Conceptual and detail design software
I'm at blank sheet stage. I need to conceptualise a design, I need to be able to present the concepts, I need to subsequently detail the design and then create planning drawings, detail drawings and BOM from the design.
First question: Can one bit of software do all these jobs, or is it best to split the tasks?
Second question: which software?
This is all generic, it will apply to any project. In my case, a few specifics:
I've looked at SketchUp
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I found that 99.99% of the professionals only wanted 2D drawings, and also that there was a general distrust of nicely rendered 3D drawings. To overcome the problem of some people not being able to visualise thing from 2D, I made scale models, one large one covering the entire site, that showed our proposed house in the landscape setting:
And also a sequence of different, larger scale, models that I made for my wife, who struggled to visualise spaces from a set of 2 D dr