Planning software tools (for layout of house and rooms)?

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Hi All,

I am looking to get planning and design software from the imternet.

I am trying to design the layout of a house and then the rooms in the house.

Does anyone know whats best?

Thanks in advance,

Slimbo
 
Re: Planning software tools?

Hi,

This key post might help House Design Software.

If you search using the word 'software' in the Homes and Gardens forum only you should find some further more recent threads.
 
Re: Planning software tools?

Try Google Sketchup, it's very clever and a lot of fun, although I don't htink it would be sufficient for making a PP application.

J2K
 
Re: Planning software tools?

I looked fairly extensively for this a few months back, and couldn't find anything. Bought one package, downloaded trial versions of a couple of others. Found them all very difficult to use, non-intuitive, full of bugs, impossible to do quite simple things. Gave up in the end.

You could try Google's SketchUp http://sketchup.google.com/

It takes a while to get used to, but at least it's properly put together. It's more for quick sketches, and you certainly won't produce plans from it, but it might suit for what you want.

My guess is that the market price (low) and support requirements (high) mean that any software vendor capable of producing anything worthwhile simply won't do it for the home market. The professional stuff that can do the job is too expensive and requires too much learning.

If anyone can prove me wrong on this, I'd be delighted!
 
Re: Planning software tools?

AutoCad Lite I think is what the cheap version of AutoCad is called -- the package used by a lot of architects. The bonus is that when you have the project designed, you can give the disk to anyone with AutoCad to read it or print off full size plans etc.

AutoCad takes a bit of getting used to, but persistence wil pay off.
 
Re: Planning software tools?

AuotCAD LT will set you back about €800-€900+ great software
but not for the beginner by any means !!!!
 
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