Lemmy, have you used free software to design your dream home? (lemmings.world)

submitted 10 months ago by cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is just for messing around to see in digital form the house that I dream of in my head. Is there a truly free one that does a decent job?

I've played with it in Sims 3 but I was wondering if there was something more realistic out there. Bonus if it's something where I could generate a noob file that a pro architect could use to base a real design on.

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[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I made a 3d model in Blender and showed it to an architect, with the huge caveat that I only work in vfx and games and have absolutely no idea how to build real things, so please just consider it a "napkin sketch". This model was just flat colors, I didn't bother with texture maps.

I also used QGIS to show him a map of the site, along with some LIDAR elevation data I downloaded from a government website. He just took elevation/plan images and did a great job translating it into a real set of drawings with some major improvements.

After that I took his drawings and did a 3d model in FreeCAD, to help determine where our existing furniture will fit before I broke my back moving it around.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I was going to suggest Blender as well but it will obviously be a huge undertaking if you don't know your way around 3d software already ...

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That's awesome. It seems like you did to the architect what architects normally do to engineers: design something cool and pass it off for someone else to do the math on how to make it work.

[-] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ooh, does that mean you had a house built?

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