cad for shop layout

[Electric Comet]

there is a program called librecad that made it easy for me to enter the shop equipment footprints and to rearrange the layout

every time i try one of these programs the dreaded learning curve makes me hesitant

but this program has a command line so it is super easy to create a block for each piece of equipment and then use those blocks on the master floor plan

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now you have a rectangle and can then add text with just a couple clicks save it to library/shop directory and librecad will see it

i probably could have done things by using scaling rather than dimensions but that will have to wait for next time

[krw]

I use Sketchup for pretty much everything. I had to try to get across some ideas for the mechanical package for a product I'm doing at work. We didn't have an ME assigned to the project, yet, so I made the drawings in Sketchup, just to get the idea across.

Which is why I use Sketchup. I have better things to do than learn yet another inconsistent software package.

[Leon]

I'm certain that the learning curve will be tough for him on most anything. He can't punctuate, he probably does not have the ability to learn.

[bnwelch]

Grizzly has a workshop layout feature on their website. Includes footprints of most if not all of their power tools...

[Electric Comet]

own exactly one grizzly tool

but that is a good offering from them

scale cutouts work well too

[Puckdropper]

Electric Comet wrote in news:ounj63$1c4$2 @dont-email.me:

A Grizzly table saw is not likely to be too different than a Ridgid in size. A Jet Bandsaw is likely to be almost exactly the same size as a Delta or a Grizzly.

The tool is useful even if you don't own their tools.

Puckdropper

[DerbyDad03]

As a blanket statement, that's not true.

Ridgid has a very limited selection of table saws, while Grizzly has numerous models, some requiring some interesting floor space.

I agree with both of those statements. ;-)