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From: rogerc@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Roger Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Can I draw house plans with PC?
Message-ID: <3251@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 88 15:43:25 GMT
Reply-To: rogerc@ncrcae.UUCP (Roger Collins)
Organization: NCR - E & M Columbia
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I bought a clone over a year ago with the following:

	Herculese-compatible monochrome graphics card,
	High-res amber monitor,
	640K, 20MB hard disk, 2 floppies, RS-232, 4.77-8 MHz

I would like to be able to draw some house plans on the PC and be
able to output them to different devices, at least a popular dot matrix 
printer with graphics mode and a popular plotter (whatever I can find).

Like anyone, I would like for the software to be free, but I might pay if
I have to.  I envision buying a mouse and dot matrix printer, using a
high-power public-domain drawing package to draw detail plans, with ease
of editing, zooming, text-writing, scrolling, etc. on my herculese card and
monochrome monitor and printing the plans on the dot matrix printer until 
I feel they're ready, then taking them to where I can borrow a plotter
(maybe a draftsman instead), printing big copies, and then build.

Is my vision possible?  Or am I much better off just using traditional 
drawing tools.  (I've had Engineering Drawing in school, but I've also 
tried to balance my checkbook with a computer if you know what I mean.)  
Any comments, suggestions or criticisms will be appreciated.  Please 
respond by mail (I will summarize if necessary).

Thanks,
Roger Collins
rogerc@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM