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I'm toying with the idea adding a screened porch and wondered what tool would be good to plan that addition.
Back in the Windows 3.1 days I had an inexpensive but useful 3D drawing tool that allowed one to "fly through" the resulting model. I used this tool to design my crawl space to basement conversion. It worked ok, but it was kind of quirky. I doubt I could find it or get it to run on a modern OS. The way it worked, though, I could define a "box" some feet wide and tall, 4 inches thick to be a wall. It also had a library of pre-drawn 3D objects, but I didn't use those much. It had a 2D library to 'paint' things like windows on a 3D object (wall) if you didn't want to "frame" in that level of detail. It was flexible such that it did not lock me into any a set of predefined things that may not match reality of the situation. I've tried some programs that try to be "easy", but at the expense of not being able to actually model something that wasn't in their play book already. I've tinkered with a CAD program a very long time ago, and never got the kind of reasonably quick satisfaction I got from my old 3D drawing tool.
Anyone have any tools they could recommend to do this modeling?
Back in the Windows 3.1 days I had an inexpensive but useful 3D drawing tool that allowed one to "fly through" the resulting model. I used this tool to design my crawl space to basement conversion. It worked ok, but it was kind of quirky. I doubt I could find it or get it to run on a modern OS. The way it worked, though, I could define a "box" some feet wide and tall, 4 inches thick to be a wall. It also had a library of pre-drawn 3D objects, but I didn't use those much. It had a 2D library to 'paint' things like windows on a 3D object (wall) if you didn't want to "frame" in that level of detail. It was flexible such that it did not lock me into any a set of predefined things that may not match reality of the situation. I've tried some programs that try to be "easy", but at the expense of not being able to actually model something that wasn't in their play book already. I've tinkered with a CAD program a very long time ago, and never got the kind of reasonably quick satisfaction I got from my old 3D drawing tool.
Anyone have any tools they could recommend to do this modeling?