Sunday, December 14, 2008

Sweet Home 3D 1.5 – Open Source Interior Design App

Sweet Home 3D 1.5 (Windows, Open Source, 25.2MB) [alt DL] is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

Changes:

  • Added the Create rooms tool, with the ability to display the name and the area of the rooms in the plan, and to change the color or the texture of their floor and their ceiling in the 3D view
  • Added the Add texts tool to add free texts to plan
  • Added a check box in the furniture pane to display its name in the plan
  • Managed the text style (text size, bold, italic) of the selected items in the plan with the items of the sub menu Plan > Modify text style and their matching buttons added to the tools bar
  • Added a button in the 3D view pane to choose the texture of the sky, with 3 new sky images
  • Managed page header and footer in page setup pane with the ability to enter 7 predefined variables (page number, page count, date...)
  • Added the ability to choose the print scale of the plan in page setup pane
  • Displayed tips at first uses of a creation tool
  • Automatic selection of text fields in dialog boxes when they get focus with a tab key
  • Added a service hatch and a fixed window in default furniture library
  • Changed how selected objects are displayed in such a way that their bounding box is always visible even if some objects are hidden by other ones
  • Added the angle between a wall and its preceding wall in the tool tip displayed during the wall creation or modification
  • Changed zoom shortcut keys under Linux (Ctrl + Ctrl -)
  • Enabled the menu items Delete, Undo, Redo, Copy, Cut, Paste, Modify... between the creation of two series of walls or the creation of two dimensions
  • Corrected a bug that prevented a correct computation of the holes of windows in a wall in some cases, when this wall contains more than one window

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