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Title: Updated but not better
Review: I designed a 3700 sf. home in 3.0 and am currently living in it. The vector generated graphics of 3.0 were Spartan, but looked three dimensional. And the interface was intuitive. The new version (5.1) is cute and very detailed but appears to be object based and looks like printed paper cutouts - no true 3-D realism - including the (so-called) photo-realistic renderings. It is EXTREMELY hard to master, frustrating to use, and illogical. Hey people at Broderbund - where did you put the SCROLL BARS? The walk through controls are poorly designed, too sensitive and don't allow you to record - at least I haven't found out how to do it. I never tried to print since I went back to 3.0 before finishing my current design. If you have 3.0 and like it, keep it and skip this one.
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