tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796029456208178476.post2794142636194325590..comments2023-08-20T02:23:33.962-07:00Comments on Shaker Heights <strike>Restoration</strike>: Drawing up floorplans and mechanical diagrams?Christopher Busta-Peckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428701548572867797noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796029456208178476.post-48214596998158231742009-02-25T06:48:00.000-08:002009-02-25T06:48:00.000-08:00Labeled fuse boxes? What fun is that?Labeled fuse boxes? What fun is that?Christopher Busta-Peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428701548572867797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796029456208178476.post-49431437156905624972009-02-25T05:48:00.000-08:002009-02-25T05:48:00.000-08:00Print on archival paper. You don't want to dig it...Print on archival paper. You don't want to dig it out five years from now and find it's faded ito unreadability.<BR/><BR/>I think all houses should come with electrical diagrams (and at least labeled fuse boxes, wt..).Karen Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306986336556283751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796029456208178476.post-89880597461414957362009-02-20T13:17:00.000-08:002009-02-20T13:17:00.000-08:00Sketchup will work well for that? As a fellow Mac ...Sketchup will work well for that? As a fellow Mac user, that's good to hear. I'd taken a brief look at it, and it just didn't seem to do quite enough. I'll have to actually try it out.Christopher Busta-Peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428701548572867797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796029456208178476.post-89188581941867541962009-02-20T12:20:00.000-08:002009-02-20T12:20:00.000-08:00Here's how I do ours: diagram it on paper (I u...Here's how I do ours: diagram it on paper (I us graph in a notebook), and then transfer into a software program that gives you a better way to show three dimensions, which is sometimes important (ceiling heights, depth and contents of walls, etc.) Sketchup actually works pretty well for this and has the very big plus of being free (and, for me, Mac-compatible). Where we live, our planning & building department will take good Sketchup or Illustrator diagrams of changes that require permits, so being able to just print this off and submit it for things we're doing ourselves is another plus. So far I've kept all the hard copies and the hand-drawn versions too just to be sure I've measured and annotated things properly, though.artemishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18296976588799962970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796029456208178476.post-7115734060386902122009-02-20T10:04:00.000-08:002009-02-20T10:04:00.000-08:00Create it with software and then print it out when...Create it with software and then print it out when done for archives. It will be much easier with software, and extremely precise. And then making changes in the future (pending the software being around still) will much significantly easierShanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02064792628149471671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796029456208178476.post-22542062951379604222009-02-20T09:44:00.000-08:002009-02-20T09:44:00.000-08:00I think paper's the way to go. You'd hate to go t...I think paper's the way to go. You'd hate to go to all the work to create it, only to have it be on the 2031 version of a ZIP disk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com