home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Is anyone aware of Linux-compatible software for modeling architecture, landscape and home construction projects? I want to model a basement finishing project, and I have carpenter friends who would also enjoy such software. I've used store-bought software many moons ago on Windows, but don't

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-06 Thread Mike Lalumiere
You might check out http://www.sweethome3d.com/. It's written in Java and licensed under the GPL. I have not run the program but it looks like what you described. - Mike Lalumiere On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:19:46AM -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Is anyone aware of Linux-compatible

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-06 Thread David Rysdam
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:19:46 -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Is anyone aware of Linux-compatible software for modeling architecture, landscape and home construction projects? I want to model a basement finishing project, and I have carpenter friends who would also

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-06 Thread Derek Atkins
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: Joshua Judson Rosen writes: It's funny what non-hackers notice and appreciate :) The feature that I *cannot* live without is virtual desktops. I prefer to have 16 or 25 of them, in a 4x4 or 5x5 format. I logically separate my work onto

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-06 Thread Randy Edwards
I was just modeling the rooms so I could try out different furniture arrangements with a little less effort. Are you married? Because if you found a woman that would agree to that without having you grunt the furniture in various positions so she could see what it looks like, you found