Punch! Landscape Design 17.5

Punch! Landscape Design provides a complete set of tools to plan, design, and visualize your landscape and outdoor living spaces. You can try different plants in a landscape bed, create the perfect outdoor kitchen, and even add a pool or entertaining area!

Use QuickStarts easy drag and drop rooms to lay out the shape of your home or start with a photo of your house. Landscape with drop-in gardens or create your own with the extensive plant library. Decorate the exterior with thousands of combinations of paint, siding, brick, stucco, and more. Detail it with outdoor furniture, outdoor kitchens, water features, and gazebos.

Tutorials help you get started quickly! The Training Center guides you through visualizing your projects and gives you real tips on accomplishing them.

Whats New for v17.5

• Enhanced Floor Management - Create up to 4 floors! Create independent structures such as outbuildings and detached garages. When you change the elevation on one level, other connected levels will also change.

• Drag and Drop 3D Objects and Plants - Now you can drag and drop 3D objects and plants while using the 3D viewpoint. Objects will automatically position themselves on the top of surfaces like countertops and tabletops. Objects placed on walls, will automatically rotate to match the surface’s angle.

• New Welcome Screen - Easily create new projects, access recent projects, sample plans, and training materials. Get started with QuickStart and in 60 seconds learn how to create a complete floor plan.

• Endless Electrical Switches and Outlets - Choose from an extensive library of electrical switches and outlets, fully customizable using paint or other materials.

• QuickStart Is Even Better - Set exact dimensions in inches AND centimeters. New snap feature ensures that rooms line up quickly by snapping them together.

• And Much More!

Powerful but easy landscaping

• Drag and drop plants into your design from a library of over 4000 flowers, shrubs, and trees.
• Select plants by growing region, water requirement, or sunlight needs.
• Start with pre-made garden beds for quick landscapes.
• Add custom edging around flower beds, vegetable gardens, and walkways; fill with rock or mulch.
• Use the Grow feature to see how your landscape will look over time.

Customize your outdoor spaces

• Choose from a wide range of building and decorating materials like roofing, stucco, siding, brick, and wood. Customize patios, walkways, and driveways with pavers, concrete stains, and stone.
• Materials from nationally-recognized brands that you can try out in your design.
• Detail your outdoor living spaces with thousands of outdoor furniture pieces and accessories. Add a kitchen to your patio with pre-made outdoor kitchen islands or create your own with outdoor cabinets, appliances, smokers, and grills.
• Experiment with material combinations using Decorator Palettes. Try out different looks for the exterior of your house, switch between deck materials, even check out how different mulches look in your plant beds.
• Precision Lighting Planner™ provides complete control for outdoor lighting. Add path lights and up/down accent lights. The lighting designer and sun direction helps you plan how much light you want and where.
• Extend your outdoor entertaining season by adding a hot tub, fire pit or outdoor fireplace.
• Estimator will keep track of what you do and provide schedules of paver areas, plant lists and more.

Deck tools to expand your living space

• Drag and drop deck templates provide quick single or multi-tier decks.
• Intellideck™ makes it easy to build a custom deck in 2 clicks of a mouse. Intellideck intuitively knows the shape of your house as you draw so you can build a custom deck in seconds.
• Automatically insert decks and railings and customize your deck with drag and drop materials.