Punch! Interior Design Suite
by Punch! Software
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Software Reviews of Punch! Interior Design Suite
Customer Review: Software is cumbersome to use
Summary: 3 Stars
Software has a lot of features but is fairly cumbersome to use. The library of objects is limiting. Changing the color scheme is difficult when trying to match an existing color. I thought it a lot of money for the functionality. It may be more appropriate to someone constructing from scratch than for a redesign. Examples of things I found challenging include a step up kitchen, a custom wall unit, and a custom staircase to a second floor loft. Punch realized this difficulty with their product and sent out a training course for another chunk of $$. I didn't purchase the course because I thought I had already invested enough $$ and perhaps it would have helped. If I were Punch I would have sent the course out for free to encourage greater use of the product.Customer Review: Harder to use than I expected -- here are some tips
Summary: 3 Stars
This proved to be a very powerful program, but heed the warnings about how difficult it is to use. I use parts of MS office that no one has seen before and have a background in computer programming, and this suite still drove me very close to tears.
I used this just for an apartment floor plan to think through moving walls around, not for complete house construction or modeling.
Here are some tips that might make things smoother for you:
- For some reason, the default flooring thickness is 12", so my doors were getting lopped off at knee-level. Once I reset all the flooring thickness to 1", I could see the bottoms of my doors again.
- If you have a wide screen and it's set to 120 DPI, the display chops of some of the customization controls on the right side of the screen.
- The distinction between exterior and interior walls matters, and is often at the root of flooring and ceiling problems. (E.g., grass in the living room or tiled front lawn.) The wall types sometimes morph into each other by rules I never figured out. If I had to do this again, I'd do all the exterior walls first, lock them against changes, and then add interior ones.
- My performance with the undirected fly-through is exactly what you'd expect from watching me play speedracer. Better way: Click on the binoculars on the left and you get cursor you can position for a "controlled walkthrough." You can look around using the 3-d display, but no more accidentally falling through the floor.
Customer Review: Interior Dream
Summary: 5 Stars
This was my second purchase of a product like this and I loved it. The first one I tried was difficult to use. It was so easy to use. My husband and I were unsure of our remodeling plans and with this we were able to get a vision together of how our home would look once completed. It helped us pick everything from furniture location to color of carpet and flooring. My favorite feature was the Home Estimator feature that tracked our materials useage.Customer Review: You get what you put into this software.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have purchased both the Home & Gardens interior and the Punch interior software. Home & Gardens is much easier to use. You can really start without reading much of the manual. Punch demands that you read the manual (342 pages). It is not intuative. But Punch can do so much more and has so much more creativity. IE: Punch has a library of trees, shrubs and flowers for your yard. Home & Gardens only have potted plants, nothing you can use to landscape. Punch also allows you to make custom doors or windows to your exact specifications. H&G doesn't. You have to choose a set style of door or window and change options.I also could place digital photos of my backyard behind my "house" on Punch to make it more realisitic. I like both software programs, but Punch has more options, but you have to do your homework first.Customer Review: Turned out to be very good
Summary: 4 Stars
Looked at them all and then bought this software... it can do a lot of things so, yes, it might take a bit to learn and get fast with.
There is a reason it has been voted best for several years now. It does a good job if you remember the very old computer saying,
"Garbage IN...Garbage OUT" 8-)
My wife loves the video tutorials that she can pop-up anytime she needs to without stopping the software and what she's working on.
Anything this complete, is worth the learning curve.