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3D Home Architect Home and Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

3D Home Architect Home and Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9




3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Design Suite 9 does a lot more than lay out your home and landscape designs. It gives you the ability to fine-tune every element of your home design or landscaping project. The wide range of tools & wizards will help you achieve your goals fast. Unlimited customization guarantees that your dream home will be perfect in every detail. Easy to use, yet powerful enough to generate buildable blueprint-style plans, it’s the only design program you’ll need. Accurate top-down representations of furnishings and other design elements in 2D Designer’s View Enhance your home’s interior with stylish furniture, lighting fixtures, customized cabinets, new appliances & more Make the ideal landscape to complement your home - complete with plants and trees, slopes and grades, fencing, even gazebos & pools Includes Plant Encyclopedia - Learn about plant care, growth zones, plant diseases, soil concerns and more

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Total waste of $10.00
I thought I was getting a super bargain on some older software. No. Whatever company is making this has just taken the brand name. I was looking forward to replacing a program I had used in the past. This was completely different. The menus and tools don’t make any sense. I can’t drag walls to where I want them to be; everything ends up with crazy angles. Cheap software made for a quick buck. No effort of any kind went into making this product. I’m just going to throw it away. Would not burden anone with such a useless “gift”.

4 Stars Christmas Gift
Amazon gave fast service. Arrived at my home within a few days. Gave this to my son as a Christmas gift and he is really enjoying it.

5 Stars Excellent Service
Was extremely happy with the service from this supplier. Goods arrived in Australia very quickly and in excellent condition. Would not hesitate in using them again.

1 Star 3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9
Where’s the manual???? A manual is not included with this software. The help files are not helpful either. I don’t even know where to begin. I’m very disappointed.

4 Stars Great Product
I got this for my dad for Christmas and he has had a great time creating ideas for his next home.

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Turbocad Deluxe V14

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Turbocad Deluxe V14




Packed with hundreds of professional drafting tools, incredible file support, video and interactive tutorials, photorealistic rendering and millions of symbols, TurboCAD Deluxe delivers everything you need. Quickly create presentation-ready home plans, technical drawings, mechanical designs, artistic illustrations, crafts, school projects and more.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great CAD software
If you can’t afford AutoCAD, this is the software for you. It does all I need and it’s very affordable!

4 Stars Pretty good CAD program
I have used a cheaper and easier to use CAD program for years. I needed to load it on a new laptop and found that it been scratched. I needed to purchase a new CAD program and found Trubo CAD 14. Don’t be fooled … this is a hard program to learn. But it does so much more than what I was used to using. It comes with a pretty good tutorial CD (several hours). After watching about a third of the tutorial CD I was able to draw, in detail, plans for a new backyard BBQ bar area for my contractor and it came out pretty good if I do say so myself. If you need a CAD program and have the time and mind to learn this program … you’ll love it!!!

4 Stars Chief strong point is its low entry price.
I learned CAD via AutoCADR9 and got disgusted with AutoDesk by ACADR13.

TurboCAD was a pleasant substitute. The major drawback was a steep learning curve to get acquainted with TCAD, as its formalism is very different from ACAD.

Installation is typical, with a registration step required within thirty days on insertion onto your hard drive. One note for CAD beginners: Get as big a monitor that will fit in your workspace. The typical engineering CAD interface is very cluttered. You could configure your interface to eliminate all the tablet features, but you’ll bring them back as you go through your drafting tasks, anyway. The actual drawing area is quite small on smallish (15 to 17 inch) monitors. Be advised.

With TCAD12, came online tutorials, which answered many questions, like how he heck do I do whatever in TCAD? TCAD12 was also the first version to supply an excellent rendering engine, and TCAD14 sports enhanced

rendering and textures. Your TCAD14 package will have a CD-based tutorial, but go to the website for more helpful lessons.

TCAD14 will open and edit, layer for layer, any AutoDesk format DXF/DWG file. However, some TCAD-edited files may not display properly in ACAD.

If you are new to CAD, the supplied documentation and online tutorials will get you started in engineering drafting. You must spend a lot of time learning these new skills; CAD proficiency has no shortcuts. If you came from an AutoDesk background, be prepared for a lot of frustration; you will have to unlearn many ACAD tricks.

However, consider how much money you have saved by avoiding AutoDesk.

5 Stars How it works.
To me the main criteria of any software product is how intuitive it is. This product falls in the top category. I was up and running fast and producing drawings. I am now assimulating the finer points to be more productive.

5 Stars Impressed
I ordered this particular version because my computer did not have a dvd drive, and it wasn’t necessary . I have had two earlier versions of turbocad over the past 12 or 15 years. I use it mostly for personal cad work and some light home design. This program has many nice features and I was surprised that it was even easier to use than the old versions.

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