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There are times I'd like to get a measurement of a room's layout. I know there are some apps that do this, but a lot are just full of premium pay wall stuff.

I'm just trying to get the dimensions of my office (it is an odd shape) so I can okay around with potential furniture layouts.

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[–] nettie 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The android app asks me for a trial or to pay, but if I close it then it doesn't seem to bother me (at least not right away). Maybe only the web version is FLOSS.

Either way, this is useful, but I was more interested in something I could my phone to measure the walls than manually put them in. Thanks though!

[–] nettie 1 points 5 days ago

Ah, understood. I used the desktop application, never tried online or on android. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I've used this for three houses now. It's incredibly handy. I'm still not very good at it, but I did finally figure out how to make walls from a floorplan without having to do them individually.

[–] ikidd 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've used this as well, it's capable enough, and it's free as in beer. I didn't see where it was opensource though.

[–] abominable_panda 2 points 6 days ago

GPL licence under the licences page on their website. Code is on sourceforge i think

[–] abominable_panda 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

FreeCAD has a BIM workbench but a fair warning - the learning curve is pretty steep, especially compared to the likes of SH3D and Sketchup

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah i was like, just let me get FreeCAD for this lil modelling projected i wanted to do...

Downloaded open it, try to use it, then tucked my dick... called a pro

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm persevering because I want to use free software to design my 3d prints, but... it's difficult, very difficult... I'm about to give up and go back to commercial CAD.

[–] abominable_panda 1 points 6 days ago

I'm in the same boat... have made a model of my house in SH3D and sketchup in the past. Have since tried doing it in freecad but it really is a struggle but im persevering. Hopefully one day it'll just "click" but its a major time sink atm so im putting it off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

is commercial easier?

pirate it at least

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well of course I'm not paying several thosand euros just to design doodads for personal use.
Yes it's easier. WAY easier. You can learn a lot with the traditional ones just experimenting, and newer stuff like Fusion 360 is even easier. With FreeCAD, you need to watch a tutorial for the simplest things.

[–] lung 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Not sure why you're down voted, because it's not FOSS? But SketchUp is what I used when I designed my studio and it worked fine (and free). Learning the CAD options listed above is gonna be way harder. Otherwise, there's always blender but same thing with the learning curve.