Advice Furniture design program?

[Access Denied]

Can anyone recommend a free/cheap program I can use to design furnitre? I need a new bed and I'm looking at £300+ just for the base, which is bullshit. I figure I can build one for a fraction of the price but I need to design it first.

Cheers.

 

[caLLous]

SketchUp would be my suggestion for free. I've used Autodesk Inventor to design computer chassis before but ahem, it ain't free (or cheap).

 

[Moriath]

My dad made all our bed frames at home when we grew up. Pine wooden frames. They still going now.

 

[fettoken]

I'd ask a friend who's a furniture maker, though, he lives in a shit little town and probably uses Autocad in combination with a stone knife for carving down tree-chunks.

 

[Access Denied]

Had a look at Sketchup. Can't use it at all, there's no indication of scale, no measurements and no tutorial I can find.