Amazon.com Product Description

Garden Deluxe: Your Complete Guide to Successful Gardening helps you choose the plants best suited to your garden's soil conditions and climate. This comprehensive set features four CD-ROMs: Garden Composer, Garden Designer, Growing Good Roses, and Birds. Variable zoom levels, scaling androtation, and seasonal views of your garden let you design in detail and even see how your design looks at different times of the year. A plant care calendar makes it easy to maintain your garden. More than 650 full-color photos and illustrations inspire and instruct you through the planning process. ... Read more

Features

• Design your garden in 2D then visualize it in stunning 3D
• Detailed descriptions accompany a visual encyclopedia covering nearly 1,400 entries
• Design your garden for maximum performance based on your geographic location
• Order the seeds, plants and bulbs you've chosen for your designs online through Burpee's Online Catalog
• Use interactive videos and electronic research articles for easy, comprehensive planning

Reviews (1)

Not bad!
I thought it was easy to use and it loaded easily, never had any problems with it. For the price it is a pretty nice program. Only I am now looking for one with a larger plant data base and alot more like water gardens and such. I think its worth the money. I have mine about 2years and have used it heavily. And it is still not giving me any trouble at all. ... Read more

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This package includes two full software products on one CD-ROM. With CAD 3D you can create professional-looking drawings, plan home improvements, or create custom furniture. CAD 3D lets you produce drawings, specifications, and blueprint-like plans with pinpoint accuracy. Pick from more than 500 architectural, mechanical, and electrical objects and symbols to drop into your plan. Also import and export objects and symbols to and from Landscape Design 3D. You can drag and drop more than 60 photorealistic textures. Changes are made in both 2-D and 3-D automatically. With Landscape Design 3D you are able to create the perfect landscape and gardens for your home. Once you have placed all the trees, shrubs, and plants, you can take a walk through your fantasy landscape. ... Read more

Reviews (2)

Good idea - limited functionality beyond basic design...
Landscape & Home Design 3D have some problems... they are limited to basic design work, and provide little documentation. My 9 year old son has become frustrated at not being able to better control design changes/additions, or view more realistic images. Occasional problems due to apparent bugs also... Long wait times are standard when working with complex designs on a P3 266 MHz Celeron machine, even with 190MB RAM !! This software was excellent for beginners, but after two months of use, my 9 year old son has mastered it and is asking for something more sophisticated, more powerful... (This review was dictated to me by my son)

cad3d and landscape design
Cad3d is great but Landscape Design lacks dept. Easy controls for Cad, But Landscape Design is horrible at making landscapes. I give Cad 5 stars and Landscape 2 ... Read more

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Aggravating waste of time & money
I haven't found anything about this product that works like it's supposed to. On top of that I have a fairly new computer with a very fast processor, a huge hard drive and loads of memory that keeps freezing up after I run this thing for awhile. Tech support hasn't even bothered to reply to my queries for help.

A waste of time and money.
This product doesn't have the tools needed to design much more than a flat, square flower bed. The wizards and tools are not user friendly or complete.
I have used Sierra LandDesigner for years and was looking for something with a larger plant base and better terrain handeling.
I had seen a good review in a gardening magazine on this software, so I purchased it.
I have just spent several frustrating hours trying to get the house and garage to remotely resemble my home.
I am a computer programmer and have used PCs for landscape design for years.
When is someone going to make a decent landscape design product? ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

The Complete Home Design Suite is a package of four design applications for the home and garden. Home Design 3D has over 100 customizable sample plans and templates, and real-time 3-D walk-throughs and flyovers from every angle. Landscape Design 3D has photorealistic objects, such as flowers, shrubs, and garden accessories, that you can drag and drop into your designs. It is compatible with Expert's Home Design 3D. CAD 3D lets you pick from over 500 professional architectural, mechanical, and electrical objects and symbols. You can import and export objects between Expert's Home Design 3D and Landscape 3D. Complete Home Gardener allows you to search plants based on climate, soil pH, plant type, bloom color, lighting needs, and plant use. There's also a glossary of over 700 common gardening terms. ... Read more

Reviews (3)

This is a terrible product
... I wanted to use the Landscape Design 3D to make a plot of my yard. The first thing I did was try to add a fence, and it didn't work. I could add a fence segment all right, but then the program was stuck in "add fence" mode and no combination of mouse clicks or key presses seemed to get me out of it. I had to go into Task Manager and "end task" to get out of it.

