Re: Room diagrams

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:01 -0500, Jim Clark wrote:
> My daughter is an event planner for a theater. She has to draw
> diagrams for events, showing where tables, chairs, lecterns, flowers,
> etc etc are to be placed. She asked me for a tool she could use, as up
> to now she has been using MS Paint (the only graphic tool on her PC.)
>
> I immediately thought of Dia, but after discussing with her, realized
> it's probably not the best tool. She needs to build templates showing
> the fixed features of 3 rooms (doorways, windows, a stage) and then
> easily place and rotate items inside those templates. On a Windows PC.

All fine except the rotation part, I'm afraid.  The templates can be
done with layers no problem.

> Open source would be best, but any suggestions appreciated.

Have you checked Kivio?  Same idea, different implementation. 

-Lars