Sweet Home 3D 2.1
that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.
Sweet Home 3D is available in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German,
Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Russian,
and may be run on Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 / 10.5, Linux and Solaris.
This program is aimed at people who want to design their interior quickly, whether they are moving or they just want to redesign their existing home. Numerous visual guides help you draw the plan of your home and layout furniture. You may draw the walls of your rooms upon the image of an existing plan, and then, drag and drop furniture onto the plan from a catalog organized by categories. Each change in the 2D plan is simultaneously updated in the 3D view, to show you a realistic rendering of your layout.
Type : Freeware
OS Support : Windows 2000/NT,Windows XP/2003,Windows 2008/Vista,MAC OS,Linux,UNIX
Date stamp / Size : Dec, 30. 2008 / 25050 kBytes
Asked : unassigned
Update history of Sweet Home 3D
v2.1 (October, 1. 2009)
- Added Plan > Lock base plan menu item and its matching button in plan to select and arrange furniture more easily.
- Added Plan > Hide background image menu item to hide/display the background image without deleting it.
- Added Plan > Export to SVG format... menu item to export the home plan in a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file thanks to FreeHEP library.
- Added File > Save and compress menu item to save the current home in a smaller SH3D file and ease file transfer.
- Developed a 3D viewer applet to let users show their SH3D files on their web wite.
- Improved the 3D view to get smoother point of view changes, depending on the available power of user's computer.
- Fixed a bug that prevented to search in help files written with a non-western encoding.
- Updated iText to version 2.1.5.
- Added Greek localization written by Elli Nicolaou.
- Added Chinese (Simplified) localization of the user interface written by Zhao Si-cong.
- Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.
v2.0 (June, 11. 2009)
Added 3D View > Create photo... menu item to create PNG images of the current 3D view with the ability to choose their size and their rendering quality; photo-realistic rendering performed by SunFlow library. Enabled the user to enter walls and rooms size with the keyboard once he presses the Enter key. Added the ability to create the walls around a room by double-cliking in that room. Added new preferences for the rendering of the plan to view furniture from its top, fill the floor of the rooms with their color or their texture, and change the pattern of walls. Added the units Meter and Millimeter. Fixed a bug that prevented to compute correctly the location of doors and windows and that made the plan view blank. Fixed a bug that didn't update the 3D view after some camera moves on computers with low capabilities. Updated the JNLP file of Sweet Home 3D to require Java 3D 64 bits on 64 bits architecture. Replaced JRE 6u12 by JRE 6u14 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java. Added Chinese (Simplified) localization of help pages written by Zhao Si-cong. Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.
v1.8 (April, 9. 2009)
Added Plan > Lock base plan menu item and its matching button in plan to select and arrange furniture more easily. Added Plan > Hide background image menu item to hide/display the background image without deleting it. Added Plan > Export to SVG format... menu item to export the home plan in a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file thanks to FreeHEP library. Added File > Save and compress menu item to save the current home in a smaller SH3D file and ease file transfer. Developed a 3D viewer applet to let users show their SH3D files on their web wite. Improved the 3D view to get smoother point of view changes, depending on the available power of user's computer. Fixed a bug that prevented to search in help files written with a non-western encoding. Updated iText to version 2.1.5. Added Greek localization written by Elli Nicolaou. Added Chinese (Simplified) localization of the user interface written by Zhao Si-cong. Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.
v1.7 (March, 19. 2009)
Automatic adjustment of the thickness and the orientation of a door or a window dropped upon a wall. Automatic adjustment of the location and the orientation of a piece of furniture dropped along a wall. Automatic elevation of an piece of furniture dropped on an other one. Drawn the sashes of doors and windows with an arc of a circle (this feature is only available for doors and windows of the catalog provided from version 1.7 and for furniture libraries from version 1.0.3). Drawn the front face of the selected furniture with a thicker line in the plan. Drawn the bounding rectangle of a piece dragged in the plan, during its initial drag and drop. Managed the drag and drop cursor with the icon of the added piece of furniture under Mac OS X. Automatic move of pasted objects only when they can't be distinguished from current selection in plan. Fixed a bug that wrongly changed the default wall height and wall thickness in preferences pane when the user changed the unit. Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.
v1.6 (February, 19. 2009)
Modified popup menus to display only enabled items. Added support of the importation of 3D models that need other files like texture images, even if these files aren't included in a ZIP file. Modified the reader of OBJ + MTL files ; caution, this change may have some side-effects on your existing homes, because the transparency factor of 3D objects read from OBJ files wasn't always correctly managed until now. Added support for the import with a double-click of SH3P files containing a Sweet Home 3D plug-in. Improved the stability of the on-line version of Sweet Home 3D. Fixed a bug that displayed incorrectly the print scale previously chosen by the user. Fixed a bug that prevented to display the tooltip of a piece of furniture of the catalog in the English version. Replaced JRE 6u11 by JRE 6u12 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java. Added Italian localization of help pages written by Simone Bufalino and re-read by Rosella Mariotti.
v1.5.1 (December, 29. 2008)
Corrected a bug that prevented to display some dialog boxes in Spanish and Brazilian Potuguese version of Sweet Home 3D under Windows and Linux. Reorganized localized files to simplify localization process.
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