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Piglet:
Can anyone help me find some free software where I can specify lengths between points to establish their position and draw up a complex plan?

I want to use the measurements to establish the points then join them up as needed - it's for a rather complex shaped house and garden plot.

I do have manual technical drawing skills, and can do this by hand using compasses and ruler on paper, but that takes time and I'd prefer to do this electronically.

As an example, with measurements:

A to B
A to C
A to D
B to C
B to D
B to E
D to E

With the starting assumption that A to B is West to East, and that the other points are to the North of them, you can work out the positions of the other points:






Every software I can find uses length along a bearing....and I don't have a theoldolite to hand or the skills to use one!

Miauz55555:
I actually don't understand 100% what you want.

You may want something like "Creo Elements", "FreeCad"? For that you would need to draw some helping circles first and force the respecting line on both. When your point is on a plateau, you would have to calculate the shadowed lenght first and than work with layers to make it 3D.

Killer_XTREME!!!:

--- Quote from: Piglet on March 15, 2021, 11:21 ---Can anyone help me find some free software where I can specify lengths between points to establish their position and draw up a complex plan?

I want to use the measurements to establish the points then join them up as needed - it's for a rather complex shaped house and garden plot.

I do have manual technical drawing skills, and can do this by hand using compasses and ruler on paper, but that takes time and I'd prefer to do this electronically.

As an example, with measurements:

A to B
A to C
A to D
B to C
B to D
B to E
D to E

With the starting assumption that A to B is West to East, and that the other points are to the North of them, you can work out the positions of the other points:






Every software I can find uses length along a bearing....and I don't have a theoldolite to hand or the skills to use one!

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Try AutoCAD, its what civil engineers use for their detailed house line plans, i think they also have 3d ones

holyspam:

--- Quote from: Killer_XTREME!!! on March 15, 2021, 16:24 ---
--- Quote from: Piglet on March 15, 2021, 11:21 ---Can anyone help me find some free software where I can specify lengths between points to establish their position and draw up a complex plan?

I want to use the measurements to establish the points then join them up as needed - it's for a rather complex shaped house and garden plot.

I do have manual technical drawing skills, and can do this by hand using compasses and ruler on paper, but that takes time and I'd prefer to do this electronically.

As an example, with measurements:

A to B
A to C
A to D
B to C
B to D
B to E
D to E

With the starting assumption that A to B is West to East, and that the other points are to the North of them, you can work out the positions of the other points:






Every software I can find uses length along a bearing....and I don't have a theoldolite to hand or the skills to use one!

--- End quote ---

Try AutoCAD, its what civil engineers use for their detailed house line plans, i think they also have 3d ones

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I agree, you can design almost anything in 3D like gears,screws etc..
The "offset [distance x,y,z]" command will help you a lot
Civil engineers use it for city planning, trees, sidewalks, roads, bridges...you name it

zeus:
I BELIEVE THESE LINKS MAY BE APPLICABLE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-range_multilateration - what you want to achieve

http://lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1460791/FULLTEXT01.pdf - random bachelor thesis comparing the methods

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