Sweet Home 3D 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 of the walls, draw dimensions, drag and drop furniture in 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 with the mouse, view the changes in the plan simultaneously in the 3D view, either from an aerial view point, or from a virtual visitor view point, and print the home plan and the 3D view.
Version 2.3, March 21, 2010
Added Furniture > Group and Furniture > Ungroup menu items to group furniture and ungroup furniture groups.
Added support for texture mapping on furniture.
Added the ability to create videos from a path in the 3D view.
Added 3D view > Display in separate window menu item.
Added pan mode in the plan activated by Plan > Pan menu item or temporarily with the space bar.
Zoom in the plan with the mouse wheel while keeping the ctrl key pressed (or cmd key under Mac OS X).
Added Category folders / Searchable list options in preferences pane to choose the display style of the furniture catalog view.
Added navigation arrows in the top left corner of the 3D view with an option in preferences pane to hide them.
Added an indicator in the back of the virtual visitor to modify the height of the point of view.
Increased the maximum height of the visitor to 26.78 m (height of the eyes at 25 m).
Enabled the user to enter the size of zhmak.info dimensions with the keyboard once he pressed the Enter key.
Added the ability to create dimensions on furniture side, wall side or room side with a double-click.
Added Furniture > Import textures library... menu item to import textures libraries at SH3T format.
Added support for SH3L language plug-ins to support more languages in Sweet Home 3D.
Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.checkOffScreenSupport Java system property equal to true by default. When this property is equal to false, Sweet Home 3D doesn't check whether Java 3D supports offscreen 3D images; such a test could make the program crash in a few cases (mostly under Linux). Printing the 3D view, computing the top view of furniture in the plan and the two lowest photo quality levels are not available when offscreen 3D images aren't supported.
Improved the icon creation process of imported furniture to get an icon with a transparent background.
Improved grid and rulers display at small scales.
Avoided to display text upside down on new dimensions.
Enlarged the light influencing bounds for big buildings.
Fixed the direction of the texture mapped on the ground.
Fixed a bug that prevented to easily enter numbers bigger than 10000 in spinners -/+.
Fixed a bug that didn't take into account the current unit of the minimum and maximum values in spinners.
Fixed the rendering of textures mapped to walls and computed with SunFlow rendering engine.
Improved saving to avoid losing the previous version of a valid SH3D file in case of error.
Replaced JRE 6u17 by JRE 6u18 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.
OS : Win XP/2000/Vista/Win 7
Language : Multilingual