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Was a bit of a joke answer but pen and paper did work for people in the good ol days.
I took it as a good humoured take ad I answered it in the same fashion.
I could, in fact, draw the entire thing on paper. Technical drawing was taugh to me in school and I took quite well to it; I still like to draw today but more as an artistic expression.
Although I wouldn't consider what I make as artistic under any light.
But my original still holds. Yes, I could. But I would have to make everything from scratch every single time we wanted to try an idea.
Not really practical.
I'm going to look into LibreCAD and FreeCAD. Seem to be the most promising solutions.
It's not terrible advice tbh, even just hand sketches are solid for getting ideas down, makes it easy to translate to cad. It at least helps me think things through and the like.
Get a few pencils with different leads (some harder stuff like 2-4H and an HB) and some nice paper and you're good, but really anything works, totally have a mockup of my garage on a whiteboard planning where I want to put stuff.
As for cad packages, freecad, as far as I'm aware there are some architecture workbench plugins, and there's a tech drawing workbench. Coming back to cad after a while I found it super easy to pick back up (coming from solidworks at least)