Why I buy this one ?
- Intuitive interface and simple tools for quick learning curve
- Powerful home, landscape, and deck design tools for the Mac
- Cutting-edge technology creates breathtaking 3D views
- Unique power tools for designing and editing from within the program
- Files can be shared between Mac and PC platforms

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What our customer's say!

"Great Features - Could use a Tutorial", This product has everything I am looking for to play around with home remodel ideas, but it could use a basic tutorial that demonstrates how to draw a house and the property landscapes. I am trying to draw a simple ranch with an exposed basement and cathedraled ceilings. Where do I begin? The book is useful, but I've made a lot of mistakes trying to do the simple basics of a house. Besides, who wants to read with today's technology. I still haven't figured out how to walk through the house. Thankfully the fly over view works. I'd pay for a simple tutorial.

"A capable but hard to use product", this product has tons of features but it was not nearly as easy to use as I had hoped. The interface was confusing, the interaction methods are completely foreign to the Mac. I've been using Macs since '85 and I've used hundreds of different programs. Most have a somewhat familiar feel to them, even if you DO have to read the book to use advanced features. This one was so weird I couldn't even draw a line without reading the manual first.

"Excellent home design software", Although I was somewhat apprehensive about purchasing this product because of the negative reviews, I spent the dough and waited anxiously for the UPS man to show up.
A couple of days later my package arrived via the turd-brown truck and was deposited into my eager clutches.
I sprinted up the rickety staircase of our 1896 Victorian, only pausing long enough to request a large rum and coke from my wife, then gleefully tore into my new software.
After the simple one-step download, I started up the program and was presented with the daunting task of doing something with the blank page staring back at me.
Not being the type to read all the manuals and necessary information before diving into a project, I glanced at the quick-start information and immediately went to work.
The controls were extremely intuitive and I easily created the foundation. Upon this I laid the second floor and roof in minutes.
Because of my home's unique Victorian porches, rails, and stacked bay windows, I did have to find specific information in the manual to address those details. All answers were simple to find thanks to the software's search menu. Simply type your topic and answers are sorted by relevance.
The paper manual is also a great reference and has an index to find specific answers. I believe the entire manual is contained in the "help" search, but I don't actually know. I do know that every difficulty I encountered was easily solved by using the search bar.

My original plan was to build a practice model to get comfortable with the software, then create another file with specific dimensions. This became unnecessary as the day progressed because it is so simple to input dimensions and insert walls, windows, doors, etc.
Once the shell of my house was made, I grabbed my tape measure, went outside, and measured the dimensions of the foundation, doors, windows, etc.
Back inside on Punch I simply lengthened walls, raised ceilings, stretched windows, and entered exact dimensions. With that, my Punch house was an exact duplicate of my home.

The process continued with measuring interior spaces and dropping walls into place.

The 2 story house with exact interior and exterior dimensions took about 5 hours to complete. This includes learning how to use the software on a basic level, manually measuring every surface in the house, consuming multiple and increasingly potent rum beverages and repeatedly complaining to my wife that my stomach was empty and needed solid nourishment. Had I been sober at the time the process may have been more expedient. There was quite a bit of unnecessary stalling because I simply was in no condition to go outside and measure.

Once the exact shell was created, the program really came to life.
There are huge menus of colors, textures, materials, fixtures, appliances, etc, that are infinitely customizable.
In fact, once the shell was made, my wife shambled over with a large glass of wine, muttered something incoherent, and bumped me out of my chair. With a few simple instructions:
A) "these are your materials and color menus"
B) "drag and drop what you want where you want it"
she quickly and expertly painted the rooms using Sherman Williams actual paint library. The colors are identified by name and product number so you can go to the Sherman Williams and request "UPS turd-brown 60097" *not an actual SW color* and be in and out of the store in minutes, not weeks. It makes the agonizing chore of choosing colors simple and relatively painless.
Not only that, it's great fun to see all the possibilities without all the back-breaking, mind-numbing manual labor involved in actually painting a room only to hate it and repaint it.
Other features such as the landscape design are worth the cost of the program on their own. I completely changed my landscape plans and gardenhouse placement once I saw them in 3-D. That alone saved me thousands of dollars.

I highly recommend this product if you are planning a remodel. The materials choices are phenomenal, the ability to instantly change, tweak, and customize designs is simple and extremely useful in the planning process.

Buy it. Ignore the bad reviews. If I can learn this program while drunk, you can surely do it.


"Designer", Many thanks as it is real awesome designer for me to learn. Shipping was real quick. Thank again

"Amazing CAD Program", I read other reviews that complained about this product, and I bought it, concerned. Every CAD I have tried to use was almost impossible. Slow, frustrating, you couldn't make the walls the right length, and to put in a door or a window was a struggle.

Punch Home Design Studio is so easy to use compared to every other CAD I've tried that there is no comparison. You want a wall, you put up a wall. You want it a certain length, you put the numbers it. You want to see it in 3D-- BOOM-- it does it. As I use it, am amazed by how simple, elegant, and fast it is. A Great program-- A great price. I think the world of it!

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"Fantastic Product", We are building our first "spec" house. I was having trouble visualizing some of the details. This product helped me put the plans into a 3-d model and now I have no trouble visualizing the house at all!

"Too Difficult!!!!", I'm usually a quickstudy when it comes to learning software and yes, I do read manuals. This program takes too much out of me and the book is no help. I made some progress but found the preview or "liveview" was terrible. Laying floor or ground cover was also more trouble than it was worth. There are no tutorials and I also ended up with graph paper and pencil. Save your money. But at least someone is addressing the Mac crowd.

"Not Worth the Struggle", Being the only home design software for the Mac I could find at an affordable (but not inexpensive) price, I bought a copy of Punch! Home Design Studio to use in designing a remodel of our kitchen. I had used another vendor's software to do a bath redesign a few years ago, so this ought to be a quick learning curve. Wrong. This is the only time I have regretted gettng the Mac.
Punch! Home Design Studio is not in the least intuitive, and seems to have a mind of its own, which it cannot make up. So if you like surprises, you'll love Punch! Home Design Studio.
The process seems to want to start with the foundation. A good idea for your building contractor, but not for the designer.
The package does include a paper manual, which should make an old guy like me happy, but it is pretty pathetic. And of course the help screens just parrot the stuff in the manual.
So, to plan my remodel I had to get out the old t-square and pencil, and wish I had started there in the first place. Anybody need to design their foundation?

"Learning curve but...", Like any serious piece of design software, there is a learning curve and you will need to read the manual (I know...who likes to read anymore). After a few days of playing around and reading I was able to create my house design and add an addition to the back. The software comes with several templates that help you get started if you are having trouble being creative. The one thing I did wish this software had was video tutorials. Otherwise, I highly recommend this software if you are willing to put some time into it. It's great for both remodeling and creating from the ground-up. Just do not expect to be 100% proficient with it five minutes after installing it.

"The package is cooler than the software...", I tried to do basic drawings and quickly became bored with the steep learning curve and kludgy interface. Features galore, but like one of those dog turds that gets the white fuzz on it - pretty on the outside but still stinks on the inside.

Best testimonial: I returned it!