I’m just looking for a simple 2D floor planner that is easy to use and has the ability to show measurements.

The two most recommended open source tools I’ve seen have shortcomings.

Sweet Home 3D:

  • Very 3D centric, which over complicates things.
  • Project was recently acquired/handed off to a company and the iOS version is published by “AI Photo Editor Lab SRL”

draw.io / diagrams.net:

  • Very finicky to set up and create floor plans
  • To display measurements one has to add measurement objects to every wall/object

Does anyone have other recommendations?

    • @brrt@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      12 months ago

      Are you referring to the measurement objects I mentioned in the draw.io portion?

      It’s extra work that I find unnecessary if the walls already are set to the correct dimensions. I would like to be able to just turn on/off the visibility. And also not have to edit 2 objects for the same measurement if anything changes.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿
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        12 months ago

        I’m not sure how you expect a program to know the dimensions you want without assigning values. Its a core principle of parametric cad.

        • @bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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          12 months ago

          The issue is that you have an object with dimensions but you have to add an extra layer of dimensions, which is not linked to the actual dimensions