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Best Buy Ratings and Reviews

Customer Reviews for Landscape, Deck & Patio Designer - Windows

Landscape, Deck & Patio Designer - Windows

Model: 8070649
SKU: 2381144
UPC: 705381247616
Turn your landscaping dreams into reality and build the yard of your dreams with the Landscape, Deck & Patio Designer software. No experience is required to use the software and with NexGen technology, even a beginner can start designing a gorgeous outdoor living space with just the click of a mouse. Start off by importing a picture of your own yard, deck or patio and start experimenting with the more than 4,000 plants and 5,000 stones, pavers and outdoor materials on tap to discover what your home will look like with a brand-new makeover. With a little of your own imagination and a lot of advanced technologies and resources from Landscape, Deck & Patio Designer, you can make your outdoor living space blossom and take your curb appeal to the max. Helpful video tutorials guide you through the process, so you won't miss a beat. When you've added materials, played with color palettes and adjusted lighting to your liking, your plan comes to life in vivid 3D detail as a special animator brings you through the design in walkthroughs and flythroughs. If you love the way your new home looks, easily record the animator's tours and share them with friends and family, or connect your printer to print scaled drawings at any size you want.
Average Customer Rating:
3 out of 5
3.0
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50% of customers would recommend this product to a friend 
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Customer Reviews for Landscape, Deck & Patio Designer - Windows
Review 1 for Landscape, Deck & Patio Designer - Windows

Great, inexpensive tool to plan outside of a house

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: jatz
from Detroit, MI
on 08/10/2011
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Usefulness
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Installation
5.0 out of 5
5.0
What's great about it: Ease of use
What's not so great: Walk-thru feature leaves a little to be desired
While you can create a house, I used it to plan my backyard. Software is not especially deep, but it saves time and is easy enough to figure out without a manual. One great feature is where to plant trees to reduce heating/cooling bills.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+3points
3out of 3found this review helpful.
Review 2 for Landscape, Deck & Patio Designer - Windows

Hard to find the basic instructions on how to use

Customer Rating
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Posted by: Nailslinger
from Victoria, TX
on 08/10/2011
Value for Price
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Use
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Usefulness
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Installation
4.0 out of 5
4.0
I had great hope for this program as a friend wanted me to help her design and build a deck for her above ground pool. The program was a snap to install but it was all down hill from that point on. I have been in construction for years and years so I can lay out what I want and bid the materials. My hope for the program was that it would be easy to draw what I wanted and it would help me present the deck and that it would assist in a material list. I have spent some 15 to 20 hours attempting to learn how to use this program. A simple "how to start" would have been great help but if there is something of that nature I could not find it. I finally just gave up and got out my drawing board and layed it out with a overhead layout and a front view. generated a material list and will start construction next week.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
-2points
2out of 6found this review helpful.