Im in the progress of planning a complete home improvement, where all the interiors is pulled down, floors torn up, and only the shell is intact, before rebuilding everything.
But in the designing process i miss the ease of a drawing tool as autocad that we used in school as an mason apprentice.
So home improvement people, what is a good alternative to autocad, for detailed blueprints and measurements?
What about freecad ? It’s closer from CATIA than autocad in term of use. Which would be a long way behind autocad
Like maxmal said, FreeCAD has an Architecture (and BIM) workbench, which is heavily developed by one of the main FreeCAD Devs. Try it out and see if it works for you
Calling the architecture workbench a plugin is technically correct, but a bit misleading, as all core features are technically plugins(workbenches). The Architecture workbench is a built-in default feature
Indeed, Freecad is 3D, which is more suited for “let’s design a crank and gear system” than “let’s re-design a kitchen”, but not sure how you would use autocad to do so.
Normally autocad is used to make top down floorplans, with measurements for almost everything, so that you can build what is drawn, with horizontal detail drawings of those things that require detail drawings of how its constructed, from the bottom of the foundations, to the top of the roofs.
In other words, a drawn detailed description of the job as a whole.
Wow… my final exam assignment is still online: https://bygud.praxis.dk/course/view.php?id=16 Its in danish, but you can see the blueprints im talking about.
It might not be quite what you want, but sweet home 3D is quite useful for playing with arrangements.
Revit is a pretty commonly used architectural tool now.
Bricscad, or maybe Graebert Ares, or nanocad. No libre app can compete at all but these are solid. And much much cheaper. And some run on linux
Is piracy an option youd consider?
If it was 10-15 years ago, id pirate the shit out of it.
But being away from computers for 6 years, and living a completely different life, i wouldnt even know where to begin, and how hard the government is against piracy
Long as you use a (good) vpn you’re fine in terms of law. Trick is really finding a good source for the software youd want.
Will probably have what you’re looking for if thats a route you’d want to take.
Long as you use a (good) vpn you’re fine in terms of law. Trick is really finding a good source for the software youd want.
Will probably have what you’re looking for if thats a route you’d want to take.
