhanced control over symbol groups such as snapping, grouping/ungrouping.
GLASS PANES
- Glass panes added to windows, doors, and skylights for more realistic look in standard rendering.
- Photo rendering using glass effect that replicates real life double pane window glass characteristics
PHOTO RENDERING ENGINE (LUXCORE)
- The new photo rendering engine is a physically based rendering (PBR) solution exploiting state-of-the-art algorithms that simulate the flow of light according to physical equations. Also introduced are a new set of physically based materials with parameters based on the optical properties of metals, glass, matte, glossy, and transparent surfaces.
- PBR lighting and materials combine together to produce stunning images of photographic quality.
- Improved rendering times with responsive interrupt. Customizable rendering settings lets you control draft and final rendering time limits. Quality results in minutes instead of hours.
- Wide range of lighting options. Drag and drop light effects onto any surface to create custom lighting designs such as light bulbs, strip lighting, fireplaces, neon lights.
- Gamma correction to help control brightness of the scene.
- Exterior lighting includes HDRI, sunlight, and skylight.
ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS
- Importing options – OBJ, PDF, Sketchup 2022
- More control over text and font options.
- Additional auto dimensioning options.
- Added additional print scale options. 35 available scales (up from 4 Metric and 4 English).
- Updated and modified shortcuts.
- Adjusted zoom mechanics to try and create smoother zoom through range.
- 3D Viewpoint - Shift key will now change view tilt in walkthrough & elevations in helicopter or aerial view.
- Updated welcome screen.
DESIGN PHASE TABS:

Easy tabs organize your project into the foundation, floor, electrical, plumbing, roof, etc. creating all the steps needed for your design.
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NEW AND IMPROVED OBJECT LIBRARY
- Endless possibilities! Thousands of 2D and 3D objects to choose from! Choose entire furniture groupings with simple drag and drop
- Choose from thousands of nationally recognized decorating materials including faux finishes, wood floors, countertops, blinds and much more!
- Improved library is easier to use and faster to search.
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SIMPLE DRAG AND DROP TOOLS!
ADD ROOMS, PAINT COLOR, FURNISHINGS, LANDSCAPE PLANTINGS AND MORE!
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3D CUSTOM WORKSHOP:
Build virtually any object or modify existing objects from the library. Use photo-realistic materials including wood, fabric, paint colors, stone, brick, and more.
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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!
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SMARTWAND™
SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room, or your entire house, with one mouse click!
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COST ESTIMATION AND MOBILE LANDSCAPING QUOTE
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INSTANT 2D/3D VIEWS PLUS THE ABILITY TO CREATE TEMPLATES FOR A 3D MODEL OF YOUR DESIGN
PRINT BLUEPRINTS OF YOUR DESIGNS
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INTUITIVE INTERACTIVE HELP
DO IT YOURSELF TIPS
Includes hundreds of DIY how-to-tips from the experts
SYMBOL EDITOR & SECTION DETAILER
Additional Professional architectural annotation tools.
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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.
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PRECISION LIGHTING PLANNER:
Add functionality and drama to your design. Works with exterior and interior designs. Precision controls for ambient light, shadows, fall off, radius, and more. Drag & Drop landscape light fixtures.
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CABINET DESIGNER:
Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances. Also perfect for media centers, bathrooms and garage organization.
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STORAGE DESIGN
Gain more closet space by planning an inexpensive wire shelving system or layout 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.
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FIREPLACE WIZARD & MANTEL DESIGNER POWER TOOLS:
Punch! Fireplace Wizard walks you through the initial design process, then allows total customization of each feature.
TRIM DESIGNER TO CREATE CUSTOM TRIM PROFILE:
Trim Designer not only allows you to save new trims for use in your Punch! drawings, it also has easy-to-use tools for organizing and managing trim libraries.
CEILING DESIGNER:
Automatically place a ceiling over an enclosure with just a couple clicks of the mouse.
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PLANTING LIBRARY:
Includes a full selection of flowers, shrubs, and trees you can add to your design. You can also add your own favorite plants to the database!
PLANTFINDER:
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PlantFinder™ searches plants for your area, using parameters you specify, ensuring growing success.
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Sorting feature lets you select growing parameters, international zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions.
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Photo-realistic images of real-world plants that can be viewed from any angle.
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Color-coded zone maps make plant selection easy and foolproof.
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PLANT GROWTH:
Plan smart! Plan your design and see it grow over time. Perfect for previewing shade.
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HARDSCAPES:
Build dramatic retaining walls that define and accent your home. Choose stone, brick, or other materials. Then add your plantings to finish the look.
FENCE DESIGNER:
Design fences with custom material, color, photos or even draw your own design.
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