Honest to Goodness wrote: > > I am renovating the house in the fall and need to work out some designs > using a 3d modeler. I run Mandrake 8.1 and would like to find a free > program that I can get up and running without a steep learning curve. > Brl-cad looks interesting but I can't find any screenshots. Blender is > overpowered for my use and tends to disappear as soon as I do anything > worthwhile. I installed kpovmodeler but it has little documentation and > doesn't seem to have sweep and extrude which I would use a lot for > planning the framing. > > So, anyone got any recommendations for an easy to learn, reliable and > well featured 3d modeler for architectural designs? > > Thanks for any help! I am not aware of free packages for architectural design under linux. However, I think that kpovmodeler and Blender are not well suited for architectural design, unless very simple ones, being more geared towards animation (blender) or raytracing (kpov). Am I correct? For architecture there are a couple of commercial offerings from Germany. Regards Maurizio -- Galileo Engineering Via Zacchetti 6 I-42100 Reggio Emilia Ph/Fax +390522920496 http://www.slot.it Slot.it is a trademark of Galileo Engineering