Cat tower

[Anonymous No.1841932]

I want a good sized cat tower but i dont want to spend absurd amounts of money for a poorly built prefab one, instead i want to make my own poorly built one but for cheaper and to my specifications.

Is there any free or dirt cheap 3d modeling software that i could model it in and it'll give me a printout of the wood i need cut?

[Anonymous No.1841933]

>>1841932
Sketchup could work for you.

[Anonymous No.1841953]

>>1841932
I put a shelf on top of my bookcase, and that basically is my cat tower.

[Anonymous No.1841959]

Dont be a faggot, its a cat tree.
Just build it.

Dont use a 3d cad software to plan your castle.
Dont use cad to get cut lists to give the real man to cut for you because your a bitch who cant be trusted with a saw.
Get a fucking saw, google some design you like, and make your fucking cat tree. Regain your fucking masculinity (or if your a femanon, thats cool too).
Dont come back in 2 days, asking how to use sketchup, either. Just build your stupid cat tree and get on with your life.

[Anonymous No.1841962]

>>1841959
Impulsive badly planned projects are for women who end up buying triple the amount of wood they need.
You don't need CAD but plan your shit out and do the math.

[Anonymous No.1841964]

>>1841962
5 minutes with google, then maybe 5 minutes with a pencil and paper, and a tape measure to give yourself an idea of what 3' x 3' looks like in person, should suffice.

You are worried about material costs, on a project that should be done with cutoffs anyways...

[Anonymous No.1841977]

I recommend MS Paint for sure complicated designs.

[Anonymous No.1841985]

>>1841932
Responses so far are spot on.

We have pic related. Want me to measure it for you?

[Anonymous No.1842320]

>>1841959
just build it lol wtf the fuck is planning and measuring

[Anonymous No.1842400]

>>1841932
Better off building catwalks along to top of your walls, near the ceiling. Make step-shelves leading up to them in places, as well as cat-hammocks and climbing curtains.

Cat step-shelves on the sides of your bookshelves and fridge are cool too.

[Anonymous No.1842402]

>>1842400
*along the top

[Anonymous No.1842404]

>>1842400
you haven't lived until a cat ambushes you from nowhere.

[Anonymous No.1842532]

>>1841932
>Is there any free or dirt cheap 3d modeling software that i could model it in and it'll give me a printout of the wood i need cut?
yes you dumb sonofabitch. It's called your brain, paper and pencil. you can model anything.

[Anonymous No.1842533]

>>1841962
>Impulsive badly planned projects are for women who end up buying triple the amount of wood they need.
>You don't need CAD but plan your shit out and do the math.
said the anal retentive carpenter.

[Anonymous No.1842578]

Just fucking go for it insecure-fag.

[Anonymous No.1842738]

>>1841932
I did this when I was 13 or so with some scrap wood that was lying around, cheap carpet, and those cardboard tubes they use to pour concrete into. I'd suggest something uncomplicated, because in the end my cats only really stayed in the top parts. An open half-tube is good for a lazy cat, while a playful cat might like an upright tube-hut with a hole in the side for an entrance. If in doubt, you could always just go with a flat plank with a four or five inch high section of tube on top(carpeted, of course) for then to curl up inside.

[Anonymous No.1842826]

Just go out to the woods and cut a tree down, drag it home and then nail it to the fucking floor, it's not that complicated.

[Anonymous No.1842879]

>>1841932
You don't need 3d modeling software to build a cat house. You really really don't. That's a massive time sink. If you want to do this cheaply, get some old pallets, pull them apart and start building. If you feel that you need plans just look some up online.
I think you're taking all the fun out of this by planning every single detail out, but that's just me. If you're buying materials and you overbuy, you can just return unused stuff.

[Anonymous No.1842927]

You can use Fusion if you enjoy input lag or Inventor if you don't, but neither will give you printouts directly. Both take some time to learn, probably enough time to build the whole cat tower, so it's kind of a wasted effort. They're good for planning out complex objects where you have to consider movement ranges and layouts of prefabbed parts, hell I even use Inventor as a substitute for calculating angle displacement sometimes, but if you're literally just hacking a bunch of planes and tubes together without any care for precision and it's all in right angles, it's a huge fucking waste of time.

[Anonymous No.1843178]

remember the average cat is like 2' long but can jump like 8'
base your measures on that and then let fly

[Anonymous No.1843446]

I've actually had the same idea OP. You mind keeping us updated as you progress?

[Anonymous No.1844511]

>>1843178
>remember the average cat is like 2' long

who the fuck knows the average length of cats?

[Anonymous No.1844521]

>>1844511
longcat is long lol

[Anonymous No.1844525]

Nice blogpost

[Anonymous No.1844526]

>>1844511
me