Basic Floor Layout drawing software

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burrellsjeep

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I work in the security alarm business and we have some larger accounts where it is best to do a floor layout. The layout does not need to be to scale and not that detailed, I am doing them in MS Paint now, Just wondering if anyone knows of a free or cheap download that is worth using. Paint is kinda of a pain to deal with, These are just for my use, so it doesn't need to be fancy.

Thanks
Mike
 
Google has

gsketch

I used that to build a 3d walkthrough model of a house.

You don't have to get that complicated with it but it does have the capabilities.
 
Visio maybe. I use it here at work.
 
MS PowerPoint can be helpful for doing that sort of thing. You can add a grid and have thing snap to it.

Used it to design up some things and well as a paint scheme for a table.
 
bonecrusher said:
use the free version
if you like it alot but wish it could do more than upgrade
otherwise use the free version.
Personally I use the free version.
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Yeah I toyed with it for a bit, I think i will stick with paint, My I guess it is simple enough for what I need. I hard to find one that is ok with it not being anywhere near scale.
 
yea, my dad has spent several several thousands of $$ on autocad over the years. I tried to get him to use torrent, but he needs legit for his business.
 
I guess I will have to rely on my MS Paint Skills
Some of my work
Link Bracket Front View.jpg
Truss.jpg
Who needs Autocad :lol:
 
that's not bad....but autocad would just make things go SO much smoother. i assume you do this all at work? if not...i'd still torrent autocad and just do them at home. lol.
 
Blaze said:
You need to use Revit. Or hire me to do it. :)
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He doesn't need Revit. And a Revit seat costs more than the ACAD seat.

Sketchup is the best cheap/free option he's got aside from maybe LT, but even that costs a grand per license. But Sketchup's only advantage over paint for something like this is maybe more accuracy and a better workflow. He still can't get scaled drawings out of it.
 
Thats my issue is that I have no use from scaled drawings, Most of these programs want to scale the layout, I want to make it fit one one page and be readable with out allot of extra stuff on it. The one I posted is a 80,000 plus building, But having it to scale does nothing for my company. This is just for the customers reference, Say the alarm goes off, they can look at this and know what to check.
 
bonecrusher said:
you can't get scaled drawings out of gsketch?
I was under the impression you could get a pretty scaled drawing from Gsketch.
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I've never head of gsketch.

Sketchup can draw things accurately, but you can't get a scaled print out of the free version. You have to save a jpg view, import it into AutoCAD, and scale the jpg until it's actual size in AutoCAD, then print a view of that to whatever scale you need.

You can't print out of Sketchup at 1/4" = 1'-0" or anything like that. But your model in Sketchup can be 14' x 12', etc. You can copy an object 2' away, that sort of thing. So the image is accurate, it's just not to scale.
 
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