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Ian Norton (he/him)
idnorton@tech.lgbt
Does anybody have recommendations for free or opensource software to diagram plumbing?
Yes, I could and have done it in dia or maybe Inkscape, but there must be a nicer tool?
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Ian Norton (he/him)
idnorton@tech.lgbtWould be lovey if it could also generate a bill of materials at the end too :)
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@idnorton of all i've tried i've ended up using LibreOffice Draw. Also, it is the only app that i use from LibreOffice. Why? I get the shit done.
i still want something that i can run in my own computer, not a subscription. and after trying "programming approach" like mermaid, it kind of disabled me being fuzzy and drawing random stuff. i write my diagrams as code when i actually implement them in a real programming language :-)
i've never thought that "oh i love libreoffice draw so much" but it is more like exclusion based choice.
i still want something that i can run in my own computer, not a subscription. and after trying "programming approach" like mermaid, it kind of disabled me being fuzzy and drawing random stuff. i write my diagrams as code when i actually implement them in a real programming language :-)
i've never thought that "oh i love libreoffice draw so much" but it is more like exclusion based choice.
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Yann Büchau 
nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
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@nobodyinperson @idnorton I've excluded subscription based tools since that does not work for me.
One that comes to mind is SmartDraw which used to be great and a boxed software product when I last used it back in 2005 :-) If it was like that today, I could even have bought it. There's also bunch of web tools like that.
LibreOffice Draw is not so I've used that (or even better it is open source). Not sure what is your argument here?
One that comes to mind is SmartDraw which used to be great and a boxed software product when I last used it back in 2005 :-) If it was like that today, I could even have bought it. There's also bunch of web tools like that.
LibreOffice Draw is not so I've used that (or even better it is open source). Not sure what is your argument here?
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Ian Norton (he/him)
idnorton@tech.lgbt@jarkko My preferred CAD is OpenSCAD so I get you :)
I really don't get on with the graphical stuff sadly :/
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Ian Norton (he/him)
idnorton@tech.lgbt@jarkko That's a valid approach, not sure it will general bill of materials in the way I want but that was a supplementary requirement not initially specified ;)
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