Can I draw Floor Plans with Excel or Power Point ?

[Bud]

I would like to draw simple floor plans for residential construction. Can I
use Excel or Power Point to do this instead of buying a cad program ?

 

[Chad J.]

Visio 2007 would be best to use for creating floor plans.

 

[mike]

It might be possible but it sure wouldn't be fun or easy. I've seen a few
free simple CAD programs on the net, that don't have much functionality but
would certainly be better than Excel. I can't recall any names right now but
you may want do some searching.

 

[mike]

I'll second Chad's notion, out of the MS programs Visio would be best, and
reasonably well suited.

 

[FSt1]

hi
if can be done. i have a floor plan to my house in 2003 plus in the past i
have used excel to make "maps" of warehouses. but...(key point)... it can't
be done 100% to scale. you would have to do some rounding off of some
dementions. meaning that other applications might be better suited IF you
need to be exact in scale.

Regards
FSt1

 

[Gord Dibben]

FSt1

You could get exact if you wanted to use Ole Erlandson's macros for sizing cells
in mm.

http://www.erlandsendata.no/english/index.php?d=envbawssetrowcol


Gord