backwater
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While looking for some (free!) software to make tutorial drawings, I stumbled into Google's Sketchup program. The professional version costs lots of money, but they have a simpler version that's free. My kind of software :lol: The site is here:
https://www.drawingcoach.com/free-drawing-software.html
There's more than one program on that site, but Sketchup caught my eye. The learning curve doesn't appear to be as insane as AutoCad and other cad programs; in fact, after about an hour taking the video tutorials, I was kinda up and running with it. There's a lot to learn, to be sure, but it seems to be user friendly.
To test it, I made a simple drawing of a 1448 jon (you can draw to scale with it). I quickly realized this would be a great tool not only for concept drawings but to obtain rough dimensions for planning purposes. Don't know what the system requirements are as far as processor speeds and memory go, but they don't mention it so it must run well on most computers.
Anyway, here's a couple of screenshots. Don't critique my design :mrgreen: I was just playing around with it for the first time in a general way to see if it would help in the preliminary design stage.
(I posted this here instead of in the computer forum because I thought it would be of general interest - you guys can move it if you think that would be best)
https://www.drawingcoach.com/free-drawing-software.html
There's more than one program on that site, but Sketchup caught my eye. The learning curve doesn't appear to be as insane as AutoCad and other cad programs; in fact, after about an hour taking the video tutorials, I was kinda up and running with it. There's a lot to learn, to be sure, but it seems to be user friendly.
To test it, I made a simple drawing of a 1448 jon (you can draw to scale with it). I quickly realized this would be a great tool not only for concept drawings but to obtain rough dimensions for planning purposes. Don't know what the system requirements are as far as processor speeds and memory go, but they don't mention it so it must run well on most computers.
Anyway, here's a couple of screenshots. Don't critique my design :mrgreen: I was just playing around with it for the first time in a general way to see if it would help in the preliminary design stage.
(I posted this here instead of in the computer forum because I thought it would be of general interest - you guys can move it if you think that would be best)
