Yes, it seem @Yorik is working with FC / Blender / Inkscape (?) etc., not sure what he use for the actual 'touching-up' for the presentation / construction drawings he had shown.Moult wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:05 am I am not aware of anybody who has achieved a full workflow from sketching to production using pure free software for any project that is of a significant size (i.e. an entire house, or larger). Even for a small house, fabricators use extremely proprietary CAM software for steel or wood. As for facility management, sensors, IoT, free software is underrepresented. That said, Yorik seems to be doing quite well, and I am also using free software for various aspects in the chain, and so are many others.
If you're looking for PDF annotation, tools like Okular or mupdf can do this ... for editing, Inkscape is the only one I'm aware of.
The most important tools from my experience in practice in a PDF viewer are:
- Creating labels - arrows pointing at things and text labeling things
- Drawing polylines and rectangles
- Taking scale measurements both lengths and areas, with the ability to calibrate
- To overlay / compare two PDF pages
Free software PDF viewers can do the first two, I haven't seen the third, and the fourth can be done using scripts or GIMP, but it isn't "one-click" friendly.
And do you output to pdf or other format like SVG for 2d drawings ?