Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-07 Thread David Miller
Sketchup may be worth a look. While not open source the free version is pretty capable and works with Wine. I use it quite a bit for designing wood working projects. -- David On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Yeah, to really be useful a

home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-07 Thread Ryan Stanyan
I can confirm one of my architect friends uses SketchUp, so the pros use it too. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software? (CAD, remodelling)

2012-01-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'd forgotten that I, too, have a friend (in an NYC architectural firm) who recommends Google's Sketchup. I've not used it. I daydream about being able to walk around the house snapping photos and feeding them to some app where I click on key points while specifying dimensions and such, from

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:39:57 -0500, David Miller davi...@gmail.com wrote: Sketchup may be worth a look. While not open source the free version is pretty capable and works with Wine. I use it quite a bit for designing wood working projects. If we are going to talk actual CAD, rather than home

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-07 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Mike Lalumiere m...@faifw.org wrote: 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 This discussion got me interested - and