The Settlers IV (PC)
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Fluid Mask 3 (Mac)
List Price: ?175.00
Amazon Price: ?166.00
Patchwork Gardening Apron 
Price: $17.99
Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6 
Price: ?39.99
Customer Review: Excellent Home Design Software
The pack contains an excellent handbook with easy to follow tutorials. I was up and designing after only four or five hours practice. 3D views really good. Only two drawbacks: you can’t set the length of, say, a wall, you have to draw it and it can be a bit tricky getting the dimensions exactly right and the American appliances don’t have standard European dimensions. However, the latter is only a minor problem and the former is well worth putting up with for the sheer usefulness of the package as a whole. Which? rated it one of their two best buys. If you want an inexpensive and easy to use home design package, then this is the one for you.
Customer Review: Good product for the price
This is an excellent product for the DIY designer/Selfbuild person. It takes less than a week to master and there is excellent technical back up either online self help or very promt email reply, under 24hours. There is perhaps one major weekness. It is not possible to have different roof pitches on the same building. This has prevented me from producing a 3D view of six seperate buildings varying from 15 to 45 degree pitches. This has not prevented me from putting together full plans and elevations to accompany a planning application very quickly. There is a demo avaliable of the pro version which I am going to upgrade to.
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