Tuesday, May 8, 2012

HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite

HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite Review



HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite Feature

  • Build a Green Kitchen—HGTV will help you plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances
  • Wizard-driven interface makes any project easy, plus HGTV How-To Video Tips and a printed user guide to get you started
  • Photorealistic 3D Technology with virtual walkaround and thousands of 3D appliances, furniture, lighting and more
  • Easy room makeovers--start with your own digital picture
  • Includes free technical support
Design Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV, the No. 1 home improvement television network. Take a fresh approach to the way you live, including building a green kitchen, with HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite.

Design Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV.

Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping. Click to enlarge.

Perfect for creating a new living space. Click to enlarge.

All the tools for creating winning kitchens & baths. Click to enlarge.

Are you looking to update a living room, bedroom or other space but aren't really sure where to begin? HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite makes the process a cinch. Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping.

This new software is perfect for creating a new living space; adding a fireplace; making your home energy efficient with new appliances; replacing countertops, cabinetry and fixtures; and enhancing any room in your house with a brand new look. You can import digital photos of your home's exterior or interior and instantly change paint colors. You can even design your dream home from scratch.

And it's easier than ever--no design experience necessary! Just point and click!

  • Room Makeovers
  • Interior Design and Remodels
  • HGTV How-To Video Library
  • Kitchens & Baths
  • Landscaping & Tools
  • Home Design
  • Cost Estimating


Get Professional Tips from HGTV's Video Library and a printed user guide to get you started and keep your creativity flowing. A variety of important topics are included, all to ensure your home improvement project turns out just as you dreamt it! Subjects include:

  • Interior Paint Finishings
  • Improving Your Kitchen
  • Artistic Backsplashes
  • Framing Windows
  • Carpets
  • Mold Prevention Methods
  • And Much More

Easy Room Makeovers with multiple options--or you can start with your own digital pictures. Import digital photos of home furnishings--or family photos--into your one-of-a-kind design!

Create virtual tours to visualize your finished living space before you ever start your project. Click to enlarge.

HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Click to enlarge.

Hundreds of 3D Appliances, Furnishings, Lighting and More! Customize your space by selecting countertops, furniture and appliances in every style imaginable. Everything you need to plan, design, customize and create.

HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Easily refinish cabinets, replace countertops, update appliances, and more. Even add decorative hoods and backsplashes and more functional eating areas.

Plan Your HGTV Green Kitchen. Kitchens are the energy hog of the home. Between refrigerators and the ovens, cooktops and dishwashers, microwaves and small appliances, it's easy to see how a kitchen can cook up most of your energy bill. HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software will help you to plan and visualize a ne, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

Wizard-Driven Interface makes any project fast and easy. There's even free tech support!

Photorealistic 3D Technology for unparalleled visualization capacity. 3D Real View makes it possible to conduct your own virtual walkaround.

Sample Home Plans for a fast start and virtually limitless creative options and innovations. Create your own floorplan in minutes or, create your own door and window styles, cabinets, lighting and window coverings. Build in everything from electrical outlets and switches to home networking and theatre systems. Plus: automatic roof placement, complete HVAC and plumbing, easy material selection--brick, stone, siding--and more.*

Landscaping Tools
Choose from hundreds of plants, fences, gates and more to plan beautiful, functional landscapes.

Plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

It's easy to plan even the most challenging project. Click to enlarge.

The changes you make in 3D are simultaneously made to your 2D plan--automatically. Click to enlarge.

Hundreds of 3D models to choose from. Click to enlarge.

Summary of Features for Makeovers and Remodeling

Flexible Interior Design Features

  • Replace Paint and Fabric:
    Take a digital picture of any room and visualize your new space.

  • Flooring Materials Library:
    Woods, tiles, carpets and more

  • Countertops Library, including granites and marbles

  • Brand Name Content and Materials

  • Complete Furniture & Appliance Library:
    Hundreds of 3D models to choose from

Realistic Visualization Features

  • Design in Photorealistic 3D:
    The changes you make in 3D are simultaneously made to your 2D plan--automatically.

  • 3D Walkthrough:
    Create virtual tours to visualize your finished living space before you ever start your project.

  • Accurate Natural Lighting:
    Visualize your home's interior at different times of day.

  • Easy Zoom and Navigation

  • And Much More!

Powerful Home Design Features

  • Intelligent Walls:
    Easily draw interior and exterior walls that automatically connect and repair.

  • Doors:
    Use the Door Wizard to add simple doors, bi-fold doors, French doors, sliding doors, garage doors and more.