Next, I tried adding a path. That worked OK, but the 3D view of it had some cropping issues such that the path appeared to be shaped like a semicircle instead of an arc.

None of the other products were much better, and yes, the install process was flawed for me too.

Don't buy this.

Home Design Suite
Not Complete. Lacks Foundation, Roof planning, Costing.

Drink Holder Material at best
I had low expectations when buying this product, and this package failed to meet them. There are at least 3 different setup programs, none consistent, 2 of which are based on an old Windows 3.1 setup program, with 8.3 character expectations. After installing, 2 programs wouldn't run - "couldn't find file xxxxxxxx.xxx", so I don't actually know how these 2 run. The main 3d program launched, but is about useless. Your time is worth more than this. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

This package includes two full software products on one CD-ROM. Test out your home design, renovation, or remodeling projects before investing a dime with Home Design 3D. Save time, money, and hours of frustration by creating the home of your dreams, right on your computer, in the comfort of your home or office. Intuitive drag-and-drop tools allow you to fully customize more than 100 sample plans and templates. Design with a selection of roof styles, gables, columns, and crown moldings. Simultaneous 2-D and 3-D views let you see your design as you work. You can even view your creations with real-time 3-D walkthroughs and flyovers from every angle. The program also includes a built-in cost calculator and loan planner.

With Landscape Design 3D you are able to create the perfect landscape and gardens for your home. Once you have placed all the trees, shrubs, and plants, you can take a walk through your fantasy landscape. You can drag and drop more than 60 photorealistic textures. Changes are made in both 2-D and 3-D automatically. ... Read more

Reviews (5)

Too many bugs, too limited
Well, for $.. you shouldn't expect much. The biggest problem I had was with bugs. Trying too move walls ended up with zig-zag lines. Having the roof of my two story house ending up over the first floor. And, most frustrating of all, repeated crashing when trying to print out a design. I swapped an 11" x 17" pad of graph paper for this product and came out $.. ahead but I would have had better results with the graph paper.

Landscape Design was useless
I knew for 9.99 I shouldn't expect much but the landscape design portion of this package was useless. I couldn't get hardly anything out of it other than model pictures of certain types of gardens. Certainly that's not worth the money.

Difficult to use
I used the 1999 version for W95/98, which received an Editor's Choice award from Computer Times, however, I found this program difficult to use and lacking in flexibility. The 3-D features are nice, but getting a basic layout was very difficult to do, particularly since my lot is an odd shape. The help screens are not very helpful, especially in getting your basic design down. There were many pre-designed landscapes, but they didn't "fit" my situation. Limited selection of types and size of trees, shrubs, and flowers. I am an above average user of computers and software, but I don't have experience in design or drawing.

You get what you pay for!!
Purchased this for my wife, who is somewhat computer-inept. Decided to preview it myself, so I could offer her help with it later on; however, it was I who needed the help! Very difficult interface,with No "undo" feature, or "back" button for duffers to erase the inevitable mistakes.

This is an extremely maddening bit of software, which I am going to send back ASAP, and trade for something a bit more expensive, but hopefully, with a shorter leaning curve....

Did I mention that in addition to no printed docs (a real pet peeve of mine) there is no OPTION of printing the docs yourself; only an extremely unhelpful "help" file.

My advice? Forget this one!

