Upgrade to Architectural Series v21 (no CWP) from Architectural Series v18 and above with eBook

Enhanced Performance!

64-bit Version:

Experience faster performance with new 64-bit processing. Handles large files with ease. Faster graphics rendering. Get the most out of your installed RAM for better memory use with less crashes.

2D Plan Detailing:

Punch v21 now provides extensive detailing tools suitable for annotating site plans, floor plans, elevation views, and providing other details required for proper construction and permits. These new tools include a Callout tool, Level Lines, Plan, Window and Door labels, and Note Markers. In addition, numerous improvements to line styles and fill patterns provide greater ability to annotate and call out regions and areas of the drawing. All essential in accurately communicating design intent.

New Callout Tools:

Define portions of the building model as details, sections, and elevations. 

Level Lines:

Add labels to drawing to callout important structural elevations when creating construction documentations.

Line Styles:

Ability to add labels to line styles. 

Note Markers:

Identify building specifications such as framing requirements, pier locations, etc. 

Plan Labels:

Add title lines to display Plan names; customize text alignment and font style.

Window and Door Labels:

Add custom labels for use, for example, in identifying manufacturer name or model/part number.

2D Object Detailing:

Fill Patterns:

Newly added patterns, and a new rotate pattern option. 

Fill Pattern Library:

Expandable through downloadable content.

3D Editing with All New Professional CAD Tools: 

3D Custom Workshop Pro:

This new Punch! PowerTool adds over 90 professional CAD tools to Punch! Home Design. Its diverse feature set, consisting of 2D drafting, 3D modeling, editing, and data sharing tools allow the user to create virtually any object to complement their home design project. Objects created can be saved to your library and used with any of your home and landscape designs.  Custom Workshop Pro can bring in popular CAD file formats such as SketchUp®, 3D Studio®, 3MF, STL, DAE, PLY, as well as Adobe® Illustrator®, PDF, SVG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, and JPG.

Some of the features included in Custom Workshop Pro:

2D Drafting Features:

• Line Tools (8 methods)

• Arc Tools (5 methods)

• Circle Tools (7 methods)

• Ellipse Tools (5 methods)

• Polygon Tools (7 methods)

• Bezier Spline Tool Fillet/Chamfer (5 methods)

• Spline Fill

3D Modeling Features:

• Primitives (6 types)

• Extrude, Lathe, Skin, Cover

• Booleans (Add, Subtract, Intersect)

• Subdivision (Add Loop, Fill, Bridge, Inset)

• Split & Slice

Modification and Editing:

• Align, Group, Ungroup, Copy, Paste

• Transformations (Translate, rotate, scale, mirror, along path)

• Arrays (Polar and Rectangular)

• Magnet Tool

Data Sharing:

DWG/DXF, SketchUp®, 3D Studio®, 3MF, STL, DAE, Ply Adobe® Illustrator®, PDF, SVG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPG

Usability Improvements:

LogiCursor anticipates your moves with visual feedback Gripper anticipates your moves with visual feedback View Navigator, Zooming, Panning, Orbits Inspector for parameter edits Keyboard shortcuts Layer Manager, Select Mask, Show/Hide (7) Verify Distances, Perimeters, Areas, Volumes, and Angles Drag and drop texture library

Even More Free Content!

2D House Plans:

Save hours of design time by using professionally drawn single and two-story house plans as 2D tracing layers which can then be automatically viewed as a 3D design. 1000 plans from which to choose!

Powerful Visualization & Rendering:

Create even more stunning renderings with new LightWorks® Skylight, Area and Custom Object lighting options. These enhancements are ideal for creating dynamic, photorealistic Interior Designs, allowing you to more effectively communicate your design ideas to your client, or your interior designer, builder or contractor.

360˚ Online Viewer:

View or share your Punch! 3D Models in your web browser on any device! A great way to collaborate and share your design ideas with clients or with interior designers/builders. Simply render a room and Export it to the Punch! Online Viewer, to see a 360° view, including the floor and ceiling!See Demo.

New Lighting and Rendering Options:

Create even more stunning photorealistic renderings with new LightWorks® Custom Object, Area and Skylight lighting options.

Interoperability Support For Popular 3D Formats:

3D Export Support:

OBJ with Textures and STL are now available as file export options.

Four ways to start your project:

• QuickStart - Drag & drop individual rooms to easily create your basic floor plan.

• Professionally Designed Plans - -Need inspiration or an instant starting point? Utilize our editable house plans to fast track your design or browse them for room layout ideas.

• Floor Plan Trace - -Trace a favorite floor plan, or use one you’ve sketched.

