I would like to create detailed plans of my house. Not only the floorplan, but also wall thickness, windows, doors, water and electricity lines, materials,... Best case would be both 2D plans and 3D views (maybe with highlighting for water, electricity etc).

Do you know of some open source software, that might be able to handle this task?

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[–] UNY0N@lemmy.wtf 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I can't put much time into this, but I speak German and I can assure you that this is at least a serious article about the options out there:

https://www.sculpteo.com/de/3d-lernzentrum/3d-druck-software/die-16-besten-cad-programme-fuer-den-architekturbereich/

Either translate the page, or just follow the links and inform yourself. I hope it helps.

Edit: here's another one about open-source CAD options (not necessarily for architecture). I just noticed that the other list isn't a list of open-source, so many of those are probably proprietary.

https://www.sculpteo.com/de/3d-lernzentrum/3d-druck-software/top-18-der-besten-open-source-cad-software/

[–] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the page, the only software which is labeled as open source, is Archicad.

Looking at their website and on wikipedia, it seems to be proprietary though.

I cannot see any other software on the page, which isn't proprietary.

As for FLOSS CAD, I use FreeCAD quite a lot. It has a BIM workbench, which I have used a bit and which seems very capable.

It can do all the things you are requesting.

FreeCAD can be a bit frustrating to work with, but it is an amazing piece of software, which has improved tremendously in the couple of years I have used it.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

Wow, didn't know that FreeCAD also has a wotkbench for buildings! Kinda feels like FreeCAD has a workbench for everything, just that nobody knows of them. Thanks, I will definitely look into that, as I already use FreeCAD for 3D printing