I'm sorry that I can't be very helpful here - I use autocad, which is both very expensive and pretty unfriendly to the user (it's really taken me years to get more than proficient at it). I'm not sure what others use - maybe photoshop and paint and stuff like that. I use gimp, which is a free "photoshop-like" type program to edit stuff but I'm not sure how good it is as a drawing tool. I know a lot of people use google sketchup but I'm not sure if that's good for your purposes either.

Howdy. I should have said the programs name is Punch! Ultimate Deck "and Landscaping". Sorry about that. All of the .phd files I located came up with the same message: "This does not appear to be a SketchUp model!" I think SketchUp is a Google program. Right? I had the Punch program a long, long time before loading SketchUp on my computer. Could the .phd file extension now only belong to Google, and that's blocking Punch files? Mikie, before originally posting I tried maybe a couple of dozen programs (using your method) to see if they could open the .phd files. Nope! I tried SketchUp, too, and got the same message. I wonder what is meant when it refers to "model"? You guys have made me think that somehow SketchUp might have become the designated default program for all .phd files. I look for more blocks to check. Since Punch won't respond maybe I'll send a note to Google's SketchUp section and see what comes from that. I appreciate everyone's help. Gene

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ppl have mentioned using glass eye here before, I don't grasp the reason for that. You can enlarge any photo and outline different colors and shades... and if you are doing glass on glass you just lay it under your substrate and if not just use carbon paper to transfer it. unless you are going to make the square tile pixelated things with the grids... I think you can buy craft kits for things like that