![]() A slashed line may not look fancy, but it does not need to be, I know it is a gate. Excel really helps me find the critical information I need to build something. ![]() In my case I use my own lumber so all these numbers crunch down into the yellow highlighted numbers: to build this barn I need 276 logs 12 feet long, and 12 logs 14 feet long. ![]() I like that! The third photo shows those drawings worked up into material lists. Then I can change spreadsheet pages and work up the numbers on what it would cost to build. The second photo is the same Excel spreadsheet zoomed in. I can scroll right down and look at the smallest 4 x 6 foot sheep pen, or way out like this and get a few acres into view. This is a quick overview of my proposed sheep barn, the different colors representing phases of build, manure storage etc. But a quick drawing to post on Permies or for my own quick reference.I use Excel. It is very limited, but I use paid for programs for drawing buildings, blueprints and houses. To this old duffer it looks like the old 1/4 inch graph paper that we used to have and so I can draw scale drawings with that. If you set the column widths to 3 and leave the rows at 18 it looks like 1/4 inch squares.
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