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I’m in the process of saving my Grandad’s dairy barn from the bulldozer. The barn is down, labeled and nicely stored away under cover. This spring it will go up again, this time as the family house. (Grandad must be shaking his head)
I’m looking for some software that will save me from the graph paper, pencil, erasure; bottle of scotch, pencil, erasure scenario. Although that has its merrits, I’d like to pick up the pace a bit. I don’t need to fly the barn through space, nor do I have visions of becomming some big time architect building fancy bridges. I just want to lay out the posts and beams to scale and work from there. Is there software out there for a nincompoop like me? To make things a tad tougher, I’m on Mac.
Thanks
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Glad to here there are others out there on Macs. I can't give you any specifics because I haven't used any, but there are definately some out there. Have you checked the macmall, maczone and macwarehouse websites? They carry tons of software. Good luck with the barn.
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I must be the old fashioned type, I tried to get Delta Cad (the freebie version) to work for me but... For a project like this, Post and beam framing, I prefer to grab the square, triangle, and the dining room table and have at it. Maybe I am just not computer literate enough. But there just seems to be something organic about paper, lead holder and an eraser for the smears.
BTW, I have my grandfathers set of scales. I hope to hand them down to my son someday.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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Ive tried Claris Cad and drawing programs that come with bundled software like Apple draw and what I have found so far that you must dedicate a good amount of time to learning the program. For me, the limits that the programs place on the user required me to rethink how I draw. i.e. what to draw first, how to draw a line so I can dimension it later etc. So in short the program I am learning is not a transparent process .....yet. I have a hard time trying to think in 3 dimensions to solve construction problems and at the same time learn the drawing program. Good luck.
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I'm in the process of saving my Grandad's dairy barn from the bulldozer. The barn is down, labeled and nicely stored away under cover. This spring it will go up again, this time as the family house. (Grandad must be shaking his head)
I'm looking for some software that will save me from the graph paper, pencil, erasure; bottle of scotch, pencil, erasure scenario. Although that has its merrits, I'd like to pick up the pace a bit. I don't need to fly the barn through space, nor do I have visions of becomming some big time architect building fancy bridges. I just want to lay out the posts and beams to scale and work from there. Is there software out there for a nincompoop like me? To make things a tad tougher, I'm on Mac.
Thanks
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Kurt, TurboCAD 2D/3D is available for the Mac. Wether it will do timberframing is another matter.
Go to: http://www.imsisoft.com
They have downloadable versions at that site.