Sweet Home 3D allows your imagination to run wild without costing you a cent or having to lift a finger (except to use your mouse of course).
Sweet Home 3D is not just a useful interior design application, it's quite simply a hell of a lot fun, allowing you to mix and match furniture with ease, take virtual walks around your creations, and indulge yourself in designs you'd probably never be able to perform in real life.
Sweet Home 3D offers more than 50 different pieces offurniture, ranging from beds to lamps or tables, but you can import even more from the developer's website. To create your rooms, all you need to do is drag and drop elements into the grid view and you'll see them building up 3D in the viewing screen below. Once you've done this, use the virtual visit tool in Sweet Home 3Dto get a 3D preview of what it looks like and talk a walk around.
These are the basics and Sweet Home 3D is extremely easy to get to grips with. Unfortunately, the graphics are not great - many pieces of furniture look blocky, but it's designed to give an idea of what an arrangement will look like rather than a perfect picture. You can take a photo of your finished design, which you can then send on to friends to view who won't need Sweet Home 3D to view it. The fact that it's based on Java shouldn't put you off either - Sweet Home 3D works very smoothly with virtually no delays in placing furniture or creating previews.
Sweet Home 3D is an excellent solution for all those that daydream about redesigning their home, or even for professionals that need a basic mock-up.
Languages:
English, French
Recent changes in Sweet Home 3D:
- Added DAE/Collada format to the file formats supported by furniture import wizard, to be able to import the 3D models proposed on Google 3D Warehouse.
- Added support for transparency in PNG/GIF images applied as texture to 3D models.
- Displayed the lines defined in OBJ and DAE files.
- Fixed 3D rendering to ensure OBJ files created from the exportation of the 3D view keep the same look when imported.
- Modulated texture illumination according to ambient lights (caution, this may change the brightness of images displayed in existing SH3D files).
- Fixed a bug that moved out of center some imported 3DS models.
- Fixed a bug that made an imported OBJ file lose its colors when its name contained non ASCII letters.
- Fixed a bug that prevented overlapping floors from being correctly displayed.
- Fixed a bug that didn't restore correctly the saved location of view splitters for maximized windows.
- Optimized memory used by 3D models.
- Modified installation process of Sweet Home 3D with Java Web Start to display the security dialog earlier.
- Added furnitureResourcesURLBase and texturesResourcesURLBase parameters to Sweet Home 3D applet to simplify the deployment of furniture and textures catalogs on other servers.
- Replaced JRE 6u18 by JRE 6u20 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
- Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.
OS requirements for Sweet Home 3D:
- OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista/7
Download here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweethome3d/SweetHome3D-2.4-windows.exe
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