• PhotoView - Take pictures of the inside or outside of an existing house and easily add design features and details.

Auto Roof Gable: Instantly add gable roof panels

Auto Framing:

Select metal, wood or custom framing options, including custom roofs, walls, and floor joists.

Auto Roof Gables and One Click Dormer Tool:

Instantly add gable walls and roof panels

Windows, Doors & Walls:

• Select from an extensive library of door and window styles. Customize the size, grille style, and other parameters to fit your plan.

• Use window and door designer power tools to create custom doors.

Add rooms and decorate with one mouse click!

• Drag and drop room creation.

• SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room or your entire house with one mouse click.

View in 2D, Elevation and Aerial:

2D

3D

Aerial

Estimate Costs, Build a 3D model, Create Blue Prints:

Object Library: Thousands of objects for every part of your design, inside or out. Remodel with new fixtures, lighting, ceiling fans, sinks, appliances and more. Flooring Carpets & Rugs: Try tile, carpet, wood, stone, and other materials including brand name, real-world products. Furniture Showcase: Add predesigned furniture groups with simple drag & drop. Easily arrange or edit your selections to suit your design.

Brand Name Product Libraries: Thousands of possibilities! Faux finishes, interior and exterior paint, wood floors, solid surfaces, blinds, stone, and much more.Nationally-recognized decorating materials you can try before you buy.

Precision Lighting Planner: Add functionality and drama to your design. Works with exterior and interior designs. Precision controls for ambient light, shadows, fall off, radius, and more. Drag & Drop landscape light fixtures.

Cabinet Designer: Customize your cabinets with shelving, pantries, drawers, and appliances. Also perfect for media centers, bathrooms and garage organization.

Storage Design

Gain more closet space by planning an inexpensive wire shelving system or layout a garage that makes the best use of space, yet keeps things organized and within reach. Drag & drop shelving, workbenches and cabinets are included in the library.

Fireplace Wizard & Mantel designer power tools: Punch! Fireplace Wizard walks you through the initial design process, then allows total customization of each feature. Trim Designer to create custom trim profile: Trim Designer not only allows you to save new trims for use in your Punch! drawings, it also has easy-to-use tools for organizing and managing trim libraries. Ceiling Designer: Automatically place a ceiling over an enclosure with just a couple clicks of the mouse.

2D

3D

Aerial

Site Planner and Topo Tools: Site-planner automatically draws your property line, as you enter the coordinates, then exports your lot into your landscape design. Add real-world topography to your building site. Trace over your topo lines. Automatically cuts or adds fill and building pad to your design.

Planting Library: Includes a full selection of flowers, shrubs, and trees you can add to your design. You can also add your own favorite plants to the database! PlantFinder: PlantFinder™ searches plants for your area, using parameters you specify, ensuring growing success. Sorting feature lets you select growing parameters, international zones, sunlight, climate, water, and soil conditions. Photo-realistic images of real-world plants that can be viewed from any angle. Color-coded zone maps make plant selection easy and foolproof.

Plant Growth:

Plan smart! Plan your design and see it grow over time. Perfect for previewing shade.

Hardscapes: Build dramatic retaining walls that define and accent your home. Choose stone, brick, or other materials. Then add your plantings to finish the look. Fence Designer: Design fences with custom material, color, photos or even draw your own design.

2D

3D

Aerial

Auto Edging & Planting Templates:

Zone specific plant groupings with simple drag & drop placement. A variety of shapes for freestanding, corners, and more.

Outdoor Living: Turn a drab backyard into outdoor entertaining space with included objects for kitchens, fireplaces, furniture, and more. Add pavers, decks, and landscaping to your design.

Deck and Patio Templates: Predesigned, drag and drop, editable designs you can use as is or customize to your personal style!

Pool Designer: Draw from scratch, use and edit pre-drawn templates or let Pool Designer create your pool to your exact specs.

2D

3D

Aerial

Design Phase Tabs:

Easy tabs organize your project into the foundation, floor, electrical, plumbing, roof, etc. creating all the steps needed for your design.

NEW and Improved Object Library Endless possibilities! Thousands of 2D and 3D objects to choose from! Choose entire furniture groupings with simple drag and drop Choose from thousands of nationally recognized decorating materials including faux finishes, wood floors, countertops, blinds and much more! Improved library is easier to use and faster to search.

Simple Drag and Drop Tools!

Add rooms, paint color, furnishings, landscape plantings and more!

3D Custom Workshop: Build virtually any object or modify existing objects from the library. Use photo-realistic materials including wood, fabric, paint colors, stone, brick, and more.

Build Green: Go green in one click; watch your design go green with design tips and objects; recycled glass counter tops, bamboo flooring and more! Make your home more energy efficient with new appliances or update your windows, doors and more!

