[Shop-talk] garage design, part 2

[Mark Andy]

Howdy,

Ok, so per my previous messages, I started with this plan:

http://justgarageplans.com/63/plan-detail/2303.php

Various $$/sq. foot estimates later, I decide that $40/ft^2 is probably 
what I should use for the shell construction.  A little math gets me $70k, 
using 40x44.

That's too much.

So my next thought is to build it in stages... That design really seems to 
be a 26x33 building married to a 17x39 building, so my thinking is to 
build the "regular height" garage first, use it for my immediate needs, 
and expand it later when I get around to actually buying a lift...

So now what I'm looking for is an inexpensive way to generate some 
drawings & a bill of materials for a 32' wide, 30' long stick built 
garage.  I want to do things like have 2x6 walls, locate windows where I 
want them, have overhead storage, etc.  But the resulting building really 
would be quite basic.

Is there any building designer software that would let me dictate basic 
things like this and would then generate drawings / list of materials?  In 
an ideal world it would even let me do stuff like calculate header sizes 
for openings, etc.

Thanks for any pointers!

Mark