Floor plan drawing program?

[Stu]

	Please excuse the lateness of this, but I've been using Inkscape to
make floorplans, emergency exit maps, campus maps and such for my
employer for the past couple of years now. Nothing I would call of
architectural quality, but certainly good enough for the job. Easily as
accurate as anything I could draw up on graph paper by hand.


On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:49 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> not impossible just nobodyhas done it yet. Dia looks like the most
> readily available
> 
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> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:02 AM, mike enriquez <mylinux at cox.net> wrote:
> > Hey, if you find any program that will draw floor plans in Linux, please let
> > me know. The Cad people are telling me that this is an imposibility in
> > Linux.
> > Thanks
> > Mike Enriquez
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
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> > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: Floor plan drawing program?
> >
> >
> >> one forum post suggests the following
> >>
> >> "If you want to keep it simple, what about MS Paint?
> >>
> >> Seriously, the easiest and safest solution to this is the GIMP.
> >> (avoiding dependency hell)
> >>
> >> Just create each item of furniture on a seperate layer (as simple as
> >> going to "layers" and clicking "new layer", then that way, each item
> >> is on a seperate sheet of acetate if you will, and they can all be
> >> moved independently.
> >>
> >> This also has the advantage that I've never had the GIMP fail to
> >> install yet, even on Slack 9.1 it went like a dream, and you also have
> >> an extensive availibility of information on the web."
> >>
> >> Other hunting comes up with some of the follwoing ideas
> >>
> >> http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
> >> Any cad software like inkscape or whatever your distribution has
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Is there a program out there for Linux that allows one to draw a home
> >>> or office floor plan?  I don't need CAD quality here, just fairly
> >>> accurate relative sizes of furniture and walls.  Then one could drag
> >>> the furniture around the room to figure out a new layout.  I used to
> >>> do this with a ruler, sissors and graph paper but I'd rather use
> >>> something more virtual.
> >>>
> >>> Alan
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