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Drawing houseplans 2D in Scale pc?
Posted on 1-May-2015 0:30:26
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Hello again in a GFX relationed query.

In another threat Thanks I got something done in PPaint/DPaint as allready know how to use it and as the suggestions Grafx2 did get the Amy job to print it with the HP Laser which seems to be incompatible with the XE. No surprise there. But these are just scetch thingies in freehand.

In the pc side I found Inkscape that is free. It's just crazy how dificult it's for a newcommer to draw two squares, etc 15,6x25m. and make another square inside that is exactly 3,5mm inside for the wall insulation. 2D picture for a professional, 3,5mm means 35 cm.

I'll try to struggle with this but can't Copy&Paste or do anything "normal" as I'm really stupid with these not so drawing programs. Did the job for today and it has to be done at least half a millimeter perfect as the scale is 1:100 (1cm is one meter) . Can't be done in Ppaint as there is no scale?

Any better ideas than physical pencil,ruler,scissors and paper again?

(So embarassed as asked to do some easy job as You are the computer expert, well, not)

Practising Inkscape , no more complicated programs Please;) OS4 (or3?) or Win7 would be better for printing needs if any ideas?

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@PR

You need CAD type programs or Vector Drawing, there are some on the Amiga which should work on the A1XE.

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@PR

Try Cycas, available in English or German

Another option would be DrawStudio.

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@PR

I'm an engineer in the electronics field, and I practice the ancient art of "if your only tool is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail". Hence, I would make something like this in Eagle (PCB editor), but the freeware version of that only goes up to 100x80mm, so not much useful for your 156x250mm scaled down drawing. On the other hand, you could do it in 1000:1 as a 15.6x25mm, Eagle goes all the way down to 1micrometer (so 1mm in real life with a 1000:1 scale).

Scriptable, outputs direct to printers, pdf, postscript, gerber (think "turtle graphics") etc. Exists for Windows and Linux.

The primitives you'll be needing here sounds like "wire", "circle" and maybe "arc" would suffice, shouldn't take you more than a few seconds to learn how to use those.

I use the grid when it suits me and the command line interface when the grid doesn't fit.

Example: grid mm;wire (0 0) (15.6 0) (15.6 25) (0 25) (0 0);wire (0.35 0.35) (15.25 0.35) (15.25 24.65) (0.35 24.65) (0.35 0.35) would give you the doble rectangle you require to get started.

OR, offset it 0.35 in X and Y directions so the inner walls start on the axes. That should make it easier to work with, without affecting printing or export. You can PM me if you have any questions. Doesn't cost anything to download and try.

I've been making all sorts of drawings and stuff in eagle, including labels to be printed where I needed to edit the postscript files to make black background and change pen color to white etc

edit: obviously you can scale the printouts so it'll be 100:1 on the paper

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