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Home Design Studio - Design your next home at home!
Authored by: jhgewalt on Oct 29, '09 02:57:30PM

I downloaded a promotional copy of Home Design Studio and have been playing with it for two days. It's not very complex and therefore quite restrictive. I sent a question to tech support asking if the program has the capability to design on a sloped or contoured site. No response yet. It appears that you have to work on the horizontal, no ramp designing for example. I do like the 2D/3D switch back and forth (single monitor not good). I like the tools, simple, intuitive. But the 3D controls are hugely frustrating, no mouse controlled zoom (that I could find), no eye level adjustment. Just walk (too quick) around at one level through walls getting lost more than found. The componant windows and doors are limited, no flat panel doors. I don't want interior window trim, sorry, can't do. Have trouble applying the fairly wide range of accessories. Can't grab them for placement. Very difficult to make tweaks to the floor plan. All or nothing, bits or pieces which refuse to be coaxed into new alignments. All in all the program fights more than it helps. I hope the higher end version is better, looking for credit on the Mac entry level version to apply to the next step up. No hurry, will check MacWorld this year to see if Punch Software has a booth. By the way, tech support auto reply said they will respond within 8 hours, it's been two days and still no response.



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