Home Design 3D -a lot for the $
AutoCad or even Micrografx Designer it is not, but this little package provides quick almost painless floor plans and surprisingly useful 3D renderings. The learning curve is very short, particularly if you have some experience with other drawing software. Unlike some other very inexpensive software, this one gives you much, much more than you pay for. My biggest disappointment is the lack of flexibility and features found in the more powerful -and much more expensive- programs. Having a layers feature, for example, would greatly improve this program. Everything considered, this is a definite winner! ... Read more

Product Description

The Power of Professional Home Design Software and Master Landscape Software is fully Integrated into Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum!Punch! Professional Home Design Suite Platinum is a special two-for-one package loaded with incredible capabilities. You get all of the features of both industry-acclaimed Punch! Master Landscape design software and Punch! Professional Home Design Suite in this easy-to-use home and landscape design package.This updated home and landscape design software version is built on the same powerful platform as Punch! Architectural Series 4000 allowing you the flexibility to integrate Punch! PowerTools and much much more!Our PhotoView technology lets you import real-world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your home. You can import a photo of your own home add landscaping design or deck design and then view your work from any angle -- with realistic 3D perspective. Our LiveView window continually updates your home designs in real-time 3D as you draw. Interior and exterior 2D elevations are available with a single mouse click and the exclusive ClearView tool renders your design with a glass house effect. You can actually see through walls to maximize your design space. You will be amazed at our powerful 3D graphics engine that lets you create real-time walk or fly-throughs - for a Hollywood-style voyage through your new creation! This garden and landscape design software allows you to create multi-level or multi-story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures stairs railings object placement and color capabilities. Helpful deck design wizards walk you through railing baluster options and more. Choose a basic shape or create one from scratch and watch the program draft a beautiful 3D rendering of your new deck design. Your deck and landscaping designs come to life with photo-realistic 3D - complete with shadows - giving you a stunning true-to-life representation of your home design.Our Plant... ... Read more

Features

• Import a photo of your house and add structures and accents to your home
• Draft house plans and blueprints with accurate, precise 2D drawings
• Import a picture of your own garden, then begin choosing location for your hedges, ornaments and more
• Detailed botanical reference guide helps you pick out plants & flowers for the perfect garden
• Zoom in & out of drawings, change scale and color, rotate, copy and mirror objects

Features

• 2,500+ designer showrooms from leading designers give you inspiration for your projects.
• 20,000+ real products from leading manufacturers help you visualize your details.
• Millions of design combinations to choose from.
• 1,000+ ready-to-build home and garden plans.
• Plant Encyclopedia loaded with over 4,600 plants.

Reviews (1)

Beware - this software is not Windows ME compatible
Contrary to it's box claims, this software is not Windows ME compatible.

It killed a perfectly healthy installation of WinME on it's first run. It seems to have altered Windows system files and Windows is unhappy with it and crashes *hard*.

Their technical support is for "registered users" only, which isn't helpful to those of us struggling to get it to work in the first place.

Do *not* buy this software. ... Read more

Features

• Organize your collection of plant pictures and plant-related data using powerful database technology.
• Research taxonomic groupings, plant uses, botanical and common names; use the Internet gateway to expand your research even further.
• Publish your collection to the Web using the built-in templates and style sheets - print proof sheets, trailside markers, tags, and nursery placards.
• Discover the hidden similarities between plants using icons and color coded categories.
• Collaborate with other plant enthusiasts using the import/export facilities to share data with other popular software.

Features

• Choose from hundreds of different types of flora
• Get complete advice on the best fruits & vegetables to plant, how to care for them
• Add trees & shrubs to your garden or backyard for a more scenic landscape
• Learn to grow the finest in flowering bulbs & roses

Product Description

VectorWorks MECHANICAL is specifically engineered for smart-sized design firms, machine shops, and fabricators who need an easy-to-use, easy-to-learn, drafting and 3D modeling solution. Currently the best selling CAD program on the Macintosh½, and an industry standard on Windows½, VectorWorks is used by more than 250,000 design professionals in over 80 countries-making it one of the world's most popular CAD programs. ... Read more

Product Description

VectorWorks MECHANICAL is specifically engineered for smart-sized design firms, machine shops, and fabricators who need an easy-to-use, easy-to-learn, drafting and 3D modeling solution. Currently the best selling CAD program on the Macintosh½, and an industry standard on Windows½, VectorWorks is used by more than 250,000 design professionals in over 80 countries-making it one of the world's most popular CAD programs. ... Read more