Perhaps better planning can be achieved by involving everyone.

Everyone means anyone.
Everyone means lots of people.

This is in lieu of planning being done by a few people.

Planning is done by a few people because it involves special methods.


The core method of planning is rendering.
Rendering translates, transfers, or transmits information from one medium to another.

As it regards rendering, the special methods used by planners are procedures.
Today, we are using computers to perform these procedures.
Traditionally, the way to master rendering procedures involved extended rigorous training.
Today it may be possible for people without that training to use the procedures.

It is not that the procedures are so difficult to understand. Rather, they are somewhat intricate, and performing them efficiently enough to do extensive manual rendering is what is hard.

CAD software packages rendering procedures into relatively accessible instructions.
For whatever reasons, the quest for a high level of utility in CAD has been interpreted as requiring great intricacy in the software. This highly capable software is then sold at considerable cost, making it inaccessible to my target audience, everyone.
Some simpler CAD products are offered at modest prices (i.e., free of charge).
My research, however, shows that they are not easy to understand. This makes them, in turn, inaccessible to my audience, and unsuitable to my purpose.

I hypothesize that simple CAD is hard to understand and limited in power for one simple reason: it fails to clearly separate information about what is to be rendered from the rendering tools. Advanced CAD products do treat the underlying data separately, preserving it, to ensure full utility. Whether they are easy to understand is not my concern, here.

My goal is to build an easy to understand CAD by treating the underlying data separately.