Structural drawing CAD pkg, with 3D view of external appearance?

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Ron Leach <ronleach at tesco.net> wrote:

> List, good morning,
>
> Looking for a CAD program to draw out floorplans etc for a new building.
> I've access to several 2D packages but does anyone know of a package that
> could also display a kind-of 3D image of what the structure would finally
> look like?  Eg, the vertical faces, roof line(s) and overall shape.  We're
> running F23/XFCE.  I had heard about, but never used or seen, a package
> 'sweethome3d', and there is reference to it in (maybe earlier) repos, but
> dnf doesn't seem to find it now.
>
> I imagine people have tried to do this, before, and I wondered if anyone
> could recommend anything?


I don't know if there's much in the way of pre-generated resources or
materials but FreeCAD is a general purpose 3D CAD modeler with an
architectural mode and is already in Fedora (maintained by me).

http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Arch_tutorial

# dnf install freecad

Thanks,
Richard
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