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Sweet Home 3D 6.0

Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Sweet Home 3D 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.

Sweet Home 3D features:

  • Draw straight, round or sloping walls with precise dimensions using the mouse or the keyboard.
  • Insert doors and windows in walls by dragging them in the plan, and let Sweet Home 3D compute their holes in walls.
  • Add furniture to the plan from a searchable and extensible catalog organized by categories such as kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom...
  • Change color, texture, size, thickness, location and orientation of furniture, walls, floors and ceilings.
  • While designing the home in 2D, simultaneously view it in 3D from an aerial point of view, or navigate into it from a virtual visitor point of view.
  • Annotate the plan with room areas, dimension lines, texts and show the North direction with a compass rose.
  • Create photorealistic images and videos with the ability to customize lights and control sunlight effect according to the time of day and geographic location.
  • Import home blueprint to draw walls upon it, 3D models to complete default catalog, and textures to customize surfaces.
  • Print and export PDFs, bitmap or vector graphics images, videos and 3D files in standard file formats.
  • Extend the features of Sweet Home 3D with plug-ins programmed in Java, or by developing a derived version based on its Model View Controller architecture.
  • Choose the language displayed in the user interface of Sweet Home 3D and its rich help from 18 languages.

Sweet Home 3D 6.0 changelog:

  • Added the ability to rotate and slide openings and light spots.
  • Added a mannequin which can be articulated.
  • Replaced the 24 3D models contributed under LAL license in the default catalog by new models under GNU GPL / CC-BY license.
  • Updated rotating and sliding parts in the 3D model of doors, windows and furniture to support new rotation and translation capabilities.
  • Added price management with currency choice and optional sales tax in preferences pane, new Price and Sales tax % fields in furniture modification pane, total prices displayed below the home furniture list and new columns to display price information in this list.
  • Added the ability to calculate math expression in numeric fields.
  • Added Plan > Flip horizontally and Plan > Flip vertically menu items.
  • Added support for multi line and text alignment in text modification pane.
  • Added X offset and Y offset spinner in texture modification pane to shift textures.
  • Enabled multi selection of materials in materials modification pane to change them by group.
  • Added Dash offset spinner in polyline modification pane to shift the pattern of dashed polylines.
  • Allowed polylines to be displayed in the 3D view.
  • Added an option in 3D view modification pane to view background image in 3D view at ground level.
  • Added Plan > Make level the only viewable one and Plan > Make all levels viewable menu items.
  • Displayed level menu items in a separate contextual menu bound to level tabs.
  • Managed Ctrl modifier (alt or option under macOS) to resize the selected piece of furniture only along its width or its depth.
  • Added a new indicator in the middle of the selected wall to easily change its curve.
  • Displayed wall arc length in the tool tip associated to Arc extent field in wall modification pane.
  • Allowed sloping walls to have a minimum height equal to 0 on one end.
  • Added 2.40:1 image ratio and updated video formats.
  • Saved column widths of the furniture list to restore them at home opening.
  • Made underground objects of a group individually dig the ground in the 3D view.
  • Increased Z-buffer depth to 24 bit when supported, to simplify the management of the front and back limits of the frustrum in the 3D view.
  • Ensured equirectangular images are correctly mapped in the 3D view when used as sky texture.
  • Forced CSV export encoding to UTF-8 on all systems and added com.eteks.sweethome3d.CSVEncoding system property to set the encoding to another value for backward compatibility.
  • Checked SH3D files start by ZIP magic number after a file is saved to warn users for rare fail cases.
  • Fixed angle of grouped furniture according to the angle of leading selected piece.
  • Fixed furniture and texture libraries loading under Java 10.
  • Improved HiDPI screens detection with Java 8/10 under Windows / Linux / macOS to automatically scale the user interface.
  • Updated Java 3D version to 1.6.1 to support HiDPI screens under Java 10.
  • Optimized 3D walls update after the move of a door or a window.
  • Added sunjce_provider.jar library to installation programs to allow access to web sites with https.
  • Added architecture 32/64 bit radio buttons in Windows installer and selected 32 bit by default under Windows 10 64 bit.
  • Added support for ARM64 architecture in Windows installer.
  • Upgraded Inno Setup to its Unicode version for support more easily non Latin languages in Windows installer.
  • Bundled macOS installer with Oracle Java 8 and added an other installer based on Apple Java 6 for Mac OS X 10.6/10.7 users.
  • Replaced JRE 8u162 by JRE 8u181 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Download: Sweet Home 3D 6.0 | 49.0 MB (Free, paid upgrade available)
Download: Sweet Home 3D for Other Operating Systems
View: Sweet Home 3D Website | User Guide

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