available design tools

Greetings all.

Although I have creeped on permies for awhile I have only recently signed up. I completed a PDC through OSU last summer for the purpose of re-designing my property using permaculture principles. I have extensive experience in building & design & I grew up on a small plot where we grew much of the food we ate. I have been active in traditional gardening for most of my adult life, but that has all been ramped up since my PDC. I live in the sunny Okanagan of Canada about 2 hours from the US border.  

There was a thread I saw a couple of weeks ago that talked about simple graphics programs or tools that were useful specifically in designing a permaculture site. I think it was a series of 4 ish youtube videos taught by someone in the group. I have searched for it, but have had no success finding it. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Steve
Pixie Bay Permaculture

Welcome to Permies!

Welcome to the forum.

Was it The Permaculture Design Course and Appropriate Technology Course Video by Paul Wheaton:

https://permies.com/t/134180/Permaculture-Design-Technology-Video-Paul

Welcome to Permies!

Here is a discussion about using FreeCAD for permaculture design along with links to some tutorial videos:

https://permies.com/t/164936/CAD-Permaculture-Tech-Development

I use a combination of Draftsight (Proprietary AutoCAD clone) and QGIS (Open source ArcGIS clone). QGIS is free but not very beginner friendly. However, there are many tutorials and if you get the hang of it there's a lot of free data you can pull into your maps. For example, in Texas I can get 2 foot interval contours, property lines, water sheds and satellite imagery through the Texas Geographic Information Office. I did a a small project for a California property using data from a similar state office.

 

Thanks

It wasn t the course or related items. Must have been a link I clicked on. I thot I bookmarked it but apparently not.

Thanks for the replies.

Salud

S