CAD questions...nowt to do with cars...yet

Hanuman · 10-08-20, 03:22 PM

CAD as in design software, not a dastardly gent with ungentlemanly qualities.

I'm working towards a self build project, having been buying up a few bits of land recently. I was thinking about trying to illustrate my design ideas using CAD. I normally tend to do things a bit old-skool, with fag-packet sketches.

Anyone here familiar with such things, either from a self-build gifted amateur POV, or a professional.

I'm hoping there is something inexpensive (free being ideal)

Tun · 11-08-20, 06:26 AM

Google sketchup is free and would suit your needs.

droopsnoot · 12-08-20, 06:17 PM

I've been using Inkscape to sketch out some repair section templates as my originals are getting a bit tattered. I particularly wanted something that could print things larger than A4, as tiles that I can stick together. Inkscape will save as a PDF, and the PDF reader will do that, with registration marks, so it did the job.

I suspect Sketchup is better, I can't remember why I didn't go for it.

Hanuman · 12-08-20, 08:54 PM

I shall take a look at both. I should have mentioned that I would be using iPad, and MacBook.

11-08-20, 06:26 AM	#2
Tun Grown up member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Buxton Posts: 745	Google sketchup is free and would suit your needs. __________________ 1988 MB quattro 2012 S4 Avant

12-08-20, 08:54 PM	#4
Hanuman Trickster Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Heckling from the cheap seats, Phnom Penh, KoW Posts: 7,006	I shall take a look at both. I should have mentioned that I would be using iPad, and MacBook. __________________ I wish they would keep the damned Chinese away now that I can go home, so that I can enjoy Fish amok and a draught Angkor Last edited by Hanuman; 12-08-20 at 09:23 PM.

12-08-20, 06:17 PM	#3
droopsnoot Grown up member Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: South Cheshire Posts: 212	I've been using Inkscape to sketch out some repair section templates as my originals are getting a bit tattered. I particularly wanted something that could print things larger than A4, as tiles that I can stick together. Inkscape will save as a PDF, and the PDF reader will do that, with registration marks, so it did the job. I suspect Sketchup is better, I can't remember why I didn't go for it.