Again we are going to explain some differences between Libreoffice and Microsoft Office but this time showing a real example. We draw the plan of the same house first on Excel from Microsoft and then using Calc which is from Libreoffice. This are the main differences between doing the plan on Excel or Calc:
- The biggest difference between them is that on Excel you can turn the objects to make them face one side or anorther, but in Calc you can't do that, each object has to be facing the same side the whole time and you can not change that. As you can see in the second picture the bathtub and couch (in the second floor) have not the same position as in the first one because of what we have just explained.
- Also when we used excel we had to make just one door and then change its size or position deppending on the place we wanted it to be, but as you can see when we used Calc we couldn't do that, because doors were not as good and it takes a lot longer to do every single one of the doors in the plan each one with its own size and position.
- In the first one the difference between walls' and windows' lines is not too noticeable but in the second plan it's even more difficult to know where a window starts or a wall finishes.
- Another big difference is that when you draw for example a couch you need to put together to rectangles and then group them together so that you can move then as a couch and not as two separate rectangles, that is possible if you are dealing with Excel but not with Calc. This disadvantage causes precision mistakes when drawing objects which should be the same size and shape.
- Finally the last difference that we found was that Excel has some geometrical figures that Calc doesn't have and also the ones that it already has, as you can see in the circled bed on the second drawing.
In conclusion, for us it was easier to work on Excel because it has less disadvantages and then it looks better than using Calc, so for this kind of drawings we recomend Excel over Calc.
