Why I buy this one ?
- Convenient wizards and tutorials help create basic plans fast
- Professional-grade drafting tools in an easy, intuitive interface
- New stylish name-brand materials and rendering capabilities
- Easy to use; powerfully generates buildable blueprint-style plans
- Unlimited customization guarantees a flawless finished project

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What our customer's say!

"Absolutely awful", In a word. CRASH!!
The only thing good was Amazon gave me a full refund.
Dont waste your time on it.

"He loves it!", Ordered this for my fiance's birthday. It arrived just on time, and he loves it!

"Just fine for $13.50", Got it today. It is a little clunky, and you have to be patient when using "duplicate", etc, but I have the first floor about done, and it works okay. Has stopped once but no big deal, just leave auto-save on. Have not used stuff like this before. It will really help my wife picture things. It isn't real intuitive, but it suffices. The help menu and index is sparse. The views are okay, but the rotation in 3D is slow on this 1.X gigahertz 500MB ram 64MB video card machine. Good night. I hope to have my house plans done within a week.
Update after several weeks: still same opinion. Works, decent graphics, and my wife did appreciate the opportunity to view what things 'might' look like, so the rendering was acceptable. I would recommend to someone who is just wanting to visualize a home, and maybe play a little with sizing up rooms, re-locating doors and windows, etc.

"Would recommend Punch! Architectural Series (AS18) instead", I would not have bought this product if it wasn't necessary to share house layout/design plans with my electrician's office.
Our PC is Windows 2000 Pro.
Why do I not like it?
- It's hard to put a half-wall up (I had to elevate it from the floor below)
- Most importantly it crashes frequently. If I have a 2 or more models open, and then I re-open the model that you're not viewing currently, it crashes. Now, I "wised" up a little and go to the "Window" menu to see if I have the model opened yet before trying to open it up again. This wasn't the only time it would crash, although the only sequence of events that I could reproduce the program crash with.

We already had the Punch! Architectural Series. And I have never, ever had the program crash or found it difficult to layout items as necessary. It also has many more options for walls/doors/furniture/landscaping/etc.

"Broderbund 3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe 6", Did not like this software. Very hard to use and time consuming. Could not get it to do a lot of what I wanted. Limited on type of roof and length of house. I did not think it was very user friendly.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Would-be Architects, Rejoice", I believe that Broderbund continues to provide an excellent product for those who wish to participate in the home design/remodeling process. This is the third iteration of the software I have used, and each time, new usable features have been added while the basic utility remains intact.

As with all product upgrades, there is a learning curve involved, but you are well rewarded for your patience.

"Home Design Deluxe 6", I like all the different furnishings, but I found it difficult to work with the viewing tools. I couldn't figure out how to look inside the house I was building.

"I Hate this Software", I wrote a review under the 'Special Edition' of 3D HA. I bought this when it was $60. I hated it. It wasn't nearly as usable as earlier versions, and through all the years it has been out, has declined in functionality, rather than improved. I still can't create a simple roof in my design with this product. Doesn't do any landscaping (like different level entries).

I would not buy this software.

"Broderbund 3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe 6", This product did just as it said it would be. And now days that hard to fine.

"No support available.", Regardless of the quality of this product, I don't recommend it because there is no support. "Technician-assisted telephone and e-mail support are no longer available." I installed the product and noticed that it installed AOL on my machine(without my knowledge). When I went to delete AOL I saw that neither it nor 3D Home Architect itself were on the list of programs that I could remove. When I went to the website to ask about this problem, I found that they provide no support, not even for a fee.