Sweet Home 3D is a free software designed to draw the plan of a home, arrange furniture on it, and display the result in a 3D view.
This software is aimed at people who wants to design their interior quickly. The user may:
- draw the walls of his rooms upon the image of an existing plan,
- change the color or the texture of the walls, the floors and the ceilings,
- drag and drop doors, windows and furniture onto the plan from a catalog organized by categories (living room, kitchen...), in which he can import 3D models created by himself or downloaded from different web sites,
- change the size, the orientation and the elevation of each piece of furniture,
- view the changes in the plan simultaneously in the 3D view, either from an aerial view point, or from a virtual visitor view point,
- create a photorealistic PNG image from the 3D view,
- draw dimensions, compute areas and add texts to the plan,
- print the home plan and the 3D view, and copy the plan or the list of furniture in clipboard,
- export the plan to SVG format,
- export to OBJ format the objects of the 3D view to import them in other 3D software.
Sweet Home 3D is available in 13 languages and may be run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5, Linux and Solaris with Java Web Start from project web site at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ or with installers bundled with Java available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .
Compared to version 1.0, the main new features of Sweet Home 3D version 2.0 are (read http://www.sweethome3d.eu/fr/history.html for more details):
- new tools to create rooms, dimensions and texts,
- support for textures on walls, floors and ceilings,
- many ergonomic and rendering improvements in the plan,
- export to SVG format of the plan,
- export to PNG photorealistic image,
- export to OBJ format of the 3D view,
- localization in 11 new languages with their help and web pages,
- 300+ new 3D models created by contributors available at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/importModels.html
2009-06-06