  • Windows:
    Just click along a wall to insert casement, hung, sliding, bay, vent, hopper or louvered windows, plus windows in virtually any shape.

  • Hundreds of lighting fixtures

*Requires Internet connection

Want to see how existing furnishings and wall hangings will look in your new room? It’s easy. HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software lets you import any photograph into your design. Even add personal photographs to visualize your family or even pets in your new home


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

AutoCAD LT 2013 Commercial Upgrade from 1 to 3 Previous Version with Subscription in the Box

AutoCAD LT 2013 Commercial Upgrade from 1 to 3 Previous Version with Subscription in the Box Review



AutoCAD LT 2013 Commercial Upgrade from 1 to 3 Previous Version with Subscription in the Box Feature

  • Collaborate with others: Create files with genuine DWG technology and share your work with colleagues and clients
  • Increase productivity: With a consistent focus on drafting productivity and intuitive interaction, AutoCAD LT is built for efficient design documentation
Document ideas: Document your ideas and designs more accurately with a comprehensive set of 2D drafting and detailing tools


Saturday, April 28, 2012

Home Designer Pro 2012 [Download]

Home Designer Pro 2012 [Download] Review



Home Designer Pro 2012 [Download] Feature

  • Home Designer Pro has all the same great features as Home Designer Architectural, Home Designer Interiors, Home Designer Landscape & Deck plus additional advanced design tools that allow you to design like a professional.
  • Give your home the exact look and feel you desire - visualize new styles, colors, wall coverings, flooring, and other materials. Plan your space with 3D models, virtual tours, and advanced design tools. It's easy to make your design ideas come to life.
  • Design the kitchen or bath of your dreams! Create virtually any cabinet style with the Cabinet Designer tools and use the Material Painter to change the wood-style and colors.
Home Designer Pro is professional home design software for the serious DIY home enthusiast. Enjoy the same tools that the professionals use for home design, remodeling, interior design, decks, landscaping and cost estimation. Home Designer Pro offers advanced design, building, and tools with the ability to create framing plans, roof plans, to produce construction documents. Create your dream home today with the help of Home Designer Pro!


Friday, April 27, 2012

TurboCAD 15 Deluxe 2D/3D

TurboCAD 15 Deluxe 2D/3D Review



TurboCAD 15 Deluxe 2D/3D Feature

  • Graghic design.All-Purpose 2D/3D CAD Design.
Precision 2D Drafting and 3D ModelingProduct InformationGet unlimited design options with TurboCAD Deluxe v15 – Create home plans technical drawings mechanical designs artistic illustrations crafts and more!  TurboCAD Deluxe 15 takes your 2D/3D drafting and design capabilities to a new level. All new and improved features increase your productivity and improves your end results. Quickly create measurement precise home plans technical drawings solid models artistic illustrations craft and more. And work in a familiar Windows like environment with tools so easy to use you will be drafting in no time.The Simplified User Interface lets you display only the tools you want and need and free up your screen space by 15%. Add rearrange and move buttons you frequently use and remove buttons you don’t use. You can even display buttons with full explanations until you bee familiar with the program.  Create plex 3D models by simply extruding  them from simple 2D shapes. Or use Sweeps to extrude plex shapes along a path that you define. Perfect for drafting irregular objects such as pipes that must be routed around other objects.  TurboCAD Deluxe v15 supports the most popular industry-standard file formats including DWG DXF and DGN. Plus you can now export 3D files into DWF format or publish your designs into HTML JPG and now newly supported PNG and GIF file formats with included Alpha Channel for transparencies.  The redesigned PDF file export features now let you export paper spaces customize PDF fonts TrueType® SHX paper widths and paper heights sections.New FeaturesContext Sensitive ToolsTurboCAD’s one of a kind context sensitive tools eliminate unnecessary prompts and steps by making intelligent assumptions about the users desired outes.Brush StyleTurboCAD Deluxe v15 offers you a brush style editor for Bitmap Gradient Fills and now new Reflected Brush.2D & 3D Text EditingCreate and edit 2D & 3D textural informa


Wednesday, April 25, 2012

MicroStation V8i Training DVD - Master MicroStation at your own pace

MicroStation V8i Training DVD - Master MicroStation at your own pace Review



MicroStation V8i Training DVD - Master MicroStation at your own pace Feature

  • Reduce learning time by 80%. Learn MicroStation from a professional trainer from your own desk.
  • Visual training method, offering users increased retention and accelerated learning.
  • Breaks even the most complex applications down into simplistic steps
  • Ideal for users who prefer to learn visually
  • Easy to follow step-by-step lessons, ideal for all
Number of Videos: 71 Lessons - 11 Hours Duration
Ships on: DVD-ROM
User Level: Beginners
Works On: Windows 7,Vista,XP- Mac OS X

