Houselopnik 2.5/Learning ArchiCAD

Kinja'd!!! "E. Julius" (soonerfrommi)
02/13/2015 at 19:35 • Filed to: Houselopnik

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After playing around on the excellent floorplanner.com trying to perfect my home designs, I decided that some things could be accomplished better in legitimate CAD software. I also thought this would be a fun and useful thing to learn so I just dove in. Here's the result of my work today, a rendering of the special garage I had planned in the house. There's obviously some flaws that I haven't quite figured out how to fix yet, but I think it's a fairly solid first effort.

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I'll probably still use floorplanner.com, as it's much better for roughing out the broad strokes of an idea. An intermediate stage between a hand drawn sketch and the precise CAD model. Honestly something like ArchiCAD is probably overkill for me, but I'm enjoying it for the time being. Now I need to find a better car than that old BMW to use for my 3D model!


DISCUSSION (3)


Kinja'd!!! Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > E. Julius
02/13/2015 at 19:38

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Free software?


Kinja'd!!! E. Julius > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
02/13/2015 at 19:39

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Kind of. It's professional software, but they offer a free license to university students, so I'm using that.


Kinja'd!!! promoted by the color red > E. Julius
02/13/2015 at 21:32

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Looks good, but it might need a Snap-On tool box or two... :)