Re: [gentoo-user] Programm for Floor Plans

[Michael Mol]

On 03/04/2013 10:23 PM, Francisco Ares wrote:
> 2013/3/4 Andrew Lowe <250520E@××××××××××.au <mailto:250520E@××××××××××.au>>
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>     On 5/03/2013 8:52 AM, Andrey Moshbear wrote:
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>         On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Silvio Siefke
>         <siefke_listen@×××.de <mailto:siefke_listen@×××.de>> wrote:
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>             Hello,
>
>
>             know someone a program for draw floor plans? I has use
>             normal Visio for
>             it, but unter Linux?
>
>
>         Have you tried app-office/dia ?
>
>
>             My two cents on dia: ugly, klunky, non intuitive, simple
>     tasks are nearly, if not totally impossible to perform. I teach 1st
>     year Engineering students and I recommend they look at Draftsight.
>     It's not in portage, but is an easy install. It's also
>     multiplatform, Linux, Win & Mac.
>
>             Regards,
>                     Andrew
>
>
>
> I have tried to use Google Sketchup in the past, with little success,
> but I didn't persist as I should, I guess. Don't know if it is in
> portage, though.
>
> If 2D drawing is enough, OpenOffice / LibreOffice have a vector drawing
> program, and Inkscape is just about it.
>
> For a big shot, Blender is a 3D suite, but complex enough to scare a bit.

I saw FreeCAD demo'd at a local makerspace meeting. It looks like a good
place to go for people accustomed to AutoCAD. The guy demoing it uses it
to hand-digitize steam engine blueprints as a hobby. (And he's a Gentoo
user, albeit not on any of the lists or IRC channel, AFAIK)

For my 3D modelling needs, I've been using OpenSCAD...but that's very
much out of the way if you're looking to do floorplans.

DIA is a PITA if you're looking for Visio-like ease-of-use...but it's
the closest thing to Visio there is on Linux, AFAIK.