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Autocad alternatives (feddit.dk)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What about freecad ? It's closer from CATIA than autocad in term of use. Which would be a long way behind autocad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ill look into them, but arent they mostly 3d programs?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Afaik, Freecad has an architecture module/plugin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.