A lot of the early design work for our house renovation was done in Microsoft Paint. Pick your scale, eg 1 pixel = 1 inch, and start pushing those pixels around like a desktop Lite-Brite. Compare the work above to the picture of the real McCoy in previous post, and you'll see that for a simple tool it could be very effective, even accurate.
These days, I've moved on to a newer generation of digital tools. Inkscape is my favorite vector graphic app, and for the money (it's free!), nothing beats Google SketchUp for 3D design. Not the smoothest learning curve for either of them, but if you can make it to the first plateau you'll have begun to appreciate their potential and power.
Have just tried using Inkscape for design. It seems to work really well, but I can't open the help menu. Does anyone know how I can?
Posted by: Building Materials | 2011.07.19 at 00:23
I've never tried Inkscape, but I'll have to check it out.
Posted by: Clint Rowley | 2011.08.25 at 15:46