Here are some tips to help you work faster and smarter in Sweet Home 3D.
General
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Use splitters displayed between the panes of the furniture catalog, home furniture list, home plan and home 3D
view, to resize these panes.
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To test Sweet Home 3D features without risk, remember that all operations are undoable except the modification
of imported furniture in catalog.
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Furniture catalog
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To add more than one piece of furniture to home at a time, select more than one piece in furniture catalog.
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To open a category of furniture, double-click on it.
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To modify an imported piece of furniture, double-click on it.
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Home furniture list
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To sort home furniture, click on the column title matching the sorting criterion. At the first click on a column
title, the furniture list will be sorted in ascending order, at the second click on
the same title, the furniture list will be sorted in descending order, and at the third
click on
the same title, the furniture list will be sorted in the order furniture was added
to home.
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To reorder furniture list columns, drag and drop column titles.
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To find where a piece of furniture is placed in the home plan, select it in the furniture
list.
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To modify a piece of furniture, double-click on it in the furniture list
or in the home plan.
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To modify more than one piece of furniture at a time, select them in the
furniture list or in the home plan and choose Furniture > Modify....
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When you choose Edit > Copy or Edit > Cut, the selected items in
furniture list are also copied in clipboard as a text at CSV format, that you may paste
in a text editor or a spreadsheet (this feature may not work under Linux).
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Home plan
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If you have a scanned image of your home plan at your disposal, import it as a background
image of the plan first. This feature speeds up the drawing of walls.
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To define precisely the scale of the imported background image, enlarge the background
image wizard pane.
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If you want to set different colors on the side of a wall shared by adjacent rooms,
divide it in multiple segments at its creation or by choosing Plan > Split wall.
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To build the sloping walls of a garret, choose different
heights at theirs start and end points.
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When you choose Edit > Copy or Edit > Cut, the selected items in
the plan are also copied in the clipboard as an image, that you may paste in an other
application (this feature may not work under Linux). If you prefer an image of the plan
in a vector graphics format, choose Plan > Export to SVG format... out of the menu.
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Use keyboard arrows to move precisely selected furniture.
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Lock the base plan to select and arrange furniture without
being annoyed by the other kinds of items displayed in the plan.
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If you want to select an item
which is hidden by other items in home plan, select it in the furniture list ; you
may also select it in plan with a selection rectangle that includes it, into which
you unselect
the items that hide it with a click while maintaining the shift key pressed.
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Use alignment lines to help you draw walls, rooms and dimension lines precisely.
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To duplicate selected items in plan, drag and drop them while keeping the
ctrl key pressed (or under Mac
OS X, the alt key pressed).
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Magnetism set in the preferences pane can be temporarily
toggled in the home plan, by pressing the shift key.
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To help you draw walls and place furniture, change the point of view and/or
the transparency of walls in the 3D view of your home.
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To align furniture, select them and choose one of the items Furniture > Align from
the menu.
Pieces of furniture are aligned on the first selected piece.
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Choose Plan > Zoom in or Plan > Zoom out to change the plan scale.
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Home 3D view
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Press the shift key to slow down the effect of mouse moves and mouse wheel in the 3D view.
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If you can't see some furniture in some rooms, modify the
transparency of walls.
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If some walls, room floors or furniture are too bright, modify light
brightness.
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If you don't know where the
virtual visitor is located, roll the mouse wheel with the mouse pointer in 3D view,
it will automatically select and show the virtual visitor in the home plan.
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In Virtual visit mode, the images generated at the best quality level with the Create
photo pane
are illuminated with lights placed in the middle of the ceiling of each room. You may
change the distribution of lights in a room by subdividing it in smaller rooms ;
you can also add lights to an existing room by creating rooms that overlap it partly.
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If you want to get a better rendering of the 3D view, export it to OBJ format
and import the OBJ created file in an other 3D program like Art of Illusion or Blender.
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