Punch Home & Landscape Design Professional (w/ Nexgen Technology)

• Design Multiple Floors - Quickly toggle between floors for multi-level designs.
• Automatic 2D - Floor plan is auto-generated.  Each room is auto-labeled, including square footage.
• SmartRooms - Automatically updates virtually everything, including dimensions, as your draw or edit.
• Beautify in 3D - Add materials, landscaping, and other details in 3D.

NexGen

• Design - After using professional services, one click returns you to your drawing.
• Support - Online help to get the most fro your software.
• Shop - Integrated online shopping for building products, accessories, and decorating items.
• Plot - A Punch! printing service that can output your design as full-size blueprints.
• Contractors - Locate building and contracting services in your area.

Building Green

• Auto-Framing with Framing Editor
  • Custom stud spacing and size 
  • Metal, wood or block framing options
  • Frame custom roofs, walls and floor joists
  • Multiple beam and joist types
  • Support columns include steel or wood
  • Edit joist angle and spacing
  • Frames custom and standard decks
  • Add insulation with one mouse click
  • Framing schedule
• Real Model
  • Punch! RealModel takes your home design and automatically creates needed templates to build a 3D model.  
  • Choose a scale, print out, and assemble the numbered sections.
• Click to Go Green, as you design
  • Save energy and money with integrated "Building Green" design tips
  • "Green" objects and materials included
  • Click the Going Green button and the integrated tips provide eco-friendly advice related to specific items in your design.
• Selection Details
  • Annotate your drawing with details notes or specs.
  • Automatically review or edit your details with a mouse click.
• Elevation View
  • Dynamically edit within elevation views.
  • Elevations can be viewed as line drawings, shaded line drawings, full color, and more.
  • Edit Smart Object positioning and easily place or stack windows in 3D.
• Handicapped Access and Solar Design Symbols
  • Industry standard 2D professional symbols and 3D objects for ADA and solar applications.
  • Simply drag and drop into your drawing.

Floor Plan / Topo Trace

• Precision control sets actual size of tracing image for a perfectly scaled template.
• Simply scan your favorite home plan or one you have sketched, trace it, then modify if needed to create your own customized plan.

Choose Your View

• Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing and Foundation
• Plan layer views show any or all element of your design.

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.

Animator

• Full controls for lighting, render quality, speed, preview, transition effects, and much more.

Interior Design

• Decorator Palette - Change all paint colors, siding, roofing, wood stain, anything in your design wit a single mouse click.
• Paint without a brush - Millions of decorator colors and variations at your fingertips.
• Fireplace Wizard
• Mantel Designer
• PhotoView and PhotoView Editor
• Cabinet Designer - Easy cabinets and options

Landscape and Outdoor Living

• Over 4,000 Plant Variations
• Automatic Growth Tool
• Fence Designer
• Easily add outdoor kitchens and living spaces to your home
• Plant Finder - sort from thousands of plants to match your needs
• Site Planner - lay out your lot right from your plot plan or legal description
• Topo Tools - Powerful tools to sculpt your property to perfection

Decks, Pools and Water Features

• Automatic Desk Framing
• Pool Shape Library with over 30 styles included
• Create a pool automatically or build it from scratch or pre-drawn template
• Custom or standard pool shape
• and more!

• Windows 7, Vista, XP

• Intel Pentium 3, Celeron, or compatible 1.0 GHZ processor or higher (multi-core processors supported)

• 256 MB of RAM

• 5.25 GB of Hard Disk space

• VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024 x 768 with 32-bit color

• 64 MB Video Card Memory

• DVD-ROM drive

• Mouse with wheel required

• Internet access required to utilize some features