Good software for a basic plan to give to archictect?

[Parrotface]

Hi all,

hope your well now your back at the boozer

So after a long haul we are about to exchange (fingers crossed it really happens this time)

the property has space around it to build.

I want to find a way of producing a rough plan that I could present to an architect for him to tweak and play with and then send to the planners.

does anyone have suggestions of a good computer programme?

many thanks
Mark

 

[^woody^]

Paper and pen. Let the architect do the work if you are paying him

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Yes the software/presentation is irrelevant, he'll do all his own drawings, all you need to do is a fag packet sketch with a biro on some A4.

 

[WoOt]

I use Sweet Home 3D and Google's SketchUp.

 

[Nakajo]

Sketchup hasn't been Google's for a long time

 

[johnny2007]

I've always used Microsoft word for that.
There's a drawing tool which is easy to use.

 

[Nakajo]

I've seen plans drawn in Excel, but I wouldn't recommend it!

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Get lots of Lego and build a model?

 

[^woody^]

I've seen plans drawn in Excel,

Milton Keynes was

 

[mattylad]

Paper (lines/squares) and a pencil.
You also need a pencil sharpener and an eraser.

 

[Old Salt]

Get him round to take a look, explain what you want, leave him to it. Ours made some suggestions which we adopted and are really pleased with the finished extension.

By all means have a rough sketch, but you are paying him for his expertise, as Woody says let him earn it.