CAD drawings for buildings

[Arceye]

Looking for a CAD service or program for a cattle building design. Trying to explain my mickey mouse drawings on school graph paper or what I want down a phone or email to get a quote is never easy and invariably forget something. Any free easy to use programs out there for a straight forward portal frame would be handy.

 

[Jdunn55]

Google sketchup is free and fairly easy to use, it's very basic in comparison to what an architect may use but it does the job and you can do a fairly good job with it!

 

[AJTG]

Add my support for SketchUo. Very easy to learn

 

[Deutzdx3]

Sketch up. Very easy and free. I use I for profiles and making parts. I’m useless with it but get by just fine.

 

[Arceye]

ok thanks for that.

 

[Forever Fendt]

Looking for a CAD service or program for a cattle building design. Trying to explain my mickey mouse drawings on school graph paper or what I want down a phone or email to get a quote is never easy and invariably forget something. Any free easy to use programs out there for a straight forward portal frame would be handy.

A good shed builder should know what you want by explaining it over the phone to them, and if they don’t you are probably talking to the wrong people

 

[Arceye]

A good shed builder should know what you want by explaining it over the phone to them, and if they don’t you are probably talking to the wrong people

Clearly I must bow to your wonderful telephone skills.
In reality sometimes things are missed or forgotten, so I only do a proper quote stood on the site with the shed builder face to face and they can see where it needs to be, elevation, drainage, access etc etc, but it's useful to give them an idea of what we need before they visit.