I don’t what to reopen the discussion on which CAD program is the best.
Does anyone use the Floorplan/TurboCad combo to design additions and produce working drawings? I’m considering purchasing the lastest versions of both to design an addition to my home. If the programs work well together seems like a lot of bang for the buck.
I tried their users forum and found it to be too technical or specific.
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Could be this was a bad time and day to post this, eh?
I've got both but to be honest, I've never openned the floorplan program. I've heard folks who are impressed with it though. It's supposed to be fairly easy but I can't say myself.
I'd guess it depends how technically astute you are and how much time you want to put in and how much detail drawings you want. some folks want a program to read their minds and perform like a DeLorean right out of the box while others look at learning new programs as a hobby and enjoy playing with them.
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I have it too....only fooled around a little though, don't really know what I'm doing. It seems to be able to put a roof on any crazy thing you do, but I never got far enough to see what kind of useful info you can get out of that. Backburner stuff for me, as I don't build that stuff.cabinetmaker/college instructor. Cape Breton, N.SWAY too conservative to be merely right wing
Piffin,
I got a response on the FloorPlan Forum that indicated the software is a clone of SoftPlan Lite. Not sure if it's true or not. Their technical support is poor. To receive tech support via email you have to pay a $5 fee. This is making me reconsider. I wish I could justify spending the money on SoftPlan Lite as it seems very powerful and easy to use.
Thanks for your imput.
In that case, consider the ease of using SP, the free tech support for a bug free program, the resale value, the lack of frustration.....
Buy SP lite, put it on a credit card, do what you want with it for a year while paying small amounts on it.
Then sell it again. Price then will depend on what version is out at that time (how outdated yours has become) You may get 2/3 of the price and end up only spending 250 overall for the pleasure of using it.
Or buy it and work your butt off to do the work in thirty days and return it for full refund.
I only make that latter suggestion in jest, knowing that once you own and use it, you'll be hooked, even to designing all the dofghouses for every kid on the block....
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius