Been given a plumbing task, to produce an entire plumbing layout of a house, but showing only the plumbing.
I though there must be some sometric freeware simple cad package? What would you use? I've just tried Vector Engineer Quicktools but I'm not quite "getting" it!
Some other ones I found...but which to download?!?
Brl CAD
It's all very well using a cad package to implement a plumbing layout into a design, but problems arise when it comes to the situation itself... snags,joist,underfloor, ect.
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Carry on like this and you'll never make an architect
If i'm constipated I can always work it out with a pencil. ;-)
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Brl CAD is a solid modelling package, so is FreeCAD it seems. These allow you to build a model of your house that can be viewed from different directions. You'd need to draw the pipework as actual tubes. Varkon is 2D/3D but the links seem broken.
expensive though). There was also TurboCAD from the high street. Try asking in alt.cad or alt.cad.autocad.
try this - it's very good..
you can draw in 'isometric' if you wish and use layers to display only those features/services you want to see (layer for plumbing. layer for electrics, etc.)
not an easy task though.
Never happens if you use a pencil and the back of an envelope.
Dave
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