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Home & Landscape Design Premium Next Gen

Product Description

Now over 99% faster rendering than previous versions. Faster rendering means more time designing.

New intelligent tools.

SmartWand Technology
Apply paint, carpet or other materials to a surface, room, or your entire house with a mouse click
Design Defaults
Choose default materials and colors for doors, windows, and more before you start designing. A real time saver!

ProjectTape Measuring
Instanly measure distances anywhere from within your drawing. Ideal for quick reference or planning furniture placement.

Visual Array Tool
Quickly create perfect rows with user-defined spacing for plants and outdoor lighting.

Background Importer
Import photos of skies or other background for a real world effect. It's easy and adds a custom look to your designs.

Photo realistic-rendering.
Accurate, true to life imaging allows you to make real-world design decisions. User-controlled sun angles and shadows add spectacular detailing just like a photograph.

Professionally Designed Home Plan Templates
Need inspiration or a starting point? Editable house plans put you on a fast track for designing, or browse them for room layout ideas.

Elevation Views
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.

Home Plan Layers organize design details

Foundation Plan
Specialized tools for: • Slabs with support beams • Foundation piers • Exterior wall thickness • Post-tension Excavates your foundation and retaining walls into your topography. Split-level and walk-out basements are a snap.
Plumbing Plan
Extensive library of fixtures including: • Sinks • Toilets • Shower stalls • Tubs • Spas • Water heater • Floor drains • Gas and water hose bibs "Smart" objects attach to walls for easy editing.
Heating/Ventilating/Cooling
Design the ultimate system for comfort and maximum efficiency. Components include: • Custom supply & return air ducts • Floor registers/return air grills • Ceiling & wall registers • Condensing unit • Furnace • Baseboard heating unit
Electrical Plan
Comprehensive library including: • Indoor & outdoor receptacles • 110/220v • Can & spots • Dimmer switch • Smoke alarm • TV and phone jacks • Ceiling fan • Thermostat • GFI receptacles • Single, gang, 3, 4, 5-way switches

Estimator
Estimator produces a handy report in an editable, printable spreadsheet format, tabulating and updating as you draw!

Build Green

Save energy and money with integrated "Building Green" design tips

Recycled glass counters
Bamboo furniture, flooring, and cabinets
Recycling & more
"Green" objects and materials included
the Build Green button and the integrated tips provide eco-friendly advice related to specific items in your design

Storage Design
Transform cluttered space into a home office, media or rec room.

Custom Roofing
Draw your own! Standard or complex, preset roof tools make any roof style easy to create!

Windows & Doors
Customize to fit your plan; choose from hundreds of combinations!

AutoFraming with Framing Editor
Select standard or custom stud spacing and size, including decks. Select metal, wood or custom framing options, including custom roofs, walls & floor joists. Insulate with one mouse click. Support columns include steel, wood or custom material. Integrates seamlessly with Estimator.

Decorator Palette
Try different paint and trim color combinations. Save favorite palettes, then click to automatically change and view combinations.

Material Importer
Photograph any material and save it as a custom texture that can be added to your design. Perfect for matching exterior materials to get the perfect visualization of real-world objects with your virtual design.

Design the ultimate garden

Add sitting or entertainment areas
Design outdoor storage
Custom edging
Grow plants over time, view the effects of shade
Add fencing, paths, outdoor furniture, and more

Global Sun Positioning
Precision tool aligns your property to ANY location you specify, including date and time of day. View the effects of sun angle, positioning, location, and shadows on your design BEFORE you build!

Fence Designer
Versatile tool lets you design fences with any custom material, color, or photo object — even draw your design freehand!

Hardscapes
Build dramatic retaining walls that define and accent your home. Choose stone, brick, or other materials. Then add your plantings to finish the look.

Topo Designer
Add real world topography to your building site. Automatically cuts or adds fill and building pad to your design

Photoview
Start with front view photo of your home. Scan conventional photos or use a digital camera. Use any image editing program to mask or enhance your photo, if you choose.

PlantFinder
Searches plans for your area, using parameters you specify ensuring growing success. Get complete information about every plant in the database with the Plant Details dialog.

Sorting feature lets you select growing parameters, International zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions.
Photo-realistic images of real-world plants that can be viewed from any angle.
Color-coded zone maps make plant selection easy and foolproof. Over 10,000 plants in 10 zones.

Plant Importer
Easily add your favorite plant...from your photograph! Expand the searchable Punch! plant libary!

Plant database to virtually limitless custom choices.
Add your favorite plant to your virtual landscape!
Custom plants are included in Estimator.

Outdoor Living Spaces
Add outdoor kitchens, pergolas, sitting decks, and more.

Decorator Library
Add celing fans, custom lighting, accessories, area rugs, furniture, carpeting, and more... all included in the decorator library.

3D Custom Workshop
Build virtually any object or modify existing objects from the library. Use photorealistic materials including wood, fabric, paint colors, stone, brick, and more.

Automatic Cabinet Designer
Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances. Also perfect for entertainment centers and garage organization.

Wall & Windows Treatments
Choose from beadboard, library paneling, faux finish, paint, wallpaper, and other materials. Included brandname products in the library let you try before you buy.

Precision Lighting Planner
Precision controls for ambient light, shadows, falloff, radius, and more. Drag & Drop landscape light fixtures. Pick your own light source origin… even sunlight!