On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:07:10 -0700, Electric Comet
wrote:

there is a program called librecad that made it easy for me to enter the
shop equipment footprints and to rearrange the layout

I use Sketchup for pretty much everything. I had to try to get across
some ideas for the mechanical package for a product I'm doing at work.
We didn't have an ME assigned to the project, yet, so I made the
drawings in Sketchup, just to get the idea across.

every time i try one of these programs the dreaded learning curve makes
me hesitant

Which is why I use Sketchup. I have better things to do than learn
yet another inconsistent software package.

but this program has a command line so it is super easy to create a block
for each piece of equipment and then use those blocks on the master
floor plan

rec
0,0
24,36


now you have a rectangle and can then add text with just a couple clicks
save it to library/shop directory and librecad will see it


i probably could have done things by using scaling rather than dimensions
but that will have to wait for next time