Yani in building mode... he *** at drawing and as accuracy goes he needs a computer. A pencil snapper that can't draw a straight line. Lucky for the tools, like a laser level.
A router "look at those oh so cute joins"
So I did a month of homework and found a few things that are interesting and curious.
https://www.mozaiksoftware.com/
Every wonder how these kitchen companies do the software? Do they draw it up on Autocad from home grown templates?
NUP the whole thing is a package from shop front to shop back.
"Exports to Paperless Shop" It is a parts list but I suspect it includes billing components.
https://kcdsoftware.com/doors-plus/
If doors and drawers are your company’s specialty, KCD Software’s Doors Plus is a stand-alone, template design software to communicate with your nested based CNC router.
Hundreds of templates are included in the software like doors, drawer fronts and dovetail drawer boxes. It’s also easy to create your own one-of-a-kind custom templates. Parametric tool paths can be assigned for your multiple tool operations. Create your own custom libraries for doors, drawers, wine racks, fluted pilasters, valances and more for traditional and CNC manufacturing.
Doors Plus includes over 300 ready-to-use custom component templates. The order-entry system makes it easy to enter your custom items and modify details on the fly. Doors Plus gives you more custom product capacity, flexibility and efficiency than ever before.
What's interesting is the narrow vertical market and the end to end nature of the software.
There are versions of limited Sketchup for less money but the full versions are $699 for a few seats. I have a few clients that have moved all their conceptual drawing there. The one has 10 seats the other 15, I'll have to ask what the enterprise rates are.
Believe me you don't want the limited versions you get screwed on features like limited versions of everything else.
I double checked first all prices are subscription per year no other offer, $129, $299 and $699 Sketchup is salty.
These faces and lines that drop off everywhere... it was a format designed to run on a 286 computer. It would be interesting to have a program that worked in 'vectors', not silly lines.
We forget how spoiled we are by software that has had 30 years of development.
It's a bit rough, no hints to quick keys in tool menus, Some times very difficult to get an object to sit on another in 3D space. Things break from interactions and need careful grouping and component construction...
Still I manage this by staying up all night.
I think I started from a blank sheet 7 times.
Rhino might be a possibility if conceptual is a requirement, https://www.rhino3d.com/ it's $995 + $495 for the additional plugin.
Good stuff.