FIRE CAD

[drewabs]

HI guys n gals,

 

Does anyone have or know of any cad program for fire plans / layouts.

 

thanks

 

andy

 

 

[Jim Randle]

Hi Andy, I use Turbocad. Jim

[james.wilson]

I use visio I think a while ago some uploaded their stencil sets

[dufjax]

Turbocad

 

Autocad..... If you've got money to waste

 

SEE used to do a free electrical version which I'm sure included Fire icons but I've been told they no longer do the free version.

 

Photoshop.... Sounds silly but sometimes it works better than other solutions

Edited July 20, 2016 by dufjax
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[ee8mjb]

Visio brilliant for "drag and drop" functionality, but I now use Serif DrawPlus for just about everything, including plans.  

 

It reads and writes PDF's which is a real bonus - I either ask for plans in pdf, or use Autodesk or similar (free viewer) to convert cad files to pdf, import into DrawPlus, drop my symbols on top, colour in a set for the zone plan, and output everything as PDF again.

 

Believe it or not my colleague uses Word for plans and swears by it - before you laugh, MS have nicked a lot of Visio functionality and hidden it in Word (2013 onwards) - once you add symbols to the library, turn on the grid and "drawing canvas", it isn;t actually too bad as a basic drawing program.  The big advantage is that almost everyone has it already.

 

Matt