Sweet Home 3D version 7.0 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:15:38 -0000

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 want 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 29 languages and may be run as a desktop application under Windows, macOS and Linux with installers bundled with Java or with the Online version from any browser supporting WebGL.

As described at history page and in Sweet Home 3D blog, the version 7.0 includes now YafaRay faster rendering engine and brings many other improvements.

Sweet Home 3D version 6.0 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:20:00 -0000

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 want 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 26 languages and may be run under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with installers bundled with Java.

As described described at history page and in Sweet Home 3D blog, the version 6.0 brings many new features like the ability to open doors and windows, to handle furniture prices, to shift textures, to enter math expressions, with a revamped catalog and a better support of HiDPI screens.

Sweet Home 3D version 5.5 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:40:42 -0000

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 5.5 brings new features to help you draw plans faster, rotate objects, customize textures, and view your design in 3D on the web, as described described at history page and in Sweet Home 3D blog.

Sweet Home 3D version 5.4 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:17:08 -0000

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.

The version 5.4 brings various bug fixes described at history page.

Sweet Home 3D version 5.3 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:44:44 -0000

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.

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.

Sweet Home 3D version 5.2 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:23:17 -0000

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 10.11, Linux and Solaris with Java Web Start, with installers bundled with Java or with an Online applet.

The version 5.2 brings a new logo, a few enhancements and various bug fixes described at history page and in Sweet Home 3D blog.

Sweet Home 3D version 5.1 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:02:04 -0000

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.

Sweet Home 3D is available in 25 languages and may be run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.11, Linux and Solaris with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.com/, with installers bundled with Java available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download, or with an applet available online at http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3DOnline.jsp?trial=true .

The version 5.1 brings various bug fixes and enhancements described at http://www.sweethome3d.com/history.html

Sweet Home 3D version 4.6 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:44:09 -0000

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,
- 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.

Sweet Home 3D is available in 25 languages and may be run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.10, Linux and Solaris with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.com/, with installers bundled with Java available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download, or with an applet available online at http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3DOnline.jsp?trial=true .

The version 4.6 brings some bug fixes mainly targeted to Mac OS X configurations running Sweet Home 3D with Java 7/8 and described at http://www.sweethome3d.com/history.html

Sweet Home 3D version 4.5 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 23:17:34 -0000

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,
- 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.

Sweet Home 3D is available in 24 languages and may be run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.10, Linux and Solaris with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.com/, with installers bundled with Java available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download, or with an applet available online at http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3DOnline.jsp?trial=true .

The version 4.5 brings a better support of 3DS file format and other improvements / bug fixes described at http://www.sweethome3d.com/history.html

Sweet Home 3D version 4.4 released

Emmanuel Puybaret — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:27:33 -0000

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,
- 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.

Sweet Home 3D is available in 24 languages and may be run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.9, Linux and Solaris with Java Web Start from project web site at http://www.sweethome3d.com/, with installers bundled with Java available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download, or with an applet available online at http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3DOnline.jsp?trial=true .

The version 4.4 brings a richer texture choice dialog box, easier ways to place objects on others, the ability to import SH3D files and delete homes in the applet version, and other improvements / bug fixes described at http://www.sweethome3d.com/history.html

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