Probably you were having supper with your spouse and talking about the house when the brainstorm hit you. Suddenly you glimpsed a way to get that extra bathroom the home had always needed, without putting in new foundation and adding on off the back of the house. So you grabbed a pencil and quickly sketched the rough idea on a paper napkin. It was pretty rough, and there was mustard on the floor-uh, napkin. Well, you're not an architect, after all.
You might be surprised what's available to you.
If you've got a nice home PC, you could have more fun than any video game, designing your dream house, or doing some realistic remodeling of the home you've already got.
I'm not talking about the software the pros use. Programs for professional architecture and engineering-programs like CADAM, Autocad, Datacad, Cadsoft, Argus, Microstation, etc-typically start at around $1000 and rapidly escalate to over $20,000 in cost. And that does not include the computer. Furthermore, if you thought learning that word processing or spreadsheet program was tedious and mind-numbing, I guarantee learning these programs will be exquisite torture. Nah, for what I've got in mind, you don't need to have a fat bank account or know anything about isometric projection or Cartesian coordinates.
For typically about $20 to $100 you now have your choice of several good design programs reasonably geared to the typical home user and enabling you to turn out plans any contractor can use and-best of all-allowing you to see the completed project in 3D on your computer monitor before you've spent a dime!
Compare some of these products and select the right one for you.
"Call Your Handyman and take a Kid Fishing"
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment