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Sweet Home 3D version 2.3 released

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, in which he can import 3D models created by himself or downloaded from different web sites,
- change the size, the orientation, the elevation, the color and the texture 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,
- draw dimensions, compute areas and add texts to the plan,
- print the home plan and the 3D view or export them to a PDF file,
- export the plan to SVG format, and the 3D view to OBJ format,
- compute a photorealistic image from the 3D view and export it at PNG format,
- create a video from a virtual path in the 3D view and export it at Quicktime MOV format.... read more

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2010-03-21

Sweet Home 3D version 2.2 released

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, 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,
- draw dimensions, compute areas and add texts to the plan,
- print the home plan and the 3D view or export them to a PDF file,
- export the plan to SVG format, and the 3D view to OBJ format,
- compute a photorealistic image from the 3D view and export it at PNG format. ... read more

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2009-12-26

Sweet Home 3D version 2.1 released

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, 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,
- draw dimensions, compute areas and add texts to the plan,
- print the home plan and the 3D view or export them to a PDF file,
- export the plan to SVG format, and the 3D view to OBJ format,
- compute a photorealistic image from the 3D view and export it at PNG format. ... read more

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2009-09-30

Sweet Home 3D version 2.0 released

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

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2009-06-06

Sweet Home 3D: version 1.8 released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/.

Some Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java as well as a JAR executable file are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download.

The version 1.8 provides the ability to lock the base plan, the export at SVG format, an applet that displays the 3D view of Sweet Home 3D files, localizations in Greek and Chinese (Simplified), and other changes described at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/history.html.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2009-04-06

Sweet Home 3D: version 1.7 released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/.

Some Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java as well as a JAR executable file are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download.

The version 1.7 provides many ergonomic enhancements to help you place your furniture faster and minor bug fixes (read also http://www.sweethome3d.eu/history.html for information about recent changes).

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2009-03-16

Sweet Home 3D: version 1.6 released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/.

Some Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download.

The version 1.6 provides help localized in Italian, miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixes (read also http://www.sweethome3d.eu/history.html for information about recent changes).

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2009-02-20

Sweet Home 3D: version 1.5.1 released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/.

Some Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download.

The version 1.5.1 provides a bug fix in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese localization under Windows and Linux (read also http://www.sweethome3d.eu/history.html for information about recent changes).

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2008-12-17

Sweet Home 3D: version 1.5 released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/.

Some Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download.

The new features of version 1.5 include rooms and texts creation tools, improved page setup, bug corrections and many other enhancements described at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/history.html.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2008-12-09

Sweet Home 3D: version 1.4 released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .

Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .

The new features of version 1.4 include bug corrections, texture images import, export to OBJ format, Swedish localization and other enhancements described at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/history.html.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2008-10-09

Sweet Home 3D version 1.3.1 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at:
http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .

Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .

The new features of version 1.3.1, described at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/history.html include Hungarian and Russian localizations, and updates of Java 3D and iText libraries used by Sweet Home 3D.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2008-08-27

Sweet Home 3D version 1.3 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.
This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at:
http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .

Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .

The new features of version 1.3, described at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/history.html include bug corrections, the ability to import 3D models with their texture and Spanish localization.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2008-04-29

Sweet Home 3D version 1.2.1 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at:
http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .

Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .

The new features of version 1.2.1, described at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/history.html include bug corrections, German help translation, Czech and Polish localization.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2008-02-13

Sweet Home 3D version 1.2 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at:
http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .

Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .

The new features of version 1.2, described at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/history.html include search in help, sloping walls, ground and walls textures, Italian and German GUI localization.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2007-11-06

Sweet Home 3D version 1.1 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a final 3D preview.

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at:

http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ . ... read more

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2007-09-25

Sweet Home 3D version 1.0 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .
Version 1.0 provides also installers for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .
With this new version, the user can print and export to PDF the furniture list, the 2D plan and the 3D preview of his home.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2007-09-12

Sweet Home 3D version 0.18 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This Java Web Start software can be run and installed from project web site at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .
The source code of this application is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download . The 3 new source archives coming with this release match the following features added to Sweet Home 3D :
- scenario #16 : navigation in 3D view (arial view or virtual visit)
- scenario #17 : import of furniture (OBJ, LWS and 3DS)
- scenario #18 : help pages integration

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2007-07-21

Sweet Home 3D version 0.15 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This Java Web Start software can be run and installed from project web site at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .
The source code of this application is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download . The 3 new source archives coming with this release match the following features added to Sweet Home 3D :
- scenario #13 : modification of walls dimension and colors
- scenario #14 : zoom and visual guides
- scenario #15 : import of plan background image

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2007-06-10

Sweet Home 3D version 0.12 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This Java Web Start software can be run and installed from project web site at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .
The source code of this application is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download . The 2 new source archives coming with this release match the following features added to Sweet Home 3D :
- scenario #11 : sorting in furniture table
- scenario #12 : modification of furniture name, dimension and color.

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2007-05-27

Sweet Home 3D version 0.10 (stable) released

Sweet Home 3D is an application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This Java Web Start software can be run and installed from project web site at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .
The source code of this application is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download . The 11 source archives coming with this first public release match the draft of Sweet Home 3D and the 10 eXtreme Programming scenarios that were necessary to develop this software, as described in "Les Cahiers du Programmeur Swing", an upcoming French book about Swing development in an open source environment published by Eyrolles (available in December 2006).

Posted by Emmanuel Puybaret 2006-11-17