Office design sofware

rde

I am looking for a piece of software, preferably free, that can help me design my office space at home. I presume it's some kind of CAD software, that I can "place" various pieces of furniture inside a virtual room. I am struggling to visualise what the room will look like with the various pieces of cupboards etc in place and also what size cupboards I need.

Any ideas?

Many thanks in anticipation!

Lil306

Have a read through some of these.

http://www.freecad.com/CAD_Programs_PCs/

I used a program called DrafixCAD before but I don't think it's free.

I did have a program on CD somewhere that was free with a computer magazine (freeware) program but I'll have to dig it out. It was a full professional grade program

Scrilla

Sweet Home 3D (free) - I'm using it for planning a few rooms which I'm redecorating in our home. It's nothing fancy, but it's good enough for me to visualise and plan with a good degree of accuracy. May work for you too for your office. Really easy to use - just dived in without reading any instructions.

Lil306

Also, depending on how good you are with scaling you can do a basic grid plan

I printed out some grids on the web then simply measured my room and put everything to scale.

It will give you an idea of the space you have left but won't let you "visualise" as such, you'd need a 3D software

MX5huggy

Try google Sketch Up its free and there is a large library of models in the 3d warehouse to use.

buglawton

The Ikea office planner tool might suit:
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB/rooms_ideas/office/office_planner.html

Looks similar to a fitted kitchen planner. I think you pick furniture from the Ikea catalogue but just choose similar furniture to what you want.

supermonkey

Double CAD is fairly good (made by the people who make Turbo CAD & its almost identical).

Or you could go for some like Inkscape

fitshase

I would give Google Sketchup the thumbs up. Planned my whole house on it. Really easy.

http://sketchup.google.com/

rde

Many thanks everybody, I'll give some of these a try.