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Drawing software
Hey gang, I want to do some simple framing work around the house but need to prepare drawings for the guy thats going to help me. Any tips on freeware to do the pix?
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01-02-2013, 10:48 AM
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MS Paint...in any flavor of Windows.
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01-02-2013, 10:58 AM
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Free version of the earlier Sketch-up 7.1. You will have a bit of learning curve but the free online tutorial vids greatly help. I only mentioned the earlier version as there's some free plug-ins for ACAD conversions, just in case someone uses that.
Lots of architectural templates to get one going including framing / walls, etc. Download a template and chop it up to your liking. Good luck.
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01-02-2013, 11:01 AM
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Did you get the memo?
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Google Sketch-Up is the best free one I've seen. Reasonably simple, but with a lot of the same basic capability as AutoCAD.
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01-02-2013, 12:11 PM
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SketchUp is plenty good for this - simple/easy enough for use by amateurs and powerful enough to use by pros (yes, I use this in architectural practice). Best software out there in years for this kind of thing.
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I, too, am now an advocate for Google/Trimble Sketchup after several folks on Pelican recommended it to me. I just dropped off my garage design done in Sketchup to a contractor in order to obtain some quotes. This product has a pretty quick learning curve; however, I purchased a new 'Google Sketctup 7 for Dummies' off Half.com for a massive price of $2.95 (plus $3.49 for shipping) in order to speed up my learning curve. Although Sketchup 8 is out, I bought the Sketchup 7 version of the book since it is loads cheaper. It looks as if they are even cheaper now at a whopping cost of $1.45 new.
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