Drawing plan app FREE

[Diyisfun]

I've been trying to get my council rates band amended, nearly two years now planning have finally got back to me & asked for a scaled plan within 15days.
I have replied to their email & said they could gave asked that a long time ago & that I cannot do it in the time scale.
They have allowed me longer, but what I am looking for now is something that I can use and is FREE.
My other option is to use graph paper and scan it.
Anyone got any free programs they use.
TIA

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Draw it by hand.

 

[Diyisfun]

Well if no free apps...I will but a lot of rooms, my writing is scruffy so won't look pretty

 

[^woody^]

https://www.planup.co.uk/ - try the free trial, but I'm not sure how free it is.

I'm certain this company took over a brilliant floor plan app I used to use, as the format and controls look identical - if so, it's very easy to produce plans in short time.

MS Visio is underrated and good for floor plans and layouts

Otherwise, a quick google brings up quite a few plan drawing apps for free, online and on mobile.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I've used LibreOffice Draw (the free equivalent of MS Visio) for years as a very rough and dirty version of CAD...

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You can draw to scale, it's vector-based (i.e. not like Paint!) and you can make things look reasonably presentable. It's completely free, it also includes a superb word processor, spreadsheet etc etc. All nice and simple, does everything you need without the needless nonsense you get in Office 365 or whatever it's called these days, that Microslop charges stupid money for.

Honestly I find the 3D drawing packages (Sketchup etc) baffling, but lots of people do use them.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

An example of my sort of muddling about in Libreoffice Draw...

You can output in PDF to send to anyone else. The grid lines only show on screen, the above is a screenshot.

 

[noseall]

An example of my sort of muddling about in Libreoffice Draw...

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You can output in PDF to send to anyone else. The grid lines only show on screen, the above is a screenshot.

That looks horrible.

 

[^woody^]

Looks like conversations on the Jubilee Line

 

[JBR]

I, like Mr Windybottom, also use LibreOffice Draw. It was free, and it does all I want very accurately.
I also use TurboCAD for Windows which can be even more accurate.

 

[noseall]

which can be even more accurate.

I use the thick end of my shovel. Even more accurate.

 

[noseall]

Looks like conversations on the Jubilee Line

If that landed on my desk I'd think it was a wind-up.

 

[Diyisfun]

OK, Ive given up on the idea of drawing on a programme.
Im drawing it to scale on graph paper & will scan it to my PC, then i will add all the dimensions etc.
So i need a PDF editor that will let me add text etc, FOR FREE.
Everything that Im trying is not free, Im certain in the past I had free stuff.
This is driving me nuts.

 

[Bear2Biker]

When I worked had to use Microsoft everything and did get to like it, when I retired I bought some cheap licences as I've got several PC's and a NAS drive everything is stored on & I wanted uniformity and continuity, recently had a hard drive fail & lost a licence and it became a ball ache to fix, I'd need another licence and I need to upgrade everything to W11.

So looked online & found Libre Office, had seen & tried it many years ago & found to be lacking compared with MS Office/Adobe etc. looked at the latest reviews & thought I'd now give it another try, brilliant a whole suite of FREE to download and FREE to use office programs (inc PDF editor), word, calc, drawing, presentation, database, maths formula, saving in more formats than you can throw sticks continually at, No adverts.

Yes slightly clunkier, slightly slower than "mainstream bought software" but so much more functionality, you can install it on any PC, Mac or Linux, works offline or NAS/cloud-based, open source & never runs out, updates as appropriate, customiseable

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

If that landed on my desk I'd think it was a wind-up.

Point missed, as ever. It was just an example of a sketch you can chuck together in Draw. This was just a DIY job, for my own use and not intended for anyone's desk! It's just a digital fag-packet sketch.

The point is that you can draw lines, colour stuff in and label things, i.e. draw stuff! The contents are entirely up to you. Create a masterpiece or, as in my case, make a bit of a scribbly mess that lets me work out how a load of stuff in a crowded corner is going to get routed, what is on top of what etc.

I'd have needed to start again about 10 times if using pens, the beauty of scribbling on a computer is that you can delete and move things.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

When I worked had to use Microsoft everything and did get to like it, when I retired I bought some cheap licences as I've got several PC's and a NAS drive everything is stored on & I wanted uniformity and continuity, recently had a hard drive fail & lost a licence and it became a ball ache to fix, I'd need another licence and I need to upgrade everything to W11.

So looked online & found Libre Office, had seen & tried it many years ago & found to be lacking compared with MS Office/Adobe etc. looked at the latest reviews & thought I'd now give it another try, brilliant a whole suite of FREE to download and FREE to use office programs (inc PDF editor), word, calc, drawing, presentation, database, maths formula, saving in more formats than you can throw sticks continually at, No adverts.

Yes slightly clunkier, slightly slower than "mainstream bought software" but so much more functionality, you can install it on any PC, Mac or Linux, works offline or NAS/cloud-based, open source & never runs out, updates as appropriate, customiseable

I've been using nothing but LibreOffice for well over a decade. It's pretty much a clone of what MS Office looked like about 20 years ago.

Just recently I had to use someone else's PC with the latest Microslop Office 365 AI Copilot Whatever it's called. I couldn't find anything, it all seemed really counter-intuitive to use.

I'm sure things make sense when you do get used to it. But I won't be getting used to it while it's about £100 a year.