Need CAD softwre to desing kitchen

littlerock

Can anyone recommend easy to use CAD for us to design our new kitchen. Have tried the main suppliers' online software but cannot really get it to work. Does not seem very scaleable for our odd shaped kitchen. Happy to pay for the right product,

Norman_Castle

http://www.sketchup.com/ In my experience most CAD programmes have a steep learning curve.

Gloomendoom

Pencil and tracing paper works well.

Birdwell

I've used and been happy with Sweet Home 3D:
http://www.sweethome3d.com/

snowcat75

for simple 2D I would go for sketch up as well, Its a simple scaling program, and can be picked up quickly, Powerful programs with 3D capability's take weeks to learn and years to master, Iv been using AutoCAD for decades and still struggle with certain features and newer versions, To boot they cost serious money solid works and AutoCAD are in the thousands to buy.

Norman_Castle

snowcat75 wrote: »

for simple 2D I would go for sketch up as well.

Sketch up is 3D.

krlyr

I used Sketchup for mine. You can do 2D and 3D - you just raise your 2D objects up into 3D. You can download add-on programs that 'render' your plan too, with proper texture and lighting.

I'd call myself fairly computer savvy, but have no CAD training - it's not too complicated to figure out. You also download various ready-made models in that other users (with much more skill than me!) have made, e.g. the tap. Other bits, I just created my own materials from online photos - the oven and microwave are just cubes with the manufacturer photos as a texture on one side, the tiles are just a texture, and so on.

Sketchup drawing
[IMG]http://www.paperpangolin.net/images/kitchen sketchup.jpg[/IMG]

Rendered image
[IMG]http://www.paperpangolin.net/images/kitchen rendered.jpg[/IMG]

Real thing (not quite finished)!
[IMG]http://www.paperpangolin.net/images/kitchen photo.jpg[/IMG]

littlerock

Thanks everyone I will try Sketchup

Gloomendoom

krlyr wrote: »

Real thing (not quite finished)!
[IMG]http://www.paperpangolin.net/images/kitchen photo.jpg[/IMG]

Good job.

I hope that you are going to sort the handles though.

wymondham

Can't beat pencil and pad!

Credit-Crunched

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Good job.

I hope that you are going to sort the handles though.

My eyes can't look at that! I'd be up all night thinking of my handle alignment !

:o