Simple "technical" drawing tool

[Pareidol]

Hi there,
hope this is the right forum. I'm searching a simple drawing tool, maybe you can help.

Use-cases:
Sometimes I need to make a sketch e.g. If I want to put on some pictures on a wall, allign furniture in a room, do some woodwork, e.g.
I want to create the sketch on my windows machine, in real size on a infinite canvas.
Need simple geometric shapes, helping lines, and measuring arrows for print out.

Sometimes I use powerpoint for that (really good for doing stuff that is maybe up to a meter in real life), but not infinite canvas and no measuring tool or arrows
The tool sPlan is also quite good, but it's not for real size and you always have to scale it in your mind.
Also tried LibreCAD, but it's too complicated for non power users.

[oblivion]

I think you can still get a free copy of Serif's DrawPlus X8. It's not supported anymore (they put all their efforts into the Affinity products and chose not to provide a straightforward upgrade path) but I still use it for odd stuff and it's OK.

Inkscape's quite well thought of too, although I never got far up the learning curve before giving up!

...after a little research, DrawPlus X8 looks like you can only really find it at various non-Serif sites, but archive.org have it.

There's a universal license at

https://support.serif.com/hc/en-us/articles/10259070288015-Do-you-still-support-the-Serif-Plus-range-software

[Pareidol]

Thanks for that, I assume that is the predecessor of Affinity Designer. I'm using Affinity Designer on a regular basis, so I assume, there is ne real advantage.
And it does not fit my needs "infinite whiteboard" and "measuring tool / arrow tool".

But I think It might be interesting for someone else, especially whith your links 

[Shades]

Many years ago (2003) there was a very simple drawing tool called 'eve' and 'eve-web'. Very tiny, less than 400 KByte for both of these applications. And yet, you could draw with it, had some tools for making default pointers/shapes, canvas didn't seem limited and was free.

You can download/create libraries of shapes you like to use, which then can be loaded into a new project.

eve was free, eve-web wasn't way back then. But with one of the links I see that eve-web is also available for free.

Thought the links to it were gone, but I still found one that explain much better what it does:
https://bkhome.org/a...see/evewe/index.html

My browser (and computer) is not capable of showing the graphics on these pages. Won't be polluting any of the computers in my care to be polluted with any software coming from Adobe, unless I absolutely have to.
But in case your computer does have Adobe Acrobat or any of the other tools of the Adobe suite installed, you should see all the example drawings from the description and manual.

Here is the manual:
https://bkhome.org/a...nual/evewemanual.htm

Not sure if it will cover all your needs, but at less than 400k you can sure try. HTML pages are way bigger nowadays than that.

The download link for version 3.56 of Eve works from that page, or directly from
http://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/eve.zip

and download for EveWE is at
http://bkhome.org/ar...vewe/users/evewe.zip

[skwire]

SketchUp?  https://www.sketchup.com/