Virtual Architect Home & Landscape Platinum Suite

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.

Im still trying to figure this one out. Its pretty complicated...

I researched all the home design software on Amazon and mistakingly chose this one. The product works and really isnt difficult to use. It comes with a great users guide. It is more advanced so is not for someone looking for a basic program. The real disappointment with this program is the interior design portion. For having HGTV in its logo, youd think it offered great choices for design. However, the choices are minimal. This program has 100s of design options - not thousands. You can change the color and finish of furnishings, but not the style. There are almost no decorative accessories and you need to be creative in making a walk-in closet. One bonus is that you can download some additional elements and add to the program catalog.

As others have mentioned, this software is not intuitive nor easy to use. Strange things happen. My design suddenly whisks off the screen by itself. You can find it but after half a dozen times, it gets really old. My computer completely hung up several times with Vista and I had to run the program in XP compatibility mode. Which solved that problem but not others. Some items wont place properly on your layout. I spent well over an hour trying to figure out how to get my design to print bigger than about half an inch by one-quarter of an inch. And now Ive forgotten how I did it. And on and on it goes....definitely not fun.

I bought this software to do a basic home design, after spending countless hours trying to install it, i finally had to contact support to find out why the password/ID did not work. After multiply e-mails and calls to Tech Support i was notified that the program was no longer supported by Nova Development, although they are happy to still sell an unsupported and useless product. Do NOT purchase any product from Nova, period!

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

This product is somewhat difficult to work with at first. However, I also dont consider myself a tech-savvy individual. I have become more impressed with the design features the deeper I go into the program. I am remodeling a home and am building a detached garage. The tools that are available in this program allow me to develop a game plan and offer a picture as to what the plan will result in.

love it

You can build walls and such, but you have to build the walls, the floors, the ceilings, the roof, etc... room by room.

I am a computer savvy person. I usually master new programs with ease. I have spent hours using this program, and I still cannot easily create the 3D model I wanted of my home to assist with renovation ideas.