Drawing Plans

Hello----Is there some place other than Paint to draw up some Basic Building Plans --Does not have to real high tec., but simple to use?--:huh:----free one-----------------gunnner

 

Haven't actually used one myself but hopefully some of our other members will share their favourites ... and, in the interim, wonder if either of the below free ones might work?

CAD Lite
CadStd - Cad Standard Lite freeware and inexpensive Pro software.

Google Sketchup7
Google SketchUp

 

If your looking for something a little more advanced than paint, but not a full CAD application then might I suggest this.

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

if your looking for something more advanced then there are a loads of programs available under a freeware liecence, but a little more info would be usefull like do you want 2D or 3D, do you need to draw it to any specific drawing regulations, or are you just trying to produce a rough sketch for someone?

 

You could also try one of the earlier photoshop versions, from memory they are free now

 

I asked a similar question to this a while ago back on an ancient forum. I got hundreds of suggestions, but I didn't like any of them.

In the end I used GiMP, which is just a glorified Paint, in between photoshop and Paint, kind of like Pain.NET that Match is recommending.

The reason I used that was because I was familiar with it and it was very simple to draw straight lines etc. Just depends how professional you want.

 

Not trying to high-jack your post here, gunner ... but I too would love to try one of the drawing programs - but a really easy one - huge grin.

Not even sure of the terminology but the kind that let one click a mouse on one area, hold down some key and click on another area and tada, a straight line is drawn between the two (straight lines are a piece of cake, angled lines not-so-much in my photo programs).

 

Hey---thanks to all who posted replys.
As Mara's was the first, I downloaded it rite after her post. Her sugestion was CAD Lite
CadStd - Cad Standard Lite freeware and inexpensive Pro software.
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Well I didn't get a chance to try it till this morning & I will say that so far I have yet to figure exactly how to use it very good---but really not spent much time with it. Will give it a go again when I have a little extra time. Thier help section is not very helpful. At this point I would say it is NOT easy to use & I may have to try another one from the replys.
--------------Thanks again-----------gunnner

 

If it's not intuitive to use, may I suggest you just 'dump it', gunner?

I say this because I suspect using one of these programs may be similar to figuring out which free photo editing program is 'best'. As long as they are free, just trying one at a time and working your way through them until you find one you find easy and fun to use often works best - good luck and please let us know which you you finally decided on and why.

 

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