Author: john lewis Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Basic drawing programme to design roof extension
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:31:54 +0100
Mark Johnson <mark@???> wrote:
> Hi Roger
>
> On Sunday 11 Apr 2010 22:22:14 Roger Munford wrote:
> > Will have to learn from scratch but I hope to be able to quickly
> > produce a simple 2D plan of my roof showing position of rafters,
> > rooflights etc.
>
> Have you looked at QCad [1]? I was looking for a similar program to
> my dad while trying to tempt him to Linux (he's stuck on Windows for
> TurboCAD), and it seemed pretty good.
>
> You can get the community (open source) version for free, I'm not
> sure what you miss out from the professional version though.
I used to use a Dos based app (Generic Cad) for just the sort of thing
Roger wants to do but it no longer exists.
QCad looks simple enough to use judging by a very brief look at the
book preview. Many commercial Cad packages are complex and have a long
learning curve.
The professional version only costs 22 euros so if the free version is
missing anything essential it won't break the bank to pay for it
(unlike AutoCAD, which I have also used briefly).
