Freeware for drawing a floor plan?

[boing]

Or something cheap. I need to make up a floor plan of my house, nothing fancy. At the very least, though, I need to set the scale of the X and Y rulers to match the dimensions on the drawing. Open Office Draw doesn't allow that function, or it would be suitable.

I've also tried the free trial of RapidSketch, but it has various UI and formatting issues, and the drawing can't be saved to a common file type for later use.

[emor]

Sketchup is a 3-D modeling program but you can very easily do a floor plan--keep your drawing in plan view and turn off perspective.
Free download:

http://sketchup.google.com/

[Thunderscreech]

Inkscape or Google Sketch-Up. Also, try DeltaCAD

[iamlowsound]

I was going to say sketchup.

lowsound

[boing]

Thanks. I'll check them out.

[iamlowsound]

I mess around in shetch up quite a bit. It isn't the greatest, but it will suit your needs. For 3D stuff, it has a really good layout for visulizing the three dimentions.

lowsound

[JamesArya]

you can take free help support by Floor Plan services.

[MIJ-VI]

Java-based, cross-platform, and multi-lingual:

Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D

Annnd... It's available in Ubuntu Software Center.