Simple architecture design program

Question

I'm looking for a very simple architecture design program. If it were open source, that would be awesome! I just want to create a kind of map of rooms, and add only borders of furniture items.

Answer 1

I have made basic architectural drawings (for work) using CAD software such as Free CAD

You can certainly draw floor plans and so on in this type of software, but it takes a bit of practice to use fluently - I don't know if it's the simplest. But it is great for scaling and drawing with measurements.

You can get Free CAD from Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install freecad

It's open source and you can contribute to development - here's the GitHub page

Answer 2

There's also Sweethome 3D. It's more of an interior decorators type of package, with all sorts of bells and whistles, but seems fairly intuitive in terms of user interface. You can probably leave diagrams at a more basic level.

It's available in the universe section of the Ubuntu repositories, so is likely to be available through software centre, or can be installed with the terminal command:

sudo apt-get install sweethome3d