Vector Tool for Schematics

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:11:45AM -0400, John Moniz wrote:
> The article on Linux graphics tools reminded me that I have an upcoming  
> cottage project for which I should draw some schematics and plan out  
> what I'm going to do before I royally mess it up.
>
> In a nutshell, I will be doing some foundation work underneath the cabin  
> (no basement) and would like to lay out the lower part of the cabin to  
> scale and make schematic plans of the foundation work in some detail. It  
> won't be as detailed as a professional blueprint and I don't need  
> something as sophisticated as a CAD program. I think something that I  
> can keep to scale and be able to make infinite changes without using an  
> eraser. The scale thing could be something as simple as a grid on the  
> screen. I was going to look at Inkscape, Xfig and Kivio, which have been  
> mentioned on previous posts, but have not used any of them to date.
>
> Quite a while back, I did schematics of a cabinet I wanted to build  
> using using Lotus Freelance Plus. It did the job then and would probably  
> have worked for what I need now. I've given up on IBM porting it to 
> Linux.
>
> Anyone have any experience making schematics for building/renovations  
> that could make a recommendation?

Well you could try qcad.  They release the older versions as GPL, so
most distributions have packages of it.

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Len Sorensen
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