SmartWand™ SmartWand™ technology adds paint or other material applications to a specific wall, room, or your entire house, with one mouse click!

Cost Estimation and Mobile Landscaping Quote

Instant 2D/3D Views plus the ability to create templates for a 3D model of your design

Print Blueprints of Your Designs

Intuitive Interactive Help Do it Yourself Tips Includes hundreds of DIY how-to-tips from the experts Symbol Editor & Section Detailer Additional Professional architectural annotation tools.

	Architectural Series v21 $499.99	Professional v21 $299.99	Studio v21 $129.99	Essentials v21 $49.99
NEW Performance Enhancements! 64-bit OS Version	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Powerful CAD Tools! 3D Custom Workshop Pro (CWP)	✓	✓
NEW Stunning Visualization & Rendering! Custom Object Light, Skylight	✓
NEW Interoperability Enhancements! 3D Export Support	✓	✓	✓	✓(OBJ only)
NEW 360 Online Viewer!	✓	✓*	✓*	✓*
NEW Fill Pattern Library!	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Planning Features! Callout Tool	✓	✓
Fill Patterns	✓	✓	✓	✓
Level Lines	✓	✓
Line Styles	✓	✓	✓	✓
Note Markers	✓	✓	✓	✓
Plan Labels	✓	✓
Window and Door	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW 2D House Plans Included!	1000	500	250	250
NEW Dozens of Bug Fixes & Usability Enhancements!	✓	✓	✓	✓

* Studio and Landscape Design versions have Standard Rendering of Cube Maps only

Detail Comparison Chart

System Requirements:

Windows® 11,10, 8, or 7. Intel® or compatible 1.0 GHz 64-Bit processor or higher (multi-core processor supported), 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB or more recommended, 3 GB of Hard Disk Space, VGA Video Card displaying at least 1024x768 with 32-bit color and Internet access required²

A new eBook dedicated to the latest Punch! Software Version 21 for Windows.

All the current and new features are detailed and explained.

• NEW eBook layout and features: This new edition contains more than 610 pages and more than 1300 color images (showing the new features, tutorials, screen guides, tables, examples, rendering results and screenshots as well as the updates), covering exclusively the new Punch! Software Version 21 for Windows. Topics and tools are linked on the screen using more than 2300 hyperlinks.
• NEW: Learn how to optimize and export your files to the new 3D Export formats, visualizing the different styles and results.
  
  
• NEW: Discover how to visualize and share your projects online using a 360° Cube Map. Find out the different styles, techniques and tips.
  
  
• NEW: Learn how to add customized light objects and skylights.
• NEW: Version 21 includes a new Power Tool: 3D Custom Workshop Pro. Create new sophisticated objects, plus import and export to different formats.
• NEW: Study how to use the new Annotation Tools.
• UPDATED: Learn about the new features and how to get the best results using Draw Styles Profiles and Tools.
• EXPANDED: Learn how to create a different type of Elevations: Flat Elevations, Elevations with Title Blocks as well as Pan Rotated Elevations of your project using the Elevation Editor, Pat’s title blocks plus the Drawing Styles’ Profiles and Tools.
  
  
• UPDATED: Learn how to use the new and improved Import and Export to CAD capabilities, preparing the Plan to Export and visualizing the Punch to CAD process side by side.
• EXTRA Screen Guides. Browse through images of the most important screens of your program, then click on the desired feature and you will be directed to the exact topic in the eBook!
• NEW AND IMPROVED: More than 100 step by step tips, guides and tutorials, covering the most requested topics, including “How to Landscape a Picture”, “How to Create a Split-Level House”, “How to create a Walkout Basement”, “How to Print plans and elevations” and “How to Create Chair Rails”.
  
• As always, learn how to create superb 3D rendered images, now with new tips.
  

Take your home, landscape or commercial building project to the next level.

• Understand how Punch! programs think in an architectural environment.
• Reach for the programs' maximum potential.
• Suitable for homeowners and professionals.
• Advanced search options make finding even the most detailed information easy.
• Training, tools and tutorials put you in charge.
• Covers all titles of Punch Software version 20 for Mac.
• Discover how to visualize your interiors and exteriors using 3D rendering.

Clear explanations with 800 color images, plus training guides and tutorials.

Learn best practice methods for design, 2D-3D, building components, importing, exporting, printing and power tools.

• How to start a project?
• How to insert a picture and landscape it?
• How to develop a roof?
• How to add structural elements?
• How to create an elevation?

Visual guides provide an easy to follow road map.

Topics and tools have links for additional information.

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