Mark,
I built out a large room with a bath and utility room and used a program
called 3D Home Architect by Broderbund. It took a while to learn but worked
nice and made a materials list for each part that I was working on. I also
used it for cabinets and was able to take the drawing to the cabinetmaker to
work from. Not expensive but don't know where to send you to find it, maybe
eBay. Nice 3D visuals as well as detail drawings.
Mark
Nashville
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Andy" <mark@sccaprepared.com>
To: <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:29 PM
Subject: [Shop-talk] 3d drawing package needed
Howdy,
I need a 3d drawing package to model things in. Its for me, so psycho
expensive stuff is out. I don't mind spending some time learning to use
it, but I also don't want it to have to be something I do everyday or I
can't get anything done.
I want to use it for stuff like:
* Designing bookshelves that I want to be able to "see".
* Fabricating parts.
* other crap I don't know about.
For the bookshelf thing (which is what I'm doing right now), it'd be super
handy if I could do stuff like define a board that was 11.25"x.75"
(variable length) and then place that where I wanted it, along with other
boards, and then the thing would compute inside/outside lengths, let me
"snap" a board to another board, etc.
I also want the ability to just type in "11.25"x.75" or that I want it to
be 36" long or whatever. I'd like to have the option to just freehand it
with the mouse too, but the critical thing for me is being able to put in
dimensioned stuff.
When I get the thing all designed, I'd want to be able to render it or
whatever and then view it from any angle, see problematic intersections,
etc.
If I could waive my magic wand, it would also generate a cut list for me
for the materials, be it lumber or metal or whatever.
Anything out there like that? Oh. Windows.
Thanks!
Mark
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