Sweet Home 3D version 5.3 released

Sweet Home 3D is a free software designed to draw the plan of a home in 2D, arrange furniture on it, and visit the results in 3D.

Sweet Home 3D is aimed at people who wants to design their interior quickly. The user may:

• draw walls and rooms of his home from scratch or upon the image of an existing plan, on one or more levels,
• change the color or the texture of the walls, the floors and the ceilings, importing images of your own patterns if needed,
• drag and drop doors, windows and furniture onto the plan from a catalog organized by categories, in which he can import 3D models created by himself or downloaded from web sites like Trimble 3D Warehouse,
• customize the size, the orientation, the elevation, the colors and the textures of each piece of furniture,
• view the changes in the plan simultaneously in a 3D view, in which he can navigate either from an aerial view point, or from a virtual visitor view point,
• create a photorealistic image of his arrangement depending on the time of the day and the light sources placed in the plan,
• create a video from a virtual path in the 3D view,
• annotate the plan with room areas, dimension lines, texts, arrows and a compass rose,
• print the home plan and the 3D view or export them in files at PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, OBJ standard formats, to reuse designed homes in other software.

Hosted at http://www.sweethome3d.com/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/, Sweet Home 3D is available in 25 languages and may be run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.12, Linux and Solaris with Java Web Start, with installers bundled with Java or with an Online applet.

The version 5.3 brings a more open file format, other enhancements and various bug fixes described at history page and in Sweet Home 3D blog.