Isometric freeware simple cad package? What would you use?

[Jonathan]

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

CAD FreeCAD Varkon CAD Vector Engineer

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

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.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Tony Bryer]

Carry on like this and you'll never make an architect

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

If i'm constipated I can always work it out with a pencil. ;-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Bart]

probably need a 2D program that can draw in isometric, ie. on an isometric grid or simply being able to lock lines to 30 degree directions.

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.

[jhiker]

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.

[sm_jamieson]

've just used vector engineer to draw plans for an extension. I found it pretty good, and I tried a whole host of others. I hate the way others give you a "template", like you are drawing on a piece of paper. I want to draw the thing with real dimensions, then decide how I want it to scale/map to paper. I think it does isometric, but I've not used this. I bought the protools version to get the cross-hatching functions. All the best, Simon.

[david lang]

Never happens if you use a pencil and the back of an envelope.

Dave