--- product_id: 82922801 title: "Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 18 [Old Version]" brand: "punch software" price: "SAR 35" currency: SAR in_stock: false reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/82922801-punch-home-design-architectural-series-18-old-version store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 18 [Old Version] **Brand:** punch software **Price:** SAR 35 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 18 [Old Version] by punch software - **How much does it cost?** SAR 35 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/82922801-punch-home-design-architectural-series-18-old-version) ## Best For - punch software enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted punch software brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product description PUNCH! HOME DESIGN ARCHITECTURA SERIES 18 SM BOX-US VERSION desertcart.com From layout to landscaping, Home Design Architectural Series 18 from Punch! Software delivers a complete home-design solution. Flexible and easy to use, this software integrates 18 programs and adds more than 60 new features and enhancements. Explore easy-to-use wall tools, robust text and dimension tools, additional 2-D geometric creation tools, photo-realistic lighting, enhanced framing and estimating, and much more. Help text and video clips explain and demonstrate how each tool is used. Plus, you can join the Punch! Developers Network, download the free developer's kit, and get started customizing your own PowerTools plug-ins. Review: Good software - This is a highly rates software for home design. I was never really able to use it because it seems to require some AutoCAD training. Review: Good for the price - This a great product for the price. It is feature rich and fairly easy to use. The documentation is well done and the videos inside the program are very helpful. There are a few rough spots in the programming. You can tell this product did not come from a huge company like Adobe or Microsoft. If it did, I'm sure it would be three times the price... ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00006SIJQ | | Customer Reviews | 3.0 3.0 out of 5 stars (37) | | Date First Available | October 11, 2002 | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | Yes | | Manufacturer | Punch! Software | | Package Dimensions | 9.7 x 8.1 x 3.2 inches; 12 ounces | ## Images ![Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 18 [Old Version] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61D214BNE2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ Good software *by B***E on January 9, 2007* This is a highly rates software for home design. I was never really able to use it because it seems to require some AutoCAD training. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for the price *by R***S on February 19, 2003* This a great product for the price. It is feature rich and fairly easy to use. The documentation is well done and the videos inside the program are very helpful. There are a few rough spots in the programming. You can tell this product did not come from a huge company like Adobe or Microsoft. If it did, I'm sure it would be three times the price... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Many useful features, very easy to use, only minor glitches *by H***D on April 9, 2003* Punch AS 18 is very stable, especially for the wide set of features and capabilities it provides. It has never crashed for me using Windows XP. This indicates a very professional development team rather than a collection of disparate packages cobbled together in one box. I liked its ease of use a lot. After a few hours of modifying some samples and then doing a few simple plans from scratch, I feel very capable of using all the features I need. A few years ago I tried HomeDesigner. It was painfully difficult to use and it had only a small subset of Punch 18's features. I finally I gave up using it. Every 3D CAD program has unique ways to place and draw objects, rotate, pan, zoom, scale, view, and navigate and so on in the 3D universe. Punch is definitely one of the easiest I've used. 3D LiveView is immensely helpful in showing a perspective view of the 2D plan you are working. You can navigate in two ways. WalkThrough is generally better for viewing inside the house and FlyAround better for outside. WalkThrough is at a constant (but adjustable) height where you move forward or backwards and can rotate (pan) to any angle. It's like walking through the design at eyeball level. The camera is always in a horizontal direction. Unfortunately this does not allow you to look up at the ceiling. But you can select a wide angle that shows some of the ceiling. FlyAround is like a view from a helicopter. You orbit a fixed point at variable altitudes and distances from the center point. FlyAround always aims exactly at the center of the orbit. It's shown on the 2D plan and can easily be moved. You are always looking downward from the helicopter. Unfortunately, you cannot look vertically down because the max downward angle seems to be only 30 degrees below horizontal, an unnecessary restriction. LiveView has 2 ways to render the picture. I especially like ClearView, which is a 3D B&W drawing that allows the transparency of walls and other objects to range from almost clear to fully opaque. Sometimes it's very handy to see what's on the other side of a wall of the room you're working in. ClearView rendering speed is very fast. ColorView is a little slower, with 4 quality (detail) settings and 3 shadow settings (off, low and high). LiveView is displayed its own window, which makes it easy to move and resize the 3D view as you work with the 2D plan. This feature is certainly more flexible and much more practical than forcing it into one of 4 corners, or such similar limitations, that some other 3D CADs impose... Every feature they claim they have, they actually do provide, and in a consistent and integrated user interface that all work well together. There are a few minor glitches. The limitations of view angles mentioned above should be relaxed. WalkThrough is tricky in that it is too easy to move forward/backward when you only want to pan (rotate). It's too easy to accidentally pop through a wall when you only want to look around the room. This could easily fixed with a shift key or such that would lock one movement direction and allow the other. 2D zoom and pan is inconvenient in that you must use the mouse (no keyboard commands for zoom) and it seems to get out of control -- often way too fast. Visio's zoom is the easiest I've ever encountered: Ctl-Shift keys plus mouse buttons do all pans and zooms instantly and easily, with fine control (every 2D CAD should use it!). Similarly, more of the toolbar selections should have keyboard commands. There are 20 provided floor plans that go from simple to complex designs. These are excellent to play around with and learn what's possible. But none of them have textures or objects! The walls, floors, roofs, landscapes, are bare, no furniture, fixtures or plumbing, totally devoid of human habitation. What a lost opportunity to exhibit many of Punch's really great features. The most serious deficiency is getting wall to properly intersect with the roof. Punch provides 6 roof types, plus some very useful free-hand roof designing tools. It is incredibly easy to add roofs to complex floor plans. But you are compelled to MANUALLY calculate the heights of all points on each wall where it intersects the roof (by using trig, or a drawing on a paper grid). While it is hard to describe this problem in words, I'll try a simple example. You have a large main area and a smaller attached room to the side. What does the roof look like for this L-shaped plan? One roof cannot cover the whole thing. With Punch it is *easy* to select and place a suitable roof design over the two areas. Here's the problem: the common wall of the large area attached the small area will extend up to the two roofs. The wall has a complex shape. Fortunately, Punch has this shape among its wall selections. But YOU must specify the elevations and lengths of the oddly shaped wall. If you make them too large, the wall sticks up above the roof. Too small and there is a gap under the roof. Big birds can fly through it. Some of the sample plans show this problem (P018). Ironically, LiveView must perform these calculations in order to render a 3D view. Punch desperately needs the command: Extent Walls Vertically to Roof. All in all, Punch-bang AS 18 is a fine piece of software, lots of features, easy to use and with minor nits. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/82922801-punch-home-design-architectural-series-18-old-version](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/82922801-punch-home-design-architectural-series-18-old-version) --- *Product available on Desertcart Saudi Arabia* *Store origin: SA* *Last updated: 2026-04-22*