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I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.

3D printing is not a concern

I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.

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[-] atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

for 2d your best bet would be qcad (free) and draftsight (paid). some distros have qcad in their repositories.

a little more sophisticated would be freecad with its bim workbench and blender with the bonsaibim addon. both of them let you draw in 3d and print floor plans off of those model.

for a quick mockup you can try sweethome3d.

[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

FreeCAD is the most common solid FOSS modeler. I do not think any solid modeling system is that simple. They tend to need training and continuous use. That was my experience with SolidWorks and NX anyway.

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Some good ol pen and paper or some kolourpaint

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[-] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

pirate solidworks. fuck dassault systemes, but they make a damned good cad program, with excellent documentation on how to do just about everything under the sun (and some stuff that even the sun don't shine on)

use a win10 ltsc VM with device passthru for running it, it won't know the difference.

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