On 12/04/2012 23:56, Ray Risely wrote: > Thanks to those who brought up this subject of Technical drawing using > Scribus.
Think that was me. > We are about to move into a smaller house soon and we are concerned > about how our furniture is going to fit - the answer is - it won't! :) I've been using it to lay out PV panels on a roof. As you can group things and copy and paste them to duplicate, it can be quite quick to bash out a design. Also cute is that all this can be done in the same document that describes the technical details of the system. > However, I have been playing around with several 'layout programs' but > with poor visual results. > Lo and behold with Scribus I can add pages making each page of my 'new > house project' the exact size of the rooms and with rectangular shapes > pushed around to represent the furniture etc the job has become easier. > Great - thank you all I'm sure that real CAD would be better for us, but I'm still waiting to find time to choose a package that meets our needs. Even then, the CAD vector output needs to be imported into Scribus which can be a challenge. There is certainly something to be said for making it easy to do simple CAD in Scribus. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore,MSc EDM (Open),B.A. Chem (Oxon),CMIOSH,CEnv,MIEMA,MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Registered Office: 181 Belper Road, Stanley Common, Ilkeston. DE7 6FT Company Reg: 4441097, VAT Number: 797 2239 85, MCS: ELC54087. Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Transition Training and Consultancy Energy Resilience Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