In this Bentley MicroStation training DVD, author and MicroStation trainer Peter Mann takes you through an introduction to the powerful tools available in this high-end CAD software program. Using unique training methods, this video tutorial will allow you to master MicroStation and ensure that you retain what you learn. Starting with the basics, this computer based software training for MicroStation teaches you how to leverage the tools that this world class program has to offer. Instructor Peter Mann starts you off at the beginning, taking you through opening and saving new documents, discovering the different views, and understanding what elements are and how to control them. You quickly move into understanding AccuDraw, the most important element of MicroStation, and all the tools that come with that. You will learn how to create shapes, scale, rotate, and even work with annotations and text. Peter finishes off with instructions for plotting and printing your completed designs. By the end of this training video, you will be fully versed in the application of the basic tools of MicroStation, allowing you to create 2D CAD designs. The author has included working files so that you can follow along with him in his training, using the same files he uses.


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Turbocad Mac V3 2D Cad for Mac [Old Version]

Turbocad Mac V3 2D Cad for Mac [Old Version] Review



Turbocad Mac V3 2D Cad for Mac [Old Version] Feature

  • Operate on both Intel and Power PC based Mac computers. Get peak performance especially on Intel Core Duo, with up to four times the previous processing speed / Leopard OS X Support
  • Updated DXF/DWG Support - Read/Write AutoCAD files through v2008 with updated DXF/DWG translators. Includes support for model and paper space
  • Conversion Tool - Create precise 2D wireframe and hidden line drawings from imported 3D models, including AutoCAD, DXF and DWG files
  • Adobe Illustrator Import & Export
  • AutoCAD Compatible
2D Drafting and Design for the Macintosh.Precision drawing at its best!From simple hobby sketches to production ready precision drawings TurboCAD Mac offers you powerfulfunctionality typically found in programs costing thousands. With intuitive snaps alignments prompts hintsand online help even beginners can quickly get up to speed. Plus TurboCAD Mac is capable of extractingprecise 2D drawings from imported 3D files as well as turning CAD drawings into Illustrator® files for desktoppublishing and graphic design.System Requirements:Minimum Requirements: G3 256 MB of RAM 200 MB Free on Hard Disk Macintosh OS X (10.4 or greater) 16 MB Accelerated video card with OpenGL support Recommended Requirements: G5 or Intel Mac 512 MB of RAM Macintosh OS X (10.4 or greater) 32 MB Accelerated video card with OpenGL support Three button mouse with wheel Internet connection and service to access online content for Mac and PC Format: MAC 10.4 OR LATERUB/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: PRODUCTIVITY UPC: 730526358421 Manufacturer No: 00TC2M30CC01


Monday, April 23, 2012

Punch! ViaCAD 2D-3D v6 PC [Download] [OLD VERSION]

Punch! ViaCAD 2D-3D v6 PC [Download] [OLD VERSION] Review



Punch! ViaCAD 2D-3D v6 PC [Download] [OLD VERSION] Feature

  • 3D Modeling Update, The underlying modeling kernel was updated providing improvements to blending, chamfering, shelling, booleans, and direct face editing.
  • 2D architectural tools provide fast drafting tools for creating walls, windows, & doors. Features include: Automatic healing with neighboring walls, Auto-dimensions, Attach doors, windows, & custom symbols, Support for custom wall styles
  • Significant boosts in visualization including: 200X Faster Hidden Line, 6X Faster Dynamic Repaints, 2X Faster Static Repaints, Level of Detail for even faster performance
  • 3Dconnexion Support - The SpaceNavigator device drivers are now recognized by ViaCAD. This includes support for Mac OSX (Universal Binary), Windows XP, and Vista. Use the SpaceNavigator to dynamically zoom, rotate, and pan views into your data models.
  • Multiple Viewports provide a graphical user interface to display the same drawing in multiple views. Each view may have a different orientation, which provides the ability to see an object simultaneously in an isometric, side, front, and top views.
ViaCAD 2D/3D combines unprecedented ease of use with an extensive collection of 2D/3D modeling tools perfect for furniture, jewelry, mechanical, or architectural design tasks. With over 80 minutes of training videos plus compatibility with AutoCAD, ViaCAD is the must have swiss army knife of CAD.