Manufacturer's Description

Punch Professional Home Design Suite Platinum integrates 16 professional tools, including Cabinet Wizard for automatic cabinet design, Custom Texture Builder, the PlantFinder sortable database, and PhotoView for importing photos into your design. Other new tools for topographic excavation, 3-D cutaway elevations, and more are also included, giving you millions of design combinations.

Use 3D Home Exterior Design to view your home in thousands of subtle paint color choices, or design walk-out basements and split-level designs with the slope tool. The ClearView tool renders your design with a glass-house effect, giving you a wire-frame perspective of your topography without your landscape plantings. A user-definable database helps you find the right plantings for your planting zone based on your search criteria. More than 2,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover, and more are featured.

Design the perfect deck for your home plan with Ultimate Deck. Multilevel or multistory decks with 3-D photorealistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color capabilities give you the ability to design exactly the deck you want. Deck Wizards walk you through railings, baluster options, and more. And make sure everything is planned to perfection with tools for planning foundation, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing. Even create custom cabinet designs with just a few simple mouse clicks with Cabinet Wizard.

Features include

Cabinet Wizard
Custom cabinet design with just a few simple mouse clicks. Select a style, enter the dimensions, number of drawers, decide on details such as backsplashes, kick panels, etc and Cabinet Wizard automatically generates your custom cabinetry for baths, kitchens or any room you've designed.

Texture Builder
Edit any texture from our extensive library, then save it as a new texture in the program. Change colour, tint and/or scale of stone, siding, brick and more. Add your customised textures for a truly personalised look

Plant Finder
Database that can actually find the perfect plantings for your planting zone, based on your search criteria. Over 2,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover and more.

Photoview 3D
Now you can add real-world photos to your virtual design with PhotoView. This breakthrough technology lets you add digital images to your designs. You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping or a deck, then view it from any angle -- with realistic, 3D perspective.

Ultimate Deck
Design the perfect deck for your home plan. Multi-level or multi-story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and colour capabilities give you the ability to design exactly the deck you want. Deck Wizards walk you through railing, baluster options, and more.

Master Landscape
When you're ready to landscape, just add your plantings to your existing file. Punch! lets you landscape without redrawing your house plan unlike some other home design software "suites". You'll see beautiful results rendered in realistic 3D! Create retaining walls and other topographic features. You can even design a custom sprinkler system for your property! New excavation and enhanced topography tools let you carve your property for custom slopes, walk-out basements, retaining walls and more.

Home Estimator
As you design, Home Estimator compiles your design information on the fly, producing a handy report in an editable, printable, exportable spreadsheet format. Home Estimator calculates items such as door and window headers, computes area lot size for grass, mulch and fertiliser, creates door and window schedules, roof area for shingles and much more. Just plug in the costs for your selections and Home Estimator does the rest!

HVAC, Electrical, Foundation and Plumbing Planners
These professional tools work in layers just like blueprints...only better. You can toggle between different mechanical plans to combine any or all...to easily detect conflicts or maximise the effectiveness of your mechanical design. "Smart" objects such as bath fixtures and electrical outlets automatically move with walls as you edit your floorplan, eliminating the need for repositioning should you change your design.

FloorPlan Trace
Simply scan your favourite home plan and it becomes a traceable template you can modify to create your own customised plan.

ClearView
Use ClearView to examine the topography of your property in a unique wire frame view, without your plantings. You can determine how to shape your ground with berms, swails, and more. Determine proper drainage, slope angles and examine exactly how your lot works with your home and landscape design. You can also view elevations of your home in monochrome or colour with a few simple mouse clicks.

3D Custom Workshop
Create objects from scratch or modify existing selections from our library. Change colours, fabrics, patterns, textures and more, then use your creations to furnish your home plan. You can achieve professional-looking results with this powerful 3D CAD studio.

Custom Sprinkler Systems
Ensure your green thumb with a custom sprinkler system! Define both the radius and arc of your sprinkler with simple click and drag. Design a system for your entire yard and/or specific planting areas quickly and easily. Use the Custom Sprinkler Tool to visualise maximum system coverage.