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.

To big of a learning curve - wanted something that I could bang out a quick floor plan for moving purposes.

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

it is not user friendly at all. they also want to you pay more money for support help. complete waste of money

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

It is not a bad program (not sure exactly which HGTV I bought, may have been Ultimate (computer no longer works)) but has a few quirks, like you can always see a shadow of the furniture and walls on the floor beneath, which drove me crazy. It also took awhile to figure things out that I think could have been made easier. But at least it has much more flexibility and detail then the Chief Architect Home design essentials which was a complete waste of my money. Guess you have to spend much more to get one that works well. I looked at sketch up and noticed it looks just like HGTVs, the icons and set up looks identical, but I have not tried sketch up at $695!

DO NOT BUY FROM NOVA DEVELOPMENT - THEY SELL SOFTWARE THATS NOT COMPATIBLE AND ITS INCORRECTLY MARKED ON THE PACKAGING. AND THEY DO NOT STAND BEHIND THEIR ERROR.

eNJOYED USING THIS PROGRAM. IT IS ALSO EASY TO FOLLOW

I hate the fact that you can install it but not get in to it without a code that apparently doesnt come with it. And the help click is $10 per question

Horrible, horrible, horrible. Downloaded HGTV software. Have three computers, couldnt load it on any of them. Cant get refund. Tech support wants to charge you to help. Dont need to pay them to tell me its incompatible.