Software for Simple Floor Plan

I am planning some renovations and have a need to create some simple home floor plans to scale. I have don't done any drawings to scale on a Mac since MacDraw became a thing of the past. I've looked briefly at the LibreOffice suite and LibreCAD web pages and am wondering what is the difference between LibreOffice Draw program and LibreCAD? Is the CAD program more powerful? Do either of them have a library of shapes to work with? Basically I am looking for an app that would be inexpensive or freeware / shareware. Anyone have any experience with something like this ?

macOS High Sierra (10.13.2), iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)

Posted on Dec 19, 2017 5:38 AM

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Dec 19, 2017 5:50 AM in response to pokey b

if you have a few hours to get some tutorials under you belt then Blender is about as powerful as it gets outside of Maya and C4D without the $3,500.00 price tag.

www.blender.org

If you don't want to spend time learning the interface with the on-line support that Blender has all over the net it's not the type of software you can just tool around in and it will "come to you"

Dec 19, 2017 7:16 AM in response to pokey b

Blender is industrial strength. I quit it twice before I actually dove into it head first. It's frustrating because the concepts are so unlike anything else I've ever used but they begin to make sense and the support group is massive. It might be overkill for floor plans but among other features; modeling and rendering being just two of many; it has some serious horse power that competes with the movie studio strength titles.


there are also free rendering engines out there with some amazing potential. My go to at the moment is LuxRender

luxrender.net

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