I was recently requested by my sister to look at what can be done to her house she bought in Kangar. She needed to show her contractor what to do in oder for her to make the house habitable for her and her husband.

Mmm. What can I say? I no longer have my Microstation which students and I used to share on our Microstation Saturdays in the late 1990s. That's another long HBP CAD Story. I don't even have the Mini-CAD which I used to redesign Mount Miriam Hospital with.

I installed a BJ 3DHome Architect which, after its first use, was not very useful for my sister and her husband. So I had to resort to doing it MANUALLY.

But my drawing table is dusty, my scale rules (architectural, engineering, surveyor's) all taped up in a container and my set squares are in one of the many boxes in my room. I don't even have my black sketch book.

I went thru Microsoft Office to find Visio, tried it out, even tried shifting my sister's furniture into the Ground and First Floors. Plan drawing, that was that. My sister still has to show it to her contractor.

She finally did. All I supplied her with were the images on this page (done with Power Point!).

NB:

A student who saw me doing this introduced me to Sketch-Up. I'm working on it now.