Virtual Architect Home & Landscape Platinum Suite

I received this program as a gift... and no one had read the reviews. Or someone hates me. After wasting two good weekends to try to recreate a farmhouse, barn and garage, and then play with the designs after that, I find that a standalone, two car garage can be created with moderate difficulty. Heaven forbid you want to build a 2 story house or add dormers or put windows on multiple floors, and to do anything truly creative is impossible. This program is made solely with the intention of advertising products and should not be sold. HGTV should be ashamed for having their names on this product. Nothing is intuitive or uses normal symbols and standards, and many features never even show up. I went so far as to reinstall the program and try it on both a Windows XP and Windows 7 system, simply hoping the gift would not have to be returned. Wrong. My 7 year old daughter does a better job with her crayons. Buy it and regret it. You have been warned.

Instruction is pooor takes quite a while to pickup how to navigate a drawing.

I have used a few design software packages over the years and by far this is the worst. All of the others are quite tolerable but there are virtually no redeeming qualities to this software. In addition to not being able to draw many different objects typically found in a home such as radiators (though they include other really useful objects such as dumpsters so we can all have one of those in our backyard) they also appear to never have actually lived in a home. For instance the default width for their dishwashers (Im designing a kitchen) is 29 inches. I have owned about 6 dishwashers in my years and they were all 24 inches wide though I do know of a drawer type thats 30. Another reviewer said you would need a month to learn the software. Im going to save money and time. Dont buy this there is nothing here worth learning.

great concept to get business started. thank you

loser product - cant get it too function. wish i had my QuikCad.

love it

I bought it to design a one acre lot. Canʻt fit a lot that size into the work area, canʻt see the dimensions as I create lot lines or even after for that matter. Very steep learning curve, may be possible to do what I want to do, but I donʻt see how. Donʻt waste your money. Iʻve had several house and landscape design tools, and this is by far the worst Iʻve encountered.

The product is Good and method of delivery is excellent,Thanks.

Reminds me of Lotus. Not an up-to-date software.

Real steep learning curve for me. Its ok but was not as powerful as I hoped. It does help in planning a project.