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(More customer reviews)1. The software is not intuitive. There is no starting point for beginners, no wizard, no introductory lesson, nothing. The outdated help file starts with "It's simple to get started planning the home of your dreams." Yes, BUT HOW???? WHERE DO I START?
2. There are no keyboard shortcuts for the tools. No space-drag for Pan, no Z-drag for zoom. No hotkeys that I can find whatsoever. You must move the mouse over to the tiny tool button and click.
3. The program is stuck in the 90's. The help file is antique and mostly useless. Sure there is a lot of text to read, but it all states the obvious. The object filenames are eight characters and nearly impossible to decipher. What is a Hitanktl? That's a High Tank Toilet... I think. It gets worse!
4. There is no logical way to preview an object before adding it to the schematic. The objects tab presents approximately 50 kitchen cabinets that all look the same as a micro sized thumbnail. Since it sizes the object to fit the thumbnail, two identical looking objects are actually different sizes.
5. The helicopter and walk-through tools in Professional Home Design are extremely sensitive. The slightest movement of the mouse send the view wildly spinning. Micron miniscule movements of the mouse lead to extremely aggravating and disorientating walk-troughs. There is no limiting the camera to not go through walls. The Wide view is not wide enough. The controls are absurdy inintuitive. Click once to move up, click again to move down. WHAT? AHHHHHHHHHH!
6. Interestingly, the helicopter in the 3D custom workshop works completely differently. Why do they behave differently in the two applications?
7. The helicopter orbits around a fixed center-point. This makes it difficult (actually, impossible) to orbit around anything but the center of the schematic.
8. Did I mention there are no keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys?
9. The slow speed of the screen updates in 3D Custom Workshop make me suspect that there is no OpenGL being used. This would make sense since it seems the application hasn't been updated in a decade or two. This is mind-boggling if true. How can it take so long to render ONE frame on my NVIDEO Quadro FX 5500?
10. The help file suggests you set your screen resolution to 800x600. Are you kidding me? When was this written? 1984?
11. You can't export the blueprints. My only option was to print (with no preview or ability to print only a specific area) or export to a DXF file, which Illustrator CS3 refuses to open. I solved this problem by PRINTING to a PDF file, which Illustrator does open.
12. The web site offers no COMPARISON TABLE. I had no idea what the difference between each of the 12 products was. There is a pro series, architectural series and a home series. What does the Pro Series offer that the home series does not? What is the difference between the Super Home Suite, 5 in 1 Home Design, Professional Home Design, Home Design Studio and Home Design Platinum? What the HELL? The only guidance is the price tag.
13. Where is the trail software? Why can't I try is out first? Disable the export and print ability and offer trial software.
14. What good is a walk-through or helicopter camera if you can't do preset animation for it? There should be the ability to set keyframes and animate the camera. Export to AVI or QuickTime at high-quality 3D. This feature alone would seriously rock.
Other than that... great software! :)
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