White strip should be colored
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It looks like desk handle(s) occupy the empty space you speak about (by the way, it's not white). Can you check again?
On closer examination, yes, it's not white - it's transparent and showing the white background underneath. I mean the two areas marked in the attached screenshot (same as before, just enlarged for clarity and circled in red). Note the left piece of furniture ("Old desk") is selected and shows it, but also the other piece of furniture to the right is doing the same thing but is not selected.
(BTW thanks for the quick reply!)
Your drawing seems to show some light grey handles in front of the desk.
Are there handles or not?
You mean on the right furniture piece just on the right edge of the screenshot? The little grey loop hanging from the bottom?
OH ... I just figured out what you mean. You mean literal physical handles on the desk model, not virtual handles for manipulating the model.
I had been wondering what those were.
Now that I understand that those are DRAWER HANDLES. So what it's doing makes sense. I hadn't realized those were part of the desk model (I thought, wrongly, that the desk model appeared as a simple rectangle in the plan view).
Perhaps to make what's going on more obvious to other new users like me, when assigning a color to furniture, color the entire outline of the model (including the space allocated for the handles). Or the same color for the handle area but with some transparency. Or an option to color it or not. Or something.
BTW, I think the fact that ChatGPT thinks this is "a known and normal visual artifact in Sweet Home 3D's 2D plan view" means I'm not the first one to comment about it online - ChatGPT must have seen discussion about that somewhere.
If you want, you can increase furniture icon size in the preferences panel. It will help you getting more accurate drawing in the plan.
Not sure ChatGPT is a good option to get help on rendering issues in Sweet Home 3D. There have been also a bug which showed a similar issue in the past, but it was fixed some time ago and had nothing to do with small parts placed in front of a 3D model like some handles.
Add a colored or textured room under the object. The white (transparent) strip will disappear.