Others say...

"Too complicated to use"
Program is too complicated in the building processes to use. Graphics are nice but of no use if I can't get my disigns to come out right for viewing.

"Ended Up Paying More"
I thought that I'd have a hard time learning this software, since other reviewers commented on its difficulty, but it wasn't that hard to get the hang of it. My intent on purchasing this was to recreate my house and landscape it within the program. I soon learned that wasn't going to happen, since none of the housing plans available to choose from resembled my house, and I couldn't alter the structures in any way. So, I ended up buying 3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe 6 and recreating my house in that program. I then transfered my house design to the Landscaping software and landscaped it within that program. I should have purchased the suite available with has both the Home Design and Landscaping software combined, but I ended up buying each program individualy and spending more money. Overall, I think it's a fun program to plan a house and garden. I'd give it another star if only I wasn't pissed about having to spend more money on more software just to use this Landscaping program the way I wanted to.

"Stay away from Broderbund software"
I wish I could give them zero stars.

Broderbund pulled support for software I owned only 2 years after it was released.

I was unable to install it because it required internet registration which was no longer supported. To solve the problem, they offered to SELL me a different software title.

They must have thought I was stupid. They expected me to give them more money???

This company has second rate software and third rate customer service. Do not buy anything from them.

"Takes LOTS of time."
Like most people, I was initially very disappointed with this software, and though I am an experienced computer user, could not figure out how to do some simple tasks. I kept at it though, and with practice and a LOT of time was able to create a spectacular plan. I drew my house first as a series of tall fences, then eventually used photographs. I eventually learned how to draw the perimeter of my property--- this was difficult. So was defining mulched areas, water areas, concrete areas, but it could all be done. It took a while to figure out how to get to the "master list" of plants, it is only easy to add certain ones. Once you do, the search capability is very nice!

Once you get past the basics, tweaking the details can be fun. The 3D view was essential for me... I avoided making some mistakes that would have taken years to realize, by looking at my plan as it aged, walking though it, and seeing it in different seasons.

Now that I have learned everything, I whipped up a plan for my mom's house in under an hour. But for my own.... it took several weeks to figure out--good thing I started in winter.

Even with 7500 plants, I wish there were more. So.... I am glad I bought it, but there could be a LOT of improvement.

"This is a trainwreck!"
3D Home Architect Landscape Design Deluxe 6... I found the software to be useless. My goal was to recreate my backyard and use the program to help fill in with plants and project how they would look in the coming years. I found that it was impossible to structurally recreate my backyard in the first place. If you were designing a fictional house on a vacant lot it would work fine, but there is no way you could ever create the idiosyncracies of a real property. I had to use a metal garden shed to stand in as my cape cod house, I just resized it to a 35' square! Then I found that there is no way to run stairs up to the side of the house, so I substituted a concrete column. Then I realized that no matter what I did to my patio and "stairs", I could not get them to snap up against the side of the house; there was always grass shown between the objects. I realized I was wasting my time. I found that the advertised "7,500" plants included only 358 that could actually be placed on the landscape. Most of these plants are totally unsuitable for my Minnesota home! The program should allow you to create a outline landscape quickly, choose your climate zone, and display a library of thousands of plants suitable to the area that can be placed in the landscape. I cannot believe that I paid $50 for this garbage. I passed this feedback along to Broderbund.

  

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- Photo realistic 3D renderings of landscape plans with 3DTrueView
- Take a virtual tour of the yard with Walk Around view tool
- Easily create structurally sound, fully framed deck plans
- Powerful design capabilities and extensive reference resources



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What our customer's say!

"Contour lines a farce!", The program does not allow the individual contour lines to be adjusted to match normal landforms! Most frustrating and disappointing!

I bought 3D Home Architect Landscape Design Deluxe 6.0 at the half price book store, so I was a little leery about the purchase.
I gave it the good-ole college try and the package failed after I invested some hours trying to fit my complicated ten acre landscape into the package!
In the package/program it assumes you have the standard small building lot, so contour lines go all the way across the lot, not matter how you enter them. I have two ravines, each partially on my lot and they intersect! The stream has two "S" curves across my lot and it enters my lot twice and exits twice. Yes the contour lines have to follow the twisty stream with 26 foot high slopes on one/two sides of the stream!

That catalog of trees does not include oaks nor walnuts! Not even the normal scrub tress you find in a natural forest, you know those in a "wooded lot".

