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[goodcow]

So I'll be moving, and I have measurements of the rooms, and I'd like to basically graph it out and plot virtual furniture in it to see how much space things take.

What's the best way of doing this?

 

[Memles]

I'll be perfectly honest with you here.

Large piece of paper. Other smaller pieces of paper cut out in the shape of your various articles of furniture. Cheap, inexpensive, and you get to twirl around paper for a while, pretending it's actually helping.

It does help, though. At least, it's better than physically moving it. If you wanted a software program or something, can be of no use there.

 

[beerbelly]

Use Microsoft Visio and the Building Plan category. That's what I use...

 

[Burger]

I've said it before: Half Life 2's built in Hammer Editor.

 

[goodcow]

Use Microsoft Visio and the Building Plan category. That's what I use...

Is this free, or has a demo?

 

[beerbelly]

it's part of Microsoft Office..

 

[demon]

Use Microsoft Visio and the Building Plan category. That's what I use...

it's part of Microsoft Office..

Holy shit I never knew that........awesome.

 

[sc0la]

I'll be perfectly honest with you here.

Large piece of paper. Other smaller pieces of paper cut out in the shape of your various articles of furniture. Cheap, inexpensive, and you get to twirl around paper for a while, pretending it's actually helping.

It does help, though. At least, it's better than physically moving it. If you wanted a software program or something, can be of no use there.

exactly. the other thing to do is get a few pieces of card board and build a scale volume of your room (a box) and make small rectangles of your furniture.

I use cardboard a shitload more than computers when designing. Computers are better for presentations etc. but nothing beats the hands one when you just want to try out a shit load of permutations at once. imo

 

[teiresias]

it's part of Microsoft Office..

I think it's only part of like Office Professional though, so if you just have standard you don't have it - I don't, but I never need Visio (though it would have come in handy in a fault analysis class I took once).