For the non Sketchup CAD choice

[cultana]

I needed a new CAD bit of software as the current one I use, Turbocad v2, is on an old Mac and it only prints to A4 paper and I can not export the drawing as a pic or pdf.

I did a bit of trawling thorough this forum and picked out some details that could be useful in one post.
I have not included Sketchup as that seems heavily detailed.


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Would it be useful as a sticky to save all from repeating the same trawl exercise?

[Mrwhippy]

Great, have you tried any of these? I want to get a digital copy of a house plan and hopefully be able to render it in 3D. Can any of the programs you mentioned do that?

I had a look through and only one is AecBatchStylesEditor, which doesn't have any screenshots, I even checked google, have you used AecBatchStylesEditor?

[cultana]

Mrwhippy:
catch up with my PM to you re this.