If you have a standard developers building lot with one simple slop that goes all the way across, you might be able to create a satisfying 3D landscape plan.
Good Luck!
Sam


"Very Bad", This is not user-friendly at all & provides very little help with starting up. I cannot quickly construct an image to even serve as a base for the design. I am going to try to return this item & try something else...I doubt they will let me return it though.

"Awful software, even the latest version", Terrible software, hard to use, useless. I asked for my money back the next day and they refused. I wish I had read the reviews here first!

"3D: difficult, dumb and disasterous", What a colossal waste. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't pay 5 cents for this program. Possibly the worst job of programming I've ever experienced. Graphics are a joke, tools are inexplicable and the help features are useless. Need I say more?

"Horrific software", This software is garbage. I installed it and tried to use this software and it is very simple. Very limited plants, no sprinkler design system. To call this software "Basic" is an insult to the world "Basic".



 
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"Horrible!", I pre ordered this Months ago before it was even available and waited patiently for it to be ready to be shipped.It sounded great and I couldnt wait to use it. Lets just say that it is now being used as a coaster. I could not get it to do anything that it was supposed to do .I thought it was just Me who was having trouble with it and I happened to look back here to look at the reviews,and see that everyone is having the saMe trouble with it. It is definitely not worth buying. Big waste of Money! I wont be preordering anything like this again. I will wait and read the reviews.

"Very Disappointed", Wish other negative reviews I have now read had been posted before I purchased. I had a similar experience - product sounded like it had everything I needed - but I'll never know. I too spent several hours on multiple occassions trying to "figure it out", but this software is painfuly unfriendly to use. After sinking many hours into it I gave in and emailed user support. Several days later I got an email saying, sorry we don't do "how to" user support, but try this web site, which was equally unhelpful. I might give it one more try before throwing in the towel and returning it, but if you haven't bought yet, stay away.

"3D Home Architect Landscape Design Deluxe 6", I too wish that I would have researched this title before I purchased it. After rebates and in store discounts this program ended up $14.99, so I figured I couldn't go wrong, right? WRONG!!!!! This program is so sorry that it is not even worth that much. I spent the entire night (and I do mean ALL NIGHT) trying to figure it out, but to no avail. This program is not only confusing but highly frustrating as well. It states right on the front cover "Easy-to-use landscape and garden design". The only thing easy to use about it was to load one of their designs already completed and look around. The instruction booklet or onscreen help are worthless, neither one offered any solution to problems I encountered. I have used 3 other programs over the last 8 years, and this one is by far the worst. This program in my opinion is terrible; I would not use it if they gave it to me for free. This title is definitely being returned. Also, so much for the 90 day money back guarantee, I have to pay to mail it to them in order to get reimbursed for the program.

"What a waste of my time (and money)!!!", I wish I have read other reviews before buying this product. I spent several hours trying to use this program (the manual does not help much)and ended learning by trial an error (many hours later). It is not friendly, nor easy.
My second problem was that I wanted to design a garden around my house and there is no feature or template to outline the house (at least not mine). There is not even a feature to draw just lines to show the house, so I have no idea of where to place the landscape in relation to my house!!!!!! And for sure I am not going to buy the House Design software just to be able to place the landscape somewhere.
It was very frustrating!!!!


"Very, very, very frustrating!", After trying Punch's version and finding only a very limited selection of plants, I purchased this product. I don't know yet what the capabilities of this program are. After 2 days I'm still trying to figure out where a green square box on the screen is coming from. You would think that running a search on help for "green", "green line", "green outline", or "green box" would turn up something but, no, there is nothing. The manual and built-in help seem identical, and very superficial. There is nothing intuitive about this program. I'm guessing most people buy this software, try to use it, and set it on the shelf. I routinely use over 75 software packages and teach adult ed computer courses so this is coming from an experienced user. I've even successfully designed several remodeling projects in Chief Architect. Chief Architect was the creator of 3D through version 4. It's now marketed by Better Homes and Gardens. I chose to try this product because of it's superior plant library. If you absolutely have to do your own landscaping plan, I'm guessing this will do the job but have a glass of wine first [from a very large jug - you're going to need the rest] and plan on spending an enormous amount of time. If you're like me, you needed that plan "tomorrow" and that just isn't going to happen. If you do try this program, it will help you to know that it comes with limited house templates so you'll either have to use one of those or import a plan you created in either v5 or v6 of their home design package.

 
 
 

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