On (03/11/06 09:56), Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both > are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and > both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my > house... > > > nevertheless i need some inforations and thus have decided to draw up > again the whole plans of my house, and a looking for a suitable program > to do this. > > Having worked years ago with some infamous CAD program on an > unspeakable platform, i was looking into freshmeat to find soething > comparable, but at the oment i am having trouble to find something > suitable.... > > > apart from drawing the plans in 2D it would be nice to also have the 3d > information (not for compiling nice images though...) > > i have different circuits (electrical, ethernet, water, sewer, > aspiration) and i want to be able to handle them as definite > entities, means they are not the same as some walls and switch their > visibility on and off > > ideally the thing should be smart enough to compile me the meters of > pipe/cable i need in totality (that's where the 3D info kicks in) > > same for copiling the surfaces of walls internally and externally to > be able to buy the correct amount of color and protection ciment... > > does something able to do at least part of that stuff exist for linux? > and hopefully be free? > Have you looked at qcad:
Description: A professional CAD System With QCad 2 you can easily construct and change drawings with ISO-texts and many other features and save them as DXF-files. These DXF-files are the interface to many CAD-systems such as AutoCADR and many others. . Homepage: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html It's in debian Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]