Not sure if it's what you are after, but there is a phone app called MagicPlan that maps existing structures as a floor plan using the camera. On 29 April 2017 at 19:42, Erik Christiansen via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
On 29.04.17 18:43, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote:
Just watch what you are doing with care, and it can do remarkable things. One of the critical things is to do the detail design in your head first, cladding thicknesses, fasteners, joints, particularly the complex ones. If you can envisage the detail of the build in your head, then you can get that onto paper somehow. I did drafting as part of a Mechanical Engineering degree. Putting in the detail is where you find out whether the drawing is correct and functional.
Yes, you've hit the nail on the head there. I'd laboriously drawn it up on graph paper, but with strawbale-unit dimensions, and with a great fat strawbale skin. I'm too old to do another DIY owner-builder build, and that's the only way that strawbale is viable. Now it's back to standard building units and materials.
So rather than do it again with pencil & paper, postscript allows me to automate detail right down to double studs around wall openings - while counting how many end up being used. Oh-oh, just remembered that the cladding comes in 1200 mm wide sheets - so replace the 450 mm stud spacing (one variable) and the stud_wall procedure moves the studs to sheet edges and centres.
OK, there's a slow initial primitive-building & tweaking phase, but after that it should fly - in a most flexible folding swiss army knife fashion.
Add vim folding markers in the comments, and I can have folding text in my manually generated postscript file. A good overview and rapid navigation both boost productivity.
Thanks for the encouragement.
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