Any programs to help plan the layout of furniture in a room?

BlueWeasel

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You're best bet would be to use basic CAD software and just draw everything in real-world units. Draw the furniture to scale and you can quickly move/rotate/mirror to see how best to lay it out.

This may take a little effort, but why not just draw a box indicating the room dimensions, and use scaled cutouts of the furniture? All it takes is paper, pencil and a ruler. :)
 

agnitrate

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I too would be interested in such non-CAD software since those things usually have a pretty high learning curve.

-silver
 

Coquito

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Kind of different, but the last time I was rearranging stuff, was a couple years back, & I had the Sims already on my pc. I just built a room with the same angles, & downloaded furniture to best suit my needs. Of course you won't get actual measurements, but it worked just to get a general idea of where things should go.
 

Tiamat

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Originally posted by: agnitrate
I too would be interested in such non-CAD software since those things usually have a pretty high learning curve.

-silver

For the basic shapes and stuff, i believe you can get away with just a mouse in AutoCAD - ie, not many or any syntax.
 

KB

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Visio includes a furniture stencil (it might have to be downloaded) that includes images of couches, dryers, dishwashers.
 

Carnage4

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Originally posted by: Coquito
Kind of different, but the last time I was rearranging stuff, was a couple years back, & I had the Sims already on my pc. I just built a room with the same angles, & downloaded furniture to best suit my needs. Of course you won't get actual measurements, but it worked just to get a general idea of where things should go.


Moment I read the title, this is EXACTLY what I was gonna say! :)