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Does anyone know any free, easy architecture software out there? Looking for something that does building planning, not so much landscaping.

try one of these:
http://architecture.about.com/od/softwa ... _Media.htm
Hope you find what you need.

If you are a university student, I can provide you with a link for Autocad 2006 Civil 3D. It would have something along the lines of

"This is a student version" written along the bottom of any printouts. I don't know if it would work with an american university registration, but it may.

Insurgent wrote:If you are a university student, I can provide you with a link for Autocad 2006 Civil 3D. It would have something along the lines of

Unfortunately, I'm not, but thank you very much.

In the meantime, thanks also, Dead Metal. I'll check that out once I can.

SketchUp

You'll learn it in an hour and it's quite effective.

I'm sure there are free demos out there.

Counterpunch wrote:SketchUp

You'll learn it in an hour and it's quite effective.

I'm sure there are free demos out there.

Sketchup is more for visual presentations than actual archetecture designing. It is damn good fun to play around with though.

Insurgent wrote:Sketchup is more for visual presentations than actual archetecture designing.

But it is more than capable of doing design, it's fast, and it's worlds easer to learn than AutoCad anything.

He was looking for easy...

Counterpunch wrote:

Insurgent wrote:Sketchup is more for visual presentations than actual archetecture designing.

But it is more than capable of doing design, it's fast, and it's worlds easer to learn than AutoCad anything.

He was looking for easy...

True. Got stuck in the mentality we were told.

My Lecturers wrote:Sketchup is nothing more than a visualisation tool for presentations. Autocad is what you use for the designing work.

Although I find Autocad easy as well. Guess I'm just... strange.

Sketchup is easy, when the lines all connect and the polygons go where they are suppossed to.