Punch! Landscape, Deck, and Patio Designer features easy-to-use tools, unsurpassed realism, and over 4,000 plant varieties to provide you with home and landscape software with the shortest, most enjoyable learning curve you'll ever have. Turn your backyard into a state-of-the-art living area with items designed for today's outdoor space - and save money and energy with the Building Green feature. Bring your style to the outdoors, adding outdoor kitchens, decks, seating areas, fountains, and more. Editable pre-drawn designs make it easy to drop in your new features and landscaping - then watch it all grow with Punch! Landscape, Deck, and Patio Designer's automatic growth feature.

Outdoor Living

• Pools, Spas, and Water Features - Experiment with multi-level patios and decks, then add a pool to give the finishing touch to your backyard.
• Global Sun Positioning - View the effects of sun angle, positioning, location, and shadows on your design before you build.
• Outdoor Kitchens - Design outdoor eating/seating space and move entertaining of your guests outside.
• Decks and Patios - Create useful outdoor living areas that add functionality and value to your home.
• Garden Areas - Enjoy paths, ponds, flower beds, and other outdoor features designed by you.
• Top Down Views - See your design as an aerial view in full color with one mouse click to better visualize your plan.
• Landscape to the Next Level - Photorealistic rendering and shadows let you plan your landscape with confidence.

Landscape

• AutoClick Placement - Place plantings automatically along any line or curve or use AutoClick Placement to place a planting every time you click.
• Automatic Growth Tool - See how your plantings will look years from now - view plant spacing and heights with a single mouse click.
• PlantFinder - Sort from thousands of plants to meet your needs using growing parameters, International zones, sunlight, water, climate, and soil conditions.
• Complete Information - Get complete information about every plant in the database with the Plant Details dialog, and view photo-realistic images of real-world plants.

Deck and Patio Design

• Custom Details - Experiment with stone, pavers, and decorative fencing.  Mix textures like stain and paint on stair railings, balusters, and steps.
• IntelliDeck - Intuitively follows the shape of your house as you draw.  Create simple or complex deck shapes in seconds.
• Decorator Palette - Change all paint colors, siding, roofing, wood stain, anything in your design simultaneously with a single mouse click.
• Precision Lighting Planner - Precision controls for ambient light, shadows, falloff, radius, and more.  Drag and drop landscape light fixtures and more.

Pools and Cabinets

• Create Your Way - Draw from scratch, use and edit predrawn templates, or let Pool Designer create your pool to your exact specs.
• Varying Pool Styles - Choose in or above-ground styles, vinyl lined or composition, multiple depths, shapes, spa combo and more.
• Outdoor Cabinet Design - Choose preconstructed cabinet and island "modules," then customize size, drawers, knobs, and materials.
• Outside Entertaining - Easy tools add bars, kitchens, grills, and more to your backyard.

Home Design

• Floor Plan and Topo Trace - Add your home and your topography to your drawing fast - simply scan your plan and it becomes a traceable, scalable template you can modify.
• Automatic Roof or Customize - Standard or complex, preset roof tools make any roof style easy to create.
• Door and Window Options - Select a door or window style, customize to fit your plan and choose from hundreds of combinations.
• Go Green as You Design - Save energy and money with integrated "Building Green" design tips and "Green" objects and materials.

Boundaries

• Site Planner - Lay out your lot right from your plot plan or legal description; Site Planner automatically draws your property line and exports to your design.
• Topo Tools - Add real-world topography to your building site and automatically cut or add fill and building pad to your design.
• Fence Designer - Versatile tool lets you design fences with any custom material, color, or photo object-  even draw your design freehand.
• Over 4,000 Plants  - Decide on plants, trees, shrubs - any landscape selection for your design and they are automatically added to the Inventory Bar.
• Plant Editor - Wizard lets you easily add your favorite plant, so you can easily expand the plant database to have virtually limitless custom choices.

Presenting and Editing