Welcome Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 is a professional-level home design system developed for anyone who needs fast, accurate home drawings and wants the flexibility to view and edit their plan in 3D.
- Architectural drawings
- Presentations
- Kitchen design
- 3D visualization
- Plumbing installation
- DXF/DWG Import and Export
- Electrical plans
- Framing customization
- 3D visualization
- Interior design
- Landscaping
In addition, Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 4000 contains a variety of useful PowerTools that each perform a specific task. For instance, Framing Editor lets you customize almost every facet of your framing, like the material, spacing and even the direction studs and trusses are to be placed and Layout Manager makes it easy to make professional presentations of your designs to an architect or builder. Once you're finished with your design, you can even record an AVI movie to send to your friends, architect, builder and so on.
It's simple to get started planning the home of your dreams. Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the contents of this manual, so you'll know where to quickly find the answers. Be sure to see Chapters 2 and 3 for a quick tour of the program and an overview of the screen layout.
The most important thing to do before beginning work with Punch! AS4000 will be setting your display to 32-bit color. To do this, right-click the Desktop, then click Properties on the pop-up menu. Click the Settings Tab on the Display Properties dialog box, then select True Color (32-bit); if this is not available on your computer, select 24-bit.
System Requirements:
- Intel®, Pentium®, Celeron®, Xeon® and Centrino or AMD® Athlon® , Duron and Opteron Processor
- Windows®98 or higher
- 64 MB of RAM
- 1.35 GB of hard disk space
- VGA video card set at 800 x 600 resolution with 16 bit color depth (24-bit, if available)
- CD-ROM Drive
- Mouse or other pointing device
- 32 MB minimum video card memory
- (optional) Speakers and sound card to hear audio of Tutorial Videos
Home Design Software that Lets You Design and View Your Home with Incredible 3D Home Design Realism!
Our PhotoView technology lets you import real-world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your home. You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping design or deck design, and then view your work from any angle -- with realistic, 3D perspective.
Our LiveView window continually updates your home designs, in real-time 3D, as you draw.
Interior and exterior 2D elevations are available with a single mouse click and the exclusive ClearView tool renders your design with a "glass house" effect. You can actually see through walls to maximize your design space.
You will be amazed at our powerful 3D graphics engine that lets you create real-time walk or fly-throughs - for a Hollywood-style voyage through your new creation!
The Choice for Complete Garden and Landscape design.
This garden and landscape design software allows you to create multi-level or multi-story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color capabilities.
Helpful deck design wizards walk you through railing, baluster options, and more. Choose a basic shape or create one from scratch and watch the program draft a beautiful 3D rendering of your new deck design.
Your deck and landscaping designs come to life with photo-realistic 3D - complete with shadows - giving you a stunning, true-to-life representation of your home design.
Our PlantFinder provides extensive information for a wide plant species including botanical name, soil and moisture requirements, mature height and other facts so you choose exactly what you want for your garden and landscape design. Tap into information for over 2,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover, and more.
1) unZiP, unRAR or use our installer
2) run "PunchHomeAS4000.exe" to start the app
3) enjoy another fine iNFECTED-release!
