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.

I need an engineering degree to operate this.

Bought this from Frys electronics because I was getting ready to landscape my back yard. The program is difficult to use. Tried several times to alter the dimensions by typing them in as instructed with no luck. I couldnt even get it to allow me to input the dimension I wanted. If your looking for a good landscape program, this is not it.

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!