I need to do some interior and exterior work and want to fool around with designs on my own. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive CAD program?


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  1. Sketchup is not only great for proper drawings but in the 3d mode you get to move through the space you have drawn (save it as a movie!!) and look at it from lots of different angles. Makes it much easier to understand how a remodelled space or a kitchen for e.g. will work. Best of all its free. And i can find no discernable difference between sketch up 6 (which is the free one) and sketch up pro (which costs $495). Perhaps an architect might fnd shortcomings in the free version, but for just loose planning (and some idel dreaming) its perfect.

  2. Second vote for SketchUp – if you just want to visualize some basic layouts (including lighting and materials) SketchUp works fine and you can’t beat the price.