I am consistantly amazed at the standard of presentation work in the area of Con Doc production being shown in the Construction & Working Drawings – Discussion The latest jaw dropping work shown is by SCF member, Sonder. He says ‘I just got so frustrated with how ACAD has been developed that I finally dropped [...]
While reading a particular topic in SCF I learned about Northern Lights Timber Framing and their very informative site which is a must for any designer involved in timber frame construction. There are lots of demo videos and even some Rubies available for download. Clark Bremer of Northern Lights has made great use of Google [...]
Tomot, one of our regulars at SketchUcation, has identified a weakness in Google SketchUp’s LayOut when showing construction sections and set about providing a fix! He has developed two tools, WallSectionTool1 and 2DSectionTool, that help to produce some really nice working drawings in LayOut. If you have ever thought about producing your 2D working drawing [...]
I’ve just learned about Inkscape, an ‘open source scalable vector graphics editor’ that would appear to work well with Google SketchUp via .dxf (save) and .dxf (import). There is an old topic on the SCF which has been resurrected which shows the above image that was created in Inkscape and imported to SketchUp here
The DraftSight 2D CAD may be worth checking out for Windows or Mac users on the hunt for a quality 2D CAD application. The developers states… “DraftSight is a professioal-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is [...]
“Stop playing around and start playing around. If you have projects that require any type of design, then you need Alibre Design Personal Edition (PE). It’s easy to use, powerful, and much faster than a trash can full of crumpled paper drawings.” Alibre Design 2011 Personal Edition is currently on sale for $99. For those [...]
DraftSight 2d for Win, Mac, soon Linux and maybe iPad!! I know only too well that the ongoing search for a simple to use SketchUp friendly 2D drafting application is still foremost in the minds of many forum members. I think DraftSight by Dassault Systemes may prove to be what many are looking for as [...]
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