This is for a simple 2 room addition in my basement. It would be nice to have a Building Sketch template so I could fill in name, address, area calculations, etc.
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google sketch up is online for free. Short of that, buy some paper and and pencil. Neither won't break the bank.
Librecad is free
Librecad is a free open source cad program. I use it for simple tasks, but it is very capable. I did find it exasperating to learn, there is no manual or help within the program, but there is a lot of information online. Some functions are not intuitive such as copy and move.
Maybe I only think in 2 dimensions, but I never could draw anything in sketchup. I think librecad would be better for producing floorplans, and sketchup would be better for visualization.