need to create a basic floor plan

[techidave]

I am looking to create a very basic floor plan of our school to use as a "map" of the rooms.  All I think that I need is something that will allow me to create a square, rectangle, and lines.  Also an eraser and to put in text.  I have tried Dia, Sketchup 8, but they are too complicated or too quirky for me,   Draft IT won't run on my W7 box.  an online solution would also work.  Something free would be nice.

any suggestions?

Dave

[mahesh2k]

Google sketchup?

[kilele]

I like this program but it is not free and don't have a perpendicular/parallel function
RoomArranger

[rgdot]

Not sure if this is also too complicated, I have used it and actually don't like it that much but ...
 
Sweet Home 3D
http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp

[techidave]

Sketch up 8 is google sketchup which is now called Trimble sketchup.  I will try the suggestions posted so far.

[techidave]

Looking for 2d

[flamerz]

http://www.smallblueprinter.com/

[Attronarch]

Looking for 2d

-techidave (December 01, 2012, 03:28 PM)

DraftSight - http://www.3ds.com/p...draftsight/overview/

It has everything you could possibly need.

[techidave]

I have also tried using Excel, floorplanner, and am currently on smart draw which isn't free but is about as close to what I want that I have found.  I also looked at tigercad but it had some quirks that I couldn't get past.

[rgdot]

FWIW Sweet Home is 2D, don't let the name fool you, but like I said I didn't find intuitive or all that good

[techidave]

Me neither rgdot.  And I am still looking. I think one of my schools has an old copy of solid works that I may see if I can find.  Figuring an older version might be simpler to use.

[techidave]

so this morning I went looking for a drawing tool and after several attempts I found this one.  Here, which wasn't really designed for how I am using it.  But it fits the needs perfectly and was quick and easy!   

and it only took me 10 minutes to do it!  Now that's what I am talking about.  I am attaching my project which is very basic and doesn't need dimensions or doors or anything like that.   

[techidave]

This project is still a work in progress as I have several more buildings to add.

[Edvard]

Hey, that's a pretty nifty Schematic app there.  I've used PCB123 for schematics before, but the output is weird when running through Wine on Linux. 
I'll give this one a try. 

[barney]

Dunno if of benefit, but Make Use Of recently mentioned a Website, FloorStyler, that might be worth a look.  And there's a list of eight (8 ) floor/house/deck designers in the You may also like - section toward the bottom of the Make Use Of page.

[dojibear]

Just came across this yesterday: Room Planner at http://urbanbarn.icovia.com/

[IainB]

@dojibear:
+1 from me for that.
icovia was the best I came across a while back. Only trouble for me was that it's in Imperial measures (feet/inches) - it doesn't seem to do metric units.   
I don't want to have to measure everything up again, but in feet/inches this time.

[flamerz]

http://es.homestyler.com/