On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, at 22:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > Or is there an even better 2d app for such?
There was a discussion here starting in Nov 2017, entitled "software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc." where several people bemoaned the difficulty they had in getting any GUI-based CAD program to do what they needed, without a huge learning curve. Someone described how they'd instead used hand-coded PostScript (which is in essence a set of drawing commands, normally sent to a laser printer) to draw plans for house changes. Something like that might be easier to get to grips with. A /big/ advantage of using scripts is that one gets to place comments in the script explaining what's going on, why one did something in a particular way etc. Also scripts easily allow parameterisation of values - eg (for the house plans) what the thickness of a piece of timber is, or what the spacing between regular items should be. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.