Re: a CAD program for building a house?
On (03/11/06 09:56), Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello!
>
> i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both
> are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and
> both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my
> house...
>
>
> nevertheless i need some inforations and thus have decided to draw up
> again the whole plans of my house, and a looking for a suitable program
> to do this.
>
> Having worked years ago with some infamous CAD program on an
> unspeakable platform, i was looking into freshmeat to find soething
> comparable, but at the oment i am having trouble to find something
> suitable....
>
>
> apart from drawing the plans in 2D it would be nice to also have the 3d
> information (not for compiling nice images though...)
>
> i have different circuits (electrical, ethernet, water, sewer,
> aspiration) and i want to be able to handle them as definite
> entities, means they are not the same as some walls and switch their
> visibility on and off
>
> ideally the thing should be smart enough to compile me the meters of
> pipe/cable i need in totality (that's where the 3D info kicks in)
>
> same for copiling the surfaces of walls internally and externally to
> be able to buy the correct amount of color and protection ciment...
>
> does something able to do at least part of that stuff exist for linux?
> and hopefully be free?
>
Have you looked at qcad:
Description: A professional CAD System
With QCad 2 you can easily construct and change drawings with ISO-texts
and many other features and save them as DXF-files. These DXF-files are
the interface to many CAD-systems such as AutoCADR and many others.
.
Homepage: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
It's in debian
Regards
